OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review Plant Biology is 69. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Monkeys at Rigged Typewriters: A Population and Network View of Plant Immune System Incompatibility	370
Rational Redomestication for Future Agriculture	332
	270
Alternative Splicing Dynamics in Plant Adaptive Responses to Stress	195
Functions and Mechanisms of Histone Modifications in Plants	192
Leaf Vein Patterning	185
Dissecting Mechanisms of Epigenetic Memory Through Computational Modeling	170
Structural and Evolutionary Aspects of Plant Endocytosis	152
On the Origin of Carnivory: Molecular Physiology and Evolution of Plants on an Animal Diet	138
Development and Molecular Genetics ofMarchantia polymorpha	137
Leaf Shape Diversity: From Genetic Modules to Computational Models	130
Plant Pan-Genomics Comes of Age	130
Phytochrome Signaling Networks	124
Autophagy in Plant Health and Disease	120
Evolutionary History of Plant Metabolism	120
Where, When, and Why Do Plant Volatiles Mediate Ecological Signaling? The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind	116
cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution	113
When SWEETs Turn Tweens: Updates and Perspectives	111
The Power and Perils of De Novo Domestication Using Genome Editing	109
Natural Variation in Crops: Realized Understanding, Continuing Promise	108
Temperature Sensing in Plants	105
Reproduction Multitasking: The Male Gametophyte	96
Chloroplast Proteostasis: Import, Sorting, Ubiquitination, and Proteolysis	95
Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide	90
Meeting in the Middle: Lessons and Opportunities from Studying C₃-C₄ Intermediates	87

VIGS Goes Viral: How VIGS Transforms Our Understanding of Plant Science	87
Salicylic Acid: Biosynthesis and Signaling	87
Environmental and Biological Drivers of Root Exudation	84
From Starfish to Gibberellins: Biosynthesis and Regulation of Plant Hormones	80
Adaptation and the Geographic Spread of Crop Species	79
The Birth and Death of Floral Organs in Cereal Crops	79
Diving into the Water: Amphibious Plants as a Model for Investigating Plant Adaptations to Aquatic Environments	77
Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis From Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era	75
Extension of Plant Phenotypes by the Foliar Microbiome	74
Message in a Bubble: Shuttling Small RNAs and Proteins Between Cells and Interacting Organisms Using Extracellular Vesicles	72
Polyamines: Their Role in Plant Development and Stress	72
Cereal Endosperms: Development and Storage Product Accumulation	69