OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Plant Science is 76. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Significance of Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Defense System in Plants: A Concise Overview	350
Drought and Salinity Stress Responses and Microbe-Induced Tolerance in Plants	318
Recognition and Localization Methods for Vision-Based Fruit Picking Robots: A Review	295
Linking Plant Secondary Metabolites and Plant Microbiomes: A Review	284
Microplastic Shape, Polymer Type, and Concentration Affect Soil Properties and Plant Biomass	251
Tomato Diseases and Pests Detection Based on Improved Yolo V3 Convolutional Neural Network	235
Effects of Potassium Levels on Plant Growth, Accumulation and Distribution of Carbon, and Nitrate Metabolism in Apple Dwarf Rootstock Seedlings	206
How Does Proline Treatment Promote Salt Stress Tolerance During Crop Plant Development?	206
Drought Stress Responses and Resistance in Plants: From Cellular Responses to Long-Distance Intercellular Communication	202
Detection of Plant Viruses and Disease Management: Relevance of Genetic Diversity and Evolution	199
The Response of Salinity Stress-Induced A. tricolor to Growth, Anatomy, Physiology, Non-Enzymatic and Enzymatic Antioxidants	195
Global Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops Amid the Gene Edited Crop Boom – A Review	191
Abscisic Acid-Induced Stomatal Closure: An Important Component of Plant Defense Against Abiotic and Biotic Stress	185
Response Mechanisms of Plants Under Saline-Alkali Stress	167
Mechanisms of Waterlogging Tolerance in Plants: Research Progress and Prospects	165
Mechanisms Regulating the Dynamics of Photosynthesis Under Abiotic Stresses	155
Interaction Between Macro‐ and Micro-Nutrients in Plants	154
Nitrogen Use Efficiency Definitions of Today and Tomorrow	153
Contribution of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Phosphate–Solubilizing Bacteria, and Silicon to P Uptake by Plant	150
Genome Edited Crops Touch the Market: A View on the Global Development and Regulatory Environment	150
A Deep-Learning-Based Real-Time Detector for Grape Leaf Diseases Using Improved Convolutional Neural Networks	143
Plant Hormone-Mediated Regulation of Heat Tolerance in Response to Global Climate Change	140
Interactions of Silicon With Essential and Beneficial Elements in Plants	139
The Modern Plant Breeding Triangle: Optimizing the Use of Genomics, Phenomics, and Enviromics Data	139
Plant Unsaturated Fatty Acids: Multiple Roles in Stress Response	135

Polyphenols, Flavonoids, and Antioxidant Activity Involved in Salt Tolerance in Wheat, Aegilops cylindrica and Their Amphidiploids	134
Biofertilizers as Strategies to Improve Photosynthetic Apparatus, Growth, and Drought Stress Tolerance in the Date Palm	122
Macrophomina phaseolina: General Characteristics of Pathogenicity and Methods of Control	121
Effect of Salt Stress on Growth, Physiological Parameters, and Ionic Concentration of Water Dropwort (Oenanthe javanica) Cultivars	117
Plant hormones and neurotransmitter interactions mediate antioxidant defenses under induced oxidative stress in plants	116
Signaling Toward Reactive Oxygen Species-Scavenging Enzymes in Plants	115
Tomato Fruit Detection and Counting in Greenhouses Using Deep Learning	115
Structure, Function, Regulation and Phylogenetic Relationship of ZIP Family Transporters of Plants	113
Connections Between Amino Acid Metabolisms in Plants: Lysine as an Example	112
Plant Defense Responses to Biotic Stress and Its Interplay With Fluctuating Dark/Light Conditions	112
Recent Advances in the Development of Environmentally Benign Treatments to Control Root-Knot Nematodes	111
From Microbiome to Traits: Designing Synthetic Microbial Communities for Improved Crop Resiliency	110
Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Plant Breeding: Predicting Yield From Hyperspectral Reflectance in Soybean	109
Grape Leaf Disease Identification Using Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Networks	107
Cold Stress in Wheat: Plant Acclimation Responses and Management Strategies	107
Melatonin Pretreatment Confers Heat Tolerance and Repression of Heat-Induced Senescence in Tomato Through the Modulation of ABA- and GA-Mediated Pathways	106
Is Silicon a Panacea for Alleviating Drought and Salt Stress in Crops?	106
Should Root Plasticity Be a Crop Breeding Target?	106
Application of Exogenous dsRNAs-induced RNAi in Agriculture: Challenges and Triumphs	104
Sugar Signaling During Fruit Ripening	103
Root Growth Adaptation to Climate Change in Crops	103
Plant Associated Rhizobacteria for Biocontrol and Plant Growth Enhancement	101
Forecasting Corn Yield With Machine Learning Ensembles	99
The Threat of the Combined Effect of Biotic and Abiotic Stress Factors in Forestry Under a Changing Climate	99
Rhizospheric Organic Acids as Biostimulants: Monitoring Feedbacks on Soil Microorganisms and Biochemical Properties	98
Polyphosphate: A Multifunctional Metabolite in Cyanobacteria and Algae	97
Overexpression of the Transcription Factor GROWTH-REGULATING FACTOR5 Improves Transformation of Dicot and Monocot Species	96
Selenium Biofortification and Interaction With Other Elements in Plants: A Review	95
A Physio-Morphological Trait-Based Approach for Breeding Drought Tolerant Wheat	95
Systematic Multi-Omics Integration (MOI) Approach in Plant Systems Biology	93
Targeting Nitrogen Metabolism and Transport Processes to Improve Plant Nitrogen Use Efficiency	93
The Role of ROS Homeostasis in ABA-Induced Guard Cell Signaling	92
Response of Plants to Water Stress: A Meta-Analysis	91
Phenolic Compound Induction in Plant-Microbe and Plant-Insect Interactions: A Meta-Analysis	90
When Salt Meddles Between Plant, Soil, and Microorganisms	88
Wild Sorghum as a Promising Resource for Crop Improvement	87
Dynamics of DNA Methylation and Its Functions in Plant Growth and Development	87
Edible Plant Oil: Global Status, Health Issues, and Perspectives	87
The PTI to ETI Continuum in Phytophthora-Plant Interactions	86
Cadmium Phytotoxicity, Tolerance, and Advanced Remediation Approaches in Agricultural Soils; A Comprehensive Review	86
Applications of Multi-Omics Technologies for Crop Improvement	86
Grape Berry Secondary Metabolites and Their Modulation by Abiotic Factors in a Climate Change Scenario–A Review	85
Benefits to Plant Health and Productivity From Enhancing Plant Microbial Symbionts	84
Regulatory Mechanisms of bHLH Transcription Factors in Plant Adaptive Responses to Various Abiotic Stresses	80
Small DNA Methylation, Big Player in Plant Abiotic Stress Responses and Memory	80
Elicitors of Plant Immunity Triggered by Beneficial Bacteria	80
Melanin Pigment in Plants: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives	80
Modern Strategies to Assess and Breed Forest Tree Adaptation to Changing Climate	80
Which Factors Affect the Occurrence of Off-Target Effects Caused by the Use of CRISPR/Cas: A Systematic Review in Plants	77
Three Decades of Advances in Arabinogalactan-Protein Biosynthesis	77

Providing an Additional Electron Sink by the Introduction of Cyanobacterial Flavodiirons Enhances Growth of A. thaliana Under Various Light Intensities	76
Plant Peroxisomes: A Factory of Reactive Species	76