OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Plant Science is 82. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Engineering the moss Physcomitrium patens to produce proteins with paucimannosidic glycans	211
Xanthone Biosynthetic Pathway in Plants: A Review	210
Humans Share More Preferences for Floral Phenotypes With Pollinators Than With Pests	208
A Novel Multi-Preprocessing Integration Method for the Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Wild Medicinal Plants: Gentiana rigescens as an Example	202
Cambial Activity of Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori in Arid Environments	200
Interplay Among Hydrogen Sulfide, Nitric Oxide, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Mitochondrial DNA Oxidative Damage	197
Editorial: Beneficial effects of fungal endophytes in major agricultural crops	193
Comparative transcriptome-wide identification and differential expression of genes and lncRNAs in rice near-isogenic line (KW-Bph36-NIL) in response to BPH feeding	181
Hrip1 mediates rice cell wall fortification and phytoalexins elicitation to confer immunity against Magnaporthe oryzae	177
Distribution, expression of hexaploid wheat Fes1s and functional characterization of two TaFes1As in Arabidopsis	176
LbMYB48 positively regulates salt gland development of Limonium bicolor and salt tolerance of plants	176
Root-Associated Microbiota Response to Ecological Factors: Role of Soil Acidity in Enhancing Citrus Tolerance to Huanglongbing	169
Chemical Characterization and Visualization of Progressive Brown Rot Decay of Wood by Near Infrared Imaging and Multivariate Analysis	169
The Diversity Distribution and Climatic Niche of Samara Species in China	168
Shift in subsistence crop dominance from broomcorn millet to foxtail millet around 5500 BP in the western Loess Plateau	162
SmDXS5, acting as a molecular valve, plays a key regulatory role in the primary and secondary metabolism of tanshinones in Salvia miltiorrhiza	160
Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Differences in Anthocyanin Accumulation in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Induced by Red and Blue Light	157
Sucrose targets clathrin-mediated endocytosis kinetics supporting cell elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana	150
Parental Genome Imbalance Causes Hybrid Seed Lethality as Well as Ovary Abscission in Interspecific and Interploidy Crosses in Nicotiana	146
Exploring the SiCCT Gene Family and Its Role in Heading Date in Foxtail Millet	145
Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of Adult Plant and Seedling Resistance to Stripe Rust (Puccinia striiformis Westend.) in a Multiparent Advanced Generation Intercross Wheat Population	142
Aerially Applied Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Affects Reproductive Components and Seed Quality in Fully Grown Bean Plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)	142
Transformation of Plant to Resource Acquisition Under High Nitrogen Addition Will Reduce Green Roof Ecosystem Functioning	141
Using leaf spectroscopy and pigment estimation to monitor indoor grown lettuce dynamic response to spectral light intensity	138
The divergent vertical pattern and assembly of soil bacterial and fungal communities in response to short-term warming in an alpine peatland	136

Optimizing self-pollinated crop breeding employing genomic selection: From schemes to updating training sets	135
Root system architecture and environmental flux analysis in mature crops using 3D root mesocosms	133
A soybean sodium/hydrogen exchanger GmNHX6 confers plant alkaline salt tolerance by regulating Na+/K+ homeostasis	130
Untargeted metabolomic profiling of fresh and dried leaf extracts of young and mature Eucalyptus globulus trees indicates differences in the presence of specialized metabolites	127
Combating Salinity Through Natural Plant Extracts Based Biostimulants: A Review	125
Genome-wide identification of the pectin methylesterase inhibitor genes in Brassica napus and expression analysis of selected members	124
Comparative Proteome and Phosphoproteome Analyses Reveal Different Molecular Mechanism Between Stone Planting Under the Forest and Greenhouse Planting of Dendrobium huoshanense	124
Protein Phosphorylation Changes During Systemic Acquired Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana	123
Comprehensive identification and analysis of circRNAs during hickory (Carya cathayensis Sarg.) flower bud differentiation	122
Transition Zone1 Negatively Regulates Arabidopsis Aluminum Resistance Through Interaction With Aconitases	122
Transcriptome Analysis of Endogenous Hormone Response Mechanism in Roots of Styrax tonkinensis Under Waterlogging	120
Melatonin Mediates Axillary Bud Outgrowth by Improving Nitrogen Assimilation and Transport in Rice	120
Transcriptomic analysis of genes related to alkaloid biosynthesis and the regulation mechanism under precursor and methyl jasmonate treatment in Dendrobium officinale	120
Reflections on the Triptych of Meristems That Build Flowering Branches in Tomato	119
Editorial: Rosaceae Fruit Development and Quality	116
Comprehensive Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Profiling of Eceriferum (CER) Gene Family in Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis) Under Fusarium kyushuense and Drought Stress Conditions	116
Changes in Vertical Phenotypic Traits of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Response to Water Stress	116
Red and Blue Light Affect the Formation of Adventitious Roots of Tea Cuttings (Camellia sinensis) by Regulating Hormone Synthesis and Signal Transduction Pathways of Mature Leaves	113
Differentiation of Cold Tolerance in an Artificial Population of a Mangrove Species, Kandelia obovata, Is Associated With Geographic Origins	112
How Human Subsistence Strategy Affected Fruit-Tree Utilization During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age: Investigations in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau	109
Effects of agronomic traits and climatic factors on yield and yield stability of summer maize (Zea mays L) in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in China	109
Selenium enhances chilling stress tolerance in coffee species by modulating nutrient, carbohydrates, and amino acids content	109
CBL-Interacting Protein Kinase OsCIPK18 Regulates the Response of Ammonium Toxicity in Rice Roots	108
Effect of Different Fertilizations on the Plant-Available Nitrogen in Soil Profile (0–100 cm): A Study on Chinese Cabbage	105
CisCross: A gene list enrichment analysis to predict upstream regulators in Arabidopsis thaliana	104
Editorial: Novel technologies for soybean improvement	103
Estimating the Impacts of Plant Internal Nitrogen Deficit at Key Top Dressing Stages on Corn Productivity and Intercepted Photosynthetic Active Radiation	103
The role of APC/C in cell cycle dynamics, growth and development in cereal crops	102
Performance, Variance Components, and Acceptability of Pro-vitamin A-Biofortified Sweetpotato in Southern Africa and Implications in Future Breeding	102
An analysis of sugary endosperm in sorghum: Characterization of mutant phenotypes depending on alleles of the corresponding starch debranching enzyme	102
Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the HD2 protein family and its response to drought and salt stress in Gossypium species	99
Stomatal Lineage Control by Developmental Program and Environmental Cues	98
Nitrogen Addition Affects Ecosystem Carbon Exchange by Regulating Plant Community Assembly and Altering Soil Properties in an Alpine Meadow on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	98
Interference of Arabidopsis N-Acetylglucosamine-1-P Uridylyltransferase Expression Impairs Protein N-Glycosylation and Induces ABA-Mediated Salt Sensitivity During Seed Germination and Early Seedling	97
Changing winter climate and snow conditions induce various transcriptional stress responses in Scots pine seedlings	97
Real-time guava tree-part segmentation using fully convolutional network with channel and spatial attention	96
Research on Methods Decreasing Pesticide Waste Based on Plant Protection Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Review	96
Strong Environmental Filtering Based on Hydraulic Traits Occurring in the Lower Water Availability of Temperate Forest Communities	96
Characterization of Repetitive DNA in Saccharum officinarum and Saccharum spontaneum by Genome Sequencing and Cytological Assays	95
Distinguishing features of Lycium L. species (family Solanaceae) distributed in Egypt based on their anatomical, metabolic, molecular, and ecological characteristics	93
2-Keto-L-Gulonic Acid Improved the Salt Stress Resistance of Non-heading Chinese Cabbage by Increasing L-Ascorbic Acid Accumulation	90
Phylogenetic Analysis of Wild Species and the Maternal Origin of Cultivars in the Genus Lilium Using 114 Plastid Genomes	89
Corylus avellana: A Source of Diarylheptanoids With α-Glucosidase Inhibitory Activity Evaluated by in vitro and in silico Studies	89
The 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid deaminase-producing Streptomyces violaceoruber UAE1 can provide protection from sudden decline syndrome on date palm	88
Exploration of the genomic atlas of Dof transcription factor family across genus Oryza provides novel insights on rice breeding in changing climate	88
Genome-wide identification of DnaJ gene family in Catalpa bungei and functional analysis of CbuDnaJ49 in leaf color formation	88
Diproline-induced resistance to parasitic nematodes in the same and subsequent rice generations: Roles of iron, nitric oxide and ethylene	88
Selenium seed priming enhanced the growth of salt-stressed Brassica rapa L. through improving plant nutrition and the antioxidant system	88
An efficient and broadly applicable method for transient transformation of plants using vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays	87
Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning and Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms for Precision Micropropagation of Cannabis sativa: Prediction and Validation of in vitro Shoot Growth and Development	87

Multi-Omics Approaches Unravel Specific Features of Embryo and Endosperm in Rice Seed Germination	86
Cell types as species: Exploring a metaphor	84
Transcriptome profiling revealed salt stress-responsive genes in Lilium pumilum bulbs	83
Photoacclimation and entrainment of photosynthesis by fluctuating light varies according to genotype in Arabidopsis thaliana	83
Large and stable genome edits at the sorghum alpha kafirin locus result in changes in chromatin accessibility and globally increased expression of genes encoding lysine enrichment	83
The Stress Detection and Segmentation Strategy in Tea Plant at Canopy Level	82
Studies on Pure Mlb® (Multiple Left Border) Technology and Its Impact on Vector Backbone Integration in Transgenic Cassava	82