OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of AoB Plants is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Drought tolerance of cowpea is associated with rapid abscisic acid biosynthesis via VuWRKY57 in root	45
Comparative plastomes of five Psittacanthus species: genome organization, structural features, and patterns of pseudogenization and gene loss	43
Differential tolerance to heat stress of young leaves compared to mature leaves of whole plants relate to differential transcriptomes involved in metabolic adaptations to stress	40
Heterostylous plants in an era of global change: a review on the consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation	38
Genetic structure of the endemicDipterocarpus condorensisrevealed by microsatellite markers	24
Interconnected idioblasts in Peltaea polymorpha: a novel component of the mucilage-secretory apparatus in Malvaceae	23
Nutrient availability increases photosynthetic capacity without altering the cost of resource use for photosynthesis	20
Development and application of an inexpensive open-source dendrometer for detecting xylem water potential and radial stem growth at high spatial and temporal resolution	20
Drought timing and species growth phenology determine intra-annual recovery of tree height and diameter growth	19
Indigenous Australian grass seeds as grains: macrostructure, microstructure and histochemistry	19
Elevation pattern of resource allocation in Picea crassifolia Kom. and its coupling mechanism with soil factors in Helan Mountains, China	16
Tropical tree species with high wood specific gravity have higher concentrations of wood phosphorus and are more efficient at resorbing it	16
Evaluating the physiological responses and identifying stress tolerance of Akabare chili landraces to individual and combined drought and heat stresses	16
The impact of drought stress under different soil matrices on physiological characteristics of soybean seedlings	16
Effects of trehalose and polyacrylate-based hydrogels on tomato growth under drought	16
Functional plasticity of Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum through multiple traits	15
Impacts of plant and soil stoichiometry on species diversity in a desert ecosystem	15
Transcriptomic profile of lettuce seedlings (Lactuca sativa) response to microalgae extracts used as biostimulant agents	15
Competition and drought affect cleistogamy in a non-additive way in the annual ruderal Lamium amplexicaule	14
Dynamically optimizing stomatal conductance for maximum turgor-driven growth over diel and seasonal cycles	14
Effects of polygalacturonase overexpression on pectin distribution in the elongation zones of roots under aluminium stress	14
Clonal integration systemically regulates leaf microstructure ofBouteloua dactyloidesinterconnected ramets to better adapt to different levels of simulated insect herbivory	14
Apple rootstocks affect functional leaf traits with consequential effects on carbon isotope composition and vegetative vigour	13
Responses of a common tropical epiphyte,Asplenium nidus, to changes in water and nutrient availability	13
Leaf gas exchange and water relations of the woody desiccation-tolerant Paraboea rufescens during dehydration and rehydration	13

Tracking canopy chlorophyll fluorescence with a low-cost light emitting diode platform	13
Effects of honeybee (Apis cerana) visiting behaviour on toxic plant (Tripterygium hypoglaucum) reproduction	12
Fine-scale genetic differentiation in the bee-specialized Antirrhinum charidemi covaries more strongly with spatial isolation than with corolla colour	12
Variation in reproductive mode across the latitudinal range of invasive Russian knapweed	12
Genetics of chilling response at early growth stage in rice: a recessive gene for tolerance and importance of acclimation	12
Weed-induced changes in the maize root transcriptome reveal transcription factors and physiological processes impacted early in crop–weed interactions	12
Water deficit changes patterns of selection on floral signals and nectar rewards in the common morning glory	11
Young apple tree development under agroforestry radiative conditions: a multi-scale morphological and architectural dataset	11
Phosphorus uptake and toxicity are delimited by mycorrhizal symbiosis in P-sensitive Eucalyptus marginata but not in P-tolerant Acacia celastrifolia	11
Epistatic interactions among multiple copies of FLC genes with naturally occurring insertions correlate with flowering time variation in radish	10
Symbiotic fungi from a wild grass (Celtica gigantea) increase the growth, grain yield and quality of tritordeum under field conditions	10
Land use to agriculture and planted forests strongly affect the genetic diversity of Baccharis crispa Spreng., a native herb of South America	10
Evolutionary history of Castanea sativa in the Caucasus driven by Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoenvironmental changes	10
Temporal dynamics of floral characteristics and reproduction output of Impatiens oxyanthera under warming	9
Positive pressure in bamboo is generated in stems and rhizomes, not in roots	9
Correction to: Grass leaf structural and stomatal trait responses to climate gradients assessed over the 20th century and across the Great Plains, USA	9
Seeing right through it: X-ray analyses of Uniola paniculata L. spikelets reveal seed production patterns across a wide spatial distribution	9
Leaf habit and plant architecture integrate whole-plant economics and contextualize trait–climate associations within ecologically diverse genus Rhododendron	9
An overview of secretion in floral bracts of Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae), with emphasis on the secretory scales	9
A nuclear Pandora’s box: functions of nuclear envelope proteins in cell division	9
Bark anatomy of Euphorbia tirucalli (Euphorbiaceae): a unique way of bark dilatation on a stem succulent tree	9
Above- and below-ground functional trait coordination in the Neotropical understory genus Costus	8
Acclimation of functional traits leads to biomass increases in leafy green species grown in aquaponics	8
The impact of shade on whole-plant carbon allocation in a dominant East African tree sapling	8
Correction to: Positive pressure in bamboo is generated in stems and rhizomes, not in roots	8
Genome size and endoreplication in two pairs of cytogenetically contrasting species of Pulmonaria (Boraginaceae) in Central Europe	8
To each their own! Nectar plasticity within a flower mediates distinct ecological interactions	8
Introduction to special issue: floral ecology, genetics, and evolution in an unprecedentedly fast changing world	8
Exitrons: offering new roles to retained introns—the novel regulators of protein diversity and utility	8
Survival and growth of a high-mountain daisy transplanted outside its local range, and implications for climate-induced distribution shifts	8
Trait variation and performance across varying levels of drought stress in cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)	8
Correction to: Degeneration of oil bodies by rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER)-associated protein during seed germination in Cannabis sativa L.	8
Using high-throughput phenotype platform MVS-Pheno to reconstruct the 3D morphological structure of wheat	7
The dynamics of external water conduction in the dryland moss Syntrichia	7
Integrating multiple regulations on enzyme activity: the case of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases	7
Vascular variants in seed plants—a developmental perspective	7
Transcriptional survey of abiotic stress response in maize (Zea mays) in the level of gene co-expression network and differential gene correlation analysis	7
A mixture of grass–legume cover crop species may ameliorate water stress in a changing climate	7
Heteromorphic stamens are differentially attractive in Swartzia (Fabaceae)	7
Intraspecific variation in responses to extreme and moderate temperature stress in the wild species, Solanum carolinense (Solanaceae)	7
Differences in functional traits and drought tolerance between heteromorphic leaves of Artemisia tridentata seedlings, a keystone species from a semiarid	7
Differences in heat tolerance, water use efficiency and growth among Douglas-fir families and varieties evidenced by GWAS and common garden studies	6
Scaling of cotyledon and primary leaf mass versus area in Acer platanoides seedlings under different light conditions	6
The water-related traits of flowers are more conservative than those of leaves for epiphytic and terrestrial species in Cymbidium, Orchidaceae	6
Do marginal plant populations enhance the fitness of larger core units under ongoing climate change? Empirical insights from a rare carnation	6
Seed coat colour and structure are related to the seed dormancy and overwintering ability of crop-to-wild hybrid soybean	6
A comparative plastomic analysis ofZiziphus jujubavar.spinosa(Bunge) Hu ex H. F. Chow and implication of the origin of Chinese jujube	6
Correction to: The opportunity of using durum wheat landraces to tolerate drought stress: screening morpho-physiological components	6
Pattern-triggered immunity in blue and white seed cultivars of Papaver somniferum	6
Correction to: Morpho-physiological and yield traits for selection of drought tolerant Urochloa grass ecotypes	6

Pollen viabilities and gene expression profiles across Musa genomes	6
A large-scale assessment of the quality of plant genome assemblies using the LTR assembly index	6
A new experimental setup to measure hydraulic conductivity of plant segments	6
Transcriptome analysis of brassinolide under low temperature stress in winter wheat	6
Experimental analysis of genetic and environmental interactions on leaf elongation and reproductive development in Lolium perenne	6
Plant interaction modifies effects of soil heterogeneity on seed germination, plant growth, and biomass of plant communities	6
Sexual dimorphism and female advantage hypothesis in the gynomonoecious-gynodioecious Dianthus plumarius (Caryophyllaceae)	6
Transcriptome-wide modulation bySargassum vulgareandAcanthophora spiciferaextracts results in a prime-triggered plant signalling cascade in tomato and sweet pepper	6
Vein network redundancy and mechanical resistance mitigate gas exchange losses under simulated herbivory in desert plants	6
Measuring tissue water potential in marine macroalgae via an updated Chardakov method	6
‘United we stand, divided we fall’: intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants	5
AtANN1 and AtANN2 are involved in phototropism of etiolated hypocotyls of Arabidopsis by regulating auxin distribution	5
Weedy and seedy: the rapid evolution of life-history characteristics in an introduced daisy	5
A viewpoint on ecological and evolutionary study of plant thermal performance curves in a warming world	5
Transcriptome profiling reveals that foliar water uptake occurs with C3 and crassulacean acid metabolism facultative photosynthesis inTamarix ramosissimaunder extreme drought	5
Pollination effectiveness affects the level of generalisation of a plant species with phenotypically plastic flowers	5
LIFE 4 Pollinators’ platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators	5
Age and phenology control photosynthesis and leaf traits in the understory woody species,Rhamnus catharticaandPrunus serotina	5
Growth-limiting drought stress induces time-of-day-dependent transcriptome and physiological responses in hybrid poplar	5
Wheat genotypes selected for their high early daytime stomatal conductance under elevated nocturnal temperatures maintain high yield and biomass	5
Identification of genes differentially expressed between prostrate shoots and erect shoots in the lycophyte Selaginella nipponica using an RNA-seq approach	5
Projecting Podocarpaceae response to climate change: we are not out of the woods yet	5
Presence of microbiome decreases fitness and modifies phenotype in the aquatic plant Lemna minor	4
Why woody plant modularity through time and space must be integrated in fire research?	4
Everything everywhere all at once? Disentangling the long-lasting riddle of phylogenetic relationships and cryptic hybridization in the amphitropical genus Larrea	4
Molecular and morphological evidence of hybridization between two dimorphic sympatric species of Fuchsia (Onagraceae)	4
Bumblebee visitation and pollen dynamics in Palicourea coriacea (Rubiaceae): does coflowering with congeneric species matter?	4
Creating a virtual leaf	4
Physiological and molecular responses to high-temperature stress at anthesis in Brazilian flooded rice	4
Humic acid improves wheat growth by modulating auxin and cytokinin biosynthesis pathways	4
Employing template-directed CRISPR-based editing of theOsALSgene to create herbicide tolerance in Basmati rice	4
Staminal hairs increase pollinator attraction and pollination accuracy in Tradescantia fluminensis (Commelinaceae)	4
Starch depletion in the xylem and phloem ray parenchyma of grapevine stems under drought	4
Taming the wild: domesticating untapped northern fruit tree and shrub resources in the era of high-throughput technologies	4
Deciphering the hormone regulatory mechanisms of storage root initiation in sweet potato: challenges and future prospects	4
Changes in the content of pollen total lipid and TAG inArabidopsis thaliana DGAT1mutantas11	4
When does mutualism offer a competitive advantage? A game-theoretic analysis of host–host competition in mutualism	4
How chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum × grandiflorum) ‘Palisade White’ deals with long-term salt stress	4
Improving the 3D representation of plant architecture and parameterization efficiency of functional–structural tree models using terrestrial LiDAR data	4
Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in two forest understorey herbs in response to forest management intensity	4
Fusarium wilt constrains mungbean yield due to reduction in source availability	4
Coryanthes macrantha(Orchidaceae: Stanhopeinae) and their floral and extrafloral secretory structures: an anatomical and phytochemical approach	4
Photochemical performance of reproductive structures in Great Basin bunchgrasses in response to soil-water availability	3
Persistent calyces increase floral longevity and female fitness inSalvia miltiorrhiza(Lamiaceae)	3
Trichome density and herbivore behaviour on tomato is influenced by herbivory, plant age, and leaf surface	3
Phylogeography of Iris loczyi (Iridaceae) in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau revealed by chloroplast DNA and microsatellite markers	3
Water availability affects the relationship between pollen intensity and seed production	3
Genomic resources and genetic improvement of vital tropical and subtropical fruit crops: current status and prospects	3
Morphological, ecological and geographic differences between diploids and tetraploids ofSymphytum officinale(Boraginaceae) justify both cytotypes as separate species	3
Fertile Goeppertella from the Jurassic of Patagonia: mosaic evolution in the Dipteridaceae-Matoniaceae lineage	3
Schizachyrium scoparium (C4) better tolerates drought than Andropogon gerardii (C4) via constant CO2 supply for photosynthesis during water stress	3
Chemical composition and transcriptomic analysis revealed the dynamic changes of saponins during the growth of Panax japonicus var. major	3
Delimiting 33 Carpinus (Betulaceae) species with a further phylogenetic inference	3
The effects of a neighbour and its identity on roots’ plastic growth	3
Integrating stay-green and PIN-FORMED genes: PIN-FORMED genes as potential targets for designing climate-resilient cereal ideotypes	3
Temporal stability of spatial cytotype structure in mixed-ploidy populations ofCentaurea stoebe	3
Genome-wide investigation of SQUAMOSA promoter binding protein-like genes in Liriodendron and functional characterization of LcSPL2	3
A demographic approach for predicting population responses to multifactorial stressors	3
Parallel anagenetic patterns in endemic Artemisia species from three Macaronesian archipelagos	3
Smarter stomata: emergent technologies unlocking yield potential in a changing climate	3
Interannual differences in pollinator contributions to pollen transfer are mainly driven by changes in pollinator abundance	3
Performance of a parasitic plant and its effects on hosts depends on the interactions between parasite seed family and host species	3
Tracking pollen tube and ovule development in vivo reveals rapid responses to pollination in Brassica napus	3
Morpho-physiological and yield traits for selection of drought tolerant Urochloa grass ecotypes	3
God save the queen! How and why the dominant evergreen species of the Mediterranean Basin is declining?	3
Differentially methylated genomic regions of lettuce seeds relate to divergence across morphologically distinct horticultural types	3
Assessing the status of sundial lupine ( Lupinus perennis L.) genetic diversity and population structure throughout its distribution	3
Plant environmental memory: implications, mechanisms and opportunities for plant scientists and beyond	3
A simple seed-piercing transformation protocol for pearl millet and finger millet	3
The opportunity of using durum wheat landraces to tolerate drought stress: screening morpho-physiological components	3
Stomatal regulation, leaf water relations, and leaf phenology are coordinated in tree species from the Sonoran Desert	3
Sources of carbon supporting the fast growth of developing immature moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) culms: inference from carbon isotopes and anatomy	3
Floral morph variation mediated by clonal growth and pollinator functional groups of Limonium otolepis in a heterostylous fragmented population	3