OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of AoB Plants is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Drought tolerance of cowpea is associated with rapid abscisic acid biosynthesis via VuWRKY57 in root	47
Nutrient availability increases photosynthetic capacity without altering the cost of resource use for photosynthesis	41
Heterostylous plants in an era of global change: a review on the consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation	40
Genetic structure of the endemicDipterocarpus condorensisrevealed by microsatellite markers	26
Interconnected idioblasts in Peltaea polymorpha: a novel component of the mucilage-secretory apparatus in Malvaceae	25
Comparative plastomes of five Psittacanthus species: genome organization, structural features, and patterns of pseudogenization and gene loss	22
Development and application of an inexpensive open-source dendrometer for detecting xylem water potential and radial stem growth at high spatial and temporal resolution	21
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	21
Drought timing and species growth phenology determine intra-annual recovery of tree height and diameter growth	19
Elevation pattern of resource allocation in Picea crassifolia Kom. and its coupling mechanism with soil factors in Helan Mountains, China	18
Indigenous Australian grass seeds as grains: macrostructure, microstructure and histochemistry	17
Neighbor sensing through rhizodeposits in sorghum affects plant physiology and productivity	16
Transcriptomic profile of lettuce seedlings (Lactuca sativa) response to microalgae extracts used as biostimulant agents	16
Tropical tree species with high wood specific gravity have higher concentrations of wood phosphorus and are more efficient at resorbing it	16
Functional plasticity of Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum through multiple traits	16
Impacts of plant and soil stoichiometry on species diversity in a desert ecosystem	15
The impact of drought stress under different soil matrices on physiological characteristics of soybean seedlings	15
Evaluating the physiological responses and identifying stress tolerance of Akabare chili landraces to individual and combined drought and heat stresses	14
Effects of polygalacturonase overexpression on pectin distribution in the elongation zones of roots under aluminium stress	14
Effects of trehalose and polyacrylate-based hydrogels on tomato growth under drought	14
Dynamically optimizing stomatal conductance for maximum turgor-driven growth over diel and seasonal cycles	14
Competition and drought affect cleistogamy in a non-additive way in the annual ruderal Lamium amplexicaule	14
Tracking canopy chlorophyll fluorescence with a low-cost light emitting diode platform	13
Apple rootstocks affect functional leaf traits with consequential effects on carbon isotope composition and vegetative vigour	13
Clonal integration systemically regulates leaf microstructure ofBouteloua dactyloidesinterconnected ramets to better adapt to different levels of simulated insect herbivory	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
Effects of honeybee (Apis cerana) visiting behaviour on toxic plant (Tripterygium hypoglaucum) reproduction	12
Weed-induced changes in the maize root transcriptome reveal transcription factors and physiological processes impacted early in crop–weed interactions	12
Variation in reproductive mode across the latitudinal range of invasive Russian knapweed	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
Fine-scale genetic differentiation in the bee-specialized Antirrhinum charidemi covaries more strongly with spatial isolation than with corolla colour	11
Evolutionary history of Castanea sativa in the Caucasus driven by Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoenvironmental changes	11
Temporal dynamics of floral characteristics and reproduction output of Impatiens oxyanthera under warming	10
Epistatic interactions among multiple copies of FLC genes with naturally occurring insertions correlate with flowering time variation in radish	10
Seeing right through it: X-ray analyses of Uniola paniculata L. spikelets reveal seed production patterns across a wide spatial distribution	10
Genetics of chilling response at early growth stage in rice: a recessive gene for tolerance and importance of acclimation	10
Symbiotic fungi from a wild grass (Celtica gigantea) increase the growth, grain yield and quality of tritordeum under field conditions	10
Phosphorus uptake and toxicity are delimited by mycorrhizal symbiosis in P-sensitive Eucalyptus marginata but not in P-tolerant Ac	10
Land use to agriculture and planted forests strongly affect the genetic diversity of Baccharis crispa Spreng., a native herb of South America	10
A nuclear Pandora’s box: functions of nuclear envelope proteins in cell division	9
Trait variation and performance across varying levels of drought stress in cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)	9
Acclimation of functional traits leads to biomass increases in leafy green species grown in aquaponics	9
An overview of secretion in floral bracts of Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae), with emphasis on the secretory scales	9
Leaf habit and plant architecture integrate whole-plant economics and contextualize trait–climate associations within ecologically diverse genus Rhododendron	9
To each their own! Nectar plasticity within a flower mediates distinct ecological interactions	9
Bark anatomy of Euphorbia tirucalli (Euphorbiaceae): a unique way of bark dilatation on a stem succulent tree	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
Positive pressure in bamboo is generated in stems and rhizomes, not in roots	9
Genome size and endoreplication in two pairs of cytogenetically contrasting species of Pulmonaria (Boraginaceae) in Central Europe	8
Heteromorphic stamens are differentially attractive in Swartzia (Fabaceae)	8
Correction to: Positive pressure in bamboo is generated in stems and rhizomes, not in roots	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
The impact of shade on whole-plant carbon allocation in a dominant East African tree sapling	8
Correction to: Degeneration of oil bodies by rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER)-associated protein during seed germination in Cannabis sativa L.	8
Differences in functional traits and drought tolerance between heteromorphic leaves of Artemisia tridentata seedlings, a keystone species from a semiarid	7
Using high-throughput phenotype platform MVS-Pheno to reconstruct the 3D morphological structure of wheat	7
A mixture of grass–legume cover crop species may ameliorate water stress in a changing climate	7
A comparative plastomic analysis ofZiziphus jujubavar.spinosa(Bunge) Hu ex H. F. Chow and implication of the origin of Chinese jujube	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
Survival and growth of a high-mountain daisy transplanted outside its local range, and implications for climate-induced distribution shifts	7
Above- and below-ground functional trait coordination in the Neotropical understory genus Costus	7
Intraspecific variation in responses to extreme and moderate temperature stress in the wild species, Solanum carolinense (Solanaceae)	7
Integrating multiple regulations on enzyme activity: the case of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases	7
Vascular variants in seed plants—a developmental perspective	7
The dynamics of external water conduction in the dryland moss Syntrichia	7
A new experimental setup to measure hydraulic conductivity of plant segments	7
Measuring tissue water potential in marine macroalgae via an updated Chardakov method	7
‘United we stand, divided we fall’: intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants	6
A large-scale assessment of the quality of plant genome assemblies using the LTR assembly index	6
Transcriptome analysis of brassinolide under low temperature stress in winter wheat	6
Do marginal plant populations enhance the fitness of larger core units under ongoing climate change? Empirical insights from a rare carnation	6
Vein network redundancy and mechanical resistance mitigate gas exchange losses under simulated herbivory in desert plants	6

Seed coat colour and structure are related to the seed dormancy and overwintering ability of crop-to-wild hybrid soybean	6
Scaling of cotyledon and primary leaf mass versus area in Acer platanoides seedlings under different light conditions	6
Differences in heat tolerance, water use efficiency and growth among Douglas-fir families and varieties evidenced by GWAS and common garden studies	6
Wheat genotypes selected for their high early daytime stomatal conductance under elevated nocturnal temperatures maintain high yield and biomass	6
Correction to: Morpho-physiological and yield traits for selection of drought tolerant Urochloa grass ecotypes	6
Experimental analysis of genetic and environmental interactions on leaf elongation and reproductive development in Lolium perenne	6
Growth-limiting drought stress induces time-of-day-dependent transcriptome and physiological responses in hybrid poplar	6
Pollen viabilities and gene expression profiles across Musa genomes	6
Pattern-triggered immunity in blue and white seed cultivars of Papaver somniferum	6
Plant interaction modifies effects of soil heterogeneity on seed germination, plant growth, and biomass of plant communities	6
The water-related traits of flowers are more conservative than those of leaves for epiphytic and terrestrial species in Cymbidium , Orchidaceae	6
Sexual dimorphism and female advantage hypothesis in the gynomonoecious-gynodioecious Dianthus plumarius (Caryophyllaceae)	6
Transcriptome profiling reveals that foliar water uptake occurs with C3 and crassulacean acid metabolism facultative photosynthesis inTamarix ramosissimaunder extreme drought	6
Pollination effectiveness affects the level of generalisation of a plant species with phenotypically plastic flowers	6
Correction to: The opportunity of using durum wheat landraces to tolerate drought stress: screening morpho-physiological components	6