OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applications in Plant Sciences 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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A unified framework to investigate and interpret hybrid and allopolyploid biodiversity across biological scales	43
Astragalean819: An Astragalean clade‐specific bait set to resolve phylogenetic relationships in Astragalus	35
Use of electrolyte leakage to assess floral damage after freezing	34
Making sense of complexity: Advances in bioinformatics for plant biology	33
Optimizing efficient PCR‐amplifiable DNA extraction from herbarium specimens	31
Correction to Welcome to the big leaves: Best practices for improving genome annotation in non‐model plant genomes	28
mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual herbaria from openly available specimen images	28
A practical and easy‐to‐scale protocol for removing chlorophylls from leaf extracts	25
The challenges of growing orchids from seeds for conservation: An assessment of asymbiotic techniques	25
Conservation Action Tracker: A tool to identify and monitor conservation actions for tree species	24
Charting the course for new discoveries in polyploid lineages	24
Building capacity in the conservation of exceptional plant species	18
Correction to “A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming”	18
Supporting long‐term sustainability of ex situ collections using a pedigree‐based population management approach	17
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Expression‐based machine learning models for predicting plant tissue identity	15
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	15
Experimental methods for wind tunnel studies of seed dispersal by wind	14
Data‐centric species distribution modeling: Impacts of modeler decisions in a case study of invasive European frog‐bit	13
Enhancing plant morphological trait identification in herbarium collections through deep learning–based segmentation	12
Applying a modified metabarcoding approach for the sequencing of macrofungal specimens from fungarium collections	11
SkelPy: A graphic user interface–based approach for skeletonizing fungal networks	11
Protocol to control the invasive alga Avrainvillea lacerata in a shallow Hawaiian reef flat	11

An automated pipeline for supervised classification of petal color from citizen science photographs	11
A machine learning algorithm for the automatic classification of Phytophthora infestans genotypes into clonal lineages	10
Semi‐automated assessment for NatureServe subnational conservation status ranks for state floras	10
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Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the web: Utopia or reality?	10
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DNA release from plant tissue using focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE)	9
Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity	9
Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus	9
Issue Information	9
Modified CTAB protocols for high‐molecular‐weight DNA extractions from ferns	9
Review of the cellulose acetate peel method and the physical and digital curation of coal balls	8
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A novel combination of in vitro propagation and hydroponic culture for hybrid cacao (Theobroma cacao) plants	8
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Using marsh organs to test seed recruitment in tidal freshwater marshes	8
Ethanol preservation and pretreatments facilitate quality DNA extractions in recalcitrant plant species	8
A low‐cost protocol for the optical method of vulnerability curves to calculate P₅₀	8
Are they two seeds in a pod? Comparing seed rain recovery in grasslands using artificial grass carpets versus sticky traps	8
Infrared spectroscopy for ploidy estimation: An example in two species of Veronica using fresh and herbarium specimens	7
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Issue Information	7
Multiple Leaf Sample Extraction System (MuLES): A tool to improve automated morphometric leaf studies	7
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods	7
Analysis of plant metabolomics data using identification‐free approaches	7
Hijacking a rapid and scalable metagenomic method reveals subgenome dynamics and evolution in polyploid plants	7
Chromosome‐scale reference genome of Pectocarya recurvata , the species with the smallest reported genome size in Boraginaceae	6
DNA assays for genetic discrimination of three Phragmites australis subspecies in the United States	6
A simple and affordable protocol to assess censer seed dispersal: First confirmation of the mechanism in the genus Solanum	6
An open‐source LED lamp for use with the LI‐6800 photosynthesis system	6
expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data	6
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non‐proteogenic amino acids as a test case	6
PlantSAM: An object detection‐driven segmentation pipeline for herbarium specimens	6
Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text	6
InDelGT: An integrated pipeline for extracting indel genotypes for genetic mapping in a hybrid population using next‐generation sequencing data	6
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