OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applications in Plant Sciences is 4. 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
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Making sense of complexity: Advances in bioinformatics for plant biology	29
A unified framework to investigate and interpret hybrid and allopolyploid biodiversity across biological scales	24
Correction to Welcome to the big leaves: Best practices for improving genome annotation in non‐model plant genomes	24
Use of electrolyte leakage to assess floral damage after freezing	22
Optimizing efficient PCR‐amplifiable DNA extraction from herbarium specimens	22
mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual herbaria from openly available specimen images	20
Conservation Action Tracker: A tool to identify and monitor conservation actions for tree species	20
Building capacity in the conservation of exceptional plant species	20
Photographic analysis of field‐monitored fern gametophyte development and response to environmental stress	17
Charting the course for new discoveries in polyploid lineages	17
Correction to “A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming”	16
Supporting long‐term sustainability of ex situ collections using a pedigree‐based population management approach	15
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The challenges of growing orchids from seeds for conservation: An assessment of asymbiotic techniques	14
Data‐centric species distribution modeling: Impacts of modeler decisions in a case study of invasive European frog‐bit	13
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	12
An automated pipeline for supervised classification of petal color from citizen science photographs	12
Applying a modified metabarcoding approach for the sequencing of macrofungal specimens from fungarium collections	11
Enhancing plant morphological trait identification in herbarium collections through deep learning–based segmentation	11
Expression‐based machine learning models for predicting plant tissue identity	11
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Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the web: Utopia or reality?	9
The future of plant science: Applications at the intersection	9

Protocol to control the invasive alga Avrainvillea lacerata in a shallow Hawaiian reef flat	9
Accelerating gametophytic growth in the model hornwort Anthoceros agrestis	8
A machine learning algorithm for the automatic classification of Phytophthora infestans genotypes into clonal lineages	8
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Issue Information	8
Review of the cellulose acetate peel method and the physical and digital curation of coal balls	7
Infrared spectroscopy for ploidy estimation: An example in two species of Veronica using fresh and herbarium specimens	7
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Modified CTAB protocols for high‐molecular‐weight DNA extractions from ferns	7
A low‐cost protocol for the optical method of vulnerability curves to calculate P₅₀	7
Providing the missing links in fern life history: Insights from a phenological survey of the gametophyte stage	7
Issue Information	7
DNA release from plant tissue using focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE)	7
A novel combination of in vitro propagation and hydroponic culture for hybrid cacao (Theobroma cacao) plants	7
Using marsh organs to test seed recruitment in tidal freshwater marshes	7
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Informed cover measurement: Guidelines and error for point‐intercept approaches	7
Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity	7
A protocol for the generation of Arachis hypogaea composite plants: A valuable tool for the functional study of mycorrhizal symbiosis	6
Identifying cryptic fern gametophytes using DNA barcoding: A review	6
Ethanol preservation and pretreatments facilitate quality DNA extractions in recalcitrant plant species	6
A dormant resource for genome size estimation in ferns: C‐value inference of the Ophioglossaceae using herbarium specimen spores	6
Multiple Leaf Sample Extraction System (MuLES): A tool to improve automated morphometric leaf studies	6
Analysis of plant metabolomics data using identification‐free approaches	6
Corrigendum	5
Chromosome‐scale reference genome of Pectocarya recurvata, the species with the smallest reported genome size in Boraginaceae	5
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Issue Information	5
An open‐source LED lamp for use with the LI‐6800 photosynthesis system	5
Choices on sampling, sequencing, and analyzing DNA influence the estimation of community composition of plant fungal symbionts	5
Hijacking a rapid and scalable metagenomic method reveals subgenome dynamics and evolution in polyploid plants	5
Selection on the gametophyte: Modeling alternation of generations in plants	5
Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text	5
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Issue Information	4
A field‐capable rapid plant DNA extraction protocol using microneedle patches for botanical surveying and monitoring	4
DNA assays for genetic discrimination of threePhragmites australissubspecies in the United States	4
Applying interpretable machine learning to assess intraspecific trait divergence under landscape‐scale population differentiation	4
Correction to GOgetter: A pipeline for summarizing and visualizing GO slim annotations for plant genetic data	4
What is the “modified” CTAB protocol? Characterizing modifications to the CTAB DNA extraction protocol	4
FieldPrism: A system for creating snapshot vouchers from field images using photogrammetric markers and QR codes	4
Optogenetic control of transgene expression in Marchantia polymorpha	4
A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming	4
expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data	4
Using disposable food packaging materials as printing, embedding, and sectioning media in the plant anatomy lab	4
BAD2matrix: Phylogenomic matrix concatenation, indel coding, and more	4
The Computer‐Assisted Sequence Annotation (CASA) workflow for enzyme discovery	4
InDelGT: An integrated pipeline for extracting indel genotypes for genetic mapping in a hybrid population using next‐generation sequencing data	4
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non‐proteogenic amino acids as a test case	4