OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applications in Plant Sciences is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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A unified framework to investigate and interpret hybrid and allopolyploid biodiversity across biological scales	37
Astragalean819: An Astragalean clade‐specific bait set to resolve phylogenetic relationships in Astragalus	31
Correction to Welcome to the big leaves: Best practices for improving genome annotation in non‐model plant genomes	31
Making sense of complexity: Advances in bioinformatics for plant biology	28
Use of electrolyte leakage to assess floral damage after freezing	27
mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual herbaria from openly available specimen images	27
Optimizing efficient PCR‐amplifiable DNA extraction from herbarium specimens	26
A practical and easy‐to‐scale protocol for removing chlorophylls from leaf extracts	26
Supporting long‐term sustainability of ex situ collections using a pedigree‐based population management approach	22
Building capacity in the conservation of exceptional plant species	21
Correction to “A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming”	20
Charting the course for new discoveries in polyploid lineages	20
Conservation Action Tracker: A tool to identify and monitor conservation actions for tree species	17
Photographic analysis of field‐monitored fern gametophyte development and response to environmental stress	16
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The challenges of growing orchids from seeds for conservation: An assessment of asymbiotic techniques	15
Data‐centric species distribution modeling: Impacts of modeler decisions in a case study of invasive European frog‐bit	14
Applying a modified metabarcoding approach for the sequencing of macrofungal specimens from fungarium collections	13
An automated pipeline for supervised classification of petal color from citizen science photographs	13
Expression‐based machine learning models for predicting plant tissue identity	13
Enhancing plant morphological trait identification in herbarium collections through deep learning–based segmentation	12
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	12
The future of plant science: Applications at the intersection	12

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Protocol to control the invasive alga Avrainvillea lacerata in a shallow Hawaiian reef flat	11
A machine learning algorithm for the automatic classification of Phytophthora infestans genotypes into clonal lineages	11
Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity	10
Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the web: Utopia or reality?	10
Issue Information	10
A low‐cost protocol for the optical method of vulnerability curves to calculate P₅₀	9
DNA release from plant tissue using focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE)	9
Accelerating gametophytic growth in the model hornwort Anthoceros agrestis	9
Modified CTAB protocols for high‐molecular‐weight DNA extractions from ferns	9
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Review of the cellulose acetate peel method and the physical and digital curation of coal balls	9
A novel combination of in vitro propagation and hydroponic culture for hybrid cacao (Theobroma cacao) plants	9
Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus	9
Providing the missing links in fern life history: Insights from a phenological survey of the gametophyte stage	8
Issue Information	8
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Using marsh organs to test seed recruitment in tidal freshwater marshes	8
Multiple Leaf Sample Extraction System (MuLES): A tool to improve automated morphometric leaf studies	7
Infrared spectroscopy for ploidy estimation: An example in two species of Veronica using fresh and herbarium specimens	7
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A protocol for the generation of Arachis hypogaea composite plants: A valuable tool for the functional study of mycorrhizal symbiosis	7
Identifying cryptic fern gametophytes using DNA barcoding: A review	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	6
An open‐source LED lamp for use with the LI‐6800 photosynthesis system	6
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non‐proteogenic amino acids as a test case	6
Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text	6
Ethanol preservation and pretreatments facilitate quality DNA extractions in recalcitrant plant species	6
A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming	6
Issue Information	6
Selection on the gametophyte: Modeling alternation of generations in plants	6
PlantSAM: An object detection‐driven segmentation pipeline for herbarium specimens	6
Chromosome‐scale reference genome of Pectocarya recurvata , the species with the smallest reported genome size in Boraginaceae	6
Issue Information	5
What is the “modified” CTAB protocol? Characterizing modifications to the CTAB DNA extraction protocol	5
DNA assays for genetic discrimination of three Phragmites australis subspecies in the United States	5
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Applying interpretable machine learning to assess intraspecific trait divergence under landscape‐scale population differentiation	5
Using disposable food packaging materials as printing, embedding, and sectioning media in the plant anatomy lab	5
FieldPrism: A system for creating snapshot vouchers from field images using photogrammetric markers and QR codes	5
Optogenetic control of transgene expression in Marchantia polymorpha	5
expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data	5
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The Computer‐Assisted Sequence Annotation (CASA) workflow for enzyme discovery	5
InDelGT: An integrated pipeline for extracting indel genotypes for genetic mapping in a hybrid population using next‐generation sequencing data	5
Correction to GOgetter: A pipeline for summarizing and visualizing GO slim annotations for plant genetic data	5