OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Direct 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hydroxyl carlactone derivatives are predominant strigolactones in Arabidopsis	54
N⁶‐methyladenosine and RNA secondary structure affect transcript stability and protein abundance during systemic salt stress in Arabidopsis	41
Secretion dynamics of soyasaponins in soybean roots and effects to modify the bacterial composition	37
Plant science decadal vision 2020–2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future	28
Unoccupied aerial system enabled functional modeling of maize height reveals dynamic expression of loci	28
Structure‐function analysis of the maize bulliform cell cuticle and its potential role in dehydration and leaf rolling	27
Effects of drought and heat stresses during reproductive stage on pollen germination, yield, and leaf reflectance properties in maize (Zea mays L.)	27
A curated list of genes that affect the plant ionome	26
BHLH IRIDOID SYNTHESIS 3 is a member of a bHLH gene cluster regulating terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus	26
Root morphology and exudate availability are shaped by particle size and chemistry in Brachypodium distachyon	26
Maize brace roots provide stalk anchorage	25
Measuring the dynamic response of the thylakoid architecture in plant leaves by electron microscopy	25
Copper deficiency alters shoot architecture and reduces fertility of both gynoecium and androecium in Arabidopsis thaliana	25
UAV‐based imaging platform for monitoring maize growth throughout development	24
PhyloGenes: An online phylogenetics and functional genomics resource for plant gene function inference	24
Overexpression of ArabidopsismicroRNA167 induces salicylic acid‐dependent defense against Pseudomonas syringae through the regulation of its targets ARF6 and ARF8	22
TOMATOMET: A metabolome database consists of 7118 accurate mass values detected in mature fruits of 25 tomato cultivars	21
Metabolic profiling reveals local and systemic responses of kiwifruit to Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae	20
Glutaredoxin AtGRXS8 represses transcriptional and developmental responses to nitrate in Arabidopsis thaliana roots	20
A series of dual‐reporter vectors for ratiometric analysis of protein abundance in plants	20
Voxel carving‐based 3D reconstruction of sorghum identifies genetic determinants of light interception efficiency	20
RicemicroRNA171f/SCL6module enhances drought tolerance by regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis genes	20
Diurnal metabolic regulation of isoflavones and soyasaponins in soybean roots	20
Efficient targeted mutagenesis in allotetraploid sweet basil by CRISPR/Cas9	20
Drought‐induced protein (Di19‐3) plays a role in auxin signaling by interacting with IAA14 in Arabidopsis	19

Dwarfism of high‐monolignol Arabidopsis plants is rescued by ectopic LACCASE overexpression	18
The soybean (Glycine max L.) cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase multigene family; Identification of natural variations for altered cytokinin content and seed yield	18
Grapevine rootstocks affect growth‐related scion phenotypes	18
Biosynthesis of cyanogenic glucosides in Phaseolus lunatus and the evolution of oxime‐based defenses	18
Ploidy influences wheat mesophyll cell geometry, packing and leaf function	17
Drought activates MYB41 orthologs and induces suberization of grapevine fine roots	16
Heat‐responsive microRNAs and phased small interfering RNAs in reproductive development of flax	16
Early‐stage sugar beet taproot development is characterized by three distinct physiological phases	16
GmDNJ1, a type‐I heat shock protein 40 (HSP40), is responsible for both Growth and heat tolerance in soybean	15
Delineating genetic regulation of cannabinoid biosynthesis during female flower development in Cannabis sativa	15
CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated saturated mutagenesis of the cotton MIR482 family for dissecting the functionality of individual members in disease response	15
Gene expression changes occurring at bolting time are associated with leaf senescence in Arabidopsis	15
Rice aquaporin OsPIP2;2 is a water‐transporting facilitator in relevance to drought‐tolerant responses	15
Broadening the impact of plant science through innovative, integrative, and inclusive outreach	14
Nodal root diameter and node number in maize (Zea mays L.) interact to influence plant growth under nitrogen stress	14
A single‐population GWAS identified AtMATE expression level polymorphism caused by promoter variants is associated with variation in aluminum tolerance in a local Arabidopsis population	14
Cytokinin isopentenyladenine and its glucoside isopentenyladenine‐9G delay leaf senescence through activation of cytokinin‐associated genes	14
Metabolic changes in the developing sugarcane culm associated with high yield and early high sugar content	13
Prickle morphogenesis in rose is coupled with secondary metabolite accumulation and governed by canonical MBW transcriptional complex	13
Chemical seed priming alleviates salinity stress and improves Sulla carnosa germination in the saline depression of Tunisia	13
Current status of the multinational Arabidopsis community	13
Recombinase‐mediated integration of a multigene cassette in rice leads to stable expression and inheritance of the stacked locus	13
Flood resilience loci SUBMERGENCE 1 and ANAEROBIC GERMINATION 1 interact in seedlings established underwater	13
Genome‐wide profiling of miRNAs during seed development reveals their functional relevance in seed size/weight determination in chickpea	13
Versatile in vitro assay to recognize Cas9‐induced mutations	13
Seed priming with selenium: Effects on germination, seedling growth, biochemical attributes, and grain yield in rice growing under flooding conditions	12
Engineering Maize rayado fino virus for virus‐induced gene silencing	12
Genetic manipulation of trehalose‐6‐phosphate synthase results in changes in the soluble sugar profile in transgenic sugarcane stems	12
SCARECROW gene function is required for photosynthetic development in maize	12
A sorghum gigantea mutant attenuates florigen gene expression and delays flowering time	12
Combining cross‐section images and modeling tools to create high‐resolution root system hydraulic atlases in Zea mays	12
WHIRLY2 plays a key role in mitochondria morphology, dynamics, and functionality in Arabidopsis thaliana	12
Deletion of beta‐fructofuranosidase (invertase) genes is associated with sucrose content in Date Palm fruit	12
Prolonged phloem feeding by the spotted lanternfly, an invasive planthopper, alters resource allocation and inhibits gas exchange in grapevines	11
Control of translation during the unfolded protein response in maize seedlings: Life without PERKs	11
SUPER STARCHY1/ONAC025 participates in rice grain filling	11
Genome features of common vetch (Vicia sativa) in natural habitats	11
Catalase protects against nonenzymatic decarboxylations during photorespiration in Arabidopsis thaliana	11
Accelerating gene function discovery by rapid phenotyping of fatty acid composition and oil content of single transgenic T₁ Arabidopsis and camelina seeds	11
Mask R‐CNN‐based feature extraction and three‐dimensional recognition of rice panicle CT images	11
Electrophysiological study of Arabidopsis ABCB4 and PIN2 auxin transporters: Evidence of auxin activation and interaction enhancing auxin selectivity	11
Crop modeling defines opportunities and challenges for drought escape, water capture, and yield increase using chilling‐tolerant sorghum	10
Genetic and genomic resources to study natural variation in Brassica rapa	10
Age‐dependent increase in α‐tocopherol and phytosterols in maize leaves exposed to elevated ozone pollution	10
Differential localization of Hessian fly candidate effectors in resistant and susceptible wheat plants	10
Biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant roots and rhizosphere soil from different arid land environment of Qatar	10
A high maternal genome excess causes severe seed abortion leading to ovary abscission in Nicotiana interploidy‐interspecific crosses	9
A highly efficient protocol for transforming Cuscuta reflexa based on artificially induced infection sites	9
Gender discrimination of Populus tomentosa barks by HPLC fingerprint combined with multivariate statistics	9
Which factor explains the life‐history of Xanthium strumarium L., an aggressive alien invasive plant species, along its altitudinal gradient?	9

Drought specifically downregulates mineral nutrition: Plant ionomic content and associated gene expression	9
Silencing GhFAR3.1 reduces wax accumulation in cotton leaves and leads to increased susceptibility to drought stress	9
Lack of plastid‐encoded Ycf10, a homolog of the nuclear‐encoded DLDG1 and the cyanobacterial PxcA, enhances the induction of non‐photochemical quenching in tobacco	9
Draft genomes of two outcrossing wild rice, Oryza rufipogon and O. longistaminata, reveal genomic features associated with mating‐system evolution	9
Effects of Trichoderma harzianum biofertilizer on growth, yield, and quality of Bupleurum chinense	9
Raman spectroscopy‐based diagnostics of water deficit and salinity stresses in two accessions of peanut	9
Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes	9
Jasmonate induced alternative splicing responses in Arabidopsis	9
Allelopathy as an evolutionary game	9
Concerted increases of FAE1 expression level and substrate availability improve and singularize the production of very‐long‐chain fatty acids in Arabidopsis seeds	8
Exploring PIF4's contribution to early flowering in plants under daily variable temperature and its tissue‐specific flowering gene network	8
Shade signals alter the expression of circadian clock genes in newly‐formed bioenergy sorghum internodes	8
Phytosphingosine induces systemic acquired resistance through activation of sphingosine kinase	8
In‐silico analysis of the strigolactone ligand‐receptor system	8
High affinity Na⁺ transport by wheat HKT1;5 is blocked by K⁺	8
Agronomic biofortification increases grain zinc concentration of maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi	7
Heat stress changes mineral nutrient concentrations in Chenopodium quinoa seed	7
Role of cytosolic, tyrosine‐insensitive prephenate dehydrogenase in Medicago truncatula	7
Origin and evolution of a gibberellin‐deactivating enzyme GAMT	7
A mutant allele of the flowering promoting factor 1 gene at the tomato BRACHYTIC locus reduces plant height with high quality fruit	7
Chlamydomonas ATX1 is essential for Cu distribution to multiple cupro‐enzymes and maintenance of biomass in conditions demanding cupro‐enzyme‐dependent metabolic pathways	7
Belowground and aboveground herbivory differentially affect the transcriptome in roots and shoots of maize	7
Development of mPing‐based activation tags for crop insertional mutagenesis	7
Root vacuolar sequestration and suberization are prominent responses of Pistacia spp. rootstocks during salinity stress	7
OsJAZ11 regulates spikelet and seed development in rice	7
The Arabidopsis thaliana nucleotide sugar transporter GONST2 is a functional homolog of GONST1	7
Modeling multiple phenotypes in wheat using data‐driven genomic exploratory factor analysis and Bayesian network learning	7
A consensus on the Aquaporin Gene Family in the Allotetraploid Plant, Nicotiana tabacum	6
A point‐to‐point protein–protein interaction assay reveals the signaling interplays among plant hormones and environmental cues	6
Water stress assessment on grapevines by using classification and regression trees	6
Asian corn borer damage is affected by rind penetration strength of corn stalks in a spatiotemporally dependent manner	6
The genome of the endangered Macadamia jansenii displays little diversity but represents an important genetic resource for plant breeding	6
Whole‐genome DNA methylation patterns of Oryza sativa (L.) and Oryza glumaepatula (Steud) genotypes associated with aluminum response	6
Keeping time in the dark: Potato diel and circadian rhythmic gene expression reveals tissue‐specific circadian clocks	6
Multilocation proteins in organelle communication: Based on protein–protein interactions	6
Phenotypic effects of changes in the FTVTxK region of an Arabidopsis secondary wall cellulose synthase compared with results from analogous mutations in other isoforms	6
Genotypic differences in response of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) to lime‐induced iron chlorosis	6
microRNA390 modulates Nicotiana attenuata's tolerance response to Manduca sexta herbivory	6
Temporal and environmental factors interact with rootstock genotype to shape leaf elemental composition in grafted grapevines	6
The Arabidopsis T‐DNA mutant SALK_008491 carries a 14‐kb deletion on chromosome 3 that provides rare insights into the plant response to dynamic light stress	6
Identification of new potential downstream transcriptional targets of the strigolactone pathway including glucosinolate biosynthesis	6
slim shady is a novel allele of PHYTOCHROME B present in the T‐DNA line SALK_015201	6
The gs3 allele from a large‐grain rice cultivar, Akita 63, increases yield and improves nitrogen‐use efficiency	6
Sesamum indicum Oleosin L improves oil packaging in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves	6
On the nature of thiamine triphosphate in Arabidopsis	6
Live‐cell RESOLFT nanoscopy of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana	6
The Arabidopsis INNER NO OUTER (INO) gene acts exclusively and quantitatively in regulation of ovule outer integument development	6
Plant growth promotion by the interaction of a novel synthetic small molecule with GA‐DELLA function	6
The identification of conserved sequence features of co‐translationally decayed mRNAs and upstream open reading frames in angiosperm transcriptomes	6
PALE‐GREEN LEAF 1, a rice cpSRP54 protein, is essential for the assembly of the PSI‐LHCI supercomplex	6
A simple and efficient Agrobacterium‐mediated transient expression system to dissect molecular processes in Brassica rapa and Brassica napus	6