OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plants People Planet 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental origins of the cultivated tetraploid sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.)	63
Practical consequences of digital sequence information (DSI) definitions and access and benefit‐sharing scenarios from a plant genebank’s perspective	57
C₄ photosynthesis in Paulownia? A case of inaccurate citations	53
Discovery of strigol synthase from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum): The enzyme behind the first identified germination stimulant for Striga	51
Old meets new: Innovative and evolving uses of herbaria over time as revealed by a literature review	45
Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica	35
Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon allocation between wood and leaves in temperate forests	31
Assessing Magnoliaceae through time: Major global efforts to track extinction risk status and ex situ conservation	31
Genomic evidence supports an independent history of Levantine and Eurasian grapevines	30
A botanical oasis rather than a biological desert: Rediscoveries, new species and new records in a tropical city	29
Issue Information	25
	22
Towards increased shading capacity: A combined phenotypic and genetic analysis of rice shoot architecture	21
Issue Information	21
Small and in‐country herbaria are vital for accurate plant threat assessments: A case study from Peru	20
Expected yield and economic improvements of a yam seed system in West Africa using agro‐physiological modelling	20
Prescribed burning effectively maintains threatened species in semi‐natural grasslands on lava flows	20
Neglected plant parasites: Mitrastemonaceae	19
Exploiting genetic variation from unadapted germplasm—An example from improvement of sorghum in Ethiopia	19
The biocultural heritage and changing role of indigenous yams in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa	18
Absence of botanical European Palaeolithic cave art: What can it tell us about plant awareness disparity?	16
Governance and stewardship for research data and information sharing: Issues and prospective solutions in the transdisciplinary plant phenotyping and imaging research center network	16
The international political process around Digital Sequence Information under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the 2018–2020 intersessional period	15
Issue Information	15
Organic nitrogen improves the water use of tropical tree seedlings cultivated for restoration plantings	15

Multigenerational differences in harvesting and use of wild edible fruits and nuts in the South Caucasus	14
A new feature of the laboratory model plant Nicotiana benthamiana: Dead‐end trap for sustainable field pest control	14
	14
How regulatory issues surrounding new breeding technologies can impact smallholder farmer breeding: A case study from the Philippines	13
Planting and replanting: Continuity and change over four decades of forest restoration in Himachal Pradesh, India	13
Seeing the green cucumber: Reflections on variation theory and teaching plant identification	12
Prioritising crop wild relatives to enhance agricultural resilience in sub‐Saharan Africa under climate change	11
Urban horticulture: Building the evidence base to support integration into cities and towns	11
“Please list your favourite …”: How to measure online plant knowledge as a component of plant awareness	11
Reintroduction of Buchanania barberi, a critically endangered tree endemic to the south Western Ghats of Kerala, India	11
Ethnolinguistic and genetic diversity of fonio (Digitaria exilis) in Senegal	11
Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms	11
Desert hyacinths: An obscure solution to a global problem?	10
Genomics in neglected and underutilized fruit crops: A chromosome‐scale genome sequence of cherimoya (Annona cherimola)	10
Genetic fingerprinting reveals how traditional farming practices aided to preserve ancient table grape varieties in Almería (southeastern Spain)	10
Feeding specialization shapes the bottom‐up effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a plant–aphid–parasitoid system	10
Pedigree reconstruction for triploid apple cultivars using single nucleotide polymorphism array data	10
The grassy ecosystems of Madagascar in context: Ecology, evolution, and conservation	10
Constraints of commercially available seed diversity in restoration: Implications for plant functional diversity	10
Whole genome resequencing reveals the evolutionary history and geographic isolation of the eastern Asian Hickory (Carya)	10
Global access to nomenclatural botanical resources: Evaluating open access availability	10
Evolution history and the importance of genomic diversity facing climate change. The case of Agave marmorata Roezl., a microendemic agave used for mezcal production	10
Innovation in plant and soil sciences to tackle critical global challenges	10
Beyond plant awareness disparity: Exploring intangible relationships with plants in the Catalan Pyrenees	9
Herbarium records reveal multiple phases in the relationship between minimum residence time and invasion ranges of alien plant species	9
Rooting students in their botanical history: A method to engage students in botany and herbaria	9
Mycorrhizal communities of Vanilla planifolia in an introduction area (La Réunion) under varying cultivation practices	9
A “plant love story”: The lost (and found) private herbarium of the radical socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg	9
Terroir and rootstock effects on leaf shape in California Central Valley vineyards	9
Predicting the potential for spread of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) in Great Britain: What can we learn from other affected areas?	9
Strangler fig–host tree associations: Insights into the ecology and management of tropical urban green spaces	9
High‐throughput phenotyping platforms for pulse crop biofortification	9
Distribution, ecology, and threats assessment of 11 endemic frankincense tree taxa (Boswellia) in the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)	8
Yield and cost–benefit analyses for apple scab sanitation practices in integrated and organic apple management systems	8
Safeguarding sandalwood: A review of current and emerging tools to support sustainable and legal forestry	8
Ethnolinguistic associations and genetic diversity of rice landraces in Nagaland, India	8
Expert identification blitz: A rapid high value approach for assessing and improving iNaturalist identification accuracy and data precision and confidence	8
Cider and dessert apples: What is the difference?	8
Defining biodiverse reforestation: Why it matters for climate change mitigation and biodiversity	8
Kew declaration on reforestation for biodiversity, carbon capture and livelihoods	8
Realizing the potential of plant genetic resources: the use of phenomics for genebanks	8
The Cornbelt's Last Open Pollinated Corn: Agricultural extension and the origins of the hybrid corn seed industry	8
Plant awareness is linked to plant relevance: A review of educational and ethnobiological literature (1998–2020)	8
The benefits of informed management of sunlight in production greenhouses and polytunnels	7
An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals	7
	7
Fire incongruities can explain widespread landscape degradation in Madagascar's forests and grasslands	7
The long road to a sustainable banana trade	7
Validating a novel genetic technology for hybrid maize seed production under management practices associated with resource‐poor farmers in Zimbabwe	7
Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity	7

Advancing breeding for climate‐resilient yam production in Côte d'Ivoire	7
Addressing another threat to food safety: Conflict	7
UKCropDiversity‐HPC: A collaborative high‐performance computing resource approach for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation	7
The role of strigolactone structural diversity in the host specificity and control of Striga, a major constraint to sub‐Saharan agriculture	6
Issue Information	6
Towards conservation and sustainable use of an indigenous crop: A large partnership network enabled the genetic diversity assessment of 1539 fonio (Digitaria exilis) accessions	6
Perspectives on biotechnology: Public and corporate narratives in the GM archives	6
Incidental pollination by passing animals: An overlooked mechanism?	6
Ethnobotanical knowledge against the combined biodiversity, poverty and climate crisis: A case study from a Karen community in Northern Thailand	6
Carbon isotope values for grasses in Madagascar's Central Highlands establish baselines for historical and paleoecological research	6
Empowered through our diversity: How to bring in a new age of plant science collaboration	6
Most of the world's largest flowers (genus Rafflesia) are now on the brink of extinction	6
Utilizing drawings to understand how our backgrounds and experiences change our plant mental models	6
Phylogenomic insights into the origin of the Norton grape	6
Environmental horticulture for domestic and community gardens—An integrated and applied research approach	6
Back to the future: Using ancient Bere barley landraces for a sustainable future	6
	6
Developing epidemiological preparedness for a plant disease invasion: Modelling citrus huánglóngbìng in the European Union	6
Exploring the role of mobile genetic elements in shaping plant–bacterial interactions for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem health	5
Resilient trees for urban environments: The importance of intraspecific variation	5
	5
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal‐induced tolerance is determined by fungal identity and pathogen density	5
Plant nutritional value of aquaculture water produced by feeding Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) alternative protein diets: A lettuce and basil case study	5
Assessing the impact of strictly protecting 30%–50% of global land on carbon dynamics in natural and agricultural ecosystems	5
The Ginkgo—Covid connection	5
Phenology of the spruce bark beetle Ips typographus in the UK under past, current and future climate conditions	5
Mountain greening and rising temperatures erode habitats of ironwort (Sideritis), an important natural medicinal resource	5
	5
Unraveling the genetic components of perenniality: Toward breeding for perennial grains	5
The history of crop science and the future of food	5
The medicinal plant Buddleja asiatica and its relation to the welfare of local people in the Pan‐Himalayan region: Past, present, and future perspectives	5
Seedling performance, phenotypic traits and growing media for domestication of Lilium polyphyllum	5
Genomic responses to climate: Understanding local adaptation in the Andean tree species Nothofagus pumilio and implications for a changing world	5
Cell wall polysaccharides determine cooking quality in cassava roots	5
Constructing sympatry networks to assess potential introgression pathways within the major oak sections in the contiguous US states	5
Issue Information	5
Integrated conservation of Acer yangbiense: A case study for conservation methods of plant species with extremely small populations	4
Cytogenetics of maize in Mexico as a field of transnational exchange: The case of Takeo Ángel Kato Yamakake	4
Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security	4
Can strategic integration of cultivated pasture legumes into temperate agricultural systems provide stability to honey bee populations and associated industries?	4
Ectomycorrhizal necromass turnover is one‐third of biomass turnover in hemiboreal Pinus sylvestris forests	4
Relictithismia: An underground fairy lantern	4
Trees, society, and the path toward resilient ecosystems	4
Genome and evolution of Prosopis alba Griseb., a drought and salinity tolerant tree legume crop for arid climates	4
The influence of Opuntia ficus‐indica on human livelihoods in Southern Africa	4
Plot‐level satellite imagery can substitute for UAVs in assessing maize phenotypes across multistate field trials	4
Plants, people and long‐term ecological monitoring in the tropics	4
Coffee breeding in a time of crisis: F₁ hybrids in Central America since 1990	4
Compost amendments up to one inch restore dry rangeland soil health	4
Painting the diversity of a world's favorite fruit: A next generation catalog of cultivated bananas	4
A high‐resolution model of the grapevine leaf morphospace predicts synthetic leaves	4
Guadeloupe and Haiti's coffee genetic resources reflect the crop's regional and global history	4
Exploring the polysaccharide composition of plant cell walls in succulent aloes	4
The forgotten history of intercropping	4
Creating a university evolution garden: An integrated learning approach for teaching land plant evolution	4
Dogs occupying grassy habitat near protected areas in eastern Madagascar rely on foods from forests	4
Spatial distribution of Annonaceae across biomes and anthromes: Knowledge gaps in spatial and ecological data	4
	4
Effects of multiple microplastic types on growth of winter wheat and soil properties vary in different agricultural soils	4
Selection for agronomic traits in intermediate wheatgrass increases responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	4