Plant Science papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 41 papers from Plant Science (2006–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: Rhythms of the Brain (2006, 4,977 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 6,572 citations between them.
• 18 of the 19 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 6 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: Nature Plants, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, BMC Plant Biology.
• Published between 2006 and 2026.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• Rhythms of the Brain

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2006 · FWCI 189.84 · 4,977 citations

  Spontaneous neuron activity, not noise, is the source of cognitive abilities, organized by self-emerged oscillatory timing and small-world connectivity in the mammalian brain.

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• The Influence of Ectotrophic Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Resistance of Pine Roots to Pathogenic Infections. I. Antagonism of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Root Pathogenic Fungi and Soil Bacteria

  Phytopathology · 2025 · Q1 · FWCI 11.75 · 1,139 citations · Open access

  Certain ectotrophic mycorrhizal fungi, particularly Leucopaxillus cerealis var. piceina, demonstrate significant antagonism against nearly half of tested root pathogenic fungi and soil bacteria.

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• Recent advances in plant disease detection: challenges and opportunities

  Plant Methods · 2025 · Q1 · FWCI 75.80 · 101 citations · Open access

  Transformer-based SWIN models achieve 88% accuracy in real-world plant disease detection, significantly outperforming traditional CNNs (53%) on field data.

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• Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

  Science · 2025 · Q1 · SJR 10.00 · FWCI 57.04 · 76 citations

  Localized leakage of glutamine from plant roots, controlled by the endodermal Casparian strip, acts as a key chemoattractant and growth enhancer for rhizobacteria, defining spatial colonization patterns.

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• Cloud–edge–device collaborative computing in smart agriculture: architectures, applications, and future perspectives

  Frontiers in Plant Science · 2025 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 55.54 · 74 citations · Open access

  Cloud-edge-device collaborative computing enables distributed intelligence and real-time processing for smart agriculture, overcoming limitations of centralized systems.

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• Biosynthesis and multifaceted roles of reactive species in plant defense mechanisms during environmental cues

  Plant Stress · 2025 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 49.63 · 66 citations

  Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are crucial signaling molecules in plants, involved in growth, development, and adaptation to environmental stresses like drought, salinity, and pathogens.

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• Untargeted metabolomics reveals phenolic compound dynamics during mung bean fermentation

  Food Chemistry X · 2025 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 41.36 · 55 citations

  Solid-state fermentation (SSF) of mung beans with Aspergillus Niger significantly increased total phenolic content (up to 61 identified differential metabolites) and antioxidant capacity, with 32 phenolic compounds positively correlating with antioxidant activity.

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• A Review on the Detection of Plant Disease Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches

  Journal of Imaging · 2025 · Q2 · FWCI 39.03 · 52 citations · Open access

  This review critically evaluates ML/DL models for plant disease detection, comparing architectures like GreenViT, hybrid ViT-CNNs, and YOLO detectors on accuracy, speed, and hardware efficiency in both lab and field conditions.

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• Growth directions and stiffness across cell layers determine whether tissues stay smooth or buckle

  Current Biology · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · 12 citations

  Conflicting cell growth directions and unequal tissue stiffness between epidermal layers cause sepals to buckle, a defect corrected by aligning outer epidermal cell growth longitudinally and increasing tissue stiffness.

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• Multi-Omics Research Reveals the Effects of the ABA-Regulated Phenylpropanoid Biosynthesis Pathway on the UV-B Response in Rhododendron chrysanthum Pall.

  Plants · 2025 · Q1 · FWCI 7.58 · 10 citations · Open access

  Abscisic acid (ABA) signaling enhances UV-B resistance in Rhododendron chrysanthum by activating the phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway and bolstering antioxidant defenses, mitigating UV-B's negative impact on photosynthesis.

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• Robotics for Crop Pollination: Recent Advances and Future Direction

  Journal of Field Robotics · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · 3 citations

  Robotic pollination systems, integrating AI, machine vision, and precision sensing, offer a promising solution to supplement or complement insect-mediated pollination, addressing challenges posed by climate change and pollinator decline.

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• Haplotype-specific expression of a terpene synthase underlies linalool variation in the grapevine cultivar Riesling

  Journal of Experimental Botany · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 4.54 · 1 citations

  Haplotype-specific expression of the VviTPS54 gene, a terpene synthase, explains significant variation in (3S)-linalool accumulation in grapevine (Vitis vinifera) cultivar Riesling, independent of the MEP pathway.

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• AgriPINN: A process-informed neural network for interpretable and scalable crop biomass prediction under water stress

  Smart Agricultural Technology · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 4.46 · 1 citations

  AgriPINN, a novel process-informed neural network, predicts crop biomass under water stress by embedding a differentiable growth equation, achieving 29.7% lower RMSE for winter wheat and 22.8% for maize compared to CNN–Transformer.

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• Mapping genetic modifiers of epimutation rates identifies VIM2/4 as dosage-sensitive negative regulators of CG methylation maintenance

  Nature Plants · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 5.00 · FWCI 4.59 · 1 citations

  A deletion between VIM2 and VIM4 in Arabidopsis thaliana increases VIM2/4 expression, leading to a 10-fold higher epimutation rate and a shift towards lower CG methylation levels.

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• Chronic exposure to aflatoxin B1, ochratoxin A, and citrinin in women and children and associated health risk characterization: blood biomonitoring evidence from rural Bangladesh

  Environmental Health · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 4.34 · 1 citations

  Nearly all participants (n=712) in rural Bangladesh showed co-exposure to multiple mycotoxins, with 84% exposed to at least three, and OTA and CIT exceeding health guidance values for a significant portion of women and children.

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• Iron oxide nanoparticles mitigate salinity stress in Ziziphora clinopodioides by enhancing growth, ion homeostasis, and essential oil content

  BMC Plant Biology · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 4.34 · 1 citations

  Iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe₂O₃-NPs) at 100 mg L⁻¹ significantly boosted Ziziphora clinopodioides growth under salinity, increasing shoot dry weight by 150% and plant height by 113% compared to untreated salt-stressed plants.

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• A disulfide bond sculpts the CTNIP4 phytocytokine fold for recognition by the receptor kinase HSL3

  Nature Plants · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 5.00 · FWCI 4.26 · 1 citations · Open access

  A disulfide bond creates a cyclic CTNIP4 peptide fold that is specifically recognized by the HSL3 receptor kinase in Arabidopsis, enabling distinct signaling compared to related receptors.

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• Arabidopsis epigenetic factor AS2 mitigates nucleolar stress and promotes flat leaf development by repressing a CDK inhibitor

  Development · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 4.28 · 1 citations

  Arabidopsis AS2 protein mitigates nucleolar stress and promotes flat leaf development by repressing CDK inhibitor KRP5/ICK3.

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• DNA methylome responses to biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana : A multi‐study analysis

  Plant Biology · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  An integrative analysis of 16 Arabidopsis thaliana datasets reveals that stress-specific DNA methylation changes occur primarily in transposable elements (TEs) and gene bodies, with some stress-induced changes potentially leading to heritable epigenetic variation.

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• Chemopreventive effect of arachidin-rich extract from peanut hairy root cultures on inflammation-induced cholangiocarcinogenesis in a cytokine-treated biliary cell model

  BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies · 2026 · Q1

  An arachidin-rich extract from peanut hairy root cultures suppressed key inflammation-driven events in a lab model of bile duct cancer, including STAT3/NF-κB activation, oxidative stress, DNA damage, and tumor cell growth and migration.

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Recently added

• Cytorrhysis under drought, osmotic and freezing stress

  PROTOPLASMA · 2026 · Q1

  Cytorrhysis, the shrinkage of plant cells due to water loss, shares common underlying mechanisms across drought, osmotic, and freezing stresses, influenced by cell biomechanics.

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• Indirect Detection of Novichok Nerve Agents A-230, A-232, and A-234 by Ion Mobility Spectrometry: Limitations of Hydrolysis-Based Marker Strategies

  Analytical Chemistry · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) struggles to detect Novichok agents A-230, A-232, and A-234 indirectly via volatile hydrolysis products, unlike VX, with amidine markers showing limited availability and amide signals likely stemming from synthesis impurities.

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• Autumn edible mushrooms’ euphoria in Dzūkija, SE Lithuania: lessons to learn for an ethnobiology of situated and resilient forest practices

  Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine · 2026 · Q1

  Dzūkija's mushroom foraging is a collective euphoria driven by an export trade via Polish intermediaries, not centralized buying points, creating a situated mycophilia that is both economic and affective.

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• Community-level AM fungal interactions lead to unexpected growth and disease outcomes in tomato

  Plant and Soil · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  Tomato plants inoculated with AM fungal communities showed highly variable growth and defense responses that often differed from predictions based on single-isolate performance, with some communities reducing pathogen biomass loss even when containing previously ineffective isolates.

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• Soil regeneration using wastewater treatment plant sludge and plant growth-promoting bacteria in Quercus ilex: implications for antibiotic resistance within a One Health framework

  BMC Microbiology · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  Treating degraded Spanish soil with wastewater sludge and plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) significantly improved holm oak (Quercus ilex) growth and nutrient uptake, without increasing antibiotic resistance.

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• Contrasting water stress responses of Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc grapevines: Implications for postveraison irrigation

  Agricultural Water Management · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  Sauvignon blanc grapevines show higher stomatal sensitivity to water deficit than Chardonnay, but this difference does not translate to improved yield or water-use efficiency under moderate post-veraison stress.

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• Bacillus velezensis SGTSH 0811 suppresses sunflower sclerotiniose by pathogen inhibition and host resistance induction

  BMC Plant Biology · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00

  Bacillus velezensis SGTSH 0811 effectively controls sunflower sclerotiniose by inhibiting the pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and inducing host resistance.

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• Optimization of Dielectric Constant and Electrical Resistance of Mycelium/Epoxy Composites Reinforced with Three Different Natural Fibers and Nano hBN

  Journal of Natural Fibers · 2026 · Q2

  Mycelium-based epoxy composites with palm fibers and 0.5 wt.% nano hBN achieved a minimum dielectric constant of 1.045 and maximum electrical resistance of 265.51 GΩ, demonstrating their potential as sustainable electrical insulators.

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