Topic · Plant Molecular Biology Research
Most cited papers in Plant Molecular Biology Research
What are the most cited papers in Plant Molecular Biology Research?
The most cited paper in Plant Molecular Biology Research is "MicroRNAs" (David P. Bartel, 2004), with 35,138 citations. Next come "Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana" (22,756) and "Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance" (13,850).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,896 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroRNAs David P. Bartel · Cell | 2004 | 35,138 |
| 2 | Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana Steven John Clough, Andrew F. Bent · The Plant Journal | Dec 1998 | 22,756 |
| 3 | Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance Rana Munns, Mark A. Tester · Annual Review of Plant Biology | 7 Feb 2008 | 13,850 |
| 4 | Conserved Seed Pairing, Often Flanked by Adenosines, Indicates that Thousands of Human Genes are MicroRNA Targets Benjamin P. Lewis, Christopher B. Burge, David P. Bartel · Cell | 2005 | 12,048 |
| 5 | PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences Magali Lescot · Nucleic Acids Research | 2002 | 8,702 |
| 6 | S ALT AND D ROUGHT S TRESS S IGNAL T RANSDUCTION IN P LANTS Jian‐Kang Zhu · Annual Review of Plant Biology | Jun 2002 | 5,930 |
| 7 | Signals from chloroplasts converge to regulate nuclear gene expression. Shai Koussevitzky, Ajit Nott, Todd C. Mockler et al. · PubMed | 4 May 2007 | 5,685 |
| 8 | Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts: a versatile cell system for transient gene expression analysis Sang-Dong Yoo, Young-Hee Cho, Jen Sheen · Nature Protocols | 21 Jun 2007 | 5,307 |
| 9 | MYB transcription factors in Arabidopsis Christian Dubos, Ralf Stracke, Erich Grotewold et al. · Trends in Plant Science | 31 Jul 2010 | 5,164 |
| 10 | Microarray analysis shows that some microRNAs downregulate large numbers of target mRNAs Lee P. Lim, Nelson C. Lau, Philip W. Garrett-Engele et al. · Nature | 30 Jan 2005 | 4,816 |
| 11 | Assaying chimeric genes in plants: The GUS gene fusion system Richard Jefferson · Plant Molecular Biology Reporter | Dec 1987 | 4,508 |
| 12 | The Genome of Black Cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) Gerald A. Tuskan et al. · Science | 15 Sep 2006 | 4,498 |
| 13 | Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals Julie A. Law, Steven E. Jacobsen · Nature Reviews Genetics | 9 Feb 2010 | 4,070 |
| 14 | Capturing Chromosome Conformation Job Dekker, Karsten Rippe, Martijn Dekker et al. · Science | 15 Feb 2002 | 3,876 |
| 15 | PLANT COLD ACCLIMATION: Freezing Tolerance Genes and Regulatory Mechanisms Michael F. Thomashow · Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology | Jun 1999 | 3,648 |
| 16 | Plant salt tolerance Jian‐Kang Zhu · Trends in Plant Science | Feb 2001 | 3,547 |
| 17 | Plant cis-acting regulatory DNA elements (PLACE) database: 1999 Kenichi Higo, Yoshihiro Ugawa, Masao Iwamoto et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 1999 | 3,474 |
| 18 | Growth of the plant cell wall Daniel J. Cosgrove · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | Nov 2005 | 3,348 |
| 19 | Na+ Tolerance and Na+ Transport in Higher Plants Mark A. Tester · Annals of Botany | 6 Feb 2003 | 3,276 |
| 20 | Abscisic Acid: Emergence of a Core Signaling Network Sean R. Cutler, Pedro L. Rodrı́guez, Ruth R. Finkelstein et al. · Annual Review of Plant Biology | 4 May 2010 | 3,246 |
| 21 | The WRKY superfamily of plant transcription factors Thomas Eulgem, Paul J. Rushton, Silke Robatzek et al. · Trends in Plant Science | May 2000 | 3,159 |
| 22 | DNA methylation landscapes: provocative insights from epigenomics Miho M. Suzuki, Adrian Peter Bird · Nature Reviews Genetics | 8 May 2008 | 3,127 |
| 23 | The war of the whorls: genetic interactions controlling flower development Enrico Coen, Elliot M. Meyerowitz · Nature | Sep 1991 | 3,113 |
| 24 | Genes and salt tolerance: bringing them together Rana Munns · New Phytologist | Jul 2005 | 3,094 |
| 25 | Two Transcription Factors, DREB1 and DREB2, with an EREBP/AP2 DNA Binding Domain Separate Two Cellular Signal Transduction Pathways in Drought- and Low-Temperature-Responsive Gene Expression, Respectively, in Arabidopsis Qiang Liu, Mie Kasuga, Yoh Sakuma et al. · The Plant Cell | Aug 1998 | 3,093 |
| 26 | Abscisic Acid Inhibits Type 2C Protein Phosphatases via the PYR/PYL Family of START Proteins Sang‐Youl Park et al. · Science | 30 Apr 2009 | 3,078 |
| 27 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY NETWORKS IN CELLULAR RESPONSES AND TOLERANCE TO DEHYDRATION AND COLD STRESSES Kazuko Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, Kazuo Shinozaki · Annual Review of Plant Biology | 7 Apr 2006 | 3,044 |
| 28 | Arabidopsis Transcription Factors: Genome-Wide Comparative Analysis Among Eukaryotes José Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Greg S. Martin et al. · Science | 15 Dec 2000 | 2,887 |
| 29 | WRKY transcription factors Paul J. Rushton, Imre E. Somssich, Patricia Ringler et al. · Trends in Plant Science | 23 Mar 2010 | 2,837 |
| 30 | MEME: discovering and analyzing DNA and protein sequence motifs Timothy L. Bailey, N. Williams, C. Misleh et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | Jul 2006 | 2,804 |
| 31 | MicroRNAs AND THEIR REGULATORY ROLES IN PLANTS Matthew W. Jones-Rhoades, David P. Bartel, Bonnie Bartel · Annual Review of Plant Biology | 31 Jan 2006 | 2,768 |
| 32 | The Microprocessor complex mediates the genesis of microRNAs Richard I. Gregory, Kai-ping Yan, Govindasamy Amuthan et al. · Nature | Nov 2004 | 2,758 |
| 33 | A Gateway Cloning Vector Set for High-Throughput Functional Analysis of Genes in Planta Mark D. Curtis, Ueli Grossniklaus · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | Oct 2003 | 2,732 |
| 34 | Local, Efflux-Dependent Auxin Gradients as a Common Module for Plant Organ Formation Eva Benková, Marta Michniewicz, Michael Sauer et al. · Cell | Nov 2003 | 2,695 |
| 35 | Role of plant hormones in plant defence responses Rajendra P. Bari, Jonathan D. G. Jones · Plant Molecular Biology | 15 Dec 2008 | 2,681 |
| 36 | Chromatin Structure: A Repeating Unit of Histones and DNA Roger D. Kornberg · Science | 24 May 1974 | 2,679 |
| 37 | An “Electronic Fluorescent Pictograph” Browser for Exploring and Analyzing Large-Scale Biological Data Sets Debbie Winter, Ben Vinegar, Hardeep K. Nahal-Bose et al. · PLoS ONE | 7 Aug 2007 | 2,656 |
| 38 | Drought and Salt Tolerance in Plants Dorothea Bartels, Ramanjulu Sunkar · Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences | 23 Feb 2005 | 2,647 |
| 39 | The roles of segmental and tandem gene duplication in the evolution of large gene families in Arabidopsis thaliana Steven B. Cannon, Arvind Mitra, Andrew M. Baumgarten et al. · BMC Plant Biology | Jun 2004 | 2,635 |
| 40 | A gene expression map of Arabidopsis thaliana development Markus M. Schmid, Timothy S. Davison, Stefan R. Henz et al. · Nature Genetics | 3 Apr 2005 | 2,583 |
| 41 | PlantTFDB 4.0: toward a central hub for transcription factors and regulatory interactions in plants Jinpu Jin, Feng Tian, De-Chang Yang et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 12 Oct 2016 | 2,577 |
| 42 | RNA silencing in plants David C. Baulcombe · Nature | 15 Sep 2004 | 2,559 |
| 43 | Regulators of PP2C Phosphatase Activity Function as Abscisic Acid Sensors Yue Ma, Izabela Szostkiewicz, Arthur Korte et al. · Science | 30 Apr 2009 | 2,526 |
| 44 | Highly Integrated Single-Base Resolution Maps of the Epigenome in Arabidopsis Ryan Lister, Ronan C. O’Malley, Julian Tonti‐Filippini et al. · Cell | 18 Apr 2008 | 2,521 |
| 45 | The physiology of plant responses to drought Aditi Gupta, Andrés Rico‐Medina, Ana I. Caño‐Delgado · Science | 16 Apr 2020 | 2,487 |
| 46 | Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana using the floral dip method Xiuren Zhang, Rossana Henriques, Shih‐Shun Lin et al. · Nature Protocols | 29 Jun 2006 | 2,468 |
| 47 | The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change Alistair M. Hetherington, F. I. Woodward · Nature | Aug 2003 | 2,459 |
| 48 | Genome-Wide Analysis of the ERF Gene Family in Arabidopsis and Rice Toshitsugu Nakano, Kaoru Suzuki, Tatsuhito Fujimura et al. · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 11 Jan 2006 | 2,412 |
| 49 | Arabidopsis AtMYC2 (bHLH) and AtMYB2 (MYB) Function as Transcriptional Activators in Abscisic Acid Signaling Hiroshi Abe, Takeshi Urao, Takuya Ito et al. · The Plant Cell | 19 Dec 2002 | 2,396 |
| 50 | Calcium in Plants Philip John White · Annals of Botany | 24 Sep 2003 | 2,384 |
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