| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | AN EVALUATION OF TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING VESICULAR ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL INFECTION IN ROOTS | New Phytologist | 1980 | 4,476 |
| 2 | THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FLORA IN THE ALPINE ZONE.1 | New Phytologist | 1912 | 3,378 |
| 3 | Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought? | New Phytologist | 2008 | 3,232 |
| 4 | What have we learned from 15 years of free‐air CO 2 enrichment (FACE)? A meta‐analytic review of the responses of photosynthesis, canopy properties and plant production to rising CO 2 | New Phytologist | 2005 | 3,081 |
| 5 | A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | New Phytologist | 1990 | 3,058 |
| 6 | Genes and salt tolerance: bringing them together | New Phytologist | 2005 | 2,304 |
| 7 | Seed dormancy and the control of germination | New Phytologist | 2006 | 2,271 |
| 8 | Phosphorus acquisition and use: critical adaptations by plants for securing a nonrenewable resource | New Phytologist | 2003 | 2,243 |
| 9 | Fungal endophytes: diversity and functional roles | New Phytologist | 2009 | 2,230 |
| 10 | Salinity tolerance in halophytes* | New Phytologist | 2008 | 2,141 |
| 11 | Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta‐analysis | New Phytologist | 2009 | 2,056 |
| 12 | Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta‐analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control | New Phytologist | 2012 | 2,012 |
| 13 | N : P ratios in terrestrial plants: variation and functional significance | New Phytologist | 2004 | 1,837 |
| 14 | The role of active oxygen in the response of plants to water deficit and desiccation | New Phytologist | 1993 | 1,715 |
| 15 | Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships | New Phytologist | 2005 | 1,704 |
| 16 | Biofortification of crops with seven mineral elements often lacking in human diets – iron, zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, selenium and iodine | New Phytologist | 2009 | 1,667 |
| 17 | Functioning of mycorrhizal associations along the mutualism-parasitism continuum | New Phytologist | 1997 | 1,637 |
| 18 | Zinc in plants | New Phytologist | 2007 | 1,577 |
| 19 | The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi – recent updates and future perspectives | New Phytologist | 2010 | 1,563 |
| 20 | The global distribution of ecosystems in a world without fire | New Phytologist | 2005 | 1,509 |
| 21 | The importance of the microbiome of the plant holobiont | New Phytologist | 2015 | 1,509 |
| 22 | Abiotic and biotic stress combinations | New Phytologist | 2014 | 1,460 |
| 23 | Tansley Review No. 95 15 N natural abundance in soil‐plant systems | New Phytologist | 1997 | 1,438 |
| 24 | The hydraulic architecture of trees and other woody plants | New Phytologist | 1991 | 1,400 |
| 25 | The plastic plant: root responses to heterogeneous supplies of nutrients | New Phytologist | 2004 | 1,392 |
| 26 | Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future | New Phytologist | 2015 | 1,390 |
| 27 | Secondary metabolites in plant defence mechanisms | New Phytologist | 1994 | 1,330 |
| 28 | Mycorrhizas and soil structure | New Phytologist | 2006 | 1,300 |
| 29 | Mycorrhizas and nutrient cycling in ecosystems – a journey towards relevance? | New Phytologist | 2003 | 1,279 |
| 30 | Coevolution of roots and mycorrhizas of land plants | New Phytologist | 2002 | 1,196 |
| 31 | The evolution of C 4 photosynthesis | New Phytologist | 2004 | 1,136 |
| 32 | Plant and mycorrhizal regulation of rhizodeposition | New Phytologist | 2004 | 1,129 |
| 33 | Biosynthesis, function and metabolic engineering of plant volatile organic compounds | New Phytologist | 2013 | 1,109 |
| 34 | Arsenic uptake and metabolism in arsenic resistant and nonresistant plant species | New Phytologist | 2002 | 1,087 |
| 35 | The costs of reproduction in plants | New Phytologist | 2002 | 1,056 |
| 36 | STUDIES IN THE WATER RELATIONS OF THE COTTON PLANT. I. THE FIELD MEASUREMENT OF WATER DEFICITS IN LEAVES | New Phytologist | 1950 | 1,051 |
| 37 | Tansley Review No. 111 | New Phytologist | 2000 | 1,047 |
| 38 | Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon‐use efficiency in soils | New Phytologist | 2012 | 1,046 |
| 39 | A meta‐analysis of mycorrhizal responses to nitrogen, phosphorus, and atmospheric CO 2 in field studies | New Phytologist | 2004 | 1,025 |
| 40 | Interactions of fungip with toxic metals | New Phytologist | 1993 | 1,021 |
| 41 | Determination of the number of zones in a biostratigraphical sequence | New Phytologist | 1996 | 996 |
| 42 | Global patterns of root turnover for terrestrial ecosystems | New Phytologist | 2000 | 976 |
| 43 | Competition between roots and microorganisms for nitrogen: mechanisms and ecological relevance | New Phytologist | 2013 | 976 |
| 44 | Arsenic uptake and metabolism in plants | New Phytologist | 2009 | 973 |
| 45 | Proanthocyanidins – a final frontier in flavonoid research? | New Phytologist | 2005 | 951 |
| 46 | Uptake of organic nitrogen by plants | New Phytologist | 2009 | 948 |
| 47 | UNITE: a database providing web‐based methods for the molecular identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi | New Phytologist | 2005 | 912 |
| 48 | An evaluation of noninvasive methods to estimate foliar chlorophyll content | New Phytologist | 2002 | 909 |
| 49 | 454 Pyrosequencing analyses of forest soils reveal an unexpectedly high fungal diversity | New Phytologist | 2009 | 908 |
| 50 | Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below‐ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes | New Phytologist | 2015 | 906 |
