| 1 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 2,650 |
| 2 | Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 2,202 |
| 3 | Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Defense in Plants under Abiotic Stress: Revisiting the Crucial Role of a Universal Defense Regulator | Antioxidants | 2020 | 2,179 |
| 4 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 2,079 |
| 5 | International Union of Pharmacology. XXVII. Classification of Cannabinoid Receptors | Pharmacological Reviews | 2002 | 2,036 |
| 6 | Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies | Environmental Science & Technology | 2015 | 1,895 |
| 7 | Driver mutations in histone H3.3 and chromatin remodelling genes in paediatric glioblastoma | Nature | 2012 | 1,879 |
| 8 | Endocrine Regulation of Energy Metabolism by the Skeleton | Cell | 2007 | 1,845 |
| 9 | The α/β hydrolase fold | Protein Engineering, Design and Selection | 1992 | 1,687 |
| 10 | Producing more grain with lower environmental costs | Nature | 2014 | 1,609 |
| 11 | The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 1,599 |
| 12 | Genome-wide association studies of 14 agronomic traits in rice landraces | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 1,564 |
| 13 | QTL IciMapping: Integrated software for genetic linkage map construction and quantitative trait locus mapping in biparental populations | Crop Journal | 2015 | 1,545 |
| 14 | A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of cultivated rice | Nature | 2012 | 1,247 |
| 15 | Regulation of OsSPL14 by OsmiR156 defines ideal plant architecture in rice | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 1,225 |
| 16 | Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome | Nature Biotechnology | 2019 | 1,209 |
| 17 | Genomic variation in 3,010 diverse accessions of Asian cultivated rice | Nature | 2018 | 1,184 |
| 18 | Efficient isolation and mapping of Arabidopsis thaliana T‐DNA insert junctions by thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR | Plant Journal | 1995 | 1,182 |
| 19 | Heat-shock protein 70 inhibits apoptosis by preventing recruitment of procaspase-9 to the Apaf-1 apoptosome | Nature Cell Biology | 2000 | 1,143 |
| 20 | The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data | Scientific Data | 2020 | 1,120 |
| 21 | The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. | Nature Genetics | 2009 | 1,077 |
| 22 | The Genetic Architecture of Maize Flowering Time | Science | 2009 | 1,031 |
| 23 | Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review | Plants | 2019 | 1,031 |
| 24 | Effect of biochar additions to soil on nitrogen leaching, microbial biomass and bacterial community structure | European Journal of Soil Biology | 2016 | 1,005 |
| 25 | Repeated polyploidization of Gossypium genomes and the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres | Nature | 2012 | 992 |
| 26 | Managing nitrogen to restore water quality in China | Nature | 2019 | 991 |
| 27 | The C/EBP Homologous Protein (CHOP) Transcription Factor Functions in Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced Apoptosis and Microbial Infection | Frontiers in Immunology | 2019 | 944 |
| 28 | Thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR: automatable amplification and sequencing of insert end fragments from P1 and YAC clones for chromosome walking | Genomics | 1995 | 935 |
| 29 | Impact of plant roots on the resistance of soils to erosion by water: a review | Progress in Physical Geography | 2005 | 929 |
| 30 | Control of tillering in rice | Nature | 2003 | 927 |
| 31 | Gully erosion: Impacts, factors and control | Catena | 2005 | 859 |
| 32 | Electrochemical Biosensing Platforms Using Platinum Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes | Analytical Chemistry | 2004 | 851 |
| 33 | Genome sequence of cultivated Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum TM-1) provides insights into genome evolution | Nature Biotechnology | 2015 | 848 |
| 34 | The Brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes | Nature Communications | 2014 | 826 |
| 35 | Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and ammonia‐oxidizing archaea of a Chinese upland red soil under long‐term fertilization practices | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 815 |
| 36 | Mechanisms of silicon-mediated alleviation of abiotic stresses in higher plants: A review | Environmental Pollution | 2007 | 806 |
| 37 | COLD1 Confers Chilling Tolerance in Rice | Cell | 2015 | 803 |
| 38 | High-level and high-throughput recombinant protein production by transient transfection of suspension-growing human 293-EBNA1 cells | Nucleic Acids Research | 2002 | 796 |
| 39 | Genome-wide association study of flowering time and grain yield traits in a worldwide collection of rice germplasm | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 791 |
| 40 | Resequencing of 31 wild and cultivated soybean genomes identifies patterns of genetic diversity and selection | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 775 |
| 41 | Role of the Human Heat Shock Protein hsp70 in Protection against Stress-Induced Apoptosis | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1997 | 738 |
| 42 | The draft genome of a diploid cotton Gossypium raimondii | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 738 |
| 43 | Long-term field application of sewage sludge increases the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in soil | Environment International | 2016 | 731 |
| 44 | The human CD46 molecule is a receptor for measles virus (Edmonston strain) | Cell | 1993 | 725 |
| 45 | D14–SCFD3-dependent degradation of D53 regulates strigolactone signalling | Nature | 2013 | 723 |
| 46 | An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5′ ends | Nature | 2017 | 720 |
| 47 | Rewiring of the Fruit Metabolome in Tomato Breeding | Cell | 2018 | 719 |
| 48 | Genomic analyses provide insights into the history of tomato breeding | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 715 |
| 49 | The genome sequences of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 703 |
| 50 | Mechanisms and Functions of Long Non-Coding RNAs at Multiple Regulatory Levels | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 2019 | 693 |
