| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | SYSTEMIC ACQUIRED RESISTANCE | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2004 | 2,441 |
| 2 | The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions | Science | 2007 | 2,354 |
| 3 | Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny | Nature | 2006 | 1,625 |
| 4 | Lattice light-sheet microscopy: Imaging molecules to embryos at high spatiotemporal resolution | Science | 2014 | 1,567 |
| 5 | The genetics of inbreeding depression | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2009 | 1,545 |
| 6 | Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems | Nature | 2006 | 1,516 |
| 7 | The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 2005 | 1,476 |
| 8 | ERM proteins and merlin: integrators at the cell cortex | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2002 | 1,468 |
| 9 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 1,430 |
| 10 | Inducers of Plant Systemic Acquired Resistance Regulate NPR1 Function through Redox Changes | Cell | 2003 | 1,348 |
| 11 | Systemic Acquired Resistance: Turning Local Infection into Global Defense | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 2013 | 1,234 |
| 12 | Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure by Use of Taxon-Specific Quantitative PCR Assays | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 1,227 |
| 13 | Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2020 | 1,195 |
| 14 | Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 1,175 |
| 15 | A classification for extant ferns | Taxon | 2006 | 1,142 |
| 16 | Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 1,123 |
| 17 | A High-Resolution Root Spatiotemporal Map Reveals Dominant Expression Patterns | Science | 2007 | 1,048 |
| 18 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 19 | The Evolution of Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2003 | 1,034 |
| 20 | The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Science | 2006 | 1,018 |
| 21 | Trading Water for Carbon with Biological Carbon Sequestration | Science | 2005 | 1,014 |
| 22 | NPR1 Modulates Cross-Talk between Salicylate- and Jasmonate-Dependent Defense Pathways through a Novel Function in the Cytosol | Plant Cell | 2003 | 1,011 |
| 23 | Plant Speciation | Science | 2007 | 966 |
| 24 | Rapid blue-light–mediated induction of protein interactions in living cells | Nature Methods | 2010 | 965 |
| 25 | The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus) | Nature | 2008 | 964 |
| 26 | Plant Immunity Requires Conformational Charges of NPR1 via S-Nitrosylation and Thioredoxins | Science | 2008 | 964 |
| 27 | Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival | Science | 2003 | 943 |
| 28 | How do plants achieve immunity? Defence without specialized immune cells | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2012 | 904 |
| 29 | Gibberellin Signaling | Plant Cell | 2002 | 870 |
| 30 | SDMtoolbox: a python‐based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 864 |
| 31 | Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences | Nature | 2010 | 858 |
| 32 | Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America | Molecular Ecology | 2006 | 843 |
| 33 | NPR3 and NPR4 are receptors for the immune signal salicylic acid in plants | Nature | 2012 | 834 |
| 34 | Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application? | Ecosystems | 2006 | 829 |
| 35 | THE GLOBAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ROOTS | Ecological Monographs | 2002 | 816 |
| 36 | Fungal Community Analysis by Large-Scale Sequencing of Environmental Samples | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 795 |
| 37 | Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future | Journal of Ecology | 2008 | 788 |
| 38 | Ecological Forecasts: An Emerging Imperative | Science | 2001 | 774 |
| 39 | DIVERSITY AND HOST RANGE OF FOLIAR FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES: ARE TROPICAL LEAVES BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS? | Ecology | 2007 | 770 |
| 40 | Host genotype and age shape the leaf and root microbiomes of a wild perennial plant | Nature Communications | 2016 | 754 |
| 41 | A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera | Systematic Biology | 2012 | 742 |
| 42 | Ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms | Nature | 2004 | 730 |
| 43 | Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits | American Journal of Botany | 2004 | 718 |
| 44 | River restoration, habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity: a failure of theory or practice? | Freshwater Biology | 2010 | 715 |
| 45 | Cell Identity Mediates the Response of Arabidopsis Roots to Abiotic Stress | Science | 2008 | 700 |
| 46 | Plant hormone jasmonate prioritizes defense over growth by interfering with gibberellin signaling cascade | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 697 |
| 47 | Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae | Plant Systematics and Evolution | 2007 | 675 |
| 48 | Germination, Postgermination Adaptation, and Species Ecological Ranges | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2010 | 670 |
| 49 | Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation | Nature | 2014 | 669 |
| 50 | Genetic Characterization and Functional Analysis of the GID1 Gibberellin Receptors in Arabidopsis | Plant Cell | 2007 | 665 |
