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| 7 | A Species of Small Antisense RNA in Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing in Plants | Science | 1999 | 2,663 |
| 8 | Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome | Science | 2018 | 2,424 |
| 9 | RNA silencing in plants | Nature | 2004 | 2,314 |
| 10 | Role of plant hormones in plant defence responses | Plant Molecular Biology | 2009 | 2,187 |
| 11 | Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth | Nature | 2003 | 1,999 |
| 12 | The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 1,893 |
| 13 | ‘Green revolution’ genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators | Nature | 1999 | 1,876 |
| 14 | R Factor Transfer in Rhizobium leguminosarum | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1974 | 1,795 |
| 15 | A Plant miRNA Contributes to Antibacterial Resistance by Repressing Auxin Signaling | Science | 2006 | 1,762 |
| 16 | A mechanism for gene conversion in fungi | Genetical Research | 1964 | 1,743 |
| 17 | Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature | Natural Product Reports | 2013 | 1,692 |
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| 19 | Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception | Nature | 2004 | 1,487 |
| 20 | NADPH oxidase AtrbohD and AtrbohF genes function in ROS-dependent ABA signaling in Arabidopsis | EMBO Journal | 2003 | 1,474 |
| 21 | pGreen: a versatile and flexible binary Ti vector for Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation | Plant Molecular Biology | 2000 | 1,426 |
| 22 | Speak, friend, and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2013 | 1,373 |
| 23 | PCR-targeted Streptomyces gene replacement identifies a protein domain needed for biosynthesis of the sesquiterpene soil odor geosmin | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 1,340 |
| 24 | Integration of Plant Responses to Environmentally Activated Phytohormonal Signals | Science | 2006 | 1,304 |
| 25 | The CONSTANS gene of arabidopsis promotes flowering and encodes a protein showing similarities to zinc finger transcription factors | Cell | 1995 | 1,287 |
| 26 | Distinct Roles of CONSTANS Target Genes in Reproductive Development of Arabidopsis | Science | 2000 | 1,272 |
| 27 | CONSTANS mediates between the circadian clock and the control of flowering in Arabidopsis | Nature | 2001 | 1,258 |
| 28 | Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae | Nature | 2005 | 1,250 |
| 29 | Cellular organisation of the Arabidopsis thaliana root | Development (Cambridge) | 1993 | 1,238 |
| 30 | Isolation and characterization of efficient plasmid transformation mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis | Molecular Microbiology | 1990 | 1,217 |
| 31 | The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses | Nature | 2011 | 1,166 |
| 32 | An epigenetic mutation responsible for natural variation in floral symmetry | Nature | 1999 | 1,110 |
| 33 | The Barley Mlo Gene: A Novel Control Element of Plant Pathogen Resistance | Cell | 1997 | 1,066 |
| 34 | Aerial Dispersal of Pathogens on the Global and Continental Scales and Its Impact on Plant Disease | Science | 2002 | 1,039 |
| 35 | Enrichment of tomato fruit with health-promoting anthocyanins by expression of select transcription factors | Nature Biotechnology | 2008 | 1,030 |
| 36 | The plant microbiome | Genome Biology | 2013 | 1,028 |
| 37 | Antibiotics: past, present and future | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2019 | 1,012 |
| 38 | The Arabidopsis GAI gene defines a signaling pathway that negatively regulates gibberellin responses | Genes and Development | 1997 | 991 |
| 39 | Analysis of the bread wheat genome using whole-genome shotgun sequencing | Nature | 2012 | 983 |
| 40 | An RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Gene in Arabidopsis Is Required for Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing Mediated by a Transgene but Not by a Virus | Cell | 2000 | 956 |
| 41 | Arabidopsis, the Rosetta Stone of Flowering Time? | Science | 2002 | 954 |
| 42 | Molecular Analysis of FRIGIDA, a Major Determinant of Natural Variation in Arabidopsis Flowering Time | Science | 2000 | 952 |
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| 44 | Genetic regulation of biological nitrogen fixation | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2004 | 943 |
| 45 | Top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology | Molecular Plant Pathology | 2011 | 936 |
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| 48 | Insect Vector Interactions with Persistently Transmitted Viruses | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2008 | 925 |
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