| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | 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 | 1,708 |
| 2 | Crystal structure of spinach major light-harvesting complex at 2.72 Å resolution | Nature | 2004 | 1,589 |
| 3 | Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland | Nature | 2004 | 1,011 |
| 4 | Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges | Global Change Biology | 2019 | 944 |
| 5 | Remote sensing imagery in vegetation mapping: a review | Journal of Plant Ecology | 2008 | 940 |
| 6 | China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency | Nature | 2018 | 839 |
| 7 | Rates of litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: global patterns and controlling factors | Journal of Plant Ecology | 2008 | 832 |
| 8 | Resequencing 50 accessions of cultivated and wild rice yields markers for identifying agronomically important genes | Nature Biotechnology | 2012 | 818 |
| 9 | Integration of Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction with the Transcription Network for Plant Growth Regulation in Arabidopsis | Developmental Cell | 2010 | 790 |
| 10 | MEASURING NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN FORESTS: CONCEPTS AND FIELD METHODS | | 2001 | 748 |
| 11 | COLD1 Confers Chilling Tolerance in Rice | Cell | 2015 | 724 |
| 12 | Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands | Global Change Biology | 2010 | 680 |
| 13 | Divergence of duplicate genes in exon–intron structure | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 671 |
| 14 | A R2R3-type MYB gene, OsMYB2, is involved in salt, cold, and dehydration tolerance in rice | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2012 | 649 |
| 15 | The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data | Scientific Data | 2020 | 646 |
| 16 | Silicon alleviates oxidative damage of wheat plants in pots under drought | Plant Science | 2005 | 630 |
| 17 | Responses of leaf stomatal density to water status and its relationship with photosynthesis in a grass | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2008 | 624 |
| 18 | PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND RAIN USE EFFICIENCY ACROSS A PRECIPITATION GRADIENT ON THE MONGOLIA PLATEAU | Ecology | 2008 | 593 |
| 19 | The deepest divergences in land plants inferred from phylogenomic evidence | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 579 |
| 20 | Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition | New Phytologist | 2008 | 579 |
| 21 | Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation | Nature Geoscience | 2020 | 541 |
| 22 | NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN TROPICAL FORESTS: AN EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS OF EXISTING FIELD DATA | | 2001 | 540 |
| 23 | Predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland | Global Change Biology | 2009 | 530 |
| 24 | Highly Variable Chloroplast Markers for Evaluating Plant Phylogeny at Low Taxonomic Levels and for DNA Barcoding | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 529 |
| 25 | Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad‐leaved forest of China | Ecology | 2009 | 520 |
| 26 | Overexpression of an R1R2R3 MYB Gene, OsMYB3R-2, Increases Tolerance to Freezing, Drought, and Salt Stress in Transgenic Arabidopsis | Plant Physiology | 2007 | 492 |
| 27 | Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta‐analysis of experimental evidence for distance‐ and density‐dependent seed and seedling survival | Journal of Ecology | 2014 | 487 |
| 28 | Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 486 |
| 29 | CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 473 |
| 30 | Carbon pools in China’s terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 466 |
| 31 | Nitric Reductase-Dependent Nitric Oxide Production Is Involved in Cold Acclimation and Freezing Tolerance in Arabidopsis | Plant Physiology | 2009 | 464 |
| 32 | Phylogeny of rice genomes with emphasis on origins of allotetraploid species | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1999 | 452 |
| 33 | Achievements and Challenges in Understanding Plant Abiotic Stress Responses and Tolerance | Plant and Cell Physiology | 2011 | 451 |
| 34 | Empirical patterns of the effects of changing scale on landscape metrics | Landscape Ecology | 2002 | 449 |
| 35 | Ascending Migration of Endophytic Rhizobia, from Roots to Leaves, inside Rice Plants and Assessment of Benefits to Rice Growth Physiology | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 442 |
| 36 | Genetic variation in ZmVPP1 contributes to drought tolerance in maize seedlings | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 438 |
| 37 | Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment | Science | 2018 | 433 |
| 38 | Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 431 |
| 39 | An Essential Role for 14-3-3 Proteins in Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis | Developmental Cell | 2007 | 427 |
| 40 | Plant responses to drought and rewatering | Plant Signaling and Behavior | 2010 | 427 |
| 41 | Antagonistic HLH/bHLH Transcription Factors Mediate Brassinosteroid Regulation of Cell Elongation and Plant Development in Rice andArabidopsis | Plant Cell | 2010 | 425 |
| 42 | Climate change, human impacts, and carbon sequestration in China | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 419 |
| 43 | Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity | Nature Communications | 2014 | 414 |
| 44 | The genome sequence of the orchid Phalaenopsis equestris | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 413 |
| 45 | Rapid loss of lakes on the Mongolian Plateau | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 408 |
| 46 | Effects of chitosan on control of postharvest diseases and physiological responses of tomato fruit | Postharvest Biology and Technology | 2007 | 398 |
| 47 | Water‐mediated responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe | New Phytologist | 2008 | 392 |
| 48 | A transposable element in a NAC gene is associated with drought tolerance in maize seedlings | Nature Communications | 2015 | 392 |
| 49 | Biosynthesis, regulation, and domestication of bitterness in cucumber | Science | 2014 | 388 |
| 50 | Structural basis for energy transfer pathways in the plant PSI-LHCI supercomplex | Science | 2015 | 386 |
