Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

Publications of Ralph Bock

Journal Article (247)

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Vidal-Meireles, A.; Kuntam, S.; Széles, E.; Tóth, D.; Neupert, J.; Bock, R.; Tóth, S. Z.: The lifetime of the oxygen-evolving complex subunit PSBO depends on light intensity and carbon availability in Chlamydomonas. Plant, Cell and Environment 46 (2), pp. 422 - 439 (2023)

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Wu, M.; Zhang, Q.; Dong, Y.; Wang, Z.; Zhan, W.; Ke, Z.; Li, S.; He, L.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R. et al.; Zhang, J.: Transplastomic tomatoes expressing double-stranded RNA against a conserved gene are efficiently protected from multiple spider mites. New Phytologist 237 (4), pp. 1363 - 1373 (2023)

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Chung, K. P.; Gonzalez-Duran, E.; Ruf, S.; Endries, P.; Bock, R.: Control of plastid inheritance by environmental and genetic factors. Nature Plants 9, pp. 68 - 80 (2023)

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Strand, D.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Schadach, A.; Schöttler, M. A.; Sandoval-Ibanez, O.; Hall, D.; Kramer, D. M.; Bock, R.: Characterization of mutants deficient in N-terminal phosphorylation of the chloroplast ATP synthase subunit β. Plant Physiology (2023)

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Ghandour, R.; Gao, Y.; Laskowski, J.; Barahimipour, R.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.; Zoschke, R.: Transgene insertion into the plastid genome alters expression of adjacent native chloroplast genes at the transcriptional and translational levels. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2022)

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Loiacono, F.V.; Walther, D.; Seeger, S.; Thiele, W.; Gerlach, I.; Karcher, D.; Schöttler, M. A.; Zoschke, R.; Bock, R.: Emergence of novel RNA editing sites by changes in the binding affinity of a conserved PPR protein. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (12), msac222 (2022)

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Tan, J.; Forner, J.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: DNA base editing in nuclear and organellar genomes. Trends in Genetics 38 (11), pp. 1147 - 1169 (2022)

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Hölscher, M.; Forner, J.; Calderone, S.; Krämer, C.; Taylor, Z.; Loiacono, F.V.; Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Moratti, F. G.; Kroop, X. et al.; Bock, R.: Expression strategies for the efficient synthesis of antimicrobial peptides in plastids. Nature Communications 13, 5856 (2022)

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Steinhorst, L.; He, G.; Moore, L. K.; Schültke, S.; Schmitz-Thom, I.; Cao, Y.; Hashimoto, K.; Andrés, Z.; Piepenburg, K.; Ragel, P. et al.; Behera, S.; Almutairi, B. O.; Batistič, O.; Wyganowski, T.; Köster, P.; Edel, K. H.; Zhang, C.; Krebs, M.; Jiang, C.; Guo, Y.; Quintero, F. J.; Bock, R.; Kudla, J.: A Ca2+-sensor switch for tolerance to elevated salt stress in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell 57 (17), pp. 2081 - 2094 (2022)

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Wei, S.; Li, X.; Lu, Z.; Zhang, H.; Ye, X.; Zhou, Y.; Li, J.; Yan, Y.; Pei, H.; Duan, F. et al.; Wang, D.; Chen, S.; Wang, P.; Zhang, C.; Shang, L.; Zhou, Y.; Yan, P.; Zhao, M.; Huang, J.; Bock, R.; Qian, Q.; Zhou, W.: A transcriptional regulator that boosts grain yields and shortens the growth duration of rice. Science 377, 6604 (2022)

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Sandoval-Ibanez, O.; Rolo, D.; Ghandour, R.; Hertle, A. P.; Armarego-Marriott, T.; Sampathkumar, A.; Zoschke, R.; Bock, R.: De-etiolation-induced protein 1 (DEIP1) mediates assembly of the cytochrome b6f complex in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 13 (1), 4045 (2022)

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Dong, Y.; Wu, M.; Zhang, Q.; Fu, J.; Loiacono, F.V.; Yang, Y.; Wang, Z.; Li, S.; Chang, L.; Bock, R. et al.; Zhang, J.: Control of a sap-sucking insect pest by plastid-mediated RNA interference. Molecular Plant 15 (7), pp. 1176 - 1191 (2022)

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Wu, M.; Dong, Y.; Zhang, Q.; Li, S.; Chang, L.; Loiacono, F.V.; Ruf, S.; Zhang, i.; Bock, R.: Efficient control of western flower thrips by plastid-mediated RNA interference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (15), e2120081119 (2022)

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Bock, R.: Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 66, 102185 (2022)

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Fu, J.; Xu, S.; Lu, H.; Li, F.; Li, S.; Chang, L.; Heckel, D. G.; Bock, R.; Zhang, J.: Resistance to RNA interference by plant-derived double-stranded RNAs but not plant-derived short interfering RNAs in Helicoverpa armigera. Plant, Cell and Environment (2022)

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Forner, J.; Kleinschmidt, D.; Meyer, E. H.; Fischer, A.; Morbitzer, R.; Lahaye, T.; Schöttler, M. A.; Bock, R.: Targeted introduction of heritable point mutations into the plant mitochondrial genome. Nature Plants 8, pp. 245 - 256 (2022)

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Chen, Q.; Shen, P.; Bock, R.; Li, S.; Zhang, J.: Comprehensive analysis of plastid gene expression during fruit development and ripening of kiwifruit. Plant Cell Reports 41, pp. 1103 - 1114 (2022)

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Gao, Y.; Thiele, W.; Saleh, O.; Scossa, F.; Aarabi, F.; Zhang, H.; Sampathkumar, A.; Kühn, K.; Fernie, A. R.; Bock, R. et al.; Schöttler, M. A.; Zoschke, R.: Chloroplast translational regulation uncovers nonessential photosynthesis genes as key players in plant cold acclimation. Plant Cell 34 (5), pp. 2056 - 2079 (2022)

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David, Z.; Swart, C.; Graf, A.; Arrivault, S.; Tillich, M.; Proost, S.; Nikoloski, Z.; Stitt, M.; Bock, R.; Mühlhaus, M. et al.; Boulouis, A.: Topology of the redox network during induction of photosynthesis as revealed by time-resolved proteomics in tobacco. Science Advances 7 (51), eabi8307 (2021)

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Frusciante, S.; Demurtas, O. C.; Sulli, M.; Mini, P.; Aprea, G.; Diretto, G.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.; Giuliano, G.: Heterologous expression of Bixa orellana cleavage dioxygenase 4–3 drives crocin but not bixin biosynthesis. Plant Physiology 188 (3), pp. 1469 - 1482 (2021)

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Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Erban, A.; Hertle, A. P.; Kopka, J.; Bock, R.: Riboswitch-mediated inducible expression of an astaxanthin biosynthetic operon in plastids. Plant Physiology 118 (1), pp. 637 - 652 (2021)

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He, W.; Baysal, C.; Lobato Gómez, M.; Huang, X.; Alvarez, D.; Zhu, C.; Armario-Najera, V.; Blanco Perera, A.; Cerda Bennaser, P.; Saba-Mayoral, A. et al.; Sobrino-Mengual, G.; Vargheese, A.; Abranches, R.; Abreu, I. A.; Balamurugan, S.; Bock, R.; Buyel, J. F.; Cunha, N. B. d.; Daniell, H.; Faller, R.; Folgado, A.; Gowtham, I.; Häkkinen, S. T.; Shashi, K.; Ramalingam, S. K.; Lacorte, C.; Lomonossoff, G. P.; Luís, I. M.; K.-C. Ma, J.; McDonald, K. A.; Murad, A.; Nandi, S.; O’Keef, B.; Parthiban, S.; Paul, M. J.; Ponndorf, D.; Rech, E.; Rodrigues, J. C.M.; Ruf, S.; Schillberg, S.; Schwestka, J.; Shah, P. S.; Singh, R.; Stoger, E.; Twyman, R. M.; Varghese, I. P.; Vianna, G. R.; Webster, G.; Wilbers, R. H.P.; Christou, P.; Oksman-Caldentey, K.-M.; Capell, T.: Contributions of the international plant science community to the fight against infectious diseases in humans – part 2: affordable drugs in edible plants for endemic and re-emerging diseases. Plant Biotechnology Journal 19 (10), pp. 1921 - 1936 (2021)

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Lobato Gómez, M.; Huang, X.; Alvarez, D.; He, W.; Baysal, C.; Zhu, C.; Armario-Najera, V.; Blanco Perera, A.; Cerda Bennasser, P.; Saba-Mayoral, A. et al.; Sobrino-Mengual, G.; Vargheese, A.; Abranches, R.; Abreu, I. A.; Balamurugan, S.; Bock, R.; Buyel, J.F.; da Cunha; B, N.; Daniell, H.; Faller, R.; Folgado, A.; Gowtham, I.; Häkkinen, S.; Shashi, K.; Kumar Ramalingam, S.; Lacorte, C.; Lomonossoff, G. P.; Luís, I. M.; Ma, J. K.-C.; McDonald, K. A.; Murad, A.; Nandi, S.; O’Keef, B.; Oksman-Caldentey, K.-M.; Parthiban, S.; Paul, M.; Ponndorf, D.; Rech, E.; Rodrigues, J. C.M.; Ruf, S.; Schillberg, S.; Schwestka, J.; Shah, P. S.; Singh, R.; Stoger, E.; Twyman, R. M.; Varghese, I. P.; Vianna, G. R.; Webster, G.; Wilbers, R. H.P.; Capell, T.; Christou, P.: Contributions of the international plant science community to the fight against human infectious diseases – part 1: epidemic and pandemic diseases. Plant Biotechnology Journal 19 (10), pp. 1901 - 1920 (2021)

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Zupok, A.; Kozul, D.; Schöttler, M. A.; Niehörster, J.; Garbsch, F.; Liere, K.; Fischer, A.; Zoschke, R.; Malinova, I.; Bock, R. et al.; Greiner, S.: A photosynthesis operon in the chloroplast genome drives speciation in evening primroses. The Plant Cell 33 (8), pp. 2583 - 2601 (2021)

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Dobrica, M.-O.; van Eerde, A.; Tucureanu, C.; Onu, A.; Paruch, L.; Caras, I.; Vlase, E.; Steen, H.; Haugslien, S.; Alonzi, D. et al.; Zitzmann, N.; Bock, R.; Dubuisson, J.; Popescu, C.-I.; Stavaru, C.; Liu Clarke, J.; Branza-Nichita, N.: Hepatitis C virus E2 envelope glycoprotein produced in Nicotiana benthamiana triggers humoral response with virus-neutralizing activity in vaccinated mice. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2021)

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Wu, G.; Bock, R.: GUN control in retrograde signaling: How GENOMES UNCOUPLED proteins adjust nuclear gene expression to plastid biogenesis. The Plant Cell 33 (3), pp. 457 - 574 (2021)

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Malinova, I.; Zupok, A.; Massouh, A.; Schöttler, M. A.; Meyer, E. H.; Yaneva-Roder, L.; Szymanski, W. G.; Rößner, M.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R. et al.; Greiner, S.: Correction of Frameshift Mutations in the atpB Gene by Translational Recoding in Chloroplasts of Oenothera and Tobacco. The Plant Cell 33 (5), pp. 1682 - 1705 (2021)

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Schulz, P.; Piepenburg, K.; Lintermann, R.; Herde, M.; Schöttler, M. A.; Schmidt, L. K.; Ruf, S.; Kudla, J.; Romeis, T.; Bock, R.: Improving plant drought tolerance and growth under water limitation through combinatorial engineering of signaling networks. Plant Biotechnology Journal 19 (1), pp. 74 - 86 (2021)

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Hertle, A. P.; Haberl, B.; Bock, R.: Horizontal genome transfer by cell-to-cell travel of whole organelles. Science Advances 7 (1), eabd8215 (2021)

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Caroca, R.; Howell, K. A.; Malinova, I.; Burgos, A.; Tiller, N.; Pellizzer, T.; Annunziata, M. G.; Hasse, C.; Ruf, S.; Karcher, D. et al.; Bock, R.: Knock-down of the plastid-encoded acetyl-CoA carboxylase gene uncovers functions in metabolism and development. Plant Physiology 185 (3), pp. 1091 - 1110 (2021)

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Kössler, S.; Armarego-Marriott, T.; Tarkowska, D.; Tureckova, V.; Agrawal, S.; Mi, J.; Perez da Sousa, L.; Schöttler, M. A.; Schadach, A.; Fröhlich, A. et al.; Bock, R.; Al-Babili, S.; Ruf, S.; Sampathkumar, A.; Moreno, J.C.: Lycopene β-cyclase expression influences plant physiology, development and metabolism in tobacco plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 72 (7), pp. 2544 - 2569 (2021)

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Neupert, J.; Gallaher, S.D.; Lu, Y.; Strenkert, D.; Segal, N.; Barahimipour, R.; Fitz-Gibbon, S.T.; Schroda, M.; Merchant, S.S.; Bock, R.: Publisher Correction: An epigenetic gene silencing pathway selectively acting on transgenic DNA in the green alga Chlamydomonasis (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (6269), 10.1038/s41467-020-19983-4). Nature Communications 12 (1), 208 (2021)

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Ruf, S.; Kroop, X.; Bock, R.: Chloroplast Transformation in Arabidopsis. Current Protocols in Plant Biology 1 (4), e103 (2021)

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Sandoval-Ibanez, O.; Sharma, A.; Bykowski, M.; Borràs-Gas, G.; Behrendorff, J. B. Y. H.; Mellor, S.; Qvortrup, K.; Verdonk, J. C.; Bock, R.; Kowalewska, Ł. et al.; Pribil, M.: Curvature thylakoid 1 proteins modulate prolamellar body morphology and promote organized thylakoid biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (42), e2113934118 (2021)

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Xu, L.; Xu, S.; Sun, L.; Zhang, Y.; Luo, J.; Bock, R.; Zhang, J.: Synergistic action of the gut microbiota in environmental RNA interference in a leaf beetle. Microbiome 9 (1), 98 (2021)

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Fu, H.-Y.; Ghandour, R.; Ruf, S.; Zoschke, R.; Bock, R.; Schöttler, M. A.: The availability of neither D2 nor CP43 limits the biogenesis of photosystem II in tobacco. Plant Physiology 185 (3), pp. 1111 - 1130 (2020)

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Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: The Functions of Chloroplast Glutamyl-tRNA in Translation and Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis. Plant Physiology 183 (1), pp. 263 - 276 (2020)

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Greiner, S.; Golczyk, H.; Malinova, I.; Pellizzer, T.; Bock, R.; Börner, T.; Herrmann, R. G.: Chloroplast nucleoids are highly dynamic in ploidy, number, and structure during angiosperm leaf development. The Plant Journal 102 (4), pp. 730 - 746 (2020)

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He, W.; Xu, W.; Xu, L.; Fu, K.; Guo, W.; Bock, R.; Zhang, J.: Length-dependent accumulation of double-stranded RNAs in plastids affects RNA interference efficiency in the Colorado potato beetle. Journal of Experimental Botany 71 (9), pp. 2670 - 2677 (2020)

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Huang, W.; Zhang, Y.; Shen, L.; Fang, Q.; Liu, Q.; Gong, C.; Zhang, C.; Zhou, Y.; Mao, C.; Zhu, Y. et al.; Zhang, J.; Chen, H.; Zhang, Y.; Lin, Y.; Bock, R.; Zhou, F.: Accumulation of the RNA polymerase subunit RpoB depends on RNA editing by OsPPR16 and affects chloroplast development during early leaf development in rice. New Phytologist 228 (4), pp. 1401 - 1416 (2020)

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Molina-Hidalgo, F.J.; Vazquez-Vilar, M.; D´Andrea, L.; Demurtas, O.C.; Fraser, P.; Giuliano, G.; Bock, R.; Orzáez, D.; Goossens, A.: Engineering Metabolism in Nicotiana Species: A Promising Future. Trends in Biotechnology 39 (3), pp. 901 - 913 (2020)

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Moreno, J.C.; Mi, J.; Agrawal, S.; Kössler, S.; Turečková, V.; Tarkowská, D.; Thiele, W.; Al-Babili, S.; Bock, R.; Schöttler, M. A.: Expression of a carotenogenic gene allows faster biomass production by redesigning plant architecture and improving photosynthetic efficiency in tobacco. The Plant Journal 103 (6), pp. 1967 - 1984 (2020)

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Neupert, J.; Gallaher, S.D.; Lu, Y.; Strenkert, D.; Segal, N.; Barahimipour, R.; Fitz-Gibbon, S.T.; Schroda, M.; Merchant, S.S.; Bock, R.: An epigenetic gene silencing pathway selectively acting on transgenic DNA in the green alga Chlamydomonas. Nature Communications 11 (1), 6269 (2020)

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Schuster, M.; Gao, Y.; Schöttler, M. A.; Bock, R.; Zoschke, R.: Limited Responsiveness of Chloroplast Gene Expression during Acclimation to High Light in Tobacco. Plant Physiology 182 (1), pp. 424 - 435 (2020)

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Tan, J.; Zhang, F.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.: Expanding the genome-targeting scope and the site selectivity of high-precision base editors. Nature Communications 11 (1), 629 (2020)

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Vallarino, J. G.; Kubiszewski-Jakubiak, S.; Ruf, S.; Rößner, M.; Timm, S.; Bauwe, H.; Carrari, F.; Rentsch, D.; Bock, R.; Sweetlove, L.J. et al.; Fernie, A. R.: Multi-gene metabolic engineering of tomato plants results in increased fruit yield up to 23. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 17219 (2020)

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van Eerde, A.; Várnai, A.; Jameson, J.K.; Paruch, L.; Moen, A.; Anonsen, J.H.; Chylenski, P.; Steen, H.S.; Heldal, I.; Bock, R. et al.; Eijsink, V.G.H.; Liu-Clarke, J.: In-depth characterization of Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase TrCel7A produced in Nicotiana benthamiana reveals limitations of cellulase production in plants by host-specific post-translational modifications. Plant Biotechnology Journal 18 (3), pp. 631 - 643 (2020)

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Xu, P.; Chukhutsina, V.U.; Nawrocki, W.J.; Schansker, G.; Bielczynski, L.W.; Lu, Y.; Karcher, D.; Bock, R.; Croce, R.: Photosynthesis without β-carotene. eLife 9, e58984 (2020)

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van Eerde, A.; Gottschamel, J.; Bock, R.; Hansen, K. E. A.; Munang'andu, H. M.; Daniell, H.; Liu Clarke, J.: Production of tetravalent dengue virus envelope protein domain III based antigens in lettuce chloroplasts and immunologic analysis for future oral vaccine development. Plant Biotechnology Journal 17 (7), pp. 1408 - 1417 (2019)

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Greiner, S.; Lehwark, P.; Bock, R.: OrganellarGenomeDRAW (OGDRAW) version 1.3.1: expanded toolkit for the graphical visualization of organellar genomes. Nucleic Acids Research 47 (W1), pp. W59 - W64 (2019)

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