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Kuhalskaya, A.; Li, X.; Lee, J.; Gonda, I.; von Steimker, J.; Bulut, M.; Karakas, E.; Fisher, J.; Krämer, K.; Rosental, L. et al.; Wijesingha Ahchige, M.; Garbowicz, K.; Klemmer, A.; Ruß, A.-K.; Donath, A.; Cuadros-Inostroza, A.; Boerjan, W.; Tieman, D. M.; Zamir, D.; Klee, H. J.; Alseekh, S.: Genetic architecture of the tomato fruit lipidome. PNAS Nexus 5 (1), pgaf401 (2026)

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Lopes, A.; Sandoval-Ibanez, O.; Arrivault, S.; Rolo, D.; Loiacono, F.V.; Erban, A.; Karcher, D.; Obst, S.; Ruf, S.; Kopka, J. et al.; Bock, R.: Plastid Engineering for Photosynthesis-Driven Synthesis of Hyaluronic Acid in Tobacco. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2025)

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Moratti, F. G.; Lonoce, C.; Obst, S.; Kroop, X.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: A Set of Intein-Split Selectable Marker Genes for Efficient Co-Transformation. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2025)

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Wang, Y.; Gao, L.-L.; Yuan, Y.-J.; Scharff, L. B.; Armarego-Marriott, T.; Ruf, S.; Krall, L.; Wu, X.-N.; Bock, R.; Wu, G.-Z.: Overexpression of protein import machinery subunit ycf1/Tic214 represses photosynthetic complex biogenesis by inhibiting the synthesis of plastid-encoded core subunits in tobacco. Journal of Experimental Botany 76 (20), S. 5982 - 6004 (2025)

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Luo, Q.; Obst, S.; Chang, S.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: Development of chloroplast transformation for five species in the genus Nicotiana. The Plant Journal 124 (2), e70542 (2025)

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Duan, F.; Li, X.; Wei, Z.; Li, J.; Jiang, C.; Jiao, C.; Zhao, S.; Kong, Y.; Yan, M.; Huang, J. et al.; Yang, J.; Chen, Y.; Bock, R.; Zhou, W.: Multi-omics analysis reveals distinct responses to light stress in photosynthesis and primary metabolism between maize and rice. Plant Communications 6 (10), 101488 (2025)

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Ghandour, R.; Gao, Y.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.; Zoschke, R.: Assembly-dependent translational feedback regulation of photosynthetic proteins in land plants. Nature Plants 11, S. 1920 - 1938 (2025)

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Li, Z.; Zhao, W.; Li, S.; Luo, X.; Wei, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Ye, Z.; Li, S.; Wang, M.; Tan, J. et al.; Bock, R.: Engineering of high-precision C-to-G base editors with expanded site selectivity and target compatibility. Nucleic Acids Research 53 (15), gkaf717 (2025)

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Pantazica, A.-M.; Hammel, A.; Caras, I.; Ionescu, I.; Tucureanu, C.; Onu, A.; Murace, M.; Liu Clarke, J.; Stavaru, C.; Branza-Nichita, N. et al.; Bock, R.: Red Alga Porphyridium Supports High-Yield Production of a Functional Chimeric Hepatitis B Surface Antigen With Strong Cellular and Humoral Immunogenicity. Plant Biotechnology Journal 23 (11), S. 4829 - 4843 (2025)

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Forner, J.: Genome modification in plant mitochondria. Plant Physiology 198 (2), kiaf197 (2025)

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Gonzalez-Duran, E.; Kroop, X.; Schadach, A.; Bock, R.: Suppression of plastid-to-nucleus gene transfer by DNA double-strand break repair. Nature Plants 11, S. 1154 - 1164 (2025)

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Ruf, S.; Trösch, R.; Schollbach, L.; Kroop, X.; Forner, J.; Gefen-Treves, S.; Henze, A.; Thiele, W.; Schöttler, M. A.; Zoschke, R. et al.; Bock, R.: Reverse genetics in the Arabidopsis chloroplast genome identifies rps16 as a transcribed pseudogene. The Plant Journal 122 (3), e70198 (2025)

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Schatz, D.; Le Blevenec, A.; Moratti, F. G.; Chung, K. P.; Mercier, P.; Iqbal, R.; Vallet, E.; Dietrich, A.; Bock, R.; Weber-Lotfi, F. et al.; Gualberto, J.: R-loop control and mitochondrial genome stability require the 5′-3′ exonuclease/flap endonuclease OEX1. Plant Cell 37 (5), koaf104 (2025)

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Hong, Z.-H.; Zhu, L.; Gao, L.-L.; Zhu, Z.; Su, T.; Krall, L.; Wu, X.-N.; Bock, R.; Wu, G.-Z.: Chloroplast precursor protein preClpD overaccumulation triggers multilevel reprogramming of gene expression and a heat shock-like response. Nature Communications 16 (1), 3777 (2025)

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Kragler, F.; Bock, R.: The biology of grafting and its applications in studying information exchange between plants. Nature Plants 11, S. 955 - 966 (2025)

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Sun, Y.; Bock, R.; Li, Z.: A hidden intrinsic ability of bicistronic expression based on a novel translation reinitiation mechanism in yeast. Nucleic Acids Research 53 (6), gkaf220 (2025)

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Wu, X.-X.; Li, F.; Zhu, C.; Sun, S.-Y.; Mu, W.-H.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.; Zhang, Y.; Zhou, F.: Protocol for the purification of the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase from transplastomic tobacco plants. STAR Protocols 6 (1), 103528 (2025)

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Li, B.; Armarego-Marriott, T.; Kowalewska, Ł.; Thiele, W.; Erban, A.; Ruf, S.; Kopka, J.; Schöttler, M. A.; Bock, R.: Membrane protein provision controls prothylakoid biogenesis in tobacco etioplasts. The Plant Cell 36 (12), S. 4862 - 4880 (2024)

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Ebert, A.; Alseekh, S.; D´Andrea, L.; Roessner, U.; Bock, R.; Kopka, J.: Detailed Profiling of 17-Hydroxygeranyllinalool Diterpene Glycosides from Nicotiana Species Reveals Complex Reaction Networks of Conjugation Isomers. Metabolites 14 (10), 562 (2024)

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Rolo, D.; Sandoval-Ibanez, O.; Thiele, W.; Schöttler, M. A.; Gerlach, I.; Zoschke, R.; Schwartzmann, J.; Meyer, E. H.; Bock, R.: CO-EXPRESSED WITH PSI ASSEMBLY1 (CEPA1) is a photosystem I assembly factor in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 36 (10), S. 4179 - 4211 (2024)

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Legen, J.; Lenzen, B.; Kachariya, N.; Feltgen, S.; Gao, Y.; Mergenthal, S.; Weber, W.; Klotzsch, E.; Zoschke, R.; Sattler, M. et al.; Schmitz-Linneweber, C.: A prion-like domain is required for phase separation and chloroplast RNA processing during cold acclimation in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 36 (8), S. 2851 - 2872 (2024)

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Chung, K. P.; Frieboese, D.; Waltz, F.; Engel, B.D.; Bock, R.: Identification and characterization of the COPII vesicle-forming GTPase Sar1 in Chlamydomonas. Plant Direct 8 (6), e614 (2024)

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Hammel, A.; Cucos, L.-M.; Caras, I.; Ionescu, I.; Tucureanu, C.; Tofan, V.; Costache, A.; Onu, A.; Hoepfner, L.; Hippler, M. et al.; Neupert, J.; Popescu, C.-I.; Stavaru, C.; Branza-Nichita, N.; Bock, R.: The red alga Porphyridium as a host for molecular farming: Efficient production of immunologically active hepatitis C virus glycoprotein. PNAS 121 (24), e2400145121 (2024)

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Jiang, C.; Fu, J.; Li, F.; Xia, K.; Li, S.; Chang, L.; Bock, R.; Zhang, J.: Plastid engineering with an efficient RNAi delivery system based on bacteriophage MS2 virus-like particles enhances plant resistance to cotton bollworm. Molecular Plant 17 (7), S. 987 - 989 (2024)

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Dai, G.; Song, W.; Xu, H.; Tu, M.; Yu, C.; Li, Z.; Shang, J.; Jin, C.; Ding, C.; Zuo, L. et al.; Liu, Y.; Yan, W.; Zang, S.; Liu, K.; Zhang, Z.; Bock, R.; Qiu, B.: Hypothetical chloroplast reading frame 51 encodes a photosystem I assembly factor in cyanobacteria. Plant Cell 36 (5), S. 1844 - 1867 (2024)

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Krämer, C.; Boehm, C.R.; Liu, J.; Ting, M. K. Y.; Hertle, A. P.; Forner, J.; Ruf, S.; Schöttler, M. A.; Zoschke, R.; Bock, R.: Removal of the large inverted repeat from the plastid genome reveals gene dosage effects and leads to increased genome copy number. Nature Plants 10, S. 923 - 935 (2024)

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Xu, W.; Li, S.; Bock, R.; Zhang, J.: A heat-inducible expression system for external control of gene expression in plastids. Plant Biotechnology Journal 22 (4), S. 960 - 969 (2024)

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Tóth, D.; Kuntam, S.; Ferenczi, Á.; Vidal-Meireles, A.; Kovács, L.; Wang, L.; Sarkadi, Z.; Migh, E.; Szentmihályi, K.; Tengölics, R. et al.; Neupert, J.; Bock, R.; Jonikas, M. C.; Molnar, A.; Tóth, S. Z.: Chloroplast phosphate transporter CrPHT4-7 regulates phosphate homeostasis and photosynthesis in Chlamydomonas. Plant Physiology 194 (3), S. 1646 - 1661 (2024)

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Uflewski, M.; Rindfleisch, T.; Korkmaz, K.; Tietz, E.; Mielke, S.; Correa Galvis, V.; Dünschede, B.; Luzarowski, M.; Skirycz, A.; Schwarzländer, M. et al.; Strand, D.; Hertle, A. P.; Schünemann, D.; Walther, D.; Thalhammer, A.; Wolff, M.; Armbruster, U.: The thylakoid proton antiporter KEA3 regulates photosynthesis in response to the chloroplast energy status. Nature Communications 15, 2792 (2024)

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Yan, M.; Li, M.; Wang, Y.; Wang, X.; Moeinzadeh, M.-H.; Quispe-Huamanquispe, D. G.; Fan, W.; Fang, Y.; Wang, Y.; Nie, H. et al.; Wang, Z.; Tanaka, A.; Heider, B.; Kreuze, J. F.; Gheysen, G.; Wang, H.; Vingron, M.; Bock, R.; Yang, J.: Haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis and population genomics uncover the origin and domestication of sweetpotato. Molecular Plant 17 (2), S. 277 - 296 (2024)

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Hammel, A.; Neupert, J.; Bock, R.: Optimized transgene expression in the red alga Porphyridium purpureum and efficient recombinant protein secretion into the culture medium. Plant Molecular Biology 114 (1), 18 (2024)

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Rankenberg, T.; van Veen, H.; Sedaghatmehr, M.; Liao, C.-Y.; Devaiah, M. B.; Stouten, E. A.; Balazadeh, S.; Sasidharan, R.: Differential leaf flooding resilience in Arabidopsis thaliana is controlled by ethylene signaling-activated and age-dependent phosphorylation of ORESARA1 activity. Plant Communications 5 (6), 100848 (2024)

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Loiacono, F.V.; Bock, R.: An RNA polymerase that became a Swiss army knife. Cell 187 (5), S. 1106 - 1108 (2024)

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Keller, J.-M.; Frieboes, M. J.; Jödecke, L.; Kappel, S.; Wulff, N.; Rindfleisch, T.; Sandoval-Ibanez, O.; Gerlach, I.; Thiele, W.; Bock, R. et al.; Eirich, J.; Finkemeier, I.; Schünemann, D.; Zoschke, R.; Schöttler, M. A.; Armbruster, U.: Eukaryote-specific assembly factor DEAP2 mediates an early step of photosystem II assembly in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 193 (3), S. 1970 - 1986 (2023)

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Chung, K. P.; Loiacono, F.V.; Neupert, J.; Wu, M.; Bock, R.: An RNA thermometer in the chloroplast genome of Chlamydomonas facilitates temperature-controlled gene expression. Nucleic Acids Research 51 (20), S. 11386 - 11400 (2023)

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Forner, J.; Kleinschmidt, D.; Meyer, E. H.; Gremmels, J.; Morbitzer, R.; Lahaye, T.; Schöttler, M. A.; Bock, R.: Targeted knockout of a conserved plant mitochondrial gene by genome editing. Nature Plants 9, S. 1818 - 1831 (2023)

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Geng, R.; Pang, X.; Li, X.; Shi, S.; Hedtke, B.; Grimm, B.; Bock, R.; Huang, J.; Zhou, W.: PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH8 interacts with tetrapyrrole biosynthesis enzymes and ClpC1 to maintain homeostasis of tetrapyrrole metabolites in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 238 (6), S. 2545 - 2560 (2023)

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Smirnova, J.; Loerke, J.; Kleinau, G.; Schmidt, A.; Bürger, J.; Meyer, E. H.; Mielke, T.; Scheerer, P.; Bock, R.; Spahn, C. M. T. et al.; Zoschke, R.: Structure of the actively translating plant 80S ribosome at 2.2 Å resolution. Nature Plants 9, S. 987 - 1000 (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 21 (4), S. 711 - 725 (2023)

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Röhricht, H.; Przybyla-Toscano, J.; Forner, J.; Boussardon, C.; Keech, O.; Rouhier, N.; Meyer, E. H.: Mitochondrial ferredoxin-like is essential for forming complex I-containing supercomplexes in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 191 (4), S. 2170 - 2184 (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 191 (3), S. 1818 - 1835 (2023)

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Kleinschmidt, D.; Forner, J.: Plant genetic engineering makes treasure from trash. The Science Breaker 9 (1) (2023)

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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), S. 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), S. 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, S. 68 - 80 (2023)

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Gonzalez-Duran, E.; Bock, R.: Chilling stress and loss of an exonuclease lead to biparental inheritance of plastids. Nature Plants 9, S. 9 - 10 (2023)

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von Bismarck, T.; Korkmaz, K.; Ruß, J.; Skurk, K.; Kaiser, E.; Correa Galvis, V.; Cruz, J. A.; Strand, D.; Koehl, K. I.; Eirich, J. et al.; Finkemeier, I.; Jahns, P.; Kramer, D. M.; Armbruster, U.: Light acclimation interacts with thylakoid ion transport to govern the dynamics of photosynthesis in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 237 (1), S. 160 - 176 (2023)

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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), S. 1147 - 1169 (2022)

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