Research Highlights

Wittemeier, L.; Rajarathinam, Y.; Erban, A.; Hagemann, M.; Kopka, J.: Positional 13C enrichment analysis of aspartate determines PEPC activity in vivo. New Phytologist 248 (1), pp. 401 - 414 (2025)

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

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), pp. 4829 - 4843 (2025)

Fernie, A. R.; Bulut, M.: Design of future climate smart crops by engineering heat stress-responsive gene expression. Molecular Plant 18 (5), pp. 738 - 740 (2025)

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, pp. 1154 - 1164 (2025)

Paries, M.; Hobecker, K.; Hernández Luelmo, S.; Binci, F.; Guercio, A.; Usländer, A.; Cardoso, C.; Si, Y.; Wankner, L.; Bashyal, S. et al.; Troycke, P.; Brückner , F.; Pimprikar, P.; Shabek, N.; Gutjahr, C.: The GRAS protein RAM1 interacts with WRI transcription factors to regulate plant genes required for arbuscule development and function. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 122 (21), e2427021122 (2025)

Zhang, W.; Tariq, A.; Jia, X.; Yan, J.; Fernie, A. R.; Usadel, B.; Wen, W.: Plant sperm cell sequencing for genome phasing and determination of meiotic crossover points. Nature Protocols 20, pp. 690 - 708 (2025)

Das, D.; Varshney, K.; Ogawa, S.; Torabi, S.; Hüttl, R.; Nelson, D. C.; Gutjahr, C.: Ethylene promotes SMAX1 accumulation to inhibit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. Nature Communications 16 (1), 2025 (2025)

Urrea-Castellanos, R.; Calderan-Rodrigues, M.J.; Artins, A.; Musialak-Lange, M.; Macharanda-Ganesh, A.; Fernie, A. R.; Wahl, V.; Caldana, C.: The Regulatory-associated protein of target of rapamycin 1B (RAPTOR 1B) interconnects with the photoperiod pathway to promote flowering in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (6), e2405536122 (2025)

López, C.; Alseekh, S.; Rivas, F.; Fernie, A. R.; Prieto, P.; Alamillo, J.: CRISPR/Cas9 editing of two adenine phosphoribosyl transferase coding genes reveals the functional specialization of adenine salvage proteins in common bean. Journal of Experimental Botany 76 (2), pp. 346 - 362 (2025)

D'Auria, J.C.; Fernie, A. R.: The BAHD and the bold: the mitochondria's role in alkaloid artistry. Trends in Plant Science 29 (12), pp. 1290 - 1291 (2024)

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), pp. 4862 - 4880 (2024)

Tiozon, R. J. N.; Alseekh, S.; Fernie, A. R.; Bonto, A. P.; Yu, J.; Buenafe, R. J. Q.; Sreenivasulu, N.: Comprehensive lipidomic insights of differentially accumulating lipids in large pigmented rice sprout collection and the changes in the starch composition upon germination. Food Chemistry 460 (Part 2), 140677 (2024)

Dziasek, K.; Santos-González, J.; Wang, K.; Qiu, Y.; Zhu, J.; Rigola, D.; Nijbroek, K.; Köhler, C.: Dosage-sensitive maternal siRNAs determine hybridization success in Capsella. Nature Plants 10, pp. 1969 - 1983 (2024)

Liu, F.; Fernie, A. R.; Zhang, Y.: Can a nitrogen-fixing organelle be engineered within plants? Trends in Plant Science 29 (11), pp. 1168 - 1171 (2024)

Lima, R. B.; Pankaj, R.; Ehlert, S. T.; Finger, P.; Fröhlich, A.; Bayle, V.; Landrein, B.; Sampathkumar, A.; Figueiredo, D.D.: Seed coat-derived brassinosteroid signaling regulates endosperm development. Nature Communications 15 (1), 9352 (2024)

Qiu, Y.; Li, Z.; Köhler, C.: Ancestral duplication of MADS-box genes in land plants empowered the functional divergence between sporophytes and gametophytes. New Phytologist 244 (2), pp. 358 - 363 (2024)

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), pp. 4179 - 4211 (2024)

von Steimker, J.; Tripodi, P.; Wendenburg, R.; Tringovska, I.; Nankar, A. N.; Stoeva, V.; Pasev, G.; Klemmer, A.; Todorova, V.; Bulut, M. et al.; Tikunov, Y.; Bovy, A.; Gechev, T.; Kostova, D.; Fernie, A. R.; Alseekh, S.: The genetic architecture of the pepper metabolome and the biosynthesis of its signature capsianoside metabolites. Current Biology 34 (18), pp. 4209 - 4223 (2024)

Badoni, S.; Pasion-Uy, E. A.; Kor, S.; Kim, S.-R.; Tiozon, R. J. N.; Misra, G.; Buenafe, R. J. Q.; Labarga, L. M.; Ramos-Castrosanto, A. R.; Pratap, V. et al.; Slamet-Loedin, I.; von Steimker, J.; Alseekh, S.; Fernie, A. R.; Kohli, A.; Khush, G. S.; Sreenivasulu, N.: Multiomics of a rice population identifies genes and genomic regions that bestow low glycemic index and high protein content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (36), e2410598121 (2024)