Research Highlights

Fernie, A. R.; Bulut, M.: SPOTLIGHT: Design of future climate smart crops by engineering heat stress-responsive gene expression. Molecular Plant (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)

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)

Bulut, M.: Chemodiversity of sulfur-containing metabolites emphasizing the ecophysiology of Allium plants and the developmental innovations in bulb formation. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 85, 102724 (2025)