Publications of R. Bock

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

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, 711–725 (2023).

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, 1818–1835 (2023).

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, 422–439 (2023).

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

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

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

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, (2022).

Tan, J., Forner, J., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. DNA base editing in nuclear and organellar genomes. Trends in Genetics 38, 1147–1169 (2022).

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

Steinhorst, L., He, G., Moore, L. K., Schültke, S., Schmitz-Thom, I., Cao, Y., Hashimoto, K., Andrés, Z., Piepenburg, K., Ragel, P., 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, 2081–2094 (2022).

Wei, S., Li, X., Lu, Z., Zhang, H., Ye, X., Zhou, Y., Li, J., Yan, Y., Pei, H., Duan, F., 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, (2022).

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, (2022).

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

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 45, 1930–1941 (2022).

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, (2022).

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

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, 245–256 (2022).

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, 1103–1114 (2022).

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