Publications of C. Köhler

Orsucci, M., Sartori, K., Lombardi, A., Vanikiotis, T., Ouvrard, P., Wärdig, C., Messer, M., Köhler, C. & Sicard, A. Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems. Current Biology (2025). doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.046

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, 1969–1983 (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, 358–363 (2024).

Del Toro-De León, G., van Boven, J., Santos-González, J., Jiao, W.-B., Peng, H., Schneeberger, K. & Köhler, C. Epigenetic and transcriptional consequences in the endosperm of chemically induced transposon mobilization in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Research 53, 8833–8848 (2024).

Bente, H. & Köhler, C. Molecular basis and evolutionary drivers of endosperm-based hybridization barriers. Plant Physiology 195, 155–169 (2024).

Butel, N. & Köhler, C. A family of maternally expressed auxin response factors trigger endosperm cellularization. Nature Plants 10, 846–847 (2024).

Butel, N., Qiu, Y., Xu, W., Santos-González, J. & Köhler, C. Parental conflict driven regulation of endosperm cellularization by a family of Auxin Response Factors. Nature Plants 10, 1018–1026 (2024).

Butel, N. & Köhler, C. Flowering plant reproduction. Current Biology 34, R308–R312 (2024).

Köhler, C. & Butel, N. Plant development: How to kill the endosperm. Current Biology 33, R912–R913 (2023).

Qiu, Y., Li, Z., Walther, D. & Köhler, C. Updated phylogeny and protein structure predictions revise the hypothesis on the origin of MADS-box transcription factors in land plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40, (2023).

Xu, W., Sato, H., Bente, H., Santos-González, J. & Köhler, C. Endosperm cellularization failure induces a dehydration stress response leading to embryo arrest. The Plant Cell 35, 874–888 (2023).

Yi, J., Kradolfer, D., Brownfield, L., Ma, Y., Piskorz, E., Köhler, C. & Jiang, H. Meiocyte size is a determining factor for unreduced gamete formation in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 237, 1179–1187 (2023).

Sato, H. & Köhler, C. Genomic imprinting regulates establishment and release of seed dormancy. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 69, (2022).

Huc, J., Dziasek, K., Pachamuthu, K., Woh, T., Köhler, C. & Borges, F. Bypassing reproductive barriers in hybrid seeds using chemically induced epimutagenesis. The Plant Cell 34, 989–1001 (2022).

Qiu, Y. & Köhler, C. Endosperm evolution by duplicated and neofunctionalized Type I MADS-box transcription factors. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39, (2021).

Oliver, C., Annacondia, M. L., Wang, Z., Jullien, P. E., Slotkin, R. K., Köhler, C. & Martinez, G. The miRNome function transitions from regulating developmental genes to transposable elements during pollen maturation. The Plant Cell 34, 784–801 (2021).

Liu, S., Trejo-Arellano, M. S., Qiu , Y., Eklund, D. M., Köhler, C. & Hennig, L. H2A ubiquitination is essential for Polycomb Repressive Complex 1-mediated gene regulation in Marchantia polymorpha. Genome Biology 22, (2021).

Sato, H., Santos-González, J. & Köhler, C. Combinations of maternal-specific repressive epigenetic marks in the endosperm control seed dormancy. eLife 10, (2021).

Wang, Z., Butel, N., Santos-González, J., Simon, L., Wärdig, C. & Köhler, C. Transgenerational effect of mutants in the RNA-directed DNA methylation pathway on the triploid block in Arabidopsis. Genome Biology 22, (2021).

Yadav, V. K., Santos-González, J. & Köhler, C. INT-Hi-C reveals distinct chromatin architecture in endosperm and leaf tissues of Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Research 49, 4371–4385 (2021).