Publications of R. Bock

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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), pp. 987 - 989 (2024)

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), pp. 1844 - 1867 (2024)

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, pp. 923 - 935 (2024)

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), pp. 960 - 969 (2024)

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), pp. 1646 - 1661 (2024)

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), pp. 277 - 296 (2024)

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)

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

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), pp. 1970 - 1986 (2023)

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), pp. 11386 - 11400 (2023)

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, pp. 1818 - 1831 (2023)

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), pp. 2545 - 2560 (2023)