Publications of S. Ruf

Ruf, S.; Trösch, R.; Schollbach, L.; Kroop, X.; Forner, J.; Gefen-Treves, S.; Henze, A.; Thiele, W.; Schöttler, M. A.; Zoschke, R. et al.; Bock, R.: Reverse genetics in the Arabidopsis chloroplast genome identifies rps16 as a transcribed pseudogene. The Plant Journal 122 (3), e70198 (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)

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)

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 (4), pp. 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 (3), pp. 1818 - 1835 (2023)

Wu, M.; Zhang, Q.; Dong, Y.; Wang, Z.; Zhan, W.; Ke, Z.; Li, S.; He, L.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R. et al.; Zhang, J.: Transplastomic tomatoes expressing double-stranded RNA against a conserved gene are efficiently protected from multiple spider mites. New Phytologist 237 (4), pp. 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, pp. 68 - 80 (2023)

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 (15), e2120081119 (2022)

Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Erban, A.; Hertle, A. P.; Kopka, J.; Bock, R.: Riboswitch-mediated inducible expression of an astaxanthin biosynthetic operon in plastids. Plant Physiology 118 (1), pp. 637 - 652 (2021)

Malinova, I.; Zupok, A.; Massouh, A.; Schöttler, M. A.; Meyer, E. H.; Yaneva-Roder, L.; Szymanski, W. G.; Rößner, M.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R. et al.; Greiner, S.: Correction of Frameshift Mutations in the atpB Gene by Translational Recoding in Chloroplasts of Oenothera and Tobacco. The Plant Cell 33 (5), pp. 1682 - 1705 (2021)

Schulz, P.; Piepenburg, K.; Lintermann, R.; Herde, M.; Schöttler, M. A.; Schmidt, L. K.; Ruf, S.; Kudla, J.; Romeis, T.; Bock, R.: Improving plant drought tolerance and growth under water limitation through combinatorial engineering of signaling networks. Plant Biotechnology Journal 19 (1), pp. 74 - 86 (2021)

Caroca, R.; Howell, K. A.; Malinova, I.; Burgos, A.; Tiller, N.; Pellizzer, T.; Annunziata, M. G.; Hasse, C.; Ruf, S.; Karcher, D. et al.; Bock, R.: Knock-down of the plastid-encoded acetyl-CoA carboxylase gene uncovers functions in metabolism and development. Plant Physiology 185 (3), pp. 1091 - 1110 (2021)

Kössler, S.; Armarego-Marriott, T.; Tarkowska, D.; Tureckova, V.; Agrawal, S.; Mi, J.; Perez da Sousa, L.; Schöttler, M. A.; Schadach, A.; Fröhlich, A. et al.; Bock, R.; Al-Babili, S.; Ruf, S.; Sampathkumar, A.; Moreno, J.C.: Lycopene β-cyclase expression influences plant physiology, development and metabolism in tobacco plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 72 (7), pp. 2544 - 2569 (2021)

Ruf, S.; Kroop, X.; Bock, R.: Chloroplast Transformation in Arabidopsis. Current Protocols in Plant Biology 1 (4), e103 (2021)

Fu, H.-Y.; Ghandour, R.; Ruf, S.; Zoschke, R.; Bock, R.; Schöttler, M. A.: The availability of neither D2 nor CP43 limits the biogenesis of photosystem II in tobacco. Plant Physiology 185 (3), pp. 1111 - 1130 (2020)

Agrawal, S.; Karcher, D.; Ruf, S.; Bock, R.: The Functions of Chloroplast Glutamyl-tRNA in Translation and Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis. Plant Physiology 183 (1), pp. 263 - 276 (2020)

Vallarino, J. G.; Kubiszewski-Jakubiak, S.; Ruf, S.; Rößner, M.; Timm, S.; Bauwe, H.; Carrari, F.; Rentsch, D.; Bock, R.; Sweetlove, L.J. et al.; Fernie, A. R.: Multi-gene metabolic engineering of tomato plants results in increased fruit yield up to 23. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 17219 (2020)

Tabatabaei, I.; Dal Bosco, C.; Bednarska, M.; Ruf, S.; Meurer, J.; Bock, R.: A highly efficient sulfadiazine selection system for the generation of transgenic plants and algae. Plant Biotechnology Journal 17 (3), pp. 638 - 649 (2019)

Ruf, S.; Forner, J.; Hasse, C.; Kroop, X.; Seeger, S.; Schollbach, L.; Schadach, A.; Bock, R.: High-efficiency generation of fertile transplastomic Arabidopsis plants. Nature Plants 5 (3), pp. 282 - 289 (2019)