Publications of A. R. Fernie

Fernie, A. R. & Martinez-Rivas, F. Br(e)aking the tomato fruit size-sweetness trade-off. Trends in Plant Science 30, 350–351 (2025).

Fernie, A. R. & Zhu, F. Chemical disarmament in plant defense: Erucamide blocks bacterial type III injectisome assembly. Developmental Cell 60, 1140–1141 (2025).

Karakas, E., Bulut, M. & Fernie, A. R. Metabolome guided treasure hunt - lerning from metabolic diversity. Journal of Plant Physiology (2025). doi:10.1016/j.jplph.2025.154494

Li, Y., Yang, Z., Li, K., Yang, C., Lei, L., Li, J., Zhou, J., Hou, H., Liu, H., Xiong, X., Zhan, C., Shen, S., Liu, X., Maher, M., Ahmad, H., Fernie, A. R. & Luo, J. Two major rice loci determine rice-staple food populations differences in vitamin B1 deficiency levels. Science Bulletin 70, 1046–1050 (2025).

Martins, A. O., Silva, W. A., Vallarino, J. G., Omena-Garcia, R. P., Osorio, S., Fernie, A. R., Nunes-Nesi, A., Ribeiro, D. M. & Araújo, W. L. Reductions of endogenous gibberellin content impact fruit development and modify tomato fruit metabolism during ripening. Plant Growth Regulation 105, 497–514 (2025).

Müller, C., dos Anjos, L., Freire, F. B. S., Fernie, A. R., Daloso, D. M., Eller, C. B. & Merchant, A. Metabolic network plasticity underpins Eucalyptus water use efficiency under drought. Environmental and Experimental Botany 232, (2025).

Raza, A., Anas, M., Bhardwaj, S., Mir, R. A., Charagh, S., Elahi, M., Zhang, X., Mir, R. R., Weckwerth, W., Fernie, A. R., Siddique, K. H. M., Hu, Z. & Varshney, R. K. Harnessing metabolomics for enhanced crop drought tolerance. The Crop Journal 13, 311–327 (2025).

Sweetlove, L. J., Ratcliffe, R. G. & Fernie, A. R. Non-canonical plant metabolism. Nature Plants (2025). doi:10.1038/s41477-025-01965-3

Wu, S., Zhang, Y. J., Luzarowska, U., Yang, L., Salem, M. A., Thirumalaikumar , V. P., Sade, N., Galperin, V. E., Fernie, A. R., Sampathkumar, A., Bershtein, S., Fusari, C. M. & Brotman, Y. The homeostasis of β-alanine is key for Arabidopsis reproductive growth and development. The Plant Journal 122, (2025).

Decros, G. & Fernie, A. R. Spotlight on “Inhibition of mitochondrial energy production leads to reorganisation of the plant endomembrane system” by Wang et al. 2025. Journal of Mitochondria, Plastids and Endosymbiosis 3, (2025).

Decros, G., Zhang, Y. J. & Fernie, A. R. Mitochondrial support of high rates of photosynthesis. Plant Communications 6, (2025).

Fernie, A. R. & Bulut, M. SPOTLIGHT: Design of future climate smart crops by engineering heat stress-responsive gene expression. Molecular Plant (2025). doi:10.1016/j.molp.2025.03.012

Omena-Garcia, R. P., Vallarino, J. G., da Fonseca-Pereira, P., Martins, A. O., Brandão, P. M., Ribeiro, D. M., Osorio, S., Fernie, A. R., Araújo, W. L. & Nunes-Nesi, A. Reciprocal grafting reveals the role of gibberellins in tomato root-shoot communication. Journal of Plant Physiology 306, (2025).

Qiu, Y., Liu, L., Yan, J., Xiang, X., Wang, S., Luo, Y., Deng, K., Xu, J., Jin, M., Wu, X., Liwei Cheng, Zhou, Y., Xie, W., Liu, H.-J., Fernie, A. R., Hu, X. & Yan, J. Precise engineering of gene expression by editing plasticity. Genome Biology 26, (2025).

Timm, S., Florian, A., Alseekh, S., Jahnke, K., Hagemann, M., Fernie, A. R. & Bauwe, H. Improved photorespiration has a major impact on the root metabolome of Arabidopsis. Physiologia Plantarum 177, (2025).

Wang, Z., He, Y., Zhao, M., Liu, X.-Q., Lin, H., Shi, Y., Zhang, K., Lei, G., Lai, D., Liu, T., Peng, X., He, J., Li, W., Wang, X., Woo, S.-H., Quinet, M., Fernie, A. R., Huang, X.-Y. & Zhou, M. Genome-Wide Association Studies Reveal the Genetic Architecture of Ionomic Variation in Grains of Tartary Buckwheat. Advanced Science (2025). doi:10.1002/advs.202412291

Zhang, W. Y., Tariq, A., Jia, X. X., Yan, J. B., Fernie, A. R., Usadel, B. & Wen, W. W. Plant sperm cell sequencing for genome phasing and determination of meiotic crossover points. Nature Protocols 20, 690–708 (2025).

Figueiredo, Y. G., Gasparini, K., Bulut, M., Fernie, A. R. & Zsögön, A. The genetic basis of prickle loss in the Solanaceae. Trends in Plant Science 30, (2025).

Novello, M. A., Bustamante, C. A., Svetaz, L. A., Goldy, C., Valentini, G. H., Drincovich, M. F., Brotman, Y., Fernie, A. R. & Lara, M. V. Integrated Metabolomic, Lipidomic and Proteomic Analysis Define the Metabolic Changes Occurring in Curled Areas in Leaves With Leaf Peach Curl Disease. Plant, Cell and Environment 48, 1179–1200 (2025).

Priego-Cubero, S., Knoch, E., Wang, Z., Alseekh, S., Braun, K.-H., Chapman, P., Fernie, A. R., Liu, C. & Becker, C. Subfunctionalization and epigenetic regulation of a biosynthetic gene cluster in Solanaceae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122, (2025).