Mission

Plants have a fine network of veins – the vascular system – to distribute nutrients, but what controls the underlying transport processes? How do sugars and amino acids get into the seeds? How are storage substances synthesized from these? Can we increase the import of nutrients and the synthesis capacity of seeds and other storage organs in order to ultimately increase the yield of crops? We are looking for answers to these and related questions.

Our research is based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – a non-destructive imaging technique known from medical research and diagnostics. We are developing MRI for the analysis of transport processes, growth and yield formation in crops. 

New developments in MRI are transforming the art of the possible, from revolutionizing our understanding of the inner life of plants to creating new opportunities in plant breeding and biotechnology. We harness the strengths of our strategic partnerships with leading NMR physicists and biologists around the world. Our interdisciplinary team combines MRI with artificial intelligence, biochemistry, and molecular biology to create the research laboratories of tomorrow.

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Projects

Current research topics

Our research approach, methods, and tools provide access to a wide range of relevant research topics. In current projects, we are addressing the following issues using important crops such as barley, corn, rapeseed, legumes, and duckweed.

Assimilate supply and seed filling: Research on sugar and amino acid uptake of seeds based on the characterization of specific genes/proteins, the visualization of transport processes, and vasculature.

In vivo study of plant developmental processes: In vivo analysis of processes underlying embryonic development, flower development, and seed germination.

Seed hypoxia: Research into the specific adaptation of seeds to low endogenous oxygen concentrations, as typically occur during seed development.

Storage compound synthesis and its regulation: Characterization of genes/proteins that control the conversion of assimilates into storage products (oil, protein, starch) and their accumulation.

MAGDI: Creation of new phenotyping methods and tools for plant breeding by combining MRI with artificial intelligence. Link: https://www.dip-sachsen-anhalt.de/projekt/dip-magdi/

Plant/Microbiome interactions: Analysis of interactions between microorganisms and the fastest-growing crops on our planet (duckweed).

Programmed cell death (PCD): Research on the regulation of PCD in seeds and its role in nutrient uptake and seed filling.

Career

We are looking for people who are passionate and energetic about plant research. We foster an environment where each individual's experience and expertise is valued. We are curious and persistent in our efforts to drive long-term, sustainable innovation to address humanity's greatest challenges.

And we would like to express our sincere thanks to all former members of the team whose enthusiastic commitment made this research work possible.

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Staff

Name
Telephone
Email
OrcID
Scientists
Rolletschek, PD Dr. Hardy
Sah, Abhiruchi
Scientific guests / Fellowship
Borisjuk, PD Dr. Ljudmilla
Plutenko, Iaroslav
Lab Technicians
Moebes, Michael
Stepanenko, Dr. Raisa

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Publications

Author
Title
2026

Borisjuk L, Neuberger T, Rolletschek H:

Lipid MRI in plant science: principles and potential areas of application. J. Exp. Bot. (2026) accepted. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf479

Lee Y, Braglia L, Stepanenko A, Fuchs J, Schubert V, Gianì S, Romano L E, Aronne G, Forti C, Schubert I, Morello L:

Hybridity of mainly asexually propagating duckweeds in genus Lemna - dead end or breakthrough? New Phytol. (2026) Epub ahead of print. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.70748

Milyaev A, Frolov A, Lempe J, Hilo A, Luedeling E, Wessjohann L A, Flachowsky H, Wünsche J-N:

Carbohydrate analyses indicate that fruit-bud competition for assimilates is not the primary trigger of biennial bearing in apple. J. Plant Physiol. 316 (2026) 154666. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2025.154666

Stepanenko A, Schubert V, Chen G, Kishchenko O, Michael T P, Lam E, Hrmova M, Schubert I, Borisjuk N:

Genome sequence assembly of the 5S rDNA loci informs haplotype specificity and evolution in the greater duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza. Commun. Biol. (2026) in press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-09598-8

2025

Borisjuk L, Neuberger T:

Perspectives: The look insight - magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the inner life of plants. J. Plant Physiol. 309 (2025) 154502. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2025.154502

Knoch D, Rugen N, Thiel J, Heuermann M C, Kuhlmann M, Rizzo P, Meyer R C, Wagner S, Schippers J H M, Braun H-P, Altmann T:

A spatio-temporal transcriptomic and proteomic dataset of developing Brassica napus seeds. Sci. Data 12 (2025) 759. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05115-4

Langkutsch C:

Selektion homozygoter Linien von umamit-Mutanten und deren phänotypische Charakterisierung. (Bachelor Thesis) Köthen, Hochschule Anhalt, Fachbereich Angewandte Biowissenschaften und Prozesstechnik (2025) 40 pp.

Plutenko I, Radchuk V, Mayer S, Keil P, Ortleb S, Wagner S, Lehmann V, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L:

MRI-Seed-Wizard: combining deep learning algorithms with magnetic resonance imaging enables advanced seed phenotyping. J. Exp. Bot. 76 (2025) 393-410. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae408

Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L, Gómez-Álvrez E M, Pucciariello C:

Advances in seed hypoxia research - an updated review. Plant Physiol. 197 (2025) kiae556. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae556

Sahu A, Psaroudakis D, Rolletschek H, Neumann K, Borisjuk L, Himmelbach A, Pinninti K, Knoch D, Töpfer N, Szymanski J:

panomiX: Investigating mechanisms of trait emergence through multi-omics data integration. Plant Phenomics 7 (2025) 100131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphe.2025.100131

Schüler D, Lange M, Altmann T, Cuacos M, Arend D, D’Auria J C, Fiebig A, Kumlehn J, Neumann K, Melzer M, Rey-Mazón E, Rolletschek H, Scholz U, Willner E, Reif J C:

Data management in balance – a decade of balancing pragmatism, sustainability and innovation at plant research center IPK Gatersleben. J. Integr. Bioinform. 22 (2025) 20250012. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jib-2025-0012

2024

Hinrichs P:

Comparative study of maize kernels with magnetic resonance imaging and semantic segmentation. (Master Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2024) 84 pp.

Langer M:

Investigations on maize kernel development and the relevance of endogenous hypoxia. (PhD Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2024) 124 pp.

Mayer S, Rolletschek H, Radchuk V, Wagner S, Ortleb S, Gündel A, Dehmer K J, Gutjahr F T, Jakob P M, Borisjuk L:

Metabolic imaging in living plants: A promising field for chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI. Sci. Adv. 10 (2024) eadq4424. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq4424

Meitzel T:

Good things come to those who wait - a 42-yr study challenges trade-off theories. New Phytol. 241 (2024) 521-522. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19350

Rezaeva B R, Rutten T, Bollmann C, Ortleb S, Melzer M, Kumlehn J:

Plant regeneration via adventitious shoot formation from immature zygotic embryo explants of Camelina. Plants 13 (2024) 465. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants13040465

Rolletschek H, Muszynska A, Schwender J, Radchuk V, Heinemann B, Hilo A, Plutenko I, Keil P, Ortleb S, Wagner S, Kalms L, Gündel A, Shi H, Fuchs J, Szymanski J J, Braun H-P, Borisjuk L:

Mechanical forces orchestrate the metabolism of the developing oilseed rape embryo. New Phytol. 244 (2024) 1328-1344. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19990

Rutten T, Thirulogachandar V, Huang Y, Shanmugaraj N, Koppolu R, Ortleb S, Hensel G, Kumlehn J, Melzer M, Schnurbusch T:

Anatomical insights into the vascular lay-out of the barley rachis: implications for transport and spikelet connection. Ann. Bot. 133 (2024) 983-996. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae025

Vogelsang N:

Complementation of the yeast Δtps2 deletion mutant by expression of TPPs involved in wheat floret abortion. (Master Thesis) Köthen, Hochschule Anhalt, Fachbereich Angewandte Biowissenschaften und Prozesstechnik (2024)

Wamhoff D, Gündel A, Wagner S, Ortleb S, Borisjuk L, Winkelmann T:

Anatomical limitations in adventitious root formation revealed by magnetic resonance imaging, infrared spectroscopy, and histology of rose genotypes with contrasting rooting phenotypes. J. Exp. Bot. 75 (2024) 4784-4801. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae158

Yu P, Li C, Li M, He X, Wang D, Li H, Marcon C, Li Y, Perez-Limón S, Chen X, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Koller R, Metzner R, van Dusschoten D, Pflugfelder D, Borisjuk L, Plutenko I, Mahon A, Resende M F R J, Salvi S, Akale A, Abdalla M, Ahmed M A, Bauer F M, Schnepf A, Lobet G, Heymans A, Suresh K, Schreiber L, McLaughlin C M, Li C, Mayer M, Schön C-C, Bernau V, von Wirén N, Sawers R J H, Wang T, Hochholdinger F:

Seedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion. Nat. Genet. 56 (2024) 1245-1256. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01761-3

2023

Alomari D Z, Schierenbeck M, Alqudah A M, Alqahtani M D, Wagner S, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L, Röder M S:

Wheat grains as a sustainable source of protein for health. Nutrients 15 (2023) 4398. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15204398

Bellin L, Melzer M, Hilo A, Amaya D L G, Keller I, Meurer J, Möhlmann T:

Nucleotide limitation results in impaired photosynthesis, reduced growth and seed yield together with massively altered gene expression. Plant Cell Physiol. 64 (2023) 1494-1510. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcad063

Borisjuk L, Horn P, Chapman K, Jakob P M, Gündel A, Rolletschek H:

Seeing plants as never before. New Phytol. 238 (2023) 1775-1794. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.18871

Gündel A:

Multimodal imaging unveils the hidden dimensions of plant physiology: from metabolic landscapes to mechanistic insights. (PhD Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2023) 240 pp.

Keil P, Gündel B, Gündel A, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L:

Non-invasive single-grain screening of proteins and other features by combination of near-infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance. Agronomy 13 (2023) 1393. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13051393

Langer M, Hilo A, Guan J-C, Koch K E, Xiao H, Verboven P, Gündel A, Wagner S, Ortleb S, Radchuk V, Mayer S, Nicolai B, Borisjuk L, Rolletschek H:

Causes and consequences of endogenous hypoxia on growth and metabolism of developing maize kernels. Plant Physiol. 192 (2023) 1268-1288. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad038

Mira M M, Hill R D, Hilo A, Langer M, Robertson S, Igamberdiev A U, Wilkins O, Rolletschek H, Stasolla C:

Plant stem cells under low oxygen: metabolic rewiring by phytoglobin underlies stem cell functionality. Plant Physiol. 193 (2023) 1416-1432. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad344

Plutenko I, Papkov M, Palo K, Parts L, Fishman D:

Metadata improves segmentation through multitasking elicitation. In: Koch L, Cardoso M J, Ferrante E, Kamnitsas K, Islam M, Jiang M, Rieke N, Tsaftaris S A, Yang D (Eds.): Domain adaptation and representation transfer. DART 2023. (Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14293) Cham: Springer (2023) ISBN 978-3-319-23107-5, 147-155. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45857-6_15

Radchuk V, Belew Z M, Gündel A, Mayer S, Hilo A, Hensel G, Sharma R, Neumann K, Ortleb S, Wagner S, Muszynska A, Crocoll C, Xu D, Hoffie I, Kumlehn J, Fuchs J, Peleke F F, Szymanski J J, Rolletschek H, Nour-Eldin H H, Borisjuk L:

SWEET11b transports both sugar and cytokinin in developing barley grains. Plant Cell 35 (2023) 2186-2207. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad055

Shi H, Ernst E, Heinzel N, McCorkle S, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L, Ortleb S, Martienssen R, Shanklin J, Schwender J:

Mechanisms of metabolic adaptation in the duckweed Lemna gibba: an integrated metabolic, transcriptomic and flux analysis. BMC Plant Biol. 23 (2023) 458. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04480-9

Teh J T, Leitz V, Holzer V J C, Neusius D, Marino G, Meitzel T, García-Cerdán J G, Dent R M, Niyogi K K, Geigenberger P, Nickelsen J:

NTRC regulates CP12 to activate Calvin-Benson cycle during cold acclimation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120 (2023) e2306338120. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306338120

2022

Blume R Y, Yemets A I, Korkhovyi V, Radchuk V, Rakhmetov D, Blume Y B:

Genome-wide identification and analysis of cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (ckx) gene family in finger millet (Eleusine coracana) Front. Genet. 13 (2022) 963789. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.963789

Bouquet F:

Mechanismen der molekularen und biochemischen Anpassung zu Hypoxie in Maissamen. (Master Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Pflanzengenetik (2022) 86 pp.

Mayer S, Munz E, Hammer S, Wagner S, Guendel A, Rolletschek H, Jakob P M, Borisjuk L, Neuberger T:

Quantitative monitoring of paramagnetic contrast agents and their allocation in plant tissues via DCE-MRI. Plant Methods 18 (2022) 47. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13007-022-00877-z

Nagel M, Arc E, Rajjou L, Cueff G, Bailly M, Clément G, Sanchez-Vicente I, Bailly C, Seal C E, Roach T, Rolletschek H, Lorenzo O, Börner A, Kranner I:

Impacts of drought and elevated temperature on the seeds of malting barley. Front. Plant Sci. 13 (2022) 1049323. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1049323

Plaehn N M J, Mayer S, Jakob P M, Gutjahr F T:

T1-independent exchange rate quantification using saturation- or phase sensitive-water exchange spectroscopy. J. Magn. Reson. 335 (2022) 107141. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2021.107141

Schüler V J:

Analyse des Interaktionsmechanismus des Nuclear Factor Y Komplexes in Gerstenkörnern. (Bachelor Thesis) Köthen, Hochschule Anhalt, Fachbereich Angewandte Biowissenschaften und Prozesstechnik (2022) 61 pp.

2021

Acosta K, Appenroth K J, Borisjuk L, Edelman M, Heinig U, Jansen M A K, Oyama T, Pasaribu B, Schubert I, Sorrels S, Sree K S, Xu S, Michael T P, Lam E:

Return of the Lemnaceae: Duckweed as a model plant system in the genomics and post-genomics era. Plant Cell 33 (2021) 3207-3234. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab189

Fiebelkow J, Guendel A, Guendel B, Mehwald N, Jetka T, Komorowski M, Waldherr S, Schaper F, Dittrich A:

The tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 increases robustness and information transfer within IL-6-induced JAK/STAT signalling. Cell Commun. Signal. 19 (2021) 94. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12964-021-00770-7

Goelckel L:

Cellular plasticity and mechanosensing in the Brassica napus embryo. (Master Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I Biowissenschaften, Institut für Biologie (2021) 61 pp.

Gomez-Sanchez A, Santamaria M E, Gonzalez-Melendi P, Muszynska A, Matthess C, Martinez M, Diaz I:

Repression of barley cathepsins, HvPap-19 and HvPap-1, differentially alters grain composition and delays germination. J. Exp. Bot. 72 (2021) 3474-3485. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab007

Guendel A, Hilo A, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L:

Probing the metabolic landscape of plant vascular bundles by infrared fingerprint analysis, imaging and mass spectrometry. Biomolecules 11 (2021) 1717. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom11111717

Meitzel T, Radchuk R, McAdam E L, Thormählen I, Feil R, Munz E, Hilo A, Geigenberger P, Ross J J, Lunn J E, Borisjuk L:

Trehalose 6-phosphate promotes seed filling by activating auxin biosynthesis. New Phytol. 229 (2021) 1553-1565. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.16956

Michael T P, Ernst E, Hartwick N, Chu P, Bryant D, Gilbert S, Ortleb S, Baggs E L, Sree K S, Appenroth K J, Fuchs J, Jupe F, Sandoval J P, Krasileva K V, Borisjuk L, Mockler T C, Ecker J, Martienssen R A, Lam E:

Genome and time-of-day transcriptome of Wolffia australiana link morphological minimization with gene loss and less growth control. Genome Res. 31 (2021) 225-238. https://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.266429.120

Muszynska A, Guendel A, Melzer M, Tandrón Moya Y, Röder M, Rolletschek H, Rutten T, Munz E, Melz G, Ortleb S, Borisjuk L, Börner A:

A mechanistic view on lodging resistance in rye and wheat: a multiscale comparative study. Plant Biotechnol. J. 19 (2021) 2646-2661. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13689

Radchuk V, Tran V, Hilo A, Muszynska A, Gündel A, Wagner S, Fuchs J, Hensel G, Ortleb S, Munz E, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L:

Grain filling in barley relies on developmentally controlled programmed cell death. Commun. Biol. 4 (2021) 428. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01953-1

Rolletschek H:

Hardy Rolletschek. New Phytol. 232 (2021) 476-478. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17567

Rolletschek H, Mayer S, Boughton B, Wagner S, Ortleb S, Kiel C, Roessner U, Borisjuk L:

The metabolic environment of the developing embryo: A multidisciplinary approach on oilseed rapeseed. J. Plant Physiol. 265 (2021) 153505. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2021.153505

Rolletschek H, Muszynska A, Borisjuk L:

The process of seed maturation is influenced by mechanical constraints. New Phytol. 229 (2021) 19-23. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.16815

Vogelsang N:

A novel sensor to map the trehalose 6-phosphate distribution in planta. (Bachelor Thesis) Köthen, Hochschule Anhal (2021) 43 pp.

2020

Borisjuk L, Rolletschek H, Radchuk V:

Advances in understanding of barley plant physiology: factors determining grain development and composition/chemistry. In: Fox G, Li C (Eds.): Achieving sustainable cultivation of barley. (Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science, Vol. 74) Cambridge, UK: Burleigh Dodds (2020) ISBN 978-1-78676-308-2, 53-96. https://dx.doi.org/10.19103/AS.2019.0060.03

Impe D, Reitz J, Köpnick C, Rolletschek H, Börner A, Senula A, Nagel M:

Assessment of pollen viability for wheat. Front. Plant Sci. 10 (2020) 1588. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01588

Isayenkov S, Hilo A, Rizzo P, Tandron Moya Y A, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L, Radchuk V:

Adaptation strategies of halophytic barley Hordeum marinum spp marinum to high salinity and osmotic stress. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 21 (2020) 9019. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21239019

Le H, Nguyen N H, Ta D T, Le T N T, Bui T P, Le N T, Nguyen C X, Rolletschek H, Stacey G, Stacey M G, Pham N B, Do P T, Chu H H:

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of galactinol synthase-encoding genes reduces raffinose family oligosaccharide levels in soybean seeds. Front. Plant Sci. 11 (2020) 612942. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.612942

Rolletschek H, Schwender J, König C, Chapman K D, Romsdahl T, Lorenz C, Braun H P, Denolf P, van Audenhove K, Munz E, Heinzel N, Ortleb S, Rutten T, McCorkle S, Borysyuk T, Gündel A, Shi H, Vander Auwermeulen M, Bourot S, Borisjuk L:

Cellular plasticity in response to suppression of storage proteins in the Brassica napus embryo. Plant Cell 32 (2020) 2383-2401. https://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00879

Stickel F:

Phänotypische, biochemische und molekulare Untersuchungen von Hordeum vulgare mit modulierter Expression von SWEET-Transportern. (Bachelor Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2020) 90 pp.

Sturtevant D, Lu S, Zhou Z W, Shen Y, Wang S, Song J M, Zhong J, Burks D J, Yang Z Q, Yang Q Y, Cannon A E, Herrfurth C, Feussner I, Borisjuk L, Munz E, Verbeck G F, Wang X, Azad R K, Singleton B, Dyer J M, Chen L L, Chapman K D, Guo L:

The genome of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis): A taxonomically isolated species that directs wax ester accumulation in its seeds. Sci. Adv. 6 (2020) eaay3240. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay3240

Tikhenko N, Alqudah A M, Borisjuk L, Ortleb S, Rutten T, Wu D D, Nagel M, Himmelbach A, Mascher M, Röder M, Ganal M, Sehmisch S, Houben A, Börner A:

DEFECTIVE ENDOSPERM-D1 (Dee-D1) is crucial for endosperm development in hexaploid wheat. Commun. Biol. 3 (2020) 791. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01509-9

2019

Druege U, Hilo A, Pérez-Pérez J M, Klopotek Y, Acosta M, Shahinnia F, Zerche S, Franken P, Hajirezaei M R:

Molecular and physiological control of adventitious rooting in cuttings: phytohormone action meets resource allocation. Ann. Bot. 123 (2019) 929–949. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcy234

Gündel A, Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L:

Infrared visualization of sucrose in plants. A novel microspectroscopic method allows sugar mapping across the plant tissue. q-more.chemeurope.com/q-more-articles/279/infrared-visualization-of-sucrose-in-plants.html. (2019)

Gündel A, Rolletschek H, Wagner S, Muszynska A, Borisjuk L:

Mehr sehen mit Infrarot – Quantitative Visualisierung der Saccharose-Verteilung in Pflanzen. GIT Labor-Fachzeitschr. 63 (2019) 38-39.

Gündel A, Rolletschek H, Wagner S, Muszynska A, Borisjuk L:

More insights with infrared. New method enables quantitative visualization of sucrose distribution in plants. Imaging & Microscopy 1 (2019) 28-29.

Gutjahr F T, Munz E, Jakob P M:

Positive chemical exchange contrast in MRI using Refocused Acquisition of Chemical Exchange Transferred Excitations (RACETE). Z. Med. Phys. 29 (2019) 184-191. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2018.05.005

Langer M:

Untersuchungen zur Samenentwicklung bei Cyclamen persicum MILL. – Visualisierung über NMR sowie Lipid- und Phytohormonanalysen. (Master Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2019) 126 pp.

Radchuk V, Sharma R, Potokina E, Radchuk R, Weier D, Munz E, Schreiber M, Mascher M, Stein N, Wicker T, Kilian B, Borisjuk L:

The highly divergent Jekyll genes, required for sexual reproduction, are lineage specific for the related grass tribes Triticeae and Bromeae. Plant J. 98 (2019) 961-974. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14363

Rizzo P, Altschmied L, Stark P, Rutten T, Guendel A, Scharfenberg S, Franke K, Baeumlein H, Wessjohann L, Koch M, Borisjuk L, Sharbel T F:

Discovery of key regulators of dark glands development and hypericin biosynthesis in St. Johns wort (Hypericum perforatum). Plant Biotechnol. J. 17 (2019) 2299-2312. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13141

Savchenko T, Rolletschek H, Dehesh K:

Jasmonates-mediated rewiring of central metabolism regulates adaptive responses. Plant Cell Physiol. 60 (2019) 2613-2620. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcz181

Savchenko T, Rolletschek H, Heinzel N, Tikhonov K, Dehesh K:

Waterlogging tolerance rendered by oxylipin-mediated metabolic reprogramming in Arabidopsis. J. Exp. Bot. 70 (2019) 2919–2932. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz110

Tedeschi F, Rizzo P, Huong B, Czihal A, Rutten T, Altschmied L, Scharfenberg S, Grosse I, Becker C, Weigel D, Bäumlein H, Kuhlmann M:

EFFECTOR OF TRANSCRIPTION factors are novel plant-specific regulators associated with genomic DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. New Phytol. 221 (2019) 261-278. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.15439

Wabila C, Neumann K, Kilian B, Radchuk V, Graner A:

A tiered approach to genome-wide association analysis for the adherence of hulls to the caryopsis of barley seeds reveals footprints of selection. BMC Plant Biol. 19 (2019) 95. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1694-1

Zornow R:

Untersuchungen zum Keimverhalten von Getreide- und Ölsaaten. (Master Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2019) 99 pp.

2018

Gündel A, Rolletschek H, Wagner S, Muszynska A, Borisjuk L:

Micro imaging displays the sucrose landscape within and along its allocation pathways. Plant Physiol. 178 (2018) 1448-1460. https://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.00947

Lappe R R, Baier J W, Boehlein S K, Huffman R, Lin Q, Wattebled F, Settles A M, Hannah L C, Borisjuk L, Rolletschek H, Stewart J D, Scott M P, Hennen-Bierwagen T A, Myers A M:

Functions of maize genes encoding pyruvate phosphate dikinase in developing endosperm. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 115 (2018) E24-E33. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715668115

Lorenz C, Brandt S, Borisjuk L, Rolletschek H, Heinzel N, Tohge T, Fernie A R, Braun H-P, Hildebrandt T M:

The role of persulfide metabolism during Arabidopsis seed development under light and dark conditions. Front. Plant Sci. 9 (2018) 1381. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01381

Meitzel T:

Signaling pathways in legume seed development: evidence for a crosstalk between trehalose 6-phosphate and auxin. (PhD Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I Biowissenschaften (2018) 177 pp.

Munz E:

High resolution, physiological and metabolic MRI of plants. (PhD Thesis) Würzburg, Julius-Maximilians-Universität (2018) 170 pp.

Muszynska A:

Histological, ultrastructural, elemental, and molecular genetic characterization of ′Stabilstroh’, a complex trait of rye (Secale cereale L.) determining lodging resistance. (PhD Thesis) Halle/S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik (2018) 161 pp.

Radchuk V, Tran V, Radchuk R, Diaz-Mendoza M, Weier D, Fuchs J, Riewe D, Hensel G, Kumlehn J, Munz E, Heinzel N, Rolletschek H, Martinez M, Borisjuk L:

Vacuolar processing enzyme 4 contributes to maternal control of grain size in barley by executing programmed cell death in the pericarp. New Phytol. 218 (2018) 1127-1142. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14729

Rajaraman J, Douchkov D, Lück S, Hensel G, Nowara D, Pogoda M, Rutten T, Meitzel T, Brassac J, Höfle C, Hückelhoven R, Klinkenberg J, Trujillo M, Bauer E, Schmutzer T, Himmelbach A, Mascher M, Lazzari B, Stein N, Kumlehn J, Schweizer P:

Evolutionarily conserved partial gene duplication in the Triticeae tribe of grasses confers pathogen resistance. Genome Biol. 19 (2018) 116. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1472-7

Walerowski P, Gündel A, Yahaya N, Truman W, Sobczak M, Olszak M, Rolfe S A, Borisjuk L, Malinowski R:

Clubroot disease stimulates early steps of phloem differentiation and recruits SWEET sucrose transporters within developing galls. Plant Cell 30 (2018) 3058-3073. https://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00283

2017

Borisjuk L:

The inner life of seed: from seeing to understanding. (Habilitation Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2017) 402 pp.

Keil P, Liebsch G, Borisjuk L, Rolletschek H:

MultiSense: a multimodal sensor tool enabling the high throughput analysis of respiration. In: Kapuganti J G (Ed.): Plant respiration and internal oxygen: methods and protocols. (Series: Methods in molecular biology, Vol. 1670) New York, NY [u.a.]: Humana Press (2017) ISBN 978-1-4939-7291-3, 47-56. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7292-0_5

König C:

Molecular and metabolic characterization of assimilate uptake and storage product synthesis in Brassica napus. (PhD Thesis) Hannover, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2017) 119 pp.

Mascher M, Gundlach H, Himmelbach A, Beier S, Twardziok S O, Wicker T, Radchuk V, Dockter C, Hedley P E, Russell J, Bayer M, Ramsay L, Liu H, Haberer G, Zhang X-Q, Zhang Q, Barrero R A, Li L, Taudien S, Groth M, Felder M, Hastie A, Šimková H, Staňková H, Vrána J, Chan S, Muñoz-Amatriaín M, Ounit R, Wanamaker S, Bolser D, Colmsee C, Schmutzer T, Aliyeva-Schnorr L, Grasso S, Tanskanen J, Chailyan A, Sampath D, Heavens D, Clissold L, Cao S, Chapman B, Dai F, Han Y, Li H, Li X, Lin C, McCooke J K, Tan C, Wang P, Wang S, Yin S, Zhou G, Poland J A, Bellgard M I, Borisjuk L, Houben A, Doležel J, Ayling S, Lonardi S, Kersey P, Langridge P, Muehlbauer G J, Clark M D, Caccamo M, Schulman A H, Mayer K F X, Platzer M, Close T J, Scholz U, Hansson M, Zhang G, Braumann I, Spannagl M, Li C, Waugh R, Stein N:

A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome. Nature 544 (2017) 427-433. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22043

McAdam E L, Meitzel T, Quittenden L J, Davidson S E, Dalmais M, Bendahmane A I, Thompson R, Smith J J, Nichols D S, Urquhart S, Gélinas-Marion A, Aubert G, Ross J J:

Evidence that auxin is required for normal seed size and starch synthesis in pea. New Phytol. 216 (2017) 193-204. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14690

Munz E, Rolletschek H, Oeltze-Jafra S, Fuchs J, Guendel A, Neuberger T, Ortleb S, Jakob P M, Borisjuk L:

A functional imaging study of germinating oilseed rape seed. New Phytol. 216 (2017) 1181-1190. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14736

Radchuk V, Riewe D, Peukert M, Matros A, Strickert M, Radchuk R, Weier D, Steinbiß H-H, Sreenivasulu N, Weschke W, Weber H:

Down-regulated sucrose transporters HvSUT1, HvSUT2 affects sucrose homeostasis along its delivery path in barley grains. J. Exp. Bot. 68 (2017) 4595-4612. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx266

Reichelt W N, Brillmann M, Thurrold P, Keil P, Fricke J, Herwig C:

Physiological capacities decline during induced bioprocesses leading to substrate accumulation. In: Ferreira G N M, Glassey J (Eds.): Biotechnol. J. (Special Issue: European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Science, Dublin 2016). (Vol. 7) : WILEY-VCH Verlag (2017) 1860-7314, 1600547. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/biot.201600547

Rolletschek H, Borisjuk L, Hennen-Bierwagen T A, Myers A M:

Central metabolism and its spatial heterogeneity in maize endosperm. In: Larkins B A (Ed.): Maize kernel development. Boston, MA: CABI (2017) ISBN 978-1-78639-121-6, 134-148.

Rolletschek H, Liebsch G:

A method for imaging oxygen distribution and respiration at a microscopic level of resolution. In: Kapuganti J G (Ed.): Plant respiration and internal oxygen: methods and protocols. (Series: Methods in molecular biology, Vol. 1670) New York, NY [u.a.]: Humana Press (2017) ISBN 978-1-4939-7291-3, 31-38. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7292-0_3

Scherzer S, Shabala L, Hedrich B, Fromm J, Bauer H, Munz E, Jakob P, Al-Rascheid K A S, Kreuzer I, Becker D, Eiblmeier M, Rennenberg H, Shabala S, Bennett M, Neher E, Hedrich R:

Insect haptoelectrical stimulation of Venus flytrap triggers exocytosis in gland cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114 (2017) 4822-4827. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1701860114

Woodfield H K, Sturtevant D, Borisjuk L, Munz E, Guschina I A, Chapman K D, Harwood J L:

Spatial and temporal mapping of key lipid species in Brassica napus seeds. Plant Physiol. 173 (2017) 1998-2009. https://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.01705

2016

Keller E R J, Grübe M, Hajirezaei M-R, Melzer M, Mock H-P, Rolletschek H, Senula A, Subbarayan K:

Experience in large-scale cryopreservation and links to applied research for safe storage of plant germplasm. In: Lambardi M, Hamill S (Eds.): Proceedings of the XXIX IHC - Int. Symp. on Micropropagation and In Vitro Techniques, Brisbane, Australia, August 17-22, 2014. (Series: Acta Horticulturae, Vol. 1113) Leuven: ISHS (2016) 239-249. https://dx.doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2016.1113.36

Kovalchuk N, Chew W, Sornaraj P, Borisjuk N, Yang N, Singh R, Bazanova N, Shavrukov Y, Guendel A, Munz E, Borisjuk L, Langridge P, Hrmova M, Lopato S:

The homeodomain transcription factor TaHDZipI-2 from wheat regulates frost tolerance, flowering time and spike development in transgenic barley. New Phytol. 211 (2016) 671-687. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13919

Munz E, Jakob P M, Borisjuk L:

The potential of nuclear magnetic resonance to track lipids in planta. Biochimie 130 (2016) 97-108. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biochi.2016.07.014

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