Reshuffling genes and genomes: from experimental evolution to synthetic biology in plants

Project Information

GENEVOSYN

Grant agreement ID: 669982

DOI 10.3030/669982

Project closed

EC signature date 24 June 2015

Start date 1 October 2015

End date 31 March 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 500 000,00

EU contribution € 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Chloroplast Transformation in Arabidopsis

Author(s): Stephanie Ruf, Xenia Kroop, Ralph Bock
Published in: Current Protocols, Issue 1/4, 2021, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.103

Improving plant drought tolerance and growth under water limitation through combinatorial engineering of signalling networks

Author(s): Philipp Schulz, Katrin Piepenburg, Ruth Lintermann, Marco Herde, Mark A. Schöttler, Lena K. Schmidt, Stephanie Ruf, Jörg Kudla, Tina Romeis, Ralph Bock
Published in: Plant Biotechnology Journal, Issue 19/1, 2021, Page(s) 74-86, ISSN 1467-7644
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13441

Next-Generation Insect-Resistant Plants: RNAi-Mediated Crop Protection

Author(s): Jiang Zhang, Sher Afzal Khan, David G. Heckel, Ralph Bock
Published in: Trends in Biotechnology, Issue 35/9, 2017, Page(s) 871-882, ISSN 0167-7799
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.04.009

Horizontal Transfer of a Synthetic Metabolic Pathway between Plant Species

Author(s): Yinghong Lu, Sandra Stegemann, Shreya Agrawal, Daniel Karcher, Stephanie Ruf, Ralph Bock
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 27/19, 2017, Page(s) 3034-3041.e3, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.044

Chloroplast Translation: Structural and Functional Organization, Operational Control and Regulation

Author(s): Reimo Zoschke, Ralph Bock
Published in: The Plant Cell, 2018, Page(s) tpc.00016.2018, ISSN 1040-4651
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.18.00016

Plastid transformation and its application in metabolic engineering

Author(s): Paulina Fuentes, Tegan Armarego-Marriott, Ralph Bock
Published in: Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Issue 49, 2018, Page(s) 10-15, ISSN 0958-1669
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.07.004

Different carotenoid conformations have distinct functions in light-harvesting regulation in plants

Author(s): Nicoletta Liguori, Pengqi Xu, Ivo H.M. van Stokkum, Bart van Oort, Yinghong Lu, Daniel Karcher, Ralph Bock, Roberta Croce
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 8/1, 2017, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02239-z

Witnessing Genome Evolution: Experimental Reconstruction of Endosymbiotic and Horizontal Gene Transfer

Author(s): Ralph Bock
Published in: Annual Review of Genetics, Issue 51/1, 2017, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 0066-4197
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120215-035329

Replication of bacterial plasmids in the nucleus of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

Author(s): Zhichao Li, Ralph Bock
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05651-1

A highly efficient sulfadiazine selection system for the generation of transgenic plants and algae

Author(s): Iman Tabatabaei, Cristina Dal Bosco, Marta Bednarska, Stephanie Ruf, Jörg Meurer, Ralph Bock
Published in: Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2018, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 1467-7644
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13004

Recent advances and current challenges in synthetic biology of the plastid genetic system and metabolism

Author(s): Christian R Boehm, Ralph Bock
Published in: Plant Physiology, 2018, Page(s) pp.00767.2018, ISSN 0032-0889
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00767

A new synthetic biology approach allows transfer of an entire metabolic pathway from a medicinal plant to a biomass crop

Author(s): Paulina Fuentes, Fei Zhou, Alexander Erban, Daniel Karcher, Joachim Kopka, Ralph Bock
Published in: eLife, Issue 5, 2016, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.13664

Lighting the Way to Protein-Protein Interactions: Recommendations on Best Practices for Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Analyses

Author(s): Jörg Kudla, Ralph Bock
Published in: The Plant Cell, Issue 28/5, 2016, Page(s) 1002-1008, ISSN 1040-4651
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00043

Transfer of the cytochrome P450-dependent dhurrin pathway from Sorghum bicolor into Nicotiana tabacum chloroplasts for light-driven synthesis

Author(s): Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran, Daniel Karcher, Agnieszka Zygadlo Nielsen, Helle Juel Martens, Stephanie Ruf, Xenia Kroop, Carl Erik Olsen, Mohammed Saddik Motawie, Mathias Pribil, Birger Lindberg Møller, Ralph Bock, Poul Erik Jensen
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 67/8, 2016, Page(s) 2495-2506, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw067

A bifunctional aminoglycoside acetyltransferase/phosphotransferase conferring tobramycin resistance provides an efficient selectable marker for plastid transformation

Author(s): Iman Tabatabaei, Stephanie Ruf, Ralph Bock
Published in: Plant Molecular Biology, Issue 93/3, 2017, Page(s) 269-281, ISSN 0167-4412
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0560-x

Rapid functional activation of a horizontally transferred eukaryotic gene in a bacterial genome in the absence of selection

Author(s): Zhichao Li, Ralph Bock
Published in: Nucleic Acids Research, Issue 47/12, 2019, Page(s) 6351-6359, ISSN 0305-1048
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz370

High-efficiency generation of fertile transplastomic Arabidopsis plants

Author(s): Stephanie Ruf, Joachim Forner, Claudia Hasse, Xenia Kroop, Stefanie Seeger, Laura Schollbach, Anne Schadach, Ralph Bock
Published in: Nature Plants, Issue 5/3, 2019, Page(s) 282-289, ISSN 2055-0278
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0359-2

Photosynthesis without β-carotene

Author(s): Pengqi Xu, Volha U Chukhutsina, Wojciech J Nawrocki, Gert Schansker, Ludwik W Bielczynski, Yinghong Lu, Daniel Karcher, Ralph Bock, Roberta Croce
Published in: eLife, Issue 9, 2020, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.58984

Horizontal genome transfer by cell-to-cell travel of whole organelles

Author(s): Alexander P. Hertle, Benedikt Haberl, Ralph Bock
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 7/1, 2021, Page(s) eabd8215, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd8215