Publications

Publications (since 2015, alphabetically listed)

2023

Dresselhaus T. and van der Linde K. (2023) Plant reproduction: Fertilization SALvaged by the central cell. Curr Biol. 33: R998 - R1018.

Zhang, X., Shi, C., Li, S., Zhang, B., Luo, P., Peng, X., Zhao, P., Dresselhaus, T., Sun, M.X. (2023) A female in vivo haploid-induction system via mutagenesis of egg cell-specific peptidases. Mol Plant. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2023.01.001.

Zhang, X., Yu, X., Shi, C., Dresselhaus, T., Sun, M.X. (2023) Do egg cell-secreted aspartic proteases promote gamete attachment? J. Integr.Plant Biol. doi: 10.1111/jipb.13447.

2022

Cai, H., Liu, L., Huang, Y., Zhu, W., Qi, J., Xi, X., Aslam, M., Dresselhaus, T., Qin, Y. (2022) Brassinosteroid signaling regulates female germline specification in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol. 32: 1102-1114.

Li, L, Hou S, Xiang W, Song Z, Wang Y, Zhang L, Li J, Gu H, Dong J, Dresselhaus T, Zhong S, Qu LJ. (2022) The egg cell is preferentially fertilized in Arabidopsis double fertilization. J. Integr.Plant Biol. 64: 2039-2046.

Li, W., Li, Q., Lyu, M., Wang, Z., Song, Z., Zhong, S., Gu, H., Dong, J., Dresselhaus, T., Zhong, S., Qu, LJ. (2022). Lack of ethylene does not affect reproductive success and synergid cell death in Arabidopsis. Mol Plant. 15 :354-362.

Shabani, D., Dresselhaus, T., Dukowic-Schulze, S. (2022) Profiling m6A RNA modifications in low amounts of plant cells using maize meiocytes.. Meth. Mol Biol. 2484: 313-331.

Šim Škov, M. R., Daneva, A., Doll, N., Schilling, N., Cubr A-Rad, O. M., Zhou L., De Winter, F., Aesaert, S., De Rycke, R., Pauwels, L., Dresselhaus, T., Brugi Re, N., Simmons, CR., Habben, JE., Nowack, M. K. (2022). KIL1 terminates fertility in maize by controlling silk senescence. Plant Cell. 34: 2852-2870.

Wang, Y., Li, W., Wang, L., Yan, J., Lu, G., Yang, N., Xu, J., Wang, Y., Gui, S., Chen, G., Li, S., Wu, C., Guo, T., Xiao, Y., Warburton, M. L., Fernie, A. R., Dresselhaus, T., Yan, J. (2022) Three types of genes underlying the Gametophyte factor1 locus cause unilateral cross incompatibility in maize. Nat Commun. 13: 4498.

Zhong, S., Li, L., Wang, Z., Ge, Z., Li, Q., Bleckmann, A., Wang, J., Song, Z., Shi, Y., Liu, T., Li, L., Zhou, H., Wang, Y., Zhang, L., Wu, H. M., Lai, L., Gu, H., Dong, J., Cheung, A. Y., Dresselhaus, T., Qu, LJ. (2022) RALF peptide signaling controls the polytubey block in Arabidopsis. Science. 375: 290-296.

2021

Dresselhaus, T., Jürgens, G. (2021) Comparative embryogenesis in angiosperms: activation and patterning of embryonic cell lineages. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 72: 641-676.

Flores-Tornero, M., Sprunck, S., Dresselhaus T. (2021) Identification and characterization of reproductive mutations in Arabidopsis. Meth. Mol. Biol. 2200, 371-390.

Flores-Tornero, M., Wang, L., Potešil, D., Hafidh, S., Vogler, F., Zdráhal, Z., Honys, D., Sprunck, S., Dresselhaus, T. (2021) Comparative analyses of angiosperms secretomes identify apoplastic pollen tube functions and novel secreted peptides. Plant Reprod. 34, 47-60.

Hou, S., Shi, J., Hao, L., Wang, Z., Liao, Y., Gu, H., Dong, J., Dresselhaus, T., Zhong, S., Qu, L. J. VPS18-regulated vesicle trafficking controls the secretion of pectin and its modifying enzyme during pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 33: 3042-3056.

Julca, I., Ferrari, C., Flores-Tornero, M., Proost, S., Lindner, AC., Hackenberg, D., Steinbachová, L., Michaelidis, C., Gomes Pereira, S., Misra, C. S., Kawashima, T., Borg, M., Berger, F., Goldberg, J., Johnson, M., Honys, D., Twell, D., Sprunck, S., Dresselhaus, T., Becker, J. D., Mutwil, M. (2021) Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals conserved programmes underpinning organogenesis and reproduction in land plants. Nat Plants. 7: 1143-1159.

Liu, M., Wang, Z., Hou, S., Wang, L., Huang, Q., Gu, H., Dresselhaus, T., Zhong, S,. Qu, L.J. (2021) AtLURE1/PRK6-mediated signaling promotes conspecific micropylar pollen tube guidance. Plant Physiol. 186: 865-873.

Yu, X., Zhang, X., Zhao, P., Peng, X., Chen, H., Bleckmann, A., Bazhenova, A., Shi, C., Dresselhaus, T., Sun,M.X. (2021) Fertilized egg cells secrete endopeptidases to avoid polytubey. Nature 592, 433-437.

Zhou, L. Z., Qu, L. J., Dresselhaus, T. (2021) Stigmatic ROS: regulator of compatible pollen tube perception? Trends Plant Sci. 26: 993-995.

2020

Antosz, W., Deforges, J., Begcy, K., Bruckmann, A., Poirier, Y., Dresselhaus, T. and Grasser, K.D. (2020) Critical role of transcript cleavage in Arabidopsis RNA polymerase II transcriptional elongation. Plant Cell 32, 1449-1463.

Begcy, K., Dresselhaus, T. (2020) Analysis of epigenetic modifications during vegetative and reproductive development in cereals using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). Meth. Mol. Biol. 2072, 141-156.

Dresselhaus, T. (2020) Ertragsverlust durch Hitzestress: Stress in der Pollenbildungsphase führt zu Sterilität. Mais, 47: 39-41.

Dresselhaus, T., Bleckmann, A. (2020) Tagging and application of RNA probes for sequence-specific visualization of RNAs by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Meth. Mol Biol. 2166, 3-21.

Flores-Tornero, M., Vogler, F., Mutwil, M., Potěšil, D., Ihnatová, I., Zdráhal, Z., Sprunck, S., Dresselhaus, T. (2020) Transcriptomic and proteomic insights into Amborella trichopoda male gametophyte functions. Plant Physiol. doi: 10.1104/pp.20.00837.

Kalinowska, K., Chen, J., Dresselhaus, T. (2020) Imaging of embryo sac and early seed development in maize after feulgen staining. Meth. Mol. Biol. 2122, 191-203.

Kulich, I., Vogler, F., Bleckmann, A., Cyprys, P., Lindemeier, M., Fuchs, I., Krassini, L., Schubert, T., Steinbrenner, J., Beynon, J., Falter-Braun, P., Längst, G., Dresselhaus, T., Sprunck, S. (2020) ARMADILLO REPEAT ONLY proteins confine Rho GTPase signalling to polar growth sites. Nat. Plants 6, 1275-1288.

2019

Bauer, N., Skiljaica, A., Malenica, N., Razdorov, G., Klasic, M., Juranic, M., Mocibob, M., Sprunck, S., Dresselhaus, T., Leljak-Levanic, D. (2019) The MATH-BTB protein TaMAB2 accumulates in ubiquitin-containing foci and interacts with the translation initiation machinery in Arabidopsis. Front. Plant Sci. 10, 1469.

Begcy, K., Nosenko, T., Zhou, L.Z., Fragner, L., Weckwerth, W. and Dresselhaus, T. (2019) Male sterility in maize after transient heat stress during the tetrad stage of pollen development. Plant Physiol. 181, 683-700.

Chen, J., Müller, B., Wang, H. and Dresselhaus, T. (2019) Overexpression of SUMO1 located predominately to euchromatin of dividing cells affects reproductive development in maize. Plant Signal. Behav. 14, e1588664.

Dresselhaus, T., Weijers, D. (2019) Special issue: cellular omics methods in plant redproduction research. Plant Reprod. 32, 1-3.

Dresselhaus, T., Hückelhoven, R. (2019) Biotic and abiotic stress responses in crop plants. MDPI Open Access Publisher. 252 pages. ISBN 978-3-03897-464-2.

Flores-Tornero, M., Proost, S., Mutwil, M., Scutt, C.P., Dresselhaus, T., Sprunck, S. (2019) Transcriptomics of manually isolated Amborella trichopodo egg apparatus cells. Plant Reprod. 32, 15-27.

Ge, Z., Dresselhaus, T., Qu, L.J. (2019) How CrRLK1L receptor complexes perceive RALF signals. Trends Plant Sci. 24, 978-981.

Ge, Z., Zhao, Y., Liu, M.C., Zhou, L.Z., Wang, L., Zhong, S., Hou, S., Jiang, J., Liu, T., Huang, Q., Xiao, J., Gu, H., Wu, H.M., Dong, J., Dresselhaus, T., Cheung, A.Y., Qu, L.J. (2019) LLG2/3 Are Co-receptors in BUPS/ANX-RALF signaling to regulate Arabidopsis pollen tube integrity. Curr. Biol. 29, 3256-3265.

Kalinowska, K., Chamas, S., Unkel, K., Demidov, D., Lermontova, I., Dresselhaus, T., Kumlehn, J., Dunemann, F., Houben, A. (2019) State-of-the-art and novel developments of in vivo haploid technologies. Theor. Appl. Genet. 132, 593-605.

Sprunck, S., Urban, M., Strieder, N., Lindemeier, M., Bleckmann, A., Evers, M., Hackenberg, T., Möhle, C., Dresselhaus, T., Engelmann, J.C. (2019) Elucidating small RNA pathways in Arabidsopsis thaliana egg cells. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/525956.

Zhong, S., Liu, M., Wang, Z., Huang, Q., Hou, S., Xu, YC., Ge, Z., Song, Z., Huang, J., Qiu, X., Shi, Y., Xiao, J., Liu, P., Guo, YL., Dong, J., Dresselhaus, T., Gu, H., Qu, LJ. (2019) Cysteine-rich petides promote interspecific genetic isolation in Arabidopsis. Science 364, eaau9564.

Zhou, L. and Dresselhaus, T. (2019) Fried or foe: signaling mechanisms during double fertilization in flowering seed plants . Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 131, 453-459.

Zhou, L., Dresselhaus, T. (2019) Transient transformation of maize BMS suspension cells via particle bombardment. BioProtoc. 9, e3451.

2018

Begcy, K. and Dresselhaus, T. (2018) Epigenetic responses to abiotic stresses during reproductive development in cereals. Plant Reprod. 31, 343-355.

Begcy, K., Weigert, A., Egesa, A. O. and Dresselhaus, T. (2018) Compared to Australian Cultivars, European Summer Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Overreacts When Moderate Heat Stress Is Applied at the Pollen Development Stage. Agronomy 8, 99.

Chen, J., Kalinowska, K., Müller, B., Merqner, J., Deutzmann, R., Schwechheimer, C., Hammes, U.Z. and Dresselhaus, T. (2018) DiSUMO-LIKE interacts with RNA-binding proteins and affects cell-cycle progression during maize embryogenesis. Curr. Biol. 28., 1548-1560.

Dresselhaus, T., Hückelhoven, R. (2018) Biotic and abiotic stress responses in crop plants. Agronomy 8, 267.

Dresselhaus, T. and Johnson, M.A. (2018) Reproduction: plant parentage à Trois. Curr. Biol. 28, R28-R30.

Robert, H.S., Park, C., Gutièrrez, C.L., Wójcikowska, B., Pěnčík, A., Novák, O., Chen, J., Grunewald, W., Dresselhaus, T., Friml, J., Laux, T. (2018) Maternal auxin supply contributes to early embryo patterning in Arabidopsis. Nat. Plants. 4, 548-553.

2017

Amasino, R.M., Cheung, A.Y., Dresselhaus, T. and Kuhlemeier, C. (2017) Focus on flowering and reproduction. Plant Physiol. 173, 1-4.

Begcy, K. and Dresselhaus, T. (2017) Tracking maize pollen development by the Leaf Collar Method. Plant Reprod. 30, 171-178.

Bleckmann, A. and Dresselhaus, T. (2017). Whole mount RNA-FISH on ovules and developing seeds. Meth. Mol. Biol. 1669, 159-171.

Chen, J., Strieder, N., Krohn, N.G., Cyprys, P., Sprunck, S., Engelmann, J.C. and Dresselhaus, T. (2017) Zygotic genome activation occurs shortly after fertilization in maize. Plant Cell 29, 2106-2125.

Ge, Z., Bergonci, T., Zhao, Y., Zou, Y., Du, S., Liu, M.C., Luo, X., Ruan, H., García-Valencia, L.E., Zhong, S., Hou, S., Huang, Q., Lai, L., Moura, D.S., Gu, H., Dong, J., Wu, H.M., Dresselhaus, T., Xiao, J., Cheung, A.Y. and Qu, L.J. (2017) Arabidopsis pollen tube integrity and sperm release are regulated by RALF-mediated signaling. Science 358, 1596-1600.

Mondragón-Palomino, M., John-Arputharaj, A., Pallmann, M. and Dresselhaus, T. (2017) Similarities between reproductive and immune pistil transcriptomes of Arabidopsis species. Plant Physiol. 174, 1559-1575.

Mondragón-Palomino, M., Stam, R., John-Arputharaj, A. and Dresselhaus, T. (2017) Diversification of defensins and NLRs in Arabidopsis species by different evolutionary mechanisms. BMC Evol Biol. 17, 255.

Resentini, F, Cyprys, P., Steffen, J.G., Alter, S., Morandini, P.A., Mizzotti, C., Lloyd, A., Drews, G.N., Dresselhaus, T., Colombo, L., Sprunck, S. and Masiero, S. (2017) SUPRESSOR OF FRIGIDA (SUF4) supports gamete fusion via regulating Arabidopsis EC1 gene expression. Plant Physiol. 173, 155-166.

Zhang, J., Huang, Q., Zhong, S., Bleckmann, A., Huang, J., Guo, X., Lin, Q., Gu, H., Dong, J., Dresselhaus, T., Qu, L.J. (2017) Sperm cells are passive cargo of the pollen tube in plant fertilization. Nat. Plants. 3, 17079.

Zhao, P., Begcy, K., Dresselhaus, T. and Sun, M.-X. (2017) Does early embryogenesis in eudicots and monocots involve the same mechanism and molecular players? Plant Physiol. 173, 130-142.

Zhou, L., Juranić, M. and Dresselhaus, T. (2017) Germline development and fertilization mechanisms in maize. Mol. Plant. 10, 389-401.

2016

Alter, P., Bircheneder, S., Zhou, L.Z., Schlüter, U., Gahrtz, M., Sonnewald, U. and Dresselhaus, T. (2016) Flowering time regulated genes in maize include the transcription factor ZmMADS1. Plant Physiol. 172, 389-404.

Bircheneder, S. and Dresselhaus, T. (2016) Why cellular communication during plant reproduction is particularly mediated by CRP signalling. J. Exp. Bot. 67, 4849-4861.

Bleckmann, A. and Dresselhaus, T. (2016) Fluorescent whole-mount RNA in situ hybridization (F-WISH) in plant germ cells and the fertilized ovule. Methods 98, 66-73.

Dresselhaus, T. (2016) Q&A: Thomas Dresselhaus. Curr. Biol. 26, R346-R348.

Dresselhaus, T. and Coimbra, S. (2016) Plant reproduction: AMOR enables males to respond to female signals. Curr. Biol. 26, R321-R323.

Dresselhaus, T., Sprunck, S. and Wessel, G.M. (2016) Fertilization mechanisms in flowering plants. Curr. Biol. 26, R125-R139.

Ghosh Dastidar, M., Mosiolek, M., Bleckmann, A., Dresselhaus, T., Nodine, M.D. and Maizel, A. (2016) Sensitive whole mount in situ localization of small RNAs in plants. Plant J. 88, 694-702.

Hou, Y., Guo, X., Cyprys, P., Zhang, Y., Bleckmann, A., Cai, L., Huang, Q., Luo, Y., Gu, H., Dresselhaus, T., Dong, J. and Qu, L.J. (2016) Maternal ENODLs are required for pollen tube reception in Arabidopsis. Curr. Biol. 26, 2343-2350.

Zhou, L.Z., Höwing, T., Müller, B., Hammes, U.Z., Gietl, C. and Dresselhaus, T. (2016) Expression analysis of KDEL-Cys-EPs, programmed cell death markers during reproduction in Arabidopsis. Plant Reprod. 29, 265-272.

2015

Chen, J., Gutjahr, C., Bleckmann, A. and Dresselhaus, T. (2015) Calcium signalling during reproduction and biotrophic fungal interactions in plants. Mol. Plant 8, 595-611.

Huang, Q., Dresselhaus T., Gu, H. and Qu, L.J. (2015) Active role of small peptides in Arabidopsis reproduction: Expression evidence. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 57, 518-521.

Müller, B., Fastner, A., Karmann, J., Mansch, V., Hoffmann, T., Schwab, W., Suter-Grotemeyer, M., Rentsch, D., Truernit, E., Ladwig, F., Bleckmann, A., Dresselhaus, T. and Hammes, U. Z. (2015) Amino Acid Export in Developing Arabidopsis Seeds Depends on UmamiT Facilitators. Curr. Biol. 25, 3126-3131.

Qu, L.J., Li, L., Lan, Z. and Dresselhaus T. (2015) Peptide signalling during the pollen tube journey and double fertilization. J. Exp. Bot. 66, 5139-5150.

Simon, R. and Dresselhaus, T. (2015) Peptides take centre stage in plant signalling. J. Exp. Bot. 66, 5135-5138.

Sprunck, S. and Dresselhaus, T. (2015) Three cell fusions during double fertilization. Cell 161, 708-709.

Uebler, S., Márton, M.L. and Dresselhaus, T. (2015) Classification of EA1-box proteins and new insights into their role during reproduction in grasses. Plant Reprod. 28, 183-197.

Woriedh, M., Merkl, R. and Dresselhaus, T. (2015) Maize EMBRYO SAC family peptides interact differentially with pollen tubes and fungal cells. J. Exp. Bot. 66, 5205-5216.