Burkhard Steuernagel

TL;DR: This study provides significant insight into the evolution of specific flavone biosynthetic pathways in the mint family, Lamiaceae, but also will facilitate the development of tools for enhancing bioactive productivity by metabolic engineering in microbes or by molecular breeding in plants.

TL;DR: NLR-Annotator, a software tool for in silico NLR identification independent of transcript support, is developed and demonstrated to support the identification of functional resistance genes in wheat to accelerate the breeding and engineering of disease-resistant varieties.

TL;DR: Combined inter-/intra-species comparative and phylogenetic analysis of CMF, COL and PRR gene families indicates they evolved prior to the monocot/dicot divergence ∼200 mya, with Poaceae CMF evolution described as the interplay between whole genome duplication in the ancestral cereal, and subsequent clade-specific mutation, deletion and duplication events.

TL;DR: A height-reducing mechanism that can generate new genetic diversity for semidwarfism in wheat by combining increased expression with mutations of specific amino acid residues in GA2oxA9 is described.

TL;DR: The importance of the circadian clock in temperate cereals as a promising target for adaptation to new environments is emphasized, and sequence variation of LUX in a range of wheat germplasm is ascertained.