Publications

Alipour, M.; Haghighi, M.; Rahimmalek, M.; Reichelt, M.; Martinelli, L.; Groten, K.; Mithöfer, A.: Integrated metabolomics, transcriptomic, and phytohormonal analyses to study the effects of water stress and foliar abscisic acid application in Thymus species using LC-MS/MS. Frontiers in Plant Science 16, 1557446 (2025)

Chen, L.; Gao, R.; Wei, G.; Luo, S.; Köllner, T. G.; Xu, H.; Jiang, Y.; Zhang, C.; Chen, X.; Dickschat, J. S. et al.; Gershenzon, J.; Li, S.; Chang, Y.; Chen, F.: Microbial-type terpene synthases significantly contribute to the terpene profile of glandular trichomes of the fern Dryopteris fragrans (L.). The Plant Journal 121 (6), e70079 (2025)

Dornelas, M.; Antão, L. H.; Bates, A. E.; Brambilla, V.; Medina van Berkum, P.; et al.; Assaf Zvuloni, A.: BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and improving a database of biodiversity time series. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34 (5), e70003 (2025)

Franzisky, B. L.; Mueller, H. M.; Du, B.; Lux, T.; White, P. J.; Carpentier, S. C.; Winkler, J. B.; Schnitzler, J.-P.; Kudla, J.; Kangasjärvi, J. et al.; Reichelt, M.; Mithöfer, A.; Mayer, K. F. X.; Rennenberg, H.; Ache, P.; Hedrich, R.; Messerer, M.; Geilfus, C.-M.: Date palm diverts organic solutes for root osmotic adjustment and protects leaves from oxidative damage in early drought acclimation. Journal of Experimental Botany 76 (4), pp. 1244 - 1265 (2025)

Guo, K.; Tang, X.; Liu, Y.-C.; Cheng, H.-Z.; Liu, H.; Fan, Y.-Z.; Qi, X.-Y.; Xu, R.; Kang, J.-J.; Li, D.-S. et al.; Wang, G.-D.; Gershenzon, J.; Liu, Y.; Li, S.-H.: From monocyclization to pentacyclization: A versatile plant cyclase produces diverse sesterterpenes with anti-liver fibrosis potential. Advanced Science, 2415370 (2025)

Huber, B.; Luciani, M.; Abualhassan, A. M.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Fernandes, R.; Devièse, T.: Metabolic profiling reveals first evidence of fumigating drug plant Peganum harmala in Iron Age Arabia. Communications Biology 8, 720 (2025)

Madaj, A.-M.; Huang, Y.; Ebeling, A.; Ertel, L.; Gebler, A.; Gleixner, G.; Hines, J.; Roscher, C.; Weigelt, A.; Albracht, C. et al.; Amyntas, A.; Bassi, L.; Asato, A. E. B.; Bonkowski, M.; Bröcher, M.; Buscot, F.; Giorgi, F. D.; de Souza, Y. P. A.; Doan, V. C.; Durka, W.; Heintz-Buschart, A.; Hennecke, J.; Lange, M.; Berkum, P. M.-v.; Meyer, S. T.; Krawczyk, S.; Rai, A.; Reitz, T.; Ristok, C.; Scheu, S.; Schloter, M.; Schulz, S.; Solbach, M. D.; Unsicker, S.; Eisenhauer, N.: JenaTron-An experimental approach to study the effects of plant history and soil history on grassland ecosystem functioning. Journal of Visualized Experiments 217, e67496 (2025)

Mahmood, M. Z.; Shahzad, M.; Nauman, M.; Abbasi, A. M.; Reichelt, M.; Mithöfer, A.: Silicon-mediated mitigation of salt stress in maize plants. Plant-Environment Interactions (2025)

Neufeld, S.; Reichelt, M.; Scholz, S. S.; Wojtaszek, P.; Mithöfer, A.: Exploring a role for the Arabidopsis TIR-X gene (TIRP) in the defense against pathogenic fungi or insect herbivory attack. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 26 (6), 2764 (2025)

Ojeda-Prieto, L.; Medina van Berkum, P.; Unsicker, S.; Heinen, R.; Weisser, W. W.: Intraspecific chemical variation of Tanacetum vulgare affects plant growth and reproductive traits in field plant communities. Plant Biology 27 (5), pp. 785 - 801 (2025)

Oktay, C.; Shiko, G.; Liebl, M.; Feistel, F.; Mußbach, S.; Körber, K. L.; Barth, E.; Huber, L.; Antony, A.; Oelmüller, R. et al.; Reichelt, M.; Ossetek, K. L.; Müller, C.; Furch, A. C. U.; Klein, J.: Arabidopsis thaliana accumulates dehydroepiandrosterone after infection with phytopathogenic fungi – Effects on plants and fungi. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 221, 109570 (2025)

Ollivier, R.; Robin, S.; Galland, M.; Shih, P.-Y.; Morlière, S.; Paulmann, M. K.; Gershenzon, J.; Kunert, G.; Pilet-Nayel, M.-L.; Simon, J.-C. et al.; Sugio, A.: Transcriptomic analysis reveals candidate molecular pathways involved in pea (Pisum sativum L.) resistance to pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris) biotypes. BMC Genomics 26, 580 (2025)

Stein Åslund, M.; Reichelt, M.; Zhang, K.; Castaño, C.; Stenlid, J.; Gershenzon, J.; Elfstrand, M.: Scots pines with tolerance to Melampsora pinitorqua and Diplodia sapinea show distinct metabolic profiles. Plant, Cell and Environment 48 (2), pp. 1479 - 1493 (2025)

Sun, R.; Römhild, S.; Nakamura, Y.; Reichelt, M.; Luck, K.; Mai, D. T.; Rothe, B.; Gershenzon, J.; Giddings Vassão, D.: Multiple glutathione-S-transferases detoxify diverse glucosinolate-based defenses of Brassicales plants in a generalist lepidopteran herbivore (Spodoptera littoralis). Communications Biology 8, 931 (2025)

Varghese, M.; Kumar, R.; Sharma, A.; Lone, A.; Gershenzon, J.; Bisht, N. C.: Isopropylmalate synthase regulatory domain removal abolishes feedback regulation at the expense of leucine homeostasis in plants. Plant Physiology 197 (2), kiaf041 (2025)

Walther, C.; Vallet, M.; Reichelt, M.; Giri, P.; Rothe, B.; Medina van Berkum, P.; Gershenzon, J.; Unsicker, S.: A fungal endophyte alters poplar leaf chemistry, deters insect feeding and shapes insect community assembly. Ecology Letters 28 (2), e70007 (2025)

Yepes Vivas, S. A.; Popp, M.; Reichelt, M.; Gershenzon, J.; Schnitzler, J.-P.; Unsicker, S.: Deciphering organ-specific chemical changes following insect herbivory in Populus nigra using comparative metabolomics. Plant Biology 27 (5), pp. 834 - 846 (2025)

Zaman, R.; Jain, A.; Hammerbacher, A.; Gershenzon, J.; Kandasamy, D.: Both synergism and interaction diversity explain the mixtures of defensive monoterpenes in spruce oleoresin. Functional Ecology (2025)

Amyntas, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Scheu, S.; Klarner, B.; Ilieva-Makulec, K.; Madaj, A.-M.; Gauzens, B.; Li, J.; Potapov, A. M.; Rosenbaum, B. et al.; Bassi, L.; Medina van Berkum, P.; Brose, U.: Soil community history strengthens belowground multitrophic functioning across plant diversity levels in a grassland experiment. Nature Communications 15, 10029 (2024)

Baños Quintana, A. P.; Gershenzon, J.; Kaltenpoth, M.: The Eurasian spruce bark beetle Ips typographus shapes the microbial communities of its offspring and the gallery environment. Frontiers in Microbiology 15, 1367127 (2024)