Publications of the Institute

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)

Amado, D.; Koch, E. L.; Cordeiro, E. M. G.; Araujo, W. A.; Garcia, A. A. F.; Heckel, D. G.; Montejo-Kovacevich, G.; North, H. L.; Corrêa, A. S.; Jiggins, C. D. et al.; Omoto, C.: The genetic architecture of resistance to flubendiamide insecticide in Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner). PLOS ONE 20 (1), e0318154 (2025)

Becker, C.; Steingass, C. B.; Vogel, H.; Reineke, A.: Change your diet: How CO₂, plant phenology and genotype alter grapevine quality and affect performance and larval transcriptome of an insect herbivore. Molecular Ecology, e17636 (2025)

Bellande, K.; Roujol, D.; Chourre, J.; Gall, S. L. E.; Martinez, Y.; Jauneau, A.; Arico, D.; Mithöfer, A.; Burlat, V.; Jamet, E. et al.; Canut, H.: Receptor kinase LecRK-I.9 regulates cell wall remodelling during lateral root formation in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 76 (6), pp. 1718 - 1734 (2025)

Bergame, C. P.; Dong, C.-F.; Bandi, S.; Schlemper-Scheidt, M.-D.; Sutour, S.; von Reuß, S. H.: Identification and synthesis of 4’-ortho-aminobenzoyl ascarosides as sex pheromones of gonochoristic Caenorhabditis nigoni. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 23 (15), pp. 3654 - 3670 (2025)

Binns, G. E.; Hämäläinen, L.; Rowland, H. M.; Caputi, L.; Kunert, M.; Mappes, J.; Ramon-Cabrera, G. M.; Umbers, K. D. L.; Hart, N. S.; Herberstein, M. E.: Sexual differences in defensive strategies: investigating chemical defences and visual signals in a wasp moth Amata nigriceps. Royal Society Open Science 12 (4), 242186 (2025)

Brunetti, A. E.; Saravia, A. M.; Barrionuevo, J. S.; Delgado, J. A.; Vargas, V. J.; Faivovich, J.: Parental care of underwater egg clutches in Andean water frogs (Anura: Telmatobiidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology = Revue Canadienne de Zoologie 103, pp. 1 - 15 (2025)

Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Flowers with bad breath: How an old gene acquired a new function to exploit an insect’s sense of smell. Science 388 (6747), pp. 586 - 587 (2025)

Carr, S. C.; O’Connor, S. E.: A tight-knit family: The medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductases of monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthesis. Biochemistry (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)

Choung, S.; Lee, G.; Kang, M.; Park, K.; Park, E.; Lee, S.; Song, J.; Goldberg, J. K.; Baldwin, I. T.; Joo, Y. et al.; Kim, S.-G.: MYC2 and MYC3 orchestrate pith lignification to defend Nicotiana attenuata stems against a stem-boring weevil. New Phytologist (2025)

Colinas, M.; Morweiser, C.; Dittberner, O.; Chioca, B.; Alam, R. M.; Leucke, H.; Nakamura, Y.; Serna Guerrero, D. A.; Heinicke, S.; Kunert, M. et al.; Wurlitzer, J.; Ploss, K.; Hong, B.; Grabe, V.; Lopes, A. A.; O’Connor, S. E.: Ipecac alkaloid biosynthesis in two evolutionarily distant plants. Nature Chemical Biology (2025)

Dam, M. I.; Ding, B.-J.; Brauburger, K.; Wang, H.-L.; Powell, D.; Groot, A. T.; Heckel, D. G.; Löfstedt, C.: Sex pheromone biosynthesis in the Oriental fruit moth Grapholita molesta involves delta8 desaturation. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 180, 104307 (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)

Dwivedi, S.; Garde, R.; Schuster, S.: How hosts and pathogens choose the strengths of defense and counterdefense: a game-theoretical view. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12, 1379868 (2025)

Ernst, L.; Sayed, H. M. B.; Hassanin, A.; Moegenburg, R.; Meents, T.; Lyu, H.; Kaufholdt, D.; Davari, M. D.; Beerhues, L.; Liu, B. et al.; El-Awaad, I.: Reverse prenylation in plants by non-canonical aromatic prenyltransferases. The Plant Journal 122 (6), e70268 (2025)

Fabian, B.; Schneeberg, K.; Löwe, S.; Bauernfeind, R.; Beutel, R. G.: Transformations of head structures during the larval development of the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens (Stratiomyidae, Diptera). Journal of Morphology 286 (4), e70048 (2025)

Filella, A.; Cébron, A.; Paix, B.; Vallet, M.; Martinot, P.; Guyomarch, L.; Guigue, C.; Tedetti, M.; Grosso, O.; Turk-Kubo, K. A. et al.; Riemann, L.; Benavides, M.: Organic metabolite uptake by diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean. ISME Communications 5 (1), ycaf061 (2025)

Florean, M.; Schultz, H.; Grabe, V.; Luck, K.; O’Connor, S. E.; Köllner, T. G.: A pseudoenzyme enables indole biosynthesis in eudicot plants. Nature Chemical Biology (2025)

Florean, M.; Schultz, H.; Wurlitzer, J.; O’Connor, S. E.; Köllner, T. G.: Independent evolution of plant natural products: Formation of benzoxazinoids in Consolida orientalis (Ranunculaceae). Journal of Biological Chemistry 301 (1), 108019 (2025)