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Alexander Schulz is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with a particular focus on Plant Science, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their main research topics include:

  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials

Recent publications by Alexander Schulz demonstrate a broad interest in both plant biology and material sciences, with works published in well-regarded journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Herbivore feeding preference corroborates optimal defense theory for specialized metabolites within plants" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Directionality of Plasmodesmata-Mediated Transport in Arabidopsis Leaves Supports Auxin Channeling" (2020), Current Biology
  • "Export of defensive glucosinolates is key for their accumulation in seeds" (2023), Nature
  • "Growth of Merocyanine Dye J-Aggregate Nanosheets by Living Supramolecular Polymerization" (2023), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "An UMAMIT-GTR transporter cascade controls glucosinolate seed loading in Arabidopsis" (2024), Nature Plants

Their frequent co-authors include Sören J. Backhaus, Johannes T. Kowallick, Andreas Schuster, Gerd Hasenfuß, and Shelby Kutty, reflecting collaborations across diverse scientific domains.

Alexander Schulz's work often appears in publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, New Phytologist, Physiologia Plantarum, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Best Publications

  • Specific Aquaporins Facilitate the Diffusion of Hydrogen Peroxide across Membranes

    Gerd P. Bienert;Anders L.B. Møller;Kim A. Kristiansen;Alexander Schulz

  • Macromolecular Trafficking Indicated by Localization and Turnover of Sucrose Transporters in Enucleate Sieve Elements

    Christina Kühn;Vincent R. Franceschi;Alexander Schulz;Rémi Lemoine

  • Arabidopsis Protein Kinase PKS5 Inhibits the Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase by Preventing Interaction with 14-3-3 Protein

    Anja T. Fuglsang;Yan Guo;Tracey A. Cuin;Quansheng Qiu

  • SUT2, a Putative Sucrose Sensor in Sieve Elements

    Laurence Barker;Christina Kühn;Andreas Weise;Alexander Schulz

  • Energization of transport processes in plants. roles of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase.

    T. E. Sondergaard;Alexander Schulz;Michael Gjedde Palmgren

  • Distribution of phytoplasmas in infected plants as revealed by real-time PCR and bioimaging.

    Nynne Meyn Christensen;Mogens Nicolaisen;Michael Hansen;Alexander Schulz

  • Phytoplasmas and their interactions with hosts.

    Nynne M. Christensen;Kristian B. Axelsen;Mogens Nicolaisen;Alexander Schulz

  • Proton‐driven sucrose symport and antiport are provided by the vacuolar transporters SUC4 and TMT1/2

    Alexander Schulz;Diana Beyhl;Irene Marten;Alexandra Wormit

  • Parametric nonlinear dimensionality reduction using kernel t-SNE

    Andrej Gisbrecht;Alexander Schulz;Barbara Hammer

  • Companion cell‐specific inhibition of the potato sucrose transporter SUT1

    C. Kühn;W. P. Quick;A. Schulz;J. W. Riesmeier

  • Phloem Loading by the PmSUC2 Sucrose Carrier from Plantago major Occurs into Companion Cells.

    Ruth Stadler;Johanna Brandner;Alexander Schulz;Manfred Gahrtz

  • Sap flow and sugar transport in plants

    Kaare Hartvig Jensen;Kirstine Berg-Sørensen;Henrik Bruus;N. M. Holbrook

  • Translocation of Structural P Proteins in the Phloem

    Bettina Golecki;Alexander Schulz;Gary A. Thompson

  • Protein–Protein Interactions between Sucrose Transporters of Different Affinities Colocalized in the Same Enucleate Sieve Element

    Anke Reinders;Waltraud Schulze;Christina Kühn;Laurence Barker

  • The molecular deposition of transgenically modified starch in the starch granule as imaged by functional microscopy.

    Andreas Blennow;Michael Hansen;Alexander Schulz;Kirsten Jørgensen

  • Long-Distance Phloem Transport of Glucosinolates in Arabidopsis

    Sixue Chen;Bent Larsen Petersen;Carl Erik Olsen;Alexander Schulz

  • Increased Activity of the Vacuolar Monosaccharide Transporter TMT1 Alters Cellular Sugar Partitioning, Sugar Signaling, and Seed Yield in Arabidopsis

    Karina Wingenter;Alexander Schulz;Alexandra Wormit;Stefan Wic

  • Origin of a chloroplast protein importer

    Bettina Bölter;Jürgen Soll;Alexander Schulz;Silke Hinnah

  • Vacuoles release sucrose via tonoplast-localised SUC4-type transporters

    S. Schneider;S. Hulpke;S. Hulpke;A. Schulz;I. Yaron

  • Live imaging of intra- and extracellular pH in plants using pHusion, a novel genetically encoded biosensor

    Sisse Krag Gjetting;Cecilie Karkov Ytting;Alexander Schulz;Anja Thoe Fuglsang

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer Bielefeld University
Barbara Ann Halkier
Barbara Ann Halkier University of Copenhagen
Tomas Bohr
Tomas Bohr Technical University of Denmark
Alexander Böker
Alexander Böker Fraunhofer Society
Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Markus Geisler
Markus Geisler University of Fribourg
Michael G. Palmgren
Michael G. Palmgren University of Copenhagen
Anja T. Fuglsang
Anja T. Fuglsang University of Copenhagen
H. Ekkehard Neuhaus
H. Ekkehard Neuhaus Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Andreas Houben
Andreas Houben Leibniz Association

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