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Andreas P. M. Weber is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside agricultural and biological sciences. The scientist's work extends to various subfields including molecular biology, plant science, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as ecology and evolutionary behavior and systematics.

The research topics addressed by Andreas P. M. Weber include photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, algal biology and biofuel production, genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant stress responses and tolerance, plant molecular biology research, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

The scientist has contributed frequently to several publication venues. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 23 publications
  • Journal of Experimental Botany with 5 publications
  • The Plant Cell with 4 publications
  • Frontiers in Plant Science with 4 publications
  • The Plant Journal with 4 publications

Andreas P. M. Weber has coauthored extensively with several researchers. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Philipp Westhoff (26 coauthored papers)
  • Urte Schlüter (22 coauthored papers)
  • Sebastian Triesch (13 coauthored papers)
  • Alisdair R. Fernie (12 coauthored papers)
  • Alisandra K. Denton (9 coauthored papers)

Several recent papers illustrate the scientist's research focus and contributions. These include:

  • "Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield" (2024, The Plant Cell)
  • "Regulation and Evolution of C4Photosynthesis" (2020, Annual Review of Plant Biology)
  • "Helixer: cross-species gene annotation of large eukaryotic genomes using deep learning" (2020, Bioinformatics)
  • "Europe's Farm to Fork Strategy and Its Commitment to Biotechnology and Organic Farming: Conflicting or Complementary Goals?" (2021, Trends in Plant Science)
  • "An intact gut microbiome protects genetically predisposed mice against leukemia" (2020, Blood)

Best Publications

  • Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

    Donald R. Ort;Donald R. Ort;Sabeeha S. Merchant;Jean Alric;Alice Barkan

  • Transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis heat shock proteins and transcription factors reveals extensive overlap between heat and non-heat stress response pathways

    William R Swindell;Marianne Huebner;Andreas P Weber

  • Gene transfer from bacteria and archaea facilitated evolution of an extremophilic eukaryote

    Gerald Schönknecht;Gerald Schönknecht;Wei Hua Chen;Wei Hua Chen;Chad M. Ternes;Guillaume G. Barbier

  • Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

    Dana C. Price;Cheong Xin Chan;Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Eun Chan Yang

  • Sampling the Arabidopsis Transcriptome with Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing

    Andreas P.M. Weber;Katrin L. Weber;Kevin Carr;Curtis Wilkerson

  • Molecular characterization of a carbon transporter in plastids from heterotrophic tissues: the glucose 6-phosphate/phosphate antiporter

    Birgit Kammerer;Karsten Fischer;Bettina Hilpert;Sabine Schubert

  • The Arabidopsis sex1 Mutant Is Defective in the R1 Protein, a General Regulator of Starch Degradation in Plants, and Not in the Chloroplast Hexose Transporter

    Tien-Shin Yu;Heike Kofler;Rainer E. Häusler;Diana Hille

  • A cold chromium distillation procedure for radiolabeled sulfide applied to sulfate reduction measurements

    Jens Kallmeyer;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Andreas Weber;Henrik Fossing

  • Sulfate reduction and anaerobic methane oxidation in Black Sea sediments

    Bo Barker Jørgensen;Andreas Weber;Jakob Zopfi

  • Identification, Purification, and Molecular Cloning of a Putative Plastidic Glucose Translocator

    Andreas Weber;Jerome C. Servaites;Donald R. Geiger;Heike Kofler

  • An mRNA Blueprint for C4 Photosynthesis Derived from Comparative Transcriptomics of Closely Related C3 and C4 Species

    Andrea Bräutigam;Kaisa Kajala;Julia Wullenweber;Manuel Sommer

  • A new class of plastidic phosphate translocators: a putative link between primary and secondary metabolism by the phosphoenolpyruvate/phosphate antiporter.

    Karsten Fischer;Birgit Kammerer;Michael Gutensohn;Bettina Arbinger

  • A plastidial sodium-dependent pyruvate transporter

    Tsuyoshi Furumoto;Teppei Yamaguchi;Teppei Yamaguchi;Yumiko Ohshima-Ichie;Masayoshi Nakamura;Masayoshi Nakamura

  • AAP1 transports uncharged amino acids into roots of Arabidopsis

    Yong-Hwa Lee;Justin Foster;Janet Chen;Lars M. Voll

  • The Phosphoenolpyruvate/Phosphate Translocator Is Required for Phenolic Metabolism, Palisade Cell Development, and Plastid-Dependent Nuclear Gene Expression

    Stephen J. Streatfield;Andreas Weber;Elizabeth A. Kinsman;Rainer E. Häusler

  • Maltose is the major form of carbon exported from the chloroplast at night

    Sean E. Weise;Andreas P. M. Weber;Andreas P. M. Weber;Thomas D. Sharkey

  • Plant peroxisomes respire in the light: some gaps of the photorespiratory C2 cycle have become filled--others remain.

    Sigrun Reumann;Andreas P.M. Weber

  • In-Depth Proteome Analysis of Arabidopsis Leaf Peroxisomes Combined with in Vivo Subcellular Targeting Verification Indicates Novel Metabolic and Regulatory Functions of Peroxisomes

    Sigrun Reumann;Sheng Quan;Kyaw Aung;Pingfang Yang

  • Genome of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

    Debashish Bhattacharya;Dana C. Price;Cheong Xin Chan;Huan Qiu

  • Evolution of C4 photosynthesis in the genus Flaveria: how many and which genes does it take to make C4?

    Udo Gowik;Andrea Bräutigam;Katrin L. Weber;Andreas P.M. Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf-Ingo Flügge
Ulf-Ingo Flügge University of Cologne
Debashish Bhattacharya
Debashish Bhattacharya Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Peter Westhoff
Peter Westhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Hermann Bauwe
Hermann Bauwe University of Rostock
Steven G. Ball
Steven G. Ball University of Lille
Hwan Su Yoon
Hwan Su Yoon Sungkyunkwan University
Martin J. Lercher
Martin J. Lercher Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Heinz Rennenberg
Heinz Rennenberg University of Freiburg
Martin Hagemann
Martin Hagemann University of Rostock

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