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Björn Usadel is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields including plant science, molecular biology, genetics, food science, and information systems.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of topics, particularly in plant genomics and genetic studies. Key areas of investigation include:

  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Plant pathogens and resistance
  • Chromosomal and genetic variations
  • Plant disease resistance and genetics
  • Plant stress responses and tolerance
  • Berry genetics and cultivation research
  • Research data management practices

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • Genome assembly of wild tea tree DASZ reveals pedigree and selection history of tea varieties, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Phenotyping: New Windows into the Plant for Breeders, 2020, Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • Phased, chromosome-scale genome assemblies of tetraploid potato reveal a complex genome, transcriptome, and predicted proteome landscape underpinning genetic diversity, 2022, Molecular Plant
  • Enabling reusability of plant phenomic datasets with MIAPPE 1.1, 2020, New Phytologist
  • The giant diploid faba genome unlocks variation in a global protein crop, 2023, Nature

Usadel's frequent coauthors include:

  • Alisdair R. Fernie
  • Maximilian Schmidt
  • Asis Hallab
  • Sonia Osorio
  • Richard Finkers

Their research has been published most often in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Acta Horticulturae

Best Publications

  • Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

    Anthony M. Bolger;Marc Lohse;Bjoern Usadel

  • [email protected]: the Golm Metabolome Database

    Joachim Kopka;Nicolas Schauer;Stephan Krueger;Claudia Birkemeyer

  • RobiNA: a user-friendly, integrated software solution for RNA-Seq-based transcriptomics

    Marc Lohse;Anthony M. Bolger;Axel Nagel;Alisdair R. Fernie

  • Sugars and Circadian Regulation Make Major Contributions to the Global Regulation of Diurnal Gene Expression in Arabidopsis

    Oliver E. Bläsing;Yves Gibon;Manuela Günther;Melanie Höhne

  • Extension of the Visualization Tool MapMan to Allow Statistical Analysis of Arrays, Display of Coresponding Genes, and Comparison with Known Responses

    Björn Usadel;Axel Nagel;Oliver Thimm;Henning Redestig

  • Genome-wide reprogramming of metabolism and regulatory networks of Arabidopsis in response to phosphorus

    Rosa Morcuende;Rajendra Bari;Yves Gibon;Wenming Zheng

  • A guide to using MapMan to visualize and compare Omics data in plants: a case study in the crop species, Maize

    Björn Usadel;Fabien Poree;Axel Nagel;Marc Lohse

  • Starch as a major integrator in the regulation of plant growth.

    Ronan Sulpice;Eva-Theresa Pyl;Hirofumi Ishihara;Sandra Trenkamp

  • Mercator: a fast and simple web server for genome scale functional annotation of plant sequence data

    Marc Lohse;Axel Nagel;Thomas Herter;Patrick May

  • Co-expression tools for plant biology: opportunities for hypothesis generation and caveats

    Bjoern Usadel;Takeshi Obayashi;Marek Mutwil;Federico M Giorgi

  • The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii

    Anthony Bolger;Federico Scossa;Marie E Bolger;Christa Lanz

  • MapMan4: A Refined Protein Classification and Annotation Framework Applicable to Multi-Omics Data Analysis.

    Rainer Schwacke;Gabriel Y. Ponce-Soto;Kirsten Krause;Anthony M. Bolger

  • Integrated Analysis of Metabolite and Transcript Levels Reveals the Metabolic Shifts That Underlie Tomato Fruit Development and Highlight Regulatory Aspects of Metabolic Network Behavior

    Fernando Carrari;Charles Baxter;Björn Usadel;Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak

  • Systems Biology of Tomato Fruit Development: Combined Transcript, Protein, and Metabolite Analysis of Tomato Transcription Factor (nor, rin) and Ethylene Receptor (Nr) Mutants Reveals Novel Regulatory Interactions

    Sonia Osorio;Rob Alba;Cynthia M.B. Damasceno;Gloria Lopez-Casado

  • Comparative transcriptomics reveals patterns of selection in domesticated and wild tomato

    Daniel Koenig;José M. Jiménez-Gómez;Seisuke Kimura;Daniel Fulop

  • Reprogramming a maize plant: transcriptional and metabolic changes induced by the fungal biotroph Ustilago maydis.

    Gunther Doehlemann;Ramon Wahl;Robin J. Horst;Lars M. Voll

  • Quantitation in Mass-Spectrometry-Based Proteomics

    Waltraud X Schulze;Björn Usadel

  • PageMan: an interactive ontology tool to generate, display, and annotate overview graphs for profiling experiments.

    Björn Usadel;Axel Nagel;Dirk Steinhauser;Yves Gibon

  • Global Transcript Levels Respond to Small Changes of the Carbon Status during Progressive Exhaustion of Carbohydrates in Arabidopsis Rosettes

    Björn Usadel;Oliver E. Bläsing;Yves Gibon;Kristin Retzlaff

  • Arabidopsis and primary photosynthetic metabolism – more than the icing on the cake

    Mark Stitt;John Lunn;Björn Usadel

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Stitt
Mark Stitt Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Yves Gibon
Yves Gibon University of Bordeaux
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Uwe Scholz
Uwe Scholz Leibniz Association
Fabio Fiorani
Fabio Fiorani Forschungszentrum Jülich
Ulrich Schurr
Ulrich Schurr Forschungszentrum Jülich
Hendrik Poorter
Hendrik Poorter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sonia Osorio
Sonia Osorio University of Malaga
Markus Pauly
Markus Pauly Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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