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Christa Lanz is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within the agricultural and biological sciences, as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The primary fields of study for Christa Lanz include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

They have a focused involvement in subfields such as:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Food Science

The main topics of their research work cover:

  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Selected recent publications by Christa Lanz include:

  • Cycles of satellite and transposon evolution in Arabidopsis centromeres, 2023, Nature
  • Draft Genomes of Amaranthus tuberculatus, Amaranthus hybridus, and Amaranthus palmeri, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Pushing the limits of HiFi assemblies reveals centromere diversity between two Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Chromosome-level Thlaspi arvense genome provides new tools for translational research and for a newly domesticated cash cover crop of the cooler climates, 2022, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • The leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans propagates a plant pathogen in exchange for pupal protection, 2022, Current Biology

Christa Lanz has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Current Biology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Detlef Weigel
  • Fernando A. Rabanal
  • Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano
  • Víctor Llaca
  • Katrin Fritschi

Best Publications

  • The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

    Kerstin Howe;Matthew D. Clark;Carlos F. Torroja;Carlos F. Torroja;James Torrance

  • 1,135 Genomes Reveal the Global Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Carlos Alonso-Blanco;Jorge Andrade;Claude Becker;Felix Bemm

  • Whole-genome sequencing of multiple Arabidopsis thaliana populations

    Jun Cao;Korbinian Schneeberger;Stephan Ossowski;Stephan Ossowski;Torsten Günther

  • Evolution of metal hyperaccumulation required cis -regulatory changes and triplication of HMA4

    Marc Hanikenne;Ina N. Talke;Michael J. Haydon;Christa Lanz

  • Rapid generation of a transgene-free powdery mildew resistant tomato by genome deletion

    Vladimir Nekrasov;Vladimir Nekrasov;Congmao Wang;Joe Win;Christa Lanz

  • A novel vascular endothelial growth factor encoded by Orf virus, VEGF‐E, mediates angiogenesis via signalling through VEGFR‐2 (KDR) but not VEGFR‐1 (Flt‐1) receptor tyrosine kinases

    Marlene Meyer;Matthias Clauss;Albrecht Lepple-Wienhues;Johannes Waltenberger

  • SHOREmap: simultaneous mapping and mutation identification by deep sequencing

    Korbinian Schneeberger;Stephan Ossowski;Christa Lanz;Trine Juul

  • Sequencing of natural strains of Arabidopsis thaliana with short reads

    Stephan Ossowski;Korbinian Schneeberger;Richard M. Clark;Christa Lanz

  • Autoimmune response as a mechanism for a Dobzhansky-Muller-type incompatibility syndrome in plants.

    Kirsten Bomblies;Janne Lempe;Petra Epple;Norman Warthmann

  • Orchestration of the Floral Transition and Floral Development in Arabidopsis by the Bifunctional Transcription Factor APETALA2

    Levi Yant;Johannes Mathieu;Thanh Theresa Dinh;Felix Ott

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

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

  • The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine.

    Kentaro Yoshida;Verena J. Schuenemann;Lililana M. Cano;Marina Pais

  • A predator unmasked: life cycle of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus from a genomic perspective

    Snjezana Rendulic;Pratik Jagtap;Andrea Rosinus;Mark Eppinger

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

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

  • Insights into Genome Plasticity and Pathogenicity of the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria Revealed by the Complete Genome Sequence

    Frank Thieme;Ralf Koebnik;Thomas Bekel;Carolin Berger

  • Natural allelic variation underlying a major fitness trade-off in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Marco Todesco;Sureshkumar Balasubramanian;Sureshkumar Balasubramanian;Tina T. Hu;Tina T. Hu;M. Brian Traw

  • Acidobacteria form a coherent but highly diverse group within the bacterial domain: evidence from environmental genomics.

    Achim Quaiser;Torsten Ochsenreiter;Christa Lanz;Stephan C Schuster

  • Reference-guided assembly of four diverse Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

    Korbinian Schneeberger;Stephan Ossowski;Felix Ott;Juliane D. Klein

  • Interaction of Bartonella henselae with endothelial cells results in bacterial aggregation on the cell surface and the subsequent engulfment and internalisation of the bacterial aggregate by a unique structure, the invasome

    C. Dehio;M. Meyer;J. Berger;H. Schwarz

  • Genome-wide analysis of local chromatin packing in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Congmao Wang;Chang Liu;Damian Roqueiro;Dominik Grimm

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Stephan C. Schuster
Stephan C. Schuster Nanyang Technological University
Jan Albert
Jan Albert Karolinska Institute
Christoph Dehio
Christoph Dehio University of Basel
Korbinian Schneeberger
Korbinian Schneeberger Max Planck Society
Stephan Ossowski
Stephan Ossowski University of Tübingen
Ute Krämer
Ute Krämer Ruhr University Bochum
Richard A. Neher
Richard A. Neher University of Basel
Frank Hochholdinger
Frank Hochholdinger University of Bonn
Patrick J. Tranel
Patrick J. Tranel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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