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  • 2017 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Overview

Dario Leister is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on plant science. Their research portfolio includes significant work on photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant molecular biology, and stress responses in plants.

Their recent publications reflect a focused interest in photosynthesis and plant physiology. Notable papers include:

  • Enhancing the light reactions of photosynthesis: Strategies, controversies, and perspectives, 2022, Molecular Plant
  • Accelerated relaxation of photoprotection impairs biomass accumulation in Arabidopsis, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Plastocyanin is the long-range electron carrier between photosystem II and photosystem I in plants, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Retrograde signaling in plants: A critical review focusing on the GUN pathway and beyond, 2022, Plant Communications
  • Translational Components Contribute to Acclimation Responses to High Light, Heat, and Cold in Arabidopsis, 2020, iScience

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Leister include:

  • Tatjana Kleine
  • Thilo Rühle
  • Serena Schwenkert
  • Giada Marino
  • Thomas Nägele

The primary publication venues for Leister's work are:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Journal of Mitochondria Plastids and Endosymbiosis
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Leister's research intersects several subfields of study, including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Ecology

The focal research topics covered in their publications are:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Light effects on plants
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Algal biology and biofuel production

In recognition of scientific contributions, Leister was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2017 under the section for Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus.

    William Martin;Tamas Rujan;Erik Richly;Andrea Hansen

  • A PCR-based approach for isolating pathogen resistance genes from potato with potential for wide application in plants

    Dario Leister;Agim Ballvora;Francesco Salamini;Christiane Gebhardt

  • A complex containing PGRL1 and PGR5 is involved in the switch between linear and cyclic electron flow in Arabidopsis.

    Giovanni DalCorso;Paolo Pesaresi;Simona Masiero;Elena Aseeva

  • Tandem and segmental gene duplication and recombination in the evolution of plant disease resistance genes

    Dario Leister

  • NUMTs in Sequenced Eukaryotic Genomes

    Erik Richly;Dario Leister

  • Photosystem II core phosphorylation and photosynthetic acclimation require two different protein kinases

    Vera Bonardi;Vera Bonardi;Paolo Pesaresi;Thomas Becker;Enrico Schleiff

  • Chloroplast research in the genomic age.

    Dario Leister

  • Rapid reorganization of resistance gene homologues in cereal genomes

    Dario Leister;Joachim Kurth;David A. Laurie;Masahiro Yano

  • Redox Regulation of the NPR1-TGA1 System of Arabidopsis thaliana by Nitric Oxide

    Christian Lindermayr;Simone Sell;Bernd Müller;Dario Leister

  • A prediction of the size and evolutionary origin of the proteome of chloroplasts of Arabidopsis

    Fuad Abdallah;Francesco Salamini;Dario Leister

  • DNA Transfer from Organelles to the Nucleus: The Idiosyncratic Genetics of Endosymbiosis

    Tatjana Kleine;Uwe G. Maier;Dario Leister

  • A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes.

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

  • PGRL1 Is the Elusive Ferredoxin-Plastoquinone Reductase in Photosynthetic Cyclic Electron Flow

    Alexander P. Hertle;Thomas Blunder;Tobias Wunder;Paolo Pesaresi

  • Relevance of Translational Regulation on Plant Growth and Environmental Responses

    Purificacion Lison;Alejandro Ferrando;M. Mar Castellano;Johannes Hanson

  • The metal ion transporter IRT1 is necessary for iron homeostasis and efficient photosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Claudio Varotto;Daniela Maiwald;Paolo Pesaresi;Peter Jahns

  • The Mla (Powdery Mildew) Resistance Cluster Is Associated With Three NBS-LRR Gene Families and Suppressed Recombination Within a 240-kb DNA Interval on Chromosome 5S (1HS) of Barley

    Fusheng Wei;Karin Gobelman-Werner;Shaun M. Morroll;Joachim Kurth

  • Role of plastid protein phosphatase TAP38 in LHCII dephosphorylation and thylakoid electron flow.

    Mathias Pribil;Paolo Pesaresi;Alexander Hertle;Roberto Barbato

  • A high-resolution map of the vicinity of the R1 locus on chromosome V of potato based on RFLP and AFLP markers

    Khalid Meksem;Dario Leister;Johan Peleman;Marc Zabeau

  • SPL8, an SBP-box gene that affects pollen sac development in Arabidopsis.

    Ulrike S. Unte;Anna Marie Sorensen;Paolo Pesaresi;Madhuri Gandikota

  • a Predominantly Eubacterial Ancestry of Yeast Nuclear Genes

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Salamini
Francesco Salamini Parco Tecnologico Padano
Mathias Pribil
Mathias Pribil University of Copenhagen
Claudio Varotto
Claudio Varotto Fondazione Edmund Mach
Peter Jahns
Peter Jahns Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jörg Meurer
Jörg Meurer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Poul Erik Jensen
Poul Erik Jensen University of Copenhagen
Gerhard Wanner
Gerhard Wanner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christiane Gebhardt
Christiane Gebhardt Max Planck Society
Boon Leong Lim
Boon Leong Lim University of Hong Kong
Paul Schulze-Lefert
Paul Schulze-Lefert Max Planck Society

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