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Dirk Becker is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with substantial contributions to Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Physiology.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including:

  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Plant Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance

Dirk Becker has published extensively in several venues, with multiple papers in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • New Phytologist

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Genomes of the Venus Flytrap and Close Relatives Unveil the Roots of Plant Carnivory," 2020, Current Biology
  • "Perturbations in plant energy homeostasis prime lateral root initiation via SnRK1-bZIP63-ARF19 signaling," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Channelrhodopsin-mediated optogenetics highlights a central role of depolarization-dependent plant proton pumps," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Venus flytrap trigger hair-specific potassium channel KDM1 can reestablish the K+ gradient required for hapto-electric signaling," 2020, PLoS Biology
  • "A unique inventory of ion transporters poises the Venus flytrap to fast-propagating action potentials and calcium waves," 2022, Current Biology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Rainer Hedrich
  • Jörg Schultz
  • Sönke Scherzer
  • Ines Kreuzer
  • Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid

Best Publications

  • Identification of a novel, multifunctional beta-defensin (human beta-defensin 3) with specific antimicrobial activity. Its interaction with plasma membranes of Xenopus oocytes and the induction of macrophage chemoattraction.

    José-Ramón García;Florian Jaumann;Sandra Schulz;Alexander Krause

  • Advances and current challenges in calcium signaling

    Jörg Kudla;Dirk Becker;Erwin Grill;Rainer Hedrich

  • The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization.

    Tomoaki Nishiyama;Hidetoshi Sakayama;Jan de Vries;Jan de Vries;Henrik Buschmann

  • Fertile transgenic wheat from microprojectile bombardment of scutellar tissue.

    D. Becker;R. Brettschneider;H. Lorz

  • Going beyond nutrition: regulation of potassium homoeostasis as a common denominator of plant adaptive responses to environment.

    Uta Anschütz;Dirk Becker;Sergey Shabala

  • Perception of the Arabidopsis Danger Signal Peptide 1 Involves the Pattern Recognition Receptor AtPEPR1 and Its Close Homologue AtPEPR2

    Elzbieta Krol;Tobias Mentzel;Delphine Chinchilla;Thomas Boller

  • GORK, a delayed outward rectifier expressed in guard cells of Arabidopsis thaliana, is a K+-selective, K+-sensing ion channel.

    Peter Ache;Dirk Becker;Natalya Ivashikina;Petra Dietrich

  • Auxin-induced K+ channel expression represents an essential step in coleoptile growth and gravitropism

    Katrin Philippar;Ines Fuchs;Hartwig Lüthen;Stefan Hoth

  • Early signaling through the Arabidopsis pattern recognition receptors FLS2 and EFR involves Ca2+‐associated opening of plasma membrane anion channels

    Elena Jeworutzki;M. Rob G. Roelfsema;Uta Anschütz;Elzbieta Krol

  • Regeneration of transgenic, microspore-derived, fertile barley

    A Jähne;D Becker;R Brettschneider;H Lörz

  • The identity of plant glutamate receptors.

    B. Lacombe;D. Becker;R. Hedrich;R. DeSalle

  • Genetic transformation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) via infection of androgenetic pollen cultures with Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    Jochen Kumlehn;Liliya Serazetdinova;Goetz Hensel;Dirk Becker

  • Defensin-Like ZmES4 Mediates Pollen Tube Burst in Maize via Opening of the Potassium Channel KZM1

    Suseno Amien;Irina Kliwer;Mihaela L. Márton;Thomas Debener

  • AtKC1, a silent Arabidopsis potassium channel α-subunit modulates root hair K+ influx

    Birgit Reintanz;Alexander Szyroki;Natalya Ivashikina;Peter Ache

  • Plasma membrane aquaporins in the motor cells of Samanea saman: diurnal and circadian regulation.

    Menachem Moshelion;Dirk Becker;Alexander Biela;Norbert Uehlein

  • Cloning and electrophysiological analysis of KST1, an inward rectifying K+ channel expressed in potato guard cells.

    B Müller-Röber;J Ellenberg;N Provart;L Willmitzer

  • The Arabidopsis thaliana ABC transporter AtMRP5 controls root development and stomata movement

    Nicola Gaedeke;Markus Klein;Uener Kolukisaoglu;Cyrille Forestier

  • Heterologous Expression of Genes Mediating Enhanced Fungal Resistance in Transgenic Wheat

    Klaus H. Oldach;Dirk Becker;Horst Lörz

  • K(+) channel profile and electrical properties of Arabidopsis root hairs.

    Natalya Ivashikina;Dirk Becker;Peter Ache;Oliver Meyerhoff

  • Phosphorylation of calcineurin B-like (CBL) calcium sensor proteins by their CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) is required for full activity of CBL-CIPK complexes toward their target proteins.

    Kenji Hashimoto;Christian Eckert;Uta Anschütz;Martin Scholz

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Hedrich
Rainer Hedrich University of Würzburg
Horst Lörz
Horst Lörz Universität Hamburg
Ingo Dreyer
Ingo Dreyer University of Talca
Petra Dietrich
Petra Dietrich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Peter Ache
Peter Ache University of Würzburg
M. Rob G. Roelfsema
M. Rob G. Roelfsema University of Würzburg
Klaus Palme
Klaus Palme University of Freiburg
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid King Saud University
Torsten Dahm
Torsten Dahm University of Potsdam
Dietmar Geiger
Dietmar Geiger University of Würzburg

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