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Doris Rentsch is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their work primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Plant Science. Their research also spans Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Epidemiology, and Biotechnology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to plant biology and crop improvement. Key topics in their work include:

  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Plant-microbe interactions and immunity
  • Plant pathogenic bacteria studies
  • Plant micronutrient interactions and effects
  • Rice cultivation and yield improvement

Rentsch has contributed to multiple research papers dealing with aspects of plant nutrient transporters, grain filling, and metabolic engineering of crops. Notable recent papers include:

  • The sugar transporter ZmSUGCAR1 of the nitrate transporter 1/peptide transporter family is critical for maize grain filling, 2022, published in The Plant Cell
  • Wheat amino acid transporters highly expressed in grain cells regulate amino acid accumulation in grain, 2021, published in PLoS ONE
  • Soybean Yellow Stripe-like 7 is a symbiosome membrane peptide transporter important for nitrogen fixation, 2021, published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Multi-gene metabolic engineering of tomato plants results in increased fruit yield up to 23%, 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • Nutrient availability regulates proline/alanine transporters in Trypanosoma brucei, 2021, published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Their frequent co-authors include Marianne Suter Grotemeyer, Alexander C. Haindrich, Aleksandr Gavrin, Ella M. Brear, and Frank Bedon.

Research outputs by Doris Rentsch have appeared consistently in several academic venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Cell
  • PLoS ONE
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Arsenic tolerance in Arabidopsis is mediated by two ABCC-type phytochelatin transporters

    Won-Yong Song;Jiyoung Park;David G. Mendoza-Cózatl;Marianne Suter-Grotemeyer

  • A unified nomenclature of NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER family members in plants

    Sophie Léran;Kranthi Varala;Jean Christophe Boyer;Maurizio Chiurazzi

  • Transporters for uptake and allocation of organic nitrogen compounds in plants

    Doris Rentsch;Susanne Schmidt;Mechthild Tegeder

  • Proline metabolism and transport in plant development

    Silke Lehmann;Dietmar Funck;László Szabados;Doris Rentsch

  • Amino acid transport in plants

    Wolf-Nicolas Fischer;Bruno André;Doris Rentsch;Sylvia Krolkiewicz

  • Nonredundant Regulation of Rice Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis by Two Members of the PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER1 Gene Family

    Shu-Yi Yang;Mette Grønlund;Iver Jakobsen;Marianne Suter Grotemeyer

  • Plants can use protein as a nitrogen source without assistance from other organisms

    Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne;Thierry G. A. Lonhienne;Doris Rentsch;Nicole Robinson

  • NTR1 encodes a high affinity oligopeptide transporter in Arabidopsis

    Doris Rentsch;Maryse Laloi;Ila Rouhara;Elmon Schmelzer

  • Salt stress-induced proline transporters and salt stress-repressed broad specificity amino acid permeases identified by suppression of a yeast amino acid permease-targeting mutant

    Doris Rentsch;Brigitte Hirner;Elmon Schmelzer;Wolf B. Frommer

  • Uptake and partitioning of amino acids and peptides

    Mechthild Tegeder;Doris Rentsch

  • LeProT1, a Transporter for Proline, Glycine Betaine, and γ-Amino Butyric Acid in Tomato Pollen

    Rainer Schwacke;Silke Grallath;Kevin E. Breitkreuz;Kevin E. Breitkreuz;Elke Stransky

  • Malate Compartmentation-Responses to a Complex Metabolism

    E. Martinoia;D. Rentsch

  • A New Family of High-Affinity Transporters for Adenine, Cytosine, and Purine Derivatives in Arabidopsis

    Bernd Gillissen;Lukas Bürkle;Bruno André;Christina Kühn

  • Conservation of amino acid transporters in fungi, plants and animals.

    Daniel Wipf;Uwe Ludewig;Mechthild Tegeder;Doris Rentsch

  • Low and high affinity amino acid H+‐cotransporters for cellular import of neutral and charged amino acids

    Wolf‐N. Fischer;Donald D. F. Loo;Wolfgang Koch;Uwe Ludewig

  • Hypersensitivity of an Arabidopsis Sugar Signaling Mutant toward Exogenous Proline Application

    Hanjo Hellmann;Dietmar Funck;Doris Rentsch;Wolf B. Frommer

  • Developmental control of H+/amino acid permease gene expression during seed development of Arabidopsis

    Brigitte Hirner;Wolf N. Fischer;Doris Rentsch;Marion Kwart

  • High Affinity Amino Acid Transporters Specifically Expressed in Xylem Parenchyma and Developing Seeds of Arabidopsis

    Sakiko Okumoto;Roberto Schmidt;Mechthild Tegeder;Wolf N. Fischer

  • The AtProT Family. Compatible Solute Transporters with Similar Substrate Specificity But Differential Expression Patterns

    Silke Grallath;Thilo Weimar;Andreas Meyer;Christophe Gumy

  • AtPTR1 and AtPTR5 transport dipeptides in planta.

    Nataliya Y. Komarova;Kathrin Thor;Adrian Gubler;Stefan Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Mechthild Tegeder
Mechthild Tegeder Washington State University
Enrico Martinoia
Enrico Martinoia University of Zurich
Pascal Mäser
Pascal Mäser Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Susanne Schmidt
Susanne Schmidt University of Bonn
Erwin Sigel
Erwin Sigel University of Bern
Uwe Ludewig
Uwe Ludewig University of Hohenheim
Peter J. Myler
Peter J. Myler Seattle Children's Hospital
Malcolm J. Hawkesford
Malcolm J. Hawkesford Rothamsted Research

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