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Dorothea Bartels

Dorothea Bartels

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Biology and Biochemistry

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Overview

Dorothea Bartels is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has published extensively in the field of plant science, focusing on topics related to plant stress responses and tolerance. Major themes in their work include photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant molecular biology research, and plant responses to water stress. Other topics covered in their research are biocrusts and microbial ecology, polysaccharides and plant cell walls, and seed germination and physiology.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Dorothea Bartels include:

  • Stress memory responses and seed priming correlate with drought tolerance in plants: an overview (2022, Planta)
  • Molecular insights into plant desiccation tolerance: transcriptomics, proteomics and targeted metabolite profiling in Craterostigma plantagineum (2021, The Plant Journal)
  • The Dynamic Responses of Cell Walls in Resurrection Plants During Dehydration and Rehydration (2020, Frontiers in Plant Science)
  • Roles of Abscisic Acid and Gibberellins in Stem/Root Tuber Development (2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • Systems biology of resurrection plants (2021, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bartels consist of Valentino Giarola, Peilei Chen, Wenli Quan, Xun Liu, and Robert VanBuren.

The principal venues for publications include:

  • Planta
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • The Plant Journal
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Environmental and Experimental Botany

In addition to journal articles, Bartels has contributed to book publications such as the work Plant Lipids, published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

Best Publications

  • THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF DEHYDRATION TOLERANCE IN PLANTS

    J. Ingram;D. Bartels

  • Drought and Salt Tolerance in Plants

    Dorothea Bartels;Ramanjulu Sunkar

  • Drought- and desiccation-induced modulation of gene expression in plants.

    S. Ramanjulu;D.M.E. Bartels

  • Lipid signalling in plant responses to abiotic stress.

    Quancan Hou;Guido Ufer;Dorothea Bartels

  • OVEREXPRESSION OF A STRESS-INDUCIBLE ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE GENE FROM ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS IMPROVES STRESS TOLERANCE

    Ramanjulu Sunkar;Dorothea Bartels;Hans-Hubert Kirch

  • Molecular cloning of abscisic acid-modulated genes which are induced during desiccation of the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum

    Dorothea Bartels;Katharina Schneider;Georg Terstappen;Detlef Piatkowski

  • Over‐expression of different aldehyde dehydrogenase genes in Arabidopsis thaliana confers tolerance to abiotic stress and protects plants against lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress

    Simeon O. Kotchoni;Christine Kuhns;Andrea Ditzer;Hans-Hubert Kirch

  • Desiccation tolerance in the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum. A contribution to the study of drought tolerance at the molecular level.

    Dorothea Bartels;Francesco Salamini

  • Acquisition of desiccation tolerance and longevity in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana - A comparative study using abscisic acid-insensitive Abi3 mutants.

    Jaap J. J. Ooms;Karen M. Leon-Kloosterziel;Dorothea Bartels;Maarten Koornneef

  • Characterization of Five Abscisic Acid-Responsive cDNA Clones Isolated from the Desiccation-Tolerant Plant Craterostigma plantagineum and Their Relationship to Other Water-Stress Genes

    Detlef Piatkowski;Katharina Schneider;Francesco Salamini;Dorothea Bartels

  • Single-molecule sequencing of the desiccation-tolerant grass Oropetium thomaeum.

    Robert VanBuren;Doug Bryant;Patrick P. Edger;Patrick P. Edger;Haibao Tang;Haibao Tang

  • Water Deficit Triggers Phospholipase D Activity in the Resurrection Plant Craterostigma plantagineum

    Wolfgang Frank;Teun Munnik;Katja Kerkmann;Francesco Salamini

  • Hyperosmotic stress stimulates phospholipase D activity and elevates the levels of phosphatidic acid and diacylglycerol pyrophosphate.

    T. Munnik;H. J. G. Meijer;B. ter Riet;H. Hirt

  • The ALDH gene superfamily of Arabidopsis

    Hans-Hubert Kirch;Dorothea Bartels;Yanling Wei;Patrick S. Schnable

  • Approaches to improve stress tolerance using molecular genetics

    D. Bartels;D. Nelson

  • The role of small RNAs in abiotic stress

    Jonathan R. Phillips;Tamas Dalmay;Dorothea Bartels

  • The unusual sugar composition in leaves of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia

    Giorgio Bianchi;Anna Gamba;Rita Limiroli;Nicoletta Pozzi

  • Targeting detoxification pathways: an efficient approach to obtain plants with multiple stress tolerance?

    Dorothea Bartels

  • Novel carbohydrate metabolism in the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum

    Giorgio Bianchi;Anna Gamba;Carla Murelli;Francesco Salamini

  • Photosynthesis in desiccation tolerant plants: energy metabolism and antioxidative stress defense.

    Challabathula Dinakar;Dimitar Djilianov;Dorothea Bartels

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Salamini
Francesco Salamini Parco Tecnologico Padano
Riccardo Velasco
Riccardo Velasco The Canadian Real Estate Association
Teun Munnik
Teun Munnik University of Amsterdam
María Jesús Rodrigo
María Jesús Rodrigo Spanish National Research Council
Peter Dörmann
Peter Dörmann University of Bonn
Csaba Koncz
Csaba Koncz Max Planck Society
Patrick P. Edger
Patrick P. Edger Michigan State University
Ramanjulu Sunkar
Ramanjulu Sunkar Oklahoma State University
Luigi Cattivelli
Luigi Cattivelli The Canadian Real Estate Association
Maarten Koornneef
Maarten Koornneef Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

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