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2025

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19858
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1648
National Ranking
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  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Frédéric Berger is affiliated with the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Austria and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work is strongly focused on subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Genetics. Key research topics cover Plant Molecular Biology Research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Plant Reproductive Biology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, and Plant tissue culture and regeneration.

Frequent publication venues for Berger include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 25 publications, Nature Plants with 8, Current Biology with 6, eLife with 5, and Nature Communications with 4. This indicates a consistent contribution across several respected journals in plant biology and molecular research.

Recent papers associated with Berger include:

  • The genetic and epigenetic landscape of the Arabidopsis centromeres, 2021, Science
  • Chromatin Organization in Early Land Plants Reveals an Ancestral Association between H3K27me3, Transposons, and Constitutive Heterochromatin, 2020, Current Biology
  • Targeted reprogramming of H3K27me3 resets epigenetic memory in plant paternal chromatin, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • The chromatin remodeler DDM1 prevents transposon mobility through deposition of histone variant H2A.W, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals conserved programmes underpinning organogenesis and reproduction in land plants, 2021, Nature Plants

Berger collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Elin Axelsson, Sean A. Montgomery, Svetlana Akimcheva, Akihisa Osakabe, and Zdravko J. Lorković, each with multiple joint publications spanning from 14 to 17 collaborations.

Best Publications

  • Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome

    John L Bowman;Takayuki Kohchi;Katsuyuki T Yamato;Jerry Jenkins

  • MINISEED3 (MINI3), a WRKY family gene, and HAIKU2 (IKU2), a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) KINASE gene, are regulators of seed size in Arabidopsis.

    Ming Luo;Elizabeth S. Dennis;Frederic Berger;William James Peacock

  • Reprogramming of DNA methylation in pollen guides epigenetic inheritance via small RNA.

    Joseph P. Calarco;Filipe Borges;Mark T.A. Donoghue;Frédéric Van Ex

  • Expression and disruption of the Arabidopsis TOR (target of rapamycin) gene

    Benoît Menand;Thierry Desnos;Laurent Nussaume;Frédéric Berger

  • The genetic and epigenetic landscape of the Arabidopsis centromeres.

    Matthew Naish;Michael Alonge;Piotr Wlodzimierz;Andrew J. Tock

  • Dynamic Analyses of the Expression of the HISTONE::YFP Fusion Protein in Arabidopsis Show That Syncytial Endosperm Is Divided in Mitotic Domains

    Corinne Boisnard-Lorig;Corinne Boisnard-Lorig;Adan Colon-Carmona;Marion Bauch;Sarah Hodge

  • Maternal Control of Integument Cell Elongation and Zygotic Control of Endosperm Growth Are Coordinated to Determine Seed Size in Arabidopsis

    Damien Garcia;Jonathan N. Fitz Gerald;Frederic Berger

  • A unified phylogeny-based nomenclature for histone variants

    Paul B Talbert;Kami Ahmad;Geneviève Almouzni;Juan Ausió

  • Maintenance of DNA Methylation during the Arabidopsis Life Cycle Is Essential for Parental Imprinting

    Pauline E. Jullien;Tetsu Kinoshita;Nir Ohad;Frédéric Berger

  • Female Control of Male Gamete Delivery during Fertilization in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Nicolas Rotman;Frédérique Rozier;Leonor Boavida;Christian Dumas

  • Convergent evolution of genomic imprinting in plants and mammals.

    Robert Feil;Frédéric Berger

  • Arabidopsis haiku mutants reveal new controls of seed size by endosperm.

    Damien Garcia;Virginie Saingery;Pierre Chambrier;Ulrike Mayer

  • The Histone Variant H2A.W Defines Heterochromatin and Promotes Chromatin Condensation in Arabidopsis

    Ramesh Yelagandula;Hume Stroud;Sarah Holec;Keda Zhou

  • Retinoblastoma and Its Binding Partner MSI1 Control Imprinting in Arabidopsis

    Pauline E Jullien;Assaf Mosquna;Mathieu Ingouff;Tadashi Sakata

  • Distinct Dynamics of HISTONE3 Variants between the Two Fertilization Products in Plants

    Mathieu Ingouff;Yuki Hamamura;Mathieu Gourgues;Tetsuya Higashiyama

  • Identification of new members of Fertilisation Independent Seed Polycomb Group pathway involved in the control of seed development in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Anne Elisabeth Guitton;Damian R. Page;Pierre Chambrier;Claire Lionnet

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in plant sexual reproduction

    Tomokazu Kawashima;Frédéric Berger

  • The VQ motif protein IKU1 regulates endosperm growth and seed size in Arabidopsis.

    Aihua Wang;Aihua Wang;Damien Garcia;Hongyu Zhang;Hongyu Zhang;Ke Feng

  • A Novel Class of MYB Factors Controls Sperm-Cell Formation in Plants

    Nicolas Rotman;Anjusha Durbarry;Anthony Wardle;Wei Cai Yang

  • Endosperm: the crossroad of seed development.

    Frédéric Berger

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuji Kakutani
Tetsuji Kakutani University of Tokyo
Tetsuya Higashiyama
Tetsuya Higashiyama University of Tokyo
Takayuki Kohchi
Takayuki Kohchi Kyoto University
David Twell
David Twell University of Leicester
Steven E. Jacobsen
Steven E. Jacobsen University of California, Los Angeles
Zhong Chen
Zhong Chen Nanyang Technological University
Robert A. Martienssen
Robert A. Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Katsuyuki T. Yamato
Katsuyuki T. Yamato Kindai University
John L. Bowman
John L. Bowman Monash University
Ueli Grossniklaus
Ueli Grossniklaus University of Zurich

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