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Georg Felix is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Endocrinology, and Food Science.

The scientist's main research topics cover Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, and Plant tissue culture and regeneration.

Georg Felix has published multiple research articles in notable venues. Some recent papers include:

  • Perception of Agrobacterium tumefaciens flagellin by FLS2XL confers resistance to crown gall disease, 2020, Nature Plants
  • The tomato receptor CuRe1 senses a cell wall protein to identify Cuscuta as a pathogen, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The CEP5 Peptide Promotes Abiotic Stress Tolerance, As Revealed by Quantitative Proteomics, and Attenuates the AUX/IAA Equilibrium in Arabidopsis, 2020, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
  • Convergent evolution of plant pattern recognition receptors sensing cysteine-rich patterns from three microbial kingdoms, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Engineered Agrobacterium improves transformation by mitigating plant immunity detection, 2022, New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors of Georg Felix include Judith Fliegmann, Danielle M. Stevens, Alba Moreno-Pérez, Alexandra J. Weisberg, and Charis Ramsing. Their collaborative works reflect ongoing partnerships in advancing knowledge within their research areas.

Publication venues frequented by Georg Felix comprise bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Plants, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.

Best Publications

  • A Renaissance of Elicitors: Perception of Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns and Danger Signals by Pattern-Recognition Receptors

    Thomas Boller;Georg Felix

  • Perception of the bacterial PAMP EF-Tu by the receptor EFR restricts Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.

    Cyril Zipfel;Gernot Kunze;Delphine Chinchilla;Anne Caniard

  • A flagellin-induced complex of the receptor FLS2 and BAK1 initiates plant defence

    Delphine Chinchilla;Cyril Zipfel;Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Birgit Kemmerling

  • Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception.

    Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Silke Robatzek;Lionel Navarro;Edward J. Oakeley

  • The N Terminus of Bacterial Elongation Factor Tu Elicits Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis Plants

    Gernot Kunze;Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Karsten Niehaus

  • The Arabidopsis Receptor Kinase FLS2 Binds flg22 and Determines the Specificity of Flagellin Perception

    Delphine Chinchilla;Zsuzsa Bauer;Martin Regenass;Thomas Boller

  • A single locus determines sensitivity to bacterial flagellin in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Lourdes Gómez-Gómez;Georg Felix;Thomas Boller

  • Rapid heteromerization and phosphorylation of ligand-activated plant transmembrane receptors and their associated kinase BAK1.

    Birgit Schulze;Tobias Mentzel;Anna K. Jehle;Katharina Mueller

  • Plants and animals: a different taste for microbes?

    Cyril Zipfel;Georg Felix

  • 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

  • Bacteria-derived Peptidoglycans Constitute Pathogen-associated Molecular Patterns Triggering Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis

    Andrea A. Gust;Raja Biswas;Heike D. Lenz;Thomas Rauhut

  • Ethylene-mediated cross-talk between calcium-dependent protein kinase and MAPK signaling controls stress responses in plants

    Andrea A. Ludwig;Hiromasa Saitoh;Georg Felix;Gerald Freymark

  • NPP1, a Phytophthora-associated trigger of plant defense in parsley and Arabidopsis.

    Guido Fellbrich;Annette Romanski;Anne Varet;Beatrix Blume

  • Molecular Sensing of Bacteria in Plants: THE HIGHLY CONSERVED RNA-BINDING MOTIF RNP-1 OF BACTERIAL COLD SHOCK PROTEINS IS RECOGNIZED AS AN ELICITOR SIGNAL IN TOBACCO

    Georg Felix;Thomas Boller

  • The rice immune receptor XA21 recognizes a tyrosine-sulfated protein from a Gram-negative bacterium

    Rory N Pruitt;Benjamin Schwessinger;Anna Joe;Nicholas Thomas

  • Elicitation of suspension-cultured tomato cells triggers the formation of phosphatidic acid and diacylglycerol pyrophosphate.

    Arnold H. van der Luit;Titus Piatti;Aveline van Doorn;Alan Musgrave

  • 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

  • A fungal pathogen secretes plant alkalinizing peptides to increase infection.

    Sara Masachis;David Segorbe;David Turrà;Mercedes Leon-Ruiz

  • Evidence for N- and C-terminal processing of a plant defense-related enzyme: Primary structure of tobacco prepro-β-1,3-glucanase

    H. Shinshi;H. Wenzler;J.-M. Neuhaus;G. Felix

  • Perception of Rhizobium nodulation factors by tomato cells and inactivation by root chitinases.

    Christian Staehelin;José Granado;Joachim Andréas Muller;Andres Wiemken

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Boller
Thomas Boller University of Basel
Silke Robatzek
Silke Robatzek Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Cyril Zipfel
Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich
Birgit Kemmerling
Birgit Kemmerling University of Tübingen
Benjamin Schwessinger
Benjamin Schwessinger Australian National University
Thorsten Nürnberger
Thorsten Nürnberger University of Tübingen
Rainer Hedrich
Rainer Hedrich University of Würzburg
Hubert Kalbacher
Hubert Kalbacher University of Tübingen
Pamela C. Ronald
Pamela C. Ronald University of California, Davis
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia

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