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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
43
Citations
10421
World Ranking
3145
National Ranking
194

Best Publications

  • Recruitment of entomopathogenic nematodes by insect-damaged maize roots

    Sergio Rasmann;Tobias G. Köllner;Jörg Degenhardt;Ivan Hiltpold

  • Monoterpene and sesquiterpene synthases and the origin of terpene skeletal diversity in plants.

    Jörg Degenhardt;Tobias G. Köllner;Jonathan Gershenzon

  • The products of a single maize sesquiterpene synthase form a volatile defense signal that attracts natural enemies of maize herbivores

    Christiane Schnee;Tobias G. Köllner;Matthias Held;Ted C. J. Turlings

  • A Maize (E)-β-Caryophyllene Synthase Implicated in Indirect Defense Responses against Herbivores Is Not Expressed in Most American Maize Varieties

    Tobias G. Köllner;Matthias Held;Claudia Lenk;Ivan Hiltpold

  • Restoring a maize root signal that attracts insect-killing nematodes to control a major pest

    Jörg Degenhardt;Ivan Hiltpold;Tobias G. Köllner;Monika Frey

  • Attracting friends to feast on foes: engineering terpene emission to make crop plants more attractive to herbivore enemies

    Jörg Degenhardt;Jonathan Gershenzon;Ian T Baldwin;André Kessler

  • Aluminum Resistance in the Arabidopsis Mutant alr-104 Is Caused by an Aluminum-Induced Increase in Rhizosphere pH

    Jörg Degenhardt;Paul B. Larsen;Stephen H. Howell;Leon V. Kochian

  • The Variability of Sesquiterpenes Emitted from Two Zea mays Cultivars Is Controlled by Allelic Variation of Two Terpene Synthase Genes Encoding Stereoselective Multiple Product Enzymes

    Tobias G. Köllner;Christiane Schnee;Jonathan Gershenzon;Jörg Degenhardt

  • Aluminum-Resistant Arabidopsis Mutants That Exhibit Altered Patterns of Aluminum Accumulation and Organic Acid Release from Roots

    Paul B. Larsen;Jörg Degenhardt;Chin-Yin Tai;Laura M. Stenzler

  • Rational Conversion of Substrate and Product Specificity in a Salvia Monoterpene Synthase: Structural Insights into the Evolution of Terpene Synthase Function

    Sotirios C. Kampranis;Daphne Ioannidis;Daphne Ioannidis;Alan Purvis;Walid Mahrez

  • The maize gene terpene synthase 1 encodes a sesquiterpene synthase catalyzing the formation of (E)-beta-farnesene, (E)-nerolidol, and (E,E)-farnesol after herbivore damage.

    Christiane Schnee;Tobias G. Köllner;Jonathan Gershenzon;Jörg Degenhardt

  • Molecular and genomic basis of volatile-mediated indirect defense against insects in rice

    Joshua S. Yuan;Tobias G. Köllner;Greg Wiggins;Jerome Grant

  • The underestimated role of roots in defense against leaf attackers

    Matthias Erb;Claudia Lenk;Jörg Degenhardt;Ted C.J. Turlings

  • Terpene synthases of oregano ( Origanum vulgare L.) and their roles in the pathway and regulation of terpene biosynthesis

    Christoph Crocoll;Julia Asbach;Johannes Novak;Jonathan Gershenzon

  • Dynamic Maize Responses to Aphid Feeding Are Revealed by a Time Series of Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Assays

    Vered Tzin;Noe Fernandez-Pozo;Annett Richter;Eric A. Schmelz

  • Interactions between Arthropod-Induced Aboveground and Belowground Defenses in Plants

    Matthias Erb;Jurriaan Ton;Jörg Degenhardt;Ted C.J. Turlings

  • The biosynthesis of thymol, carvacrol, and thymohydroquinone in Lamiaceae proceeds via cytochrome P450s and a short-chain dehydrogenase

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  • The Eucalyptus terpene synthase gene family

    Carsten Kulheim;Amanda Padovan;Charles Hefer;Sandra T. Krause

  • The sesquiterpene hydrocarbons of maize (Zea mays) form five groups with distinct developmental and organ-specific distributions

    Tobias G. Köllner;Christiane Schnee;Jonathan Gershenzon;Jörg Degenhardt

  • The emerging importance of microbial volatile organic compounds

    Birgit Piechulla;Jörg Degenhardt

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Leon V. Kochian
Leon V. Kochian University of Saskatchewan
Stephen H. Howell
Stephen H. Howell Iowa State University

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