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Overview

Jörg Fuchs is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and works primarily in the fields of Medicine, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Plant tissue culture and regeneration, Plant Virus Research Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jörg Fuchs are:

  • Andreas Houben (31 joint publications)
  • Veit Schubert (20 joint publications)
  • Axel Himmelbach (13 joint publications)
  • Steven W. Warmann (12 joint publications)
  • Martin Mascher (11 joint publications)

Several publication venues have hosted Jörg Fuchs' work multiple times, with notable frequency in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 14 publications
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer - 8 publications
  • Nature Communications - 6 publications
  • Frontiers in Plant Science - 5 publications
  • Plants - 4 publications

Representative recent papers by Jörg Fuchs include:

  • Supernumerary B chromosomes of Aegilops speltoides undergo precise elimination in roots early in embryo development, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Changing local recombination patterns in Arabidopsis by CRISPR/Cas mediated chromosome engineering, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution, 2022, Cell
  • Genomes of the Venus Flytrap and Close Relatives Unveil the Roots of Plant Carnivory, 2020, Current Biology
  • Genomics-informed prebreeding unlocks the diversity in genebanks for wheat improvement, 2022, Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Aged mother cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae show markers of oxidative stress and apoptosis

    Peter Laun;Alena Pichova;Frank Madeo;Jörg Fuchs

  • The Physcomitrella patens chromosome-scale assembly reveals moss genome structure and evolution.

    Daniel Lang;Kristian K. Ullrich;Florent Murat;Joerg Fuchs

  • Chromosomal histone modification patterns--from conservation to diversity.

    Jörg Fuchs;Dmitri Demidov;Andreas Houben;Ingo Schubert

  • Cohesin ensures bipolar attachment of microtubules to sister centromeres and resists their precocious separation.

    Tomoyuki Tanaka;Jörg Fuchs;Josef Loidl;Kim Nasmyth

  • Dual histone H3 methylation marks at lysines 9 and 27 required for interaction with CHROMOMETHYLASE3

    Anders M Lindroth;David Shultis;Zuzana Jasencakova;Jörg Fuchs

  • The Spirodela polyrhiza genome reveals insights into its neotenous reduction fast growth and aquatic lifestyle

    W. Wang;G. Haberer;H. Gundlach;C. Gläßer

  • Centromere clustering is a major determinant of yeast interphase nuclear organization

    Quan-wen Jin;Jörg Fuchs;Josef Loidl

  • Telomere sequence localization and karyotype evolution in higher plants

    J. Fuchs;A. Brandes;I. Schubert

  • A Ty3/gypsy retrotransposon-like sequence localizes to the centromeric regions of cereal chromosomes.

    Gernot G. Presting;Ludmilla Malysheva;Jörg Fuchs;Ingo Schubert

  • Loading of Arabidopsis Centromeric Histone CENH3 Occurs Mainly during G2 and Requires the Presence of the Histone Fold Domain

    Inna Lermontova;Veit Schubert;Joerg Fuchs;Sabina Klatte

  • Chromosome territory arrangement and homologous pairing in nuclei of Arabidopsis thaliana are predominantly random except for NOR-bearing chromosomes

    Ales Pecinka;Veit Schubert;Armin Meister;Gregor Kreth

  • Electromagnetic fields affect transcript levels of apoptosis-related genes in embryonic stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells

    Teodora Nikolova;Jaroslaw Czyz;Alexandra Rolletschek;Przemyslaw Blyszczuk

  • Selfish supernumerary chromosome reveals its origin as a mosaic of host genome and organellar sequences

    Mihaela Maria Martis;Sonja Klemme;Ali Mohammad Banaei-Moghaddam;Frank R. Blattner

  • How do Alliaceae stabilize their chromosome ends in the absence of TTTAGGG sequences

    Uta Pich;Jörg Fuchs;Ingo Schubert

  • The E2 ubiquitin‐conjugating enzymes, AtUBC1 and AtUBC2, play redundant roles and are involved in activation of FLC expression and repression of flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Lin Xu;Rozenn Ménard;Alexandre Berr;Jörg Fuchs

  • Chromosome painting in plants.

    I. Schubert;P.F. Fransz;J. Fuchs;J.H. de Jong

  • Arabidopsis SET DOMAIN GROUP2 Is Required for H3K4 Trimethylation and Is Crucial for Both Sporophyte and Gametophyte Development

    Alexandre Berr;Emily J. Mccallum;Rozenn Menard;Denise Meyer

  • The Catalytically Active Tyrosine Residues of Both SPO11-1 and SPO11-2 Are Required for Meiotic Double-Strand Break Induction in Arabidopsis

    Frank Hartung;Rebecca Wurz-Wildersinn;Jörg Fuchs;Ingo Schubert

  • Fewer genes than organelles: extremely low and variable gene copy numbers in mitochondria of somatic plant cells

    Tobias Preuten;Emilia Cincu;Jörg Fuchs;Reimo Zoschke

  • Somatic Stem Cell Marker Prominin-1/CD133 Is Expressed in Embryonic Stem Cell–Derived Progenitors

    Gabriela Kania;Denis Corbeil;Joerg Fuchs;Kirill V. Tarasov

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingo Schubert
Ingo Schubert Leibniz Association
Andreas Houben
Andreas Houben Leibniz Association
Josef Loidl
Josef Loidl University of Vienna
Jiří Macas
Jiří Macas Czech Academy of Sciences
Frank R. Blattner
Frank R. Blattner Leibniz Association
Twan Rutten
Twan Rutten Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Jaroslav Doležel
Jaroslav Doležel Czech Academy of Sciences
Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner Washington University in St. Louis
Hana Šimková
Hana Šimková Czech Academy of Sciences
Pavel Neumann
Pavel Neumann Czech Academy of Sciences

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