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Overview

Ralf Reski is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and conducts research predominantly in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scientific contributions focus on several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Biotechnology, and Immunology.

The main topics of their research work cover Plant Molecular Biology Research, Transgenic Plants and Applications, Bryophyte Studies and Records, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies.

Ralf Reski has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Eva L. Decker, Sebastian N. W. Hoernstein, Nico van Gessel, Juliana Parsons, and Buğra Özdemir.

They have contributed regularly to scientific journals and preprint servers, with the most frequent venues of publication being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Plant Cell Reports, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Communications Biology, and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

Recent papers include:

  • The mosaic oat genome gives insights into a uniquely healthy cereal crop, 2022, Nature
  • Chloroplasts require glutathione reductase to balance reactive oxygen species and maintain efficient photosynthesis, 2020, The Plant Journal
  • Function of the HYDROXYCINNAMOYL-CoA:SHIKIMATE HYDROXYCINNAMOYL TRANSFERASE is evolutionarily conserved in embryophytes, 2021, The Plant Cell
  • Recombinant Spider Silk: Promises and Bottlenecks, 2022, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Natural Products from Bryophytes: From Basic Biology to Biotechnological Applications, 2021, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Best Publications

  • The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants

    Stefan A. Rensing;Daniel Lang;Andreas D. Zimmer;Astrid Terry

  • Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression by MicroRNAs

    Basel Khraiwesh;M. Asif Arif;Gotelinde I. Seumel;Stephan Ossowski

  • Plant nuclear gene knockout reveals a role in plastid division for the homolog of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ, an ancestral tubulin.

    René Strepp;Sirkka Scholz;Sven Kruse;Volker Speth

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

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

  • Development, Genetics and Molecular Biology of Mosses

    R. Reski

  • Induction of budding on chloronemata and caulonemata of the moss, Physcomitrella patens, using isopentenyladenine

    R. Reski;W. O. Abel

  • Identification of a novel D6‐acyl‐group desaturase by targeted gene disruption in Physcomitrella patens

    Thomas Girke;Hermann Schmidt;Ulrich Zahringer;Ralf Reski

  • The mosaic oat genome gives insights into a uniquely healthy cereal crop

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  • Targeted knockouts of Physcomitrella lacking plant-specific immunogenic N-glycans.

    Anna Koprivova;Christian Stemmer;Friedrich Altmann;Axel Hoffmann

  • An ancient genome duplication contributed to the abundance of metabolic genes in the moss Physcomitrella patens

    Stefan A Rensing;Julia Ick;Jeffrey A Fawcett;Daniel Lang

  • Physcomitrella patens is highly tolerant against drought, salt and osmotic stress

    Wolfgang Frank;Diah Ratnadewi;Diah Ratnadewi;Ralf Reski

  • A phenol-enriched cuticle is ancestral to lignin evolution in land plants.

    Hugues Renault;Annette Alber;Annette Alber;Nelly A. Horst;Alexandra Basilio Lopes

  • Gene clusters involved in anaerobic benzoate degradation of Geobacter metallireducens

    Simon Wischgoll;Dimitri Heintz;Franziska Peters;Anika Erxleben

  • Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis of Plant Transcriptional Regulation: A Timeline of Loss, Gain, Expansion, and Correlation with Complexity

    Daniel Lang;Benjamin Weiche;Gerrit Timmerhaus;Sandra Richardt

  • Cloning and functional characterisation of an enzyme involved in the elongation of Δ6-polyunsaturated fatty acids from the moss Physcomitrella patens

    Thorsten K. Zank;Ulrich Zähringer;Christoph Beckmann;Georg Pohnert

  • Reannotation and extended community resources for the genome of the non-seed plant Physcomitrella patens provide insights into the evolution of plant gene structures and functions

    Andreas D Zimmer;Daniel Lang;Karol Buchta;Stephane Rombauts

  • Plant functional genomics

    Hauke Holtorf;Marie-Christine Guitton;Ralf Reski

  • The Plant Ontology as a Tool for Comparative Plant Anatomy and Genomic Analyses

    Laurel Cooper;Ramona L. Walls;Justin Elser;María A. Gandolfo

  • Plasma Membrane-Targeted PIN Proteins Drive Shoot Development in a Moss

    Tom A. Bennett;Maureen M. Liu;Tsuyoshi Aoyama;Nicole M. Bierfreund

  • Moss (Physcomitrella patens) GH3 proteins act in auxin homeostasis

    Jutta Ludwig‐Müller;Sabine Jülke;Nicole M. Bierfreund;Eva L. Decker

  • The mechanism of gene targeting in Physcomitrella patens: homologous recombination, concatenation and multiple integration

    Yasuko Kamisugi;Katja Schlink;Katja Schlink;Stefan A. Rensing;Gabriele Schween

  • Exploring plant biodiversity: the Physcomitrella genome and beyond

    Daniel Lang;Andreas D. Zimmer;Stefan A. Rensing;Ralf Reski

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva L. Decker
Eva L. Decker University of Freiburg
Stefan A. Rensing
Stefan A. Rensing University of Freiburg
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Friedrich Altmann
Friedrich Altmann BOKU University
Peter F. Zipfel
Peter F. Zipfel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Anna Koprivova
Anna Koprivova University of Cologne
Stanislav Kopriva
Stanislav Kopriva University of Cologne
Danièle Werck-Reichhart
Danièle Werck-Reichhart Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Johannes Stadlmann
Johannes Stadlmann BOKU University
Yves Van de Peer
Yves Van de Peer Ghent University

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