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Stefan A. Rensing

Stefan A. Rensing

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Genetics

D-Index
68
Citations
21244
World Ranking
2413
National Ranking
175

Overview

Stefan A. Rensing is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and primarily conducts research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their publications cover a range of topics including Plant Molecular Biology Research, Bryophyte Studies and Records, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine and coastal plant biology, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

Stefan A. Rensing has contributed to several frequent publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Nature Plants
  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

  • Noé Fernández-Pozo
  • Fabian B. Haas
  • Jan de Vries
  • Rabea Meyberg
  • Romy Petroll

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Stefan A. Rensing are:

  • The Moss Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens: A Model Organism for Non-Seed Plants, 2020, The Plant Cell
  • Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Gene-rich UV sex chromosomes harbor conserved regulators of sexual development, 2021, Science Advances
  • A target enrichment probe set for resolving the flagellate land plant tree of life, 2021, Applications in Plant Sciences
  • Genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution, 2024, Nature Genetics

Their research spans significant subfields of study including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Oceanography.

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

  • The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

    J. Mark Cock;Lieven Sterck;Pierre Rouzé;Delphine Scornet

  • The Selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants.

    Jo Ann Banks;Tomoaki Nishiyama;Mitsuyasu Hasebe;Mitsuyasu Hasebe;John L. Bowman;John L. Bowman

  • Genome of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus provides insight into the oldest plant symbiosis

    Emilie Tisserant;Mathilde Malbreil;Alan Kuo;Annegret Kohler

  • PlnTFDB: updated content and new features of the plant transcription factor database

    Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez;Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón;Luiz Gustavo Guedes Corrêa;Stefan A. Rensing

  • Genomic Analysis of Organismal Complexity in the Multicellular Green Alga Volvox carteri

    Simon E. Prochnik;James Umen;Aurora M. Nedelcu;Armin Hallmann

  • The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization.

    Tomoaki Nishiyama;Hidetoshi Sakayama;Jan de Vries;Jan de Vries;Henrik Buschmann

  • Gene transfer from bacteria and archaea facilitated evolution of an extremophilic eukaryote

    Gerald Schönknecht;Gerald Schönknecht;Wei Hua Chen;Wei Hua Chen;Chad M. Ternes;Guillaume G. Barbier

  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

    Fay Wei Li;Fay Wei Li;Paul Brouwer;Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Shifeng Cheng

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

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

  • Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

    Dana C. Price;Cheong Xin Chan;Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Eun Chan Yang

  • The transcriptome of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices (DAOM 197198) reveals functional tradeoffs in an obligate symbiont

    E. Tisserant;A. Kohler;P. Dozolme-Seddas;R. Balestrini

  • The WUS homeobox-containing (WOX) protein family.

    Eric van der Graaff;Thomas Laux;Stefan A Rensing

  • Genome structure and metabolic features in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus shed light on evolution of the Archaeplastida.

    Jonas Collén;Betina Porcel;Betina Porcel;Wilfrid Carré;Steven G Ball

  • Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

    Bruce A. Curtis;Goro Tanifuji;Goro Tanifuji;Fabien Burki;Ansgar Gruber;Ansgar Gruber

  • Ecological plant epigenetics: Evidence from model and non-model species, and the way forward

    Christina L. Richards;Conchita Alonso;Claude Becker;Oliver Bossdorf

  • Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts

    Fay Wei Li;Tomoaki Nishiyama;Manuel Waller;Eftychios Frangedakis

  • Evidence that stilbene synthases have developed from chalcone synthases several times in the course of evolution.

    S. Tropf;T. Lanz;S.A. Rensing;J. Schröder

  • Gene duplication as a driver of plant morphogenetic evolution

    Stefan A Rensing

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Reski
Ralf Reski University of Freiburg
Uwe G. Maier
Uwe G. Maier Philipp University of Marburg
Gerhard Leubner-Metzger
Gerhard Leubner-Metzger Royal Holloway University of London
Yves Van de Peer
Yves Van de Peer Ghent University
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tomoaki Nishiyama
Tomoaki Nishiyama Kanazawa University
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fay-Wei Li
Fay-Wei Li Cornell University
Andrew C. Cuming
Andrew C. Cuming University of Leeds

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