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59
Citations
12204
World Ranking
12558
National Ranking
894

Overview

Thomas Ott is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on Plant Science. They have also contributed to areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Ocean Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

Themes central to their work include:

  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Thomas Ott has published extensively, with frequent appearances in notable journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, The Plant Cell, Current Biology, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States" (2021), JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • "Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization" (2021), Science
  • "Optogenetic control of gene expression in plants in the presence of ambient white light" (2020), Nature Methods
  • "Establishment of Proximity-Dependent Biotinylation Approaches in Different Plant Model Systems" (2020), The Plant Cell
  • "Assessing the accuracy of OpenET satellite-based evapotranspiration data to support water resource and land management applications" (2024), Nature Water

Their collaborations include work with several frequent co-authors such as Chao Su, Beatrice Lace, Marta Rodríguez-Franco, Justin Huntington, and Franck Anicet Ditengou.

Best Publications

  • A gene expression atlas of the model legume Medicago truncatula.

    Vagner Augusto Benedito;Ivone Torres-Jerez;Jeremy D Murray;Andry Andriankaja

  • MtHAP2-1 is a key transcriptional regulator of symbiotic nodule development regulated by microRNA169 in Medicago truncatula

    Jean Philippe Combier;Florian Frugier;Françoise De Billy;Adnane Boualem

  • Targeted ablation of connexin26 in the inner ear epithelial gap junction network causes hearing impairment and cell death.

    Martine Cohen-Salmon;Thomas Ott;Vincent Michel;Jean Pierre Hardelin

  • Symbiotic Leghemoglobins Are Crucial for Nitrogen Fixation in Legume Root Nodules but Not for General Plant Growth and Development

    Thomas Ott;Joost T van Dongen;Catrin Gunther;Lene Krusell

  • Remorin, a Solanaceae Protein Resident in Membrane Rafts and Plasmodesmata, Impairs Potato virus X Movement

    Sylvain Raffaele;Emmanuelle Bayer;David Lafarge;Stéphanie Cluzet

  • A remorin protein interacts with symbiotic receptors and regulates bacterial infection.

    Benoit Lefebvre;Ton Timmers;Malick Mbengue;Sandra Moreau

  • Global changes in transcription orchestrate metabolic differentiation during symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus.

    Gillian Colebatch;Guilhem Desbrosses;Thomas Ott;Lene Krusell

  • A novel mammalian receptor for the evolutionarily conserved type II GnRH.

    Robert Millar;Steven Lowe;Darrell Conklin;Adam Pawson

  • Slow Conduction and Enhanced Anisotropy Increase the Propensity for Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias in Adult Mice With Induced Deletion of Connexin43

    Harold V.M. van Rijen;Dominik Eckardt;Joachim Degen;Martin Theis

  • The sulfate transporter SST1 is crucial for symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus root nodules

    Lene Krusell;Katja Krause;Thomas Ott;Guilhem Desbrosses

  • Plant immune and growth receptors share common signalling components but localise to distinct plasma membrane nanodomains

    Christoph A Bücherl;Iris Katharina Jarsch;Christian Schudoma;Cécile Segonzac

  • Functional expression of connexin57 in horizontal cells of the mouse retina.

    Sonja Hombach;Ulrike Janssen-Bienhold;Goran Söhl;Timm Schubert

  • Male-female communication triggers calcium signatures during fertilization in Arabidopsis.

    Philipp Denninger;Andrea Bleckmann;Andreas Lausser;Frank Vogler

  • Altered connexin expression and wound healing in the epidermis of connexin-deficient mice

    Markus Kretz;Carsten Euwens;Sonja Hombach;Dominik Eckardt

  • Genome-wide annotation of remorins, a plant-specific protein family: evolutionary and functional perspectives.

    Sylvain Raffaele;Sébastien Mongrand;Pascal Gamas;Andreas Niebel

  • Functional role of connexin43 gap junction channels in adult mouse heart assessed by inducible gene deletion.

    D. Eckardt;M. Theis;J. Degen;T. Ott

  • A Modular Plasmid Assembly Kit for Multigene Expression, Gene Silencing and Silencing Rescue in Plants

    Andreas Binder;Jayne Lambert;Robert Morbitzer;Claudia Popp

  • Dissection of symbiosis and organ development by integrated transcriptome analysis of lotus japonicus mutant and wild-type plants.

    Niels Høgslund;Simona Radutoiu;Lene Krusell;Vera Voroshilova

  • Plasma Membranes Are Subcompartmentalized into a Plethora of Coexisting and Diverse Microdomains in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana

    Iris K. Jarsch;Sebastian S. A. Konrad;Thomas F. Stratil;Susan L. Urbanus

  • Regulation of signal transduction and bacterial infection during root nodule symbiosis

    Claudia Popp;Thomas Ott

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Udvardi
Michael K. Udvardi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Klaus Willecke
Klaus Willecke University of Bonn
Andreas Niebel
Andreas Niebel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Pascal Gamas
Pascal Gamas Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jens Stougaard
Jens Stougaard Aarhus University
Cyril Zipfel
Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich
James E. Trosko
James E. Trosko Michigan State University
Euan K. James
Euan K. James James Hutton Institute
Sébastien Mongrand
Sébastien Mongrand INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michael Schwarz
Michael Schwarz Helmholtz Center for Information Security

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