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Overview

Thomas Roitsch is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Plant Science. Their work also spans related subfields such as Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Materials Chemistry, and Cell Biology.

Their research topics cover a diverse array of plant biology themes, including:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens

Thomas Roitsch has published numerous articles, with some recent papers as follows:

  • "Role of Cytokinins for Interactions of Plants With Microbial Pathogens and Pest Insects", 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "The cytokinin-producing plant beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens G20-18 primes tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) for enhanced drought stress responses", 2022, Journal of Plant Physiology
  • "Bacillus licheniformis FMCH001 Increases Water Use Efficiency via Growth Stimulation in Both Normal and Drought Conditions", 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Simple semi-high throughput determination of activity signatures of key antioxidant enzymes for physiological phenotyping", 2020, Plant Methods
  • "Activities of leaf and spike carbohydrate-metabolic and antioxidant enzymes are linked with yield performance in three spring wheat genotypes grown under well-watered and drought conditions", 2020, BMC Plant Biology

Among the frequent coauthors collaborating with Roitsch are:

  • Chandana Pandey (15 joint publications)
  • Dominik K. Großkinsky (12 joint publications)
  • Saqib Saleem Akhtar (7 joint publications)
  • Mengistu F. Mekureyaw (6 joint publications)
  • Fulai Liu (6 joint publications)

They have contributed to publications in several venues prominently featuring their work, including:

  • Journal of Experimental Botany (5 publications)
  • Physiologia Plantarum (4 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science (3 publications)
  • Journal of Plant Physiology (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Function and regulation of plant invertases: sweet sensations.

    Thomas Roitsch;Mari-Cruz González

  • Plant physiology meets phytopathology: plant primary metabolism and plant–pathogen interactions

    Susanne Berger;Alok K. Sinha;Thomas Roitsch

  • Source-sink regulation by sugar and stress

    Thomas Roitsch

  • Extracellular invertase: key metabolic enzyme and PR protein

    T. Roitsch;M. E. Balibrea;M. Hofmann;R. Proels

  • Extracellular Invertase Is an Essential Component of Cytokinin-Mediated Delay of Senescence

    Maria Encarnacioén Balibrea Lara;Maria-Cruz Gonzalez Garcia;Tahira Fatima;Rainer Ehneß

  • Induction of male sterility in plants by metabolic engineering of the carbohydrate supply.

    Marc Goetz;Dietmute E. Godt;Anne Guivarc'h;Uwe Kahmann

  • General Detoxification and Stress Responses Are Mediated by Oxidized Lipids through TGA Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis

    Stefan Mueller;Beate Hilbert;Katharina Dueckershoff;Thomas Roitsch

  • Regulation and tissue-specific distribution of mRNAs for three extracellular invertase isoenzymes of tomato suggests an important function in establishing and maintaining sink metabolism.

    D E Godt;T Roitsch

  • Glucose and Stress Independently Regulate Source and Sink Metabolism and Defense Mechanisms via Signal Transduction Pathways Involving Protein Phosphorylation

    Rainer Ehness;Margit Ecker;Dietmute E. Godt;Thomas Roitsch

  • Metabolic regulation of leaf senescence: interactions of sugar signalling with biotic and abiotic stress responses

    A. Wingler;T. Roitsch

  • Complex regulation of gene expression, photosynthesis and sugar levels by pathogen infection in tomato

    Susanne Berger;Martina Papadopoulos;Ulrich Schreiber;Werner Kaiser

  • Regulation of source/sink relations by cytokinins.

    Thomas Roitsch;Rainer Ehness

  • Cyclopentenone isoprostanes induced by reactive oxygen species trigger defense gene activation and phytoalexin accumulation in plants

    Ingeborg Thoma;Christiane Loeffler;Alok K. Sinha;Meetu Gupta

  • Induction of apoplastic invertase of Chenopodium rubrum by D-glucose and a glucose analog and tissue-specific expression suggest a role in sink-source regulation.

    T Roitsch;M Bittner;D E Godt

  • Infection with virulent and avirulent P. syringae strains differentially affects photosynthesis and sink metabolism in Arabidopsis leaves

    Katharina B. Bonfig;Ulrich Schreiber;Andrea Gabler;Thomas Roitsch

  • Co-ordinated induction of mRNAs for extracellular invertase and a glucose transporter in Chenopodium rubrum by cytokinins

    Rainer Ehness;Thomas Roitsch

  • Phosphorylation of the VirG protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens by the autophosphorylated VirA protein: essential role in biological activity of VirG.

    S G Jin;R K Prusti;T Roitsch;R G Ankenbauer

  • The VirA protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is autophosphorylated and is essential for vir gene regulation.

    Shouguang Jin;T. Roitsch;R. G. Ankenbauer;M. P. Gordon

  • Plant phenomics and the need for physiological phenotyping across scales to narrow the genotype-to-phenotype knowledge gap

    Dominik K. Großkinsky;Jesper Svensgaard;Svend Christensen;Thomas Roitsch

  • Visualization of dynamics of plant–pathogen interaction by novel combination of chlorophyll fluorescence imaging and statistical analysis: differential effects of virulent and avirulent strains of P. syringae and of oxylipins on A. thaliana

    Susanne Berger;Zuzana Benediktyová;Karel Matouš;Katharina Bonfig

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfonso Albacete
Alfonso Albacete IMIDA - Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario y Alimentario
Eugene W. Nester
Eugene W. Nester University of Washington
Ludwig Lehle
Ludwig Lehle University of Regensburg
Widmar Tanner
Widmar Tanner University of Regensburg
Miroslav Strnad
Miroslav Strnad Palacký University, Olomouc
Karl Gruber
Karl Gruber University of Graz
Peter Macheroux
Peter Macheroux Graz University of Technology
Ulrich Schreiber
Ulrich Schreiber University of Würzburg
Fulai Liu
Fulai Liu University of Copenhagen
Ole Nybroe
Ole Nybroe University of Copenhagen

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