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Ulf-Ingo Flügge

Ulf-Ingo Flügge

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Biology and Biochemistry

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80
Citations
17577
World Ranking
4184
National Ranking
307

Overview

Ulf-Ingo Flügge is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific attention to plant science, molecular biology, and biochemistry.

Their work has significantly contributed to understanding plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, plant molecular biology research, nitrogen and sulfur effects on Brassica, phytase and its applications, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Among their recent publications are:

  • The phosphorylated pathway of serine biosynthesis links plant growth with nitrogen metabolism, 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Vernalization Alters Sink and Source Identities and Reverses Phloem Translocation from Taproots to Shoots in Sugar Beet, 2020, The Plant Cell
  • Dissecting the Role of SAL1 in Metabolizing the Stress Signaling Molecule 3'-Phosphoadenosine 5'-Phosphate in Different Cell Compartments, 2022, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Vernalization alters sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) sink and source identities and reverses phloem translocation from taproots to shoots, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stanislav Kopřiva
  • Cristina Martins Rodrigues
  • Christina Müdsam
  • Isabel Keller
  • Wolfgang Zierer

Their work appears in various publication venues such as:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The Plant Cell
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • ARAMEMNON, a Novel Database for Arabidopsis Integral Membrane Proteins

    Rainer Schwacke;Anja Schneider;Eric van der Graaff;Karsten Fischer

  • Transcription Analysis of Arabidopsis Membrane Transporters and Hormone Pathways during Developmental and Induced Leaf Senescence

    Eric van der Graaff;Rainer Schwacke;Anja Schneider;Marcelo Desimone

  • The R2R3‐MYB transcription factor HAG1/MYB28 is a regulator of methionine‐derived glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Tamara Gigolashvili;Ruslan Yatusevich;Bettina Berger;Caroline Müller

  • The transcription factor HIG1/MYB51 regulates indolic glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Tamara Gigolashvili;Bettina Berger;Hans-Peter Mock;Caroline Müller

  • Redox Transfer across the Inner Chloroplast Envelope Membrane

    Dieter Heineke;Burgi Riens;Heike Grosse;Petra Hoferichter

  • Specific transport of inorganic phosphate, 3-phosphoglycerate and triosephosphates across the inner membrane of the envelope in spinach chloroplasts.

    Rainer Fliege;Ulf-Ingo Flügge;Karl Werdan;Hans W. Heldt

  • Molecular characterization of a carbon transporter in plastids from heterotrophic tissues: the glucose 6-phosphate/phosphate antiporter

    Birgit Kammerer;Karsten Fischer;Bettina Hilpert;Sabine Schubert

  • The Arabidopsis sex1 Mutant Is Defective in the R1 Protein, a General Regulator of Starch Degradation in Plants, and Not in the Chloroplast Hexose Transporter

    Tien-Shin Yu;Heike Kofler;Rainer E. Häusler;Diana Hille

  • HAG2/MYB76 and HAG3/MYB29 exert a specific and coordinated control on the regulation of aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Tamara Gigolashvili;Martin Engqvist;Ruslan Yatusevich;Caroline Müller

  • PHOSPHATE TRANSLOCATORS IN PLASTIDS.

    Ulf-Ingo Flugge

  • Identification, Purification, and Molecular Cloning of a Putative Plastidic Glucose Translocator

    Andreas Weber;Jerome C. Servaites;Donald R. Geiger;Heike Kofler

  • A new class of plastidic phosphate translocators: a putative link between primary and secondary metabolism by the phosphoenolpyruvate/phosphate antiporter.

    Karsten Fischer;Birgit Kammerer;Michael Gutensohn;Bettina Arbinger

  • The Phosphoenolpyruvate/Phosphate Translocator Is Required for Phenolic Metabolism, Palisade Cell Development, and Plastid-Dependent Nuclear Gene Expression

    Stephen J. Streatfield;Andreas Weber;Elizabeth A. Kinsman;Rainer E. Häusler

  • The Arabidopsis Plastidic Glucose 6-Phosphate/Phosphate Translocator GPT1 Is Essential for Pollen Maturation and Embryo Sac Development

    Patrycja Niewiadomski;Silke Knappe;Stefan Geimer;Karsten Fischer

  • Analysis of the Plastidic phosphate translocator Gene Family in Arabidopsis and Identification of New phosphate translocator-Homologous Transporters, Classified by Their Putative Substrate-Binding Site

    Silke Knappe;Ulf-Ingo Flügge;Karsten Fischer

  • Gamma-aminobutyric acid depletion affects stomata closure and drought tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Dereje Worku Mekonnen;Ulf-Ingo Flügge;Frank Ludewig;Frank Ludewig

  • The plastidic pentose phosphate translocator represents a link between the cytosolic and the plastidic pentose phosphate pathways in plants.

    Michael Eicks;Verónica Maurino;Silke Knappe;Ulf-Ingo Flügge

  • Solute transporters of the plastid envelope membrane.

    Andreas P M Weber;Rainer Schwacke;Ulf-Ingo Flügge

  • An Arabidopsis thaliana knock‐out mutant of the chloroplast triose phosphate/phosphate translocator is severely compromised only when starch synthesis, but not starch mobilisation is abolished

    Anja Schneider;Rainer E. Häusler;Üner Kolukisaoglu;Reinhard Kunze

  • Disruption of adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate kinase in Arabidopsis reduces levels of sulfated secondary metabolites

    Sarah G. Mugford;Naoko Yoshimoto;Michael Reichelt;Markus Wirtz

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas P. M. Weber
Andreas P. M. Weber Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Veronica G. Maurino
Veronica G. Maurino University of Bonn
Irene Marten
Irene Marten University of Würzburg
Norbert Sauer
Norbert Sauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Rainer Hedrich
Rainer Hedrich University of Würzburg
Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Uwe Sonnewald
Uwe Sonnewald University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Dario Leister
Dario Leister Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
María F. Drincovich
María F. Drincovich National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Carlos S. Andreo
Carlos S. Andreo National University of Rosario

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