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Biology and Biochemistry
Germany
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
101
Citations
29870
World Ranking
1476
National Ranking
96

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Uwe Sonnewald is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Plant Science and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Food Science, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Cassava research and cyanide
  • Potato Plant Research
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Sonnewald has published extensively across several noteworthy venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

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

Frequent collaborators in Sonnewald's research comprise:

  • Wolfgang Zierer
  • Alisdair R. Fernie
  • H. Ekkehard Neuhaus
  • Benjamin Pommerrenig
  • Sophia Sonnewald

Selected recent publications by Uwe Sonnewald include:

  • "Synchronization of developmental, molecular and metabolic aspects of source-sink interactions" (2020), Nature Plants
  • "Tuber and Tuberous Root Development" (2021), Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • "Metabolic rewiring promotes anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids" (2024), Nature
  • "The Cassava Source-Sink project: opportunities and challenges for crop improvement by metabolic engineering" (2020), The Plant Journal
  • "Metabolic reprogramming of osteoclasts represents a therapeutic target during the treatment of osteoporosis" (2020), Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Evidence of the crucial role of sucrose synthase for sink strength using transgenic potato plants (Solanum tuberosum L.)

    Rita Zrenner;Marcel Salanoubat;Lothar Willmitzer;Uwe Sonnewald

  • Pyrimidine and Purine Biosynthesis and Degradation in Plants

    Rita Zrenner;Mark Stitt;Uwe Sonnewald;Ralf Boldt

  • Expression of a yeast-derived invertase in the cell wall of tobacco and Arabidopsis plants leads to accumulation of carbohydrate and inhibition of photosynthesis and strongly influences growth and phenotype of transgenic tobacco plants.

    A. von Schaewen;M. Stitt;R. Schmidt;U. Sonnewald

  • Inhibition of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in transgenic potatoes leads to sugar-storing tubers and influences tuber formation and expression of tuber storage protein genes.

    B Müller-Röber;U Sonnewald;L Willmitzer

  • Both developmental and metabolic signals activate the promoter of a class I patatin gene

    Mario Rocha-Sosa;Uwe Sonnewald;Wolf Frommer;Marina Stratmann

  • The stomatal response to reduced relative humidity requires guard cell-autonomous ABA synthesis.

    Hubert Bauer;Peter Ache;Silke Lautner;Joerg Fromm

  • Simultaneous Application of Heat, Drought, and Virus to Arabidopsis Plants Reveals Significant Shifts in Signaling Networks

    Christian Maximilian Prasch;Uwe Sonnewald

  • Systemic Acquired Resistance Mediated by the Ectopic Expression of Invertase: Possible Hexose Sensing in the Secretory Pathway.

    Karin Herbers;Philippe Meuwly;Wolf B. Frommer;Jean-Pierre Metraux

  • Transgenic tobacco plants expressing yeast‐derived invertase in either the cytosol, vacuole or apoplast: a powerful tool for studying sucrose metabolism and sink/source interactions

    U Sonnewald;M Brauer;A von Schaewen;M Stitt

  • Reprogramming a maize plant: transcriptional and metabolic changes induced by the fungal biotroph Ustilago maydis.

    Gunther Doehlemann;Ramon Wahl;Robin J. Horst;Lars M. Voll

  • An ethanol inducible gene switch for plants used to manipulate carbon metabolism.

    M X Caddick;A J Greenland;I Jepson;K P Krause

  • A Small Decrease of Plastid Transketolase Activity in Antisense Tobacco Transformants Has Dramatic Effects on Photosynthesis and Phenylpropanoid Metabolism

    Stefan Henkes;Uwe Sonnewald;Ralf Badur;Ralf Flachmann

  • One of two different ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase genes from potato responds strongly to elevated levels of sucrose.

    B. T. Müller-Röber;J. Kossmann;L. C. Hannah;L. Willmitzer

  • Impact of Altered Gibberellin Metabolism on Biomass Accumulation, Lignin Biosynthesis, and Photosynthesis in Transgenic Tobacco Plants

    Sophia Biemelt;Henning Tschiersch;Uwe Sonnewald

  • The nitrate and ammonium nitrate supply have a major influence on the response of photosynthesis, carbon metabolism, nitrogen metabolism and growth to elevated carbon dioxide in tobacco

    M. Geiger;V. Haake;F. Ludewig;U. Sonnewald

  • Specific Roles of α- and γ-Tocopherol in Abiotic Stress Responses of Transgenic Tobacco

    Ali-Reza Abbasi;Mohamad Hajirezaei;Daniel Hofius;Uwe Sonnewald

  • Regulation of metabolism in transgenic plants

    Mark Stitt;Uwe Sonnewald

  • Production of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Virus-Like Particles in Transgenic Plants

    Sophia Biemelt;Uwe Sonnewald;Petra Galmbacher;Lothar Willmitzer

  • Soluble acid invertase determines the hexose-to-sucrose ratio in cold-stored potato tubers

    Rita Zrenner;Konrad Schüler;Uwe Sonnewald

  • A moderate decrease of plastid aldolase activity inhibits photosynthesis, alters the levels of sugars and starch, and inhibits growth of potato plants

    Volker Haake;Rita Zrenner;Uwe Sonnewald;Mark Stitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Lothar Willmitzer
Lothar Willmitzer Max Planck Society
Mark Stitt
Mark Stitt Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Lars M. Voll
Lars M. Voll Philipp University of Marburg
Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Mohammad-Reza Hajirezaei
Mohammad-Reza Hajirezaei Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Uwe Scholz
Uwe Scholz Leibniz Association
Karl-Heinz Kogel
Karl-Heinz Kogel University of Giessen
Peter Geigenberger
Peter Geigenberger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Frank Ordon
Frank Ordon Julius Kühn-Institut

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