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Wolfgang Busch is affiliated with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on Plant Science. The scientist has contributed substantially to multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The primary topics of Wolfgang Busch's research work involve plant molecular biology, stress responses and tolerance in plants, nutrient uptake and metabolism, reproductive biology, nitrogen fixing symbiosis in legumes, light effects on plants, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaboration network include Matthieu Pierre Platre, Ling Zhang (with two separate records indicating different counts), Sang-Hwa Lee, and Lukas Brent. These collaborators have contributed to multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Wolfgang Busch has published extensively in several key scientific venues. The most frequent venues of publication are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • The Plant Cell
  • Plant Phenomics

Some of Wolfgang Busch's recent papers include:

  • "Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions" (2020, eLife)
  • "Climate change challenges, plant science solutions" (2022, The Plant Cell)
  • "A lignin-derived material improves plant nutrient bioavailability and growth through its metal chelating capacity" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "The Emerging Role of GSNOR in Oxidative Stress Regulation" (2020, Trends in Plant Science)
  • "HY5 and phytochrome activity modulate shoot-to-root coordination during thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis" (2020, Development)

Best Publications

  • Integration of spatial and temporal information during floral induction in Arabidopsis.

    Philip A. Wigge;Philip A. Wigge;Min Chul Kim;Katja E. Jaeger;Wolfgang Busch

  • Transcriptional Regulation of ROS Controls Transition from Proliferation to Differentiation in the Root

    Hironaka Tsukagoshi;Wolfgang Busch;Philip N. Benfey

  • WUSCHEL controls meristem function by direct regulation of cytokinin-inducible response regulators

    Andrea Leibfried;Jennifer P. C. To;Wolfgang Busch;Sandra Stehling

  • The bHLH Transcription Factor POPEYE Regulates Response to Iron Deficiency in Arabidopsis Roots

    Terri A. Long;Hironaka Tsukagoshi;Wolfgang Busch;Brett Lahner

  • Spatiotemporal regulation of cell-cycle genes by SHORTROOT links patterning and growth

    Rosangela Sozzani;Hongchang Cui;Hongchang Cui;Miguel A. Moreno-Risueno;Wolfgang Busch

  • Identification of novel heat shock factor-dependent genes and biochemical pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Wolfgang Busch;Markus Wunderlich;Fritz Schöffl

  • Dual roles of the nuclear cap-binding complex and SERRATE in pre-mRNA splicing and microRNA processing in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Sascha Laubinger;Timo Sachsenberg;Georg Zeller;Wolfgang Busch

  • Whole-genome analysis of the SHORT-ROOT developmental pathway in Arabidopsis

    Mitchell P Levesque;Teva Vernoux;Wolfgang Busch;Hongchang Cui

  • The Transporter Classification (TC) System, 2002

    Wolfgang Busch;Milton H. Saier

  • An extracellular network of Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases

    Elwira Smakowska-Luzan;G. Adam Mott;Katarzyna Parys;Martin Stegmann

  • Auxin steers root cell expansion via apoplastic pH regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Elke Barbez;Kai Dünser;Angelika Gaidora;Thomas Lendl

  • Two Families of Mechanosensitive Channel Proteins

    Christopher D. Pivetti;Ming-Ren Yen;Ming-Ren Yen;Samantha Miller;Wolfgang Busch

  • Auxin minimum triggers the developmental switch from cell division to cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root.

    Riccardo Di Mambro;Micol De Ruvo;Micol De Ruvo;Micol De Ruvo;Elena Pacifici;Elena Salvi

  • Transcriptional control of a plant stem cell niche.

    Wolfang Busch;Andrej Miotk;Federico Damian Ariel;Zhong Zhao

  • Requirement of B2-Type Cyclin-Dependent Kinases for Meristem Integrity in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Stig Uggerhøj Andersen;Sabine Buechel;Zhong Zhao;Karin Ljung

  • The DOF transcription factor OBP1 is involved in cell cycle regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Aleksandra Skirycz;Amandine Radziejwoski;Wolfgang Busch;Matthew A. Hannah

  • Cell Identity Regulators Link Development and Stress Responses in the Arabidopsis Root

    Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi;Terry Jackson;Hongchang Cui;Jalean J. Petricka

  • Heat Shock Factors HsfB1 and HsfB2b Are Involved in the Regulation of Pdf1.2 Expression and Pathogen Resistance in Arabidopsis

    Mukesh Kumar;Wolfgang Busch;Hannah Birke;Birgit Kemmerling

  • Genome-wide association study using cellular traits identifies a new regulator of root development in Arabidopsis.

    Mónica Meijón;Santosh B Satbhai;Takashi Tsuchimatsu;Wolfgang Busch

  • A Scalable Open-Source Pipeline for Large-Scale Root Phenotyping of Arabidopsis

    Radka Slovak;Christian Göschl;Xiaoxue Su;Koji Shimotani

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan U. Lohmann
Jan U. Lohmann Heidelberg University
Philip N. Benfey
Philip N. Benfey Duke University
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Stig Uggerhøj Andersen
Stig Uggerhøj Andersen Aarhus University
Hatem Rouached
Hatem Rouached Michigan State University
Siobhan M. Brady
Siobhan M. Brady University of California, Davis
Teva Vernoux
Teva Vernoux École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Rosangela Sozzani
Rosangela Sozzani North Carolina State University
Oliver Kohlbacher
Oliver Kohlbacher University of Tübingen

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