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Wolfgang Schmidt

Wolfgang Schmidt

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
10582
World Ranking
13944
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Polish Academy of Science

Overview

Wolfgang Schmidt is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Their research primarily centers on the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a specific focus on Plant Science. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's recent publications reflect an emphasis on plant nutrient interactions, stress responses, and molecular biology. Notable papers include:

  • The enigma of environmental pH sensing in plants, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Editorial: Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Plant strategies to mine iron from alkaline substrates, 2022, Plant and Soil
  • IRONMAN tunes responses to iron deficiency in concert with environmental pH, 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • pH-dependent transcriptional profile changes in iron-deficient Arabidopsis roots, 2020, BMC Genomics

The main topics covered in their body of work involve:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research

Wolfgang Schmidt frequently collaborates with other researchers in their domain. Common coauthors include Isabel Cristina Vélez-Bermúdez, Huei-Hsuan Tsai, Wen-Dar Lin, Katrin Auspurg, and Herbert Kalthoff.

The scientist's publications are often found in several prominent venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Zeitschrift für Soziologie
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Recognition of their career includes an award from the Polish Academy of Science received in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Dissecting iron deficiency-induced proton extrusion in Arabidopsis roots

    Simonetta Santi;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Mechanisms and regulation of reduction-based iron uptake in plants

    Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Central Amazonian Floodplain Forests: Tree Adaptations in a Pulsing System

    P. Parolin;O. De Simone;K. Haase;D. Waldhoff

  • Iron solutions: acquisition strategies and signaling pathways in plants

    Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Environmentally Induced Plasticity of Root Hair Development in Arabidopsis

    Margarete Müller;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Complementary Proteome and Transcriptome Profiling in Phosphate-deficient Arabidopsis Roots Reveals Multiple Levels of Gene Regulation

    Ping Lan;Wenfeng Li;Wolfgang Schmidt;Wolfgang Schmidt;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Role of Hormones in the Induction of Iron Deficiency Responses in Arabidopsis Roots

    Wolfgang Schmidt;Julia Tittel;Adam Schikora

  • iTRAQ Protein Profile Analysis of Arabidopsis Roots Reveals New Aspects Critical for Iron Homeostasis

    Ping Lan;Wenfeng Li;Tuan-Nan Wen;Jeng-Yuan Shiau

  • Mutually Exclusive Alterations in Secondary Metabolism Are Critical for the Uptake of Insoluble Iron Compounds by Arabidopsis and Medicago truncatula

    Jorge Rodríguez-Celma;Wen-Dar Lin;Guin-Mau Fu;Javier Abadía

  • Different Pathways Are Involved in Phosphate and Iron Stress-Induced Alterations of Root Epidermal Cell Development

    Wolfgang Schmidt;Adam Schikora

  • IRON MAN is a ubiquitous family of peptides that control iron transport in plants.

    Louis Grillet;Ping Lan;Ping Lan;Wenfeng Li;Wenfeng Li;Girish Mokkapati;Girish Mokkapati

  • Fe homeostasis in plant cells: does nicotianamine play multiple roles in the regulation of cytoplasmic Fe concentration?

    Axel Pich;Renate Manteuffel;Stefan Hillmer;Giinter Scholz

  • The regulation and plasticity of root hair patterning and morphogenesis

    Jorge E. Salazar-Henao;Isabel Cristina Vélez-Bermúdez;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Early iron-deficiency-induced transcriptional changes in Arabidopsis roots as revealed by microarray analyses.

    Thomas J Buckhout;Thomas J W Yang;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Transcriptional Profiling of the Arabidopsis Iron Deficiency Response Reveals Conserved Transition Metal Homeostasis Networks

    Thomas J.W. Yang;Wen-Dar Lin;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Mobilization of Iron by Plant-Borne Coumarins.

    Huei Hsuan Tsai;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • Coexpression-Based Clustering of Arabidopsis Root Genes Predicts Functional Modules in Early Phosphate Deficiency Signaling

    Wen-Dar Lin;Ya-Yun Liao;Thomas J.W. Yang;Chao-Yu Pan

  • Expression changes of ribosomal proteins in phosphate- and iron-deficient Arabidopsis roots predict stress-specific alterations in ribosome composition

    Jinyan Wang;Ping Lan;Huimin Gao;Lu Zheng

  • Iron Stress-Induced Changes in Root Epidermal Cell Fate Are Regulated Independently from Physiological Responses to Low Iron Availability

    Adam Schikora;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • ALFIN-LIKE 6 is involved in root hair elongation during phosphate deficiency in Arabidopsis.

    Nulu Naga Prafulla Chandrika;Kalaipandian Sundaravelpandian;Kalaipandian Sundaravelpandian;Su-May Yu;Su-May Yu;Su-May Yu;Wolfgang Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang J. Junk
Wolfgang J. Junk Max Planck Society
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade National Institute of Amazonian Research
Su-May Yu
Su-May Yu Academia Sinica
Keqiang Wu
Keqiang Wu National Taiwan University
Christof Ammann
Christof Ammann Federal Council
Javier Abadía
Javier Abadía Spanish National Research Council
Roberto Pinton
Roberto Pinton University of Udine
Rita Musetti
Rita Musetti University of Padua
Lukas Schreiber
Lukas Schreiber University of Bonn
Erich Grotewold
Erich Grotewold Michigan State University

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