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Strasburger Prize: awarded scientists

The DBG awards the Eduard Strasburger Prize founded by Spektrum Akademischer Verlag (now: Springer-Spektrum) since 1994. Every other year an outstanding botanical research carried out by a young doctorate is choosen. The following scientists were endowed with the prize:

2024

Dr. Eliza Loo

Loo E.P.I., Durán P, Pang TP, Westhoff P, Deng C, Durán C, Lercher M., Garido-Oter, R. & Frommer W.B. (2024): Sugar transporters spatially organize microbiota colonization along the longitudinal root axis of Arabidopsis. Cell Host Microbe 32, 543-556.e6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.014

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2022

Dr. Meike Hüdig

Meike Hüdig, Marcos A Tronconi, Juan P Zubimendi, Tammy L Sage, Gereon Poschmann, David Bickel, Holger Gohlke, Veronica G Maurino (2021): Respiratory and C4-photosynthetic NAD-malic enzyme coexist in bundle sheath cells mitochondria and evolved via association of differentially adapted subunits. The Plant Cell 34, 597-615. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab265

Marcos A. Tronconi, Meike Hüdig, M. Eric Schranz and Veronica G. Maurino (2020): Independent recruitment of duplicated β-subunit-coding NAD-ME genes aided the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in Cleomaceae. Front. Plant Sci. 11, 572080. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.572080

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2019

Dr. Constantin Mario Zohner

Zohner CM (2016): The biogeography, evolution, and function of leaf-out phenology studied with experimental, monitoring, and phylogenetic approaches. Dissertation, Fakultät für Biologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21673/1/Zohner_Constantin.pdf  

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2017

Dr. Severin Irl

Irl SDH, Harter DEV, Steinbauer MJ, Puyol Gallego D, Fernández-Palacios JM, Jentsch A, Beierkuhnlein C (2015): Climate vs. topography – spatial patterns of plant species diversity and endemism on a high-elevation island. Journal of Ecology, 103, 1621–1633. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12463

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2015

Dr. Andreas Fleischmann

Fleischmann AS, Todd PM, Rivadavia F, Sousa A, Wang W, Temsch EM, Greilhuber J, Müller KF, Heubl G (2014): Evolution of genome size and chromosome number in the carnivorous plant genus Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae), with a new estimate of the minimum genome size in angiosperms. Ann Bot. 114(8): 1651-1663. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcu189
Rivadavia F, Gonella PM, Fleischmann AS (2013): A New and Tuberous Species of Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae) from the Campos Rupestres of Brazil. Systematic Botany 38(2): 464-470. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364413X666679
Fleischmann AS (2012): A Monograph of the Genus Genlisea. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd. 728 pages, 614 images

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2013

Dr. Adrian Alder

Alder A, Jamil M, Marzorati M, Bruno M, Vermathen M, Bigler P, Ghisla S, Bouwmeester H, Beyer P, Al-Babili S (2012): The path from β-carotene to carlactone, a strigolactone-like plant hormone. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1218094 als Teil der Dissertation.

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2011

Dr. Hans-Henning Kunz

Biochemische Charakterisierung der Fettsäure-Beta-Oxidation als Teil des Dunkelstoffwechsels von Arabidopsis thaliana. Dissertation, Universität Köln: kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/3087/. Englische Originalpublikation bei The Plant Cell.

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2009

Dr. Marion Eisenhut

Eisenhut M, Ruth W, Haimovich M, Bauwe H, Kaplan A, Hagemann M (2008): The photorespiratory glycolate metabolism is essential for cyanobacteria and might have been conveyed endosymbiontically to plants. PNAS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0807043105

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2007

Dr. Ansgar Kahmen

Kahmen A, Perner J, Buchmann N (2005): Diversity dependent productivity in semi-natural grasslands following climate perturbations.
Functional Ecology, 19: 594-601

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2004

PD Dr. Enrico Schleiff

Für seine Arbeiten über die Funktion, Struktur und Regulation der molekularen Maschine zur Erkennung und zum Transport kernkodierter Proteine über die äussere Hüllmembran von Plastiden höherer Pflanzen

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2002

Dr. Marc Götz

"Funktion und Regulation extrazellulärer Invertase in Höheren Pflanzen." Dissertation, Universität

2000

Dr. Sigrun Reumann

"Nachweis, Charakterisierung und Anreicherung eines Porins pflanzlicher Peroxisomen". Dissertation, Universität

1998

Dr. Jutta Papenbrock

"Magnesium Protoporphyrin IX-Chelatase: Ein Schlüsselenzym in der Tetrapyrrolbiosynthese". Dissertation, Universität

1996

Dr. Johannes Christian Vogel

"Multiple Origins of polyploids in European Asplenium (Pteridophyta)". Dissertation, Universität

1994

Dr. Karl-Ferdinand Lechtreck

"Untersuchungen über das Protein SF-Assemblin aus dem Bewegungsapparat der einzelligen Grünalge Spermatozopsis similis". Dissertation, Universität