Scientists awarded with the Prize for the Best Publication
The Wilhem Pfeffer Foundation awards a Prize for the Best Botanical Publication of a year which came out of a Master, Diploma or PhD thesis since 2006. The following scientists were endowed with the Best Paper Prize:
Award Winner | Title | |
Dr. Jutta Baldauf | Baldauf J.A., C. Marcon, A. Lithio, H. Schoof, D. Nettleton, F. Hochholdinger (2018): Single-Parent Expression is a general mechanism driving extensive complementation of non-syntenic genes in maize hybrids. Current Biology 28, 431–437. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.027 | |
Dr. Aleksandra Sapala | Sapala A., A. Runions, A.-L. Routier-Kierzkowska, M. Das Gupta, L. Hong, H. Hofhuis, S. Verger, G. Mosca, C.-B. Li, A. Hay, O. Hamant, A.H.K. Roeder, M. Tsiantis, P. Prusinkiewicz, R. S. Smith (2018): Why plants make puzzle cells, and how their shape emerges. eLife. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32794 | |
Dr. Katja Meyer | Meyer K., T. Köster, C. Nolte, C. Weinholdt, M. Lewinski, I. Grosse, D. Staiger (2017): Adaptation of iCLIP to plants determines the binding landscape of the clock-regulated RNA-binding protein AtGRP7. Genome Biology 18, 204. | |
Dr. Max Lauterbach | Lauterbach, M., Schmidt, H., Billakurthi, K., Hankeln, T., Westhoff, P. Gowik, U., Kadereit, G (2017): De novo Transcriptome Assembly and Comparison of C3, C3-C4, and C4 Species of Tribe Salsoleae (Chenopodiaceae). Front. Plant Sci. 8, 1939. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01939 | |
Dr. Meret Huber | M. Huber, J. Epping, C. Schulze Gronover, J. Fricke, Z. Aziz, T. Brillatz, M. Swyers, T.G. Köllner, H. Vogel, A. Hammerbacher, D. Triebwasser-Freese, C. A. M. Robert, K. Verhoeven, V. Preite, J. Gershenzon, M. Erb (2016): A Latex Metabolite Benefits Plant Fitness under Root Herbivore Attack. Plos Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002332 | |
Dr. Bettina Ohse | Ohse B, Hammerbacher A, Seele C, Meldau S, Reichelt M, Ortmann S, Wirth C (2016) Salivary cues: Simulated roe deer browsing induces systemic changes in phytohormones and defense chemistry in wild-grown maple and beech saplings. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12717 | |
Dr. Maria Will | Will M and Claßen-Bockhoff R (2014): Why Africa matters: evolution of OldWorld Salvia (Lamiaceae) in Africa. Annals of Botany 114: 61–83 doi: 10.1093/aob/mcu081 | |
Dr. David Heckmann | Heckmann D, Schulze S, Denton A, Gowik U, Westhoff P, Weber APM, Lercher MJ (2013): Predicting C4 Photosynthesis Evolution: | |
Dr. Katharine G. Rascher | Katherine G. Rascher, Christine Hellmann, Cristina Máguas, Christiane Werner (2012): Community scale 15N isoscapes: tracing the spatial impact of an exotic N2-fixing invader. Ecology Letters 15: 484–491. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01761.x | |
Dr. Michelle Ast | M. Ast, A. Gruber, S. Schmitz-Esser, H. E. Neuhaus, P. G. Kroth, M. Hoern & I. Haferkamp (2009): Diatom plastid depend on nucleotide import from the cytosol. PNAS 106, 3621-3626. | |
Dr. Katharina Bräutigam | K. Bräutigam, L. Dietzel, T. Kleine, E. Ströher, D. Wormuth, K.-J. Dietz, D. Radke, M. Wirtz, R. Hell, P. Dörmann, A. Nunes-Nesi, N. Schauer, A. R. Fernie, S. N. Oliver, P. Geigenberger, D. Leister, T. Pfannschmidt (2009): Dynamic plastid redox signals integrate gene expression and metabolism to induce distinct metabolic states in photosynthetic acclimation in Arabidopsis“ Plant Cell 21, 2715-2732. | |
Dr. Jyothilakshmi Vadassery | Vadassery J, Ranf, S. Drzewiecki, C, Mithöfer A, Mazars, C, Scheel, D, Lee, J. Oelmüller R (2009): “A cell wall extract from the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica promotes growth of Arabidopsis seedlings and induces intracellular calcium elevation in roots”. Plant Journal 59, 193-206. | |
Dr. Susanne Horn | S. Horn, K. Ehlers, G. Fritzsch, M.C. Gil-Rodriguez, C. Wilhelm & R. Schnetter (2007): Synchroma grande spec. Nov (Synchromophyceae class. Nov. Heterokontophyta): An Amoeboid Marine Alga with Unique Plastid Complexes. Protist 158, 277-293, 2007 | |
Dr. Holger Kreft | H. Kreft & W. Jetz (2007): Global Patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity. PNAS, 104: 5925-5930. | |
Dr. Uwe Simon, | "The intercellular biotrophic leaf pathogen Cymadothea trofolii locally degrades pectins, but not cellulose or xyloglyucan in the cell walls of Trifolium repens" | |
Dr. Eva Nowack, | E.C.M. Nowack, B. Podola, M. Melkonian: "The 96-well Twin-Layer System: A novel Approach in the Cultivation of Algae" | |
[1] awarded with 500,- € | ||