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Department of Biology
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Staudtstrasse 5, Erlangen 91058
Germany
Email: uwe.sonnewald@fau.de
http://www.biochemie.biologie.uni-erlangen.de/mitarbeiter/uwe-sonnewald.shtml
Area of expertise: Primary metabolism; source-sink relations; dormancy; assimilate allocation; plasmodesmata; metabolic engineering; plant biotechnology; potato; sucrose metabolism; starch metabolism
Selected Publications:For more publications please visit:
http://www.biochemie.biologie.uni-erlangen.de/English/publications/uwe-sonnewald.shtml
Espasa, A., Lang, M., Aguino, C.F., Sanchez-deAlcazar, D., Fernandez-Blazquez, J.P., Sonnewald, U., Cortajarena, A.L., Coto, P.B., and Costa, R.D. (2020). Long-living and highly efficient bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes with zero-thermal-quenching biophosphors. Nat. Commun. 11.
Fernie, A.R., Bachem, C.W.B., Helariutta, Y., Neuhaus, H.E., Prat, S., Ruan, Y.L., Stitt, M., Sweetlove, L.J., Tegeder, M., Wahl, V., Sonnewald, S., and Sonnewald, U. (2020). Synchronization of developmental, molecular and metabolic aspects of source-sink interactions. Nat. Plants 6: 55-66.
Sonnewald, U., Fernie, A.R., Gruissem, W., Schlapfer, P., Anjanappa, R.B., Chang, S.H., Ludewig, F., Rascher, U., Muller, O., van Doorn, A.M., Rabbi, I.Y., and Zierer, W. (2020). The Cassava Source-Sink project: Opportunities and challenges for crop improvement by metabolic engineering. Plant J. 103: 1655-1665
Abelenda, J.A., Bergonzi, S., Oortwijn, M., Sonnewald, S., Du, M.R., Visser, R.G.F., Sonnewald, U., and Bachem, C.W.B. (2019). Source-sink regulation is mediated by interaction of an FT homolog with a SWEET protein in potato. Curr. Biol. 29: 1178-1186.
Schuy, C., Groth, J., Ammon, A., Eydam, J., Baier, S., Schweizer, G., Hanemann, A., Herz, M., Voll, L.M., and Sonnewald, U. (2019). Deciphering the genetic basis for vitamin E accumulation in leaves and grains of different barley accessions. Sci. Rep. 9: 9470
Sonnewald, U. (2018). Plant synthetic biology: One answer to global challenges. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 60: 1124-1126.
Sonnewald, U., and Fernie, A.R. (2018). Next-generation strategies for understanding and influencing source-sink relations in crop plants. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 43: 63-70.
Kraner, M.E., Muller, C., and Sonnewald, U. (2017). Comparative proteomic profiling of the choline transporter-like1 (CHER1) mutant provides insights into plasmodesmata composition of fully developed Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Plant J. 92: 696-709.
Ludewig, F., and Sonnewald, U. (2016). Demand for food as driver for plant sink development. J. Plant Physiol. 203:110-115.
Lamm, C.E., Link, K., Wagner, S., Milbradt, J., Marschall, M., and Sonnewald, U. (2016). Human cytomegalovirus nuclear egress proteins ectopically expressed in the heterologous environment of plant cells are strictly targeted to the nuclear envelope. Viruses 8: 73
Niklaus, L., Dakhil, H., Kostrzewa MCoto, B.P., Sonnewald, U., Wierschem, A., and Costa, R.D. (2016). Easy and versatile coating approach for long-living white hybrid light-emitting diodes. Mater Horiz :DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00038J.
Alter, P., Bircheneder, S., Zhou, L.Z., Schlüter, U., Gahrtz, M., Sonnewald, U., and Dresselhaus, T. (2016). Flowering time regulated genes in maize include the transcription factor ZmMADS1. Plant Physiol. 172: 389–404.
Ludewig, F., and Sonnewald, U. (2016). Demand for food as driver for plant sink development. Plant Physiol 203: 110–115.
Prasch, C., and Sonnewald, U. (2015). Signaling events in plants: Stress factors in combination change the picture. Environ Exp Bot 114: 4–14.
Gerlach, N., Schmitz, J., Polatajko, A., Schlüter, U., Fahnenstich, H., Witt, S., Fernie, A.R., Uroic, K., Scholz, U., Sonnewald, U., and Bucher, M. (2015). An integrated functional approach to dissect systemic responses in maize to arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Plant Cell Environ 38: 1591–1612.
Asensi-Fabado, M.A., Ammon, A., Sonnewald, U., Munné-Bosch, S., and Voll, L.M. (2015). Tocopherol deficiency reduces sucrose export from salt-stressed potato leaves independently of oxidative stress and symplastic obstruction by callose. J Exp Bot 66: 957–971.
Weber, M.D., Niklaus, L., Pröschel, M., Coto, P.B., Sonnewald, U., and Costa, R.D. (2015). Bioinspired hybrid white light-emitting diodes. Adv Mater doi:10.1002/adma.201502349.
Prasch, C.M., Ott, K.V., Bauer, H., Ache, P., Hedrich, R., and Sonnewald, U. (2015). β-amylase1 mutant Arabidopsis plants show improved drought tolerance due to reduced starch breakdown in guard cells. J Exp Bot 66: 6059–6067.
Lin, Y., Liu, T., Liu, J., Liu, X., Ou, Y., Zhang, H., Li, M., Sonnewald, U., Song, B., and Xie, C. (2015). Subtle regulation of potato acid invertase activity by a protein complex of invertase, invertase inhibitor, and sucrose nonfermenting-related protein kinase. Plant Physiol 168:1807–1819.
Sonnewald, S., and Sonnewald, U. (2013). Regulation of potato tuber sprouting. Planta 239: 27–38.
Bauer, H., Ache, P., Wohlfart, F., Al-Rasheid, K.A., Sonnewald, S., Sonnewald, U., Kneitz, S., Hetherington, A.M., and Hedrich, R. (2013). How do stomata sense reductions in atmospheric relative humidity? Mol. Plant 6: 1703–1706.
Bauer, H., Ache, P., Lautner, S., Fromm, J., Hartung, W., Al-Rasheid, K.A., Sonnewald, S., Sonnewald, U., Kneitz, S., Lachmann, N., Mendel, R.R., Bittner, F., Hetherington, A.M., and Hedrich, R. (2013). The stomatal response to reduced relative humidity requires guard cell-autonomous ABA synthesis. Curr Biol 23: 53–57.
Schlüter, U., Colmsee, C., Scholz, U., Bräutigam, A., Weber, A.P., Zellerhoff, N., Bucher, M., Fahnenstich, H., and Sonnewald, U. (2013). Adaptation of maize source leaf metabolism to stress related disturbances in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus balance. BMC Genomics 14: 442.
Dabrock, P., Braun, M., Ried, J., and Sonnewald, U. (2013). A primer to 'bio-objects': New challenges at the interface of science, technology and society. Syst Synth Biol 7:1–6.
Prasch, C., and Sonnewald, U. (2013). Simultaneous application of heat, drought and virus to Arabidopsis thaliana plants reveals significant shifts in signaling networks. Plant Physiol 162: 1849–1866.
Kim, Y.M., Heinzel, N., Giese, J.O., Koeber, J., Melzer, M., Rutten, T., von Wirén, N., Sonnewald, U., and Hajirezaei, M.R. (2013). A dual role of tobacco hexokinase 1 in primary metabolism and sugar sensing. Plant Cell Environ 36:1311–1327.
Sonnewald, S., Priller, J.P., Schuster, J., Glickmann, E., Hajirezaei, M.R., Siebig, S., Mudgett, M.B., and Sonnewald, U. (2012) Regulation of cell wall-bound invertase in pepper leaves by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria type three effectors. PLoS ONE 7: e51763.
Colmsee, C., Mascher, M., Czauderna, T., Hartmann, A., Schlüter, U., Zellerhoff, N., Schmitz, J., Bräutigam, A., Pick, T.R., Alter, P., Gahrtz, M., Witt, S., Fernie, A.R., Börnke, F., Fahnenstich, H., Bucher, M., Dresselhaus, T., Weber, A.P., Schreiber, F., Scholz, U., and Sonnewald, U. (2012). OPTIMAS-DW: A comprehensive transcriptomics, metabolomics, ionomics, proteomics and phenomics data resource for maize. BMC Plant Biol 12: 245.
Sonnewald, U., and Kossmann, J. (2012). Starches: From current models to genetic engineering. Plant Biotechnol. 11: 223–232.
Schlüter, U., Mascher, M., Colmsee, C., Scholz, U., Bräutigam, A., Fahnenstich, H., and Sonnewald, U. (2012). Maize source leaf adaptation to nitrogen deficiency effects not only N and C metabolism but also control of P homeostasis. Plant Physiol 160: 1384–1406.
Jonik, C., Sonnewald, U., Hajirezaei, M.R., Flügge, U.I., and Ludewig, F. (2012). Simultaneous boosting of source and sink capacities doubles tuber starch yield of potato plants. Plant Biotechnol. 10: 1088–1098.
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