Publikationen

Auf dieser Seite finden Sie eine Übersicht der wissenschaftlichen Publikationen unserer Abteilung, die einen Einblick in unsere aktuellen Forschungsschwerpunkte und Ergebnisse geben.

1. Vraggalas S, Rosenkranz RRE, Perz Peret Y, Testillano P, Keller M, Müller-McNicol M, Zarnack K, Fragkostefanakis S. Splicing regulation by RS2Z36 controls ovary patterning and fruit growth in tomato. BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.31.635986
2. Mozafarian M, Permana Sari E, Najafi R, Halmóczki S, Bugyik E, Jedlovszky-Hajdú A, Fotopoulos V, Kappel N, Fragkostefanakis S. Mitigating Heat Stress in Tomato Seedlings: Comparative Evaluation of Bulk and Nano Chitosan Applications Plant Nano Biology, 100269 doi.org/10.1016/j.plana.2026.100269
3. Mountourakis F, Fragkostefanakis S, Moschou PN (2026) Protocol for generating and selecting transgenic tomato lines through Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation - STAR protocols, 2026 7: 104322 doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.104322
4. Bold J, Löchli K, Shalha B, Vraggalas S, Mesihovic A, Hu Y, Böhmer M, Schleiff E, Fragkostefanakis S, Simm S.  Organ and temperature transcriptome diversity in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) explored by Iso-seq single-molecule sequencing. Plant Stress 19:101237 doi.org/10.1016/j.stress.2026.101237
5. Kahrizi Z, Michailidis C, Raabe K, Fila J, Klodova B, Rudolf J, Prochazkova Schrumpfova P, Honys D, Fragkostefanakis S. HSP90-mediated stress resilience in male gametophyte of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Stress 18:101114 doi.org/10.1016/j.stress.2025.101114.
6. Bodensohn US, Dünschede B, Kuhlmann C, Kumari K, Ladig R, Grefen C, Schleiff E, Fernandez D, Schünemann D (2025) GET3B is involved in chloroplast biogenesis and interacts with the thylakoidal ALB3 and ALB4 insertases. Plant cell reports. 44(5):108.
7. Šućur R, Ali A, Mortazavi P, Altaf M. T, Tatar M, Nadeem M. A, Jockovi, B, Mladenov V, Fragkostefanakis S, Chung Y. S & Baloch F. S (2025). Exploring the genetic diversity and population structure of Serbian and selected European bread wheat cultivars through iPBS-retrotransposon markers. Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry 49 (4): 661-672. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-011X.3295
8. Rosenkranz RRE, Vraggalas S, Keller M, Sankaranarayanan S, McNicoll F, Löchli K, Bublak D, Benhamed M, Crespi M, Berberich T, Bazakos C, Feldbrügge M, Schleiff E, Müller-McNicoll M, Zarnack K, Fragkostefanakis S (2024). A plant-specific clade of serine/arginine-rich proteins regulates RNA splicing homeostasis and thermotolerance in tomato, Nucleic Acids Research, gkae730, doi.org/10.1093
9. He X, Dias Lopes C, Pereyra-Bistrain L, Huang Y, An J, Brik-Chaouche R, Zalzalé H, Wang Q, Antunez-Sanchez J, Bergounioux C, Fragkostefanakis S, Zhang Y, Zheng S, Crespi M, Mahfouz M, Mathieu O, Ariel F, Gutierrez-Marcos J, Li X, Bouché N, Raynaud C, Latrasse D, Benhamed M (2024) Genetic-epigenetic interplay in the determination of plant 3D genome organisation. Nucleic Acids Research,, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae690
10. An J, Chaouchea RB, Pereyra-Bistraína L, Zalzaléa H, Qingyi W, Ying H, Xiaoning H, Dias Lopes C, Javier A-S, Bergouniouxa C, Boulogned C, Dupas C, Gillet C, Pérez-Péreze JM, Mathieuf O, Bouché N, Fragkostefanakis S, Zhangi Y, Zhengj S, Crespi M, Mahfouz MM, Federico A, Gutierrez-Marcos J, Raynaud C, Latrasse D, Benhamed M. 2024 An atlas of the tomato epigenome reveals that KRYPTONITE shapes TAD-like boundaries through the control of H3K9ac distribution. PNAS 121:28 e2400737121
11. Huang Y, An J, … Fragkostefanakis S, Mahfouz M, Ariel F, Gutierrez-Marcos J, Raynaud C, Latrasse L, Benhamed M. (2023) HSFA1a modulates plant heat stress responses by altering the 3D chromatin organization of enhancer-promoter interactions. Nature Communications. 14:469.

Review articles (from last 3 years)

1. Vraggalas S, Guneich O, Shalha B, Bazakos C, Boisivon Robert H, Lakhneko O, Fragkostefanakis S. Methods for analyzing alternative splicing and its regulation in plants: From gene-specific approaches to transcriptome-wide studies. Physiology Plantarum 177(6):e70639. doi: 10.1111/ppl.70639.
2. Brunel-Muguet, S., Baránek, M., Fragkostefanakis, S., Sauvage, C., Lieberman-Lazarovich, M., Maury, S., Kaiserli, E., Segal, N.A., Testillano, P.S. and Verdier, J., 2025. Maternal environmental effects and climate-smart seeds: unlocking epigenetic inheritance for crop innovation in the seed industry. The Plant journal: for cell and molecular biology, 123(3), p.e70407.
3. Fragkostefanakis S, Schleiff E, Scharf Klaus-Dieter (2025) Back to the basics: The molecular blueprint of plant heat stress transcription factors. Invited review in Biological Chemistry. doi.org/10.1515/hsz-2025-0115
4. Chopra, P., Sapia, N., Karami, O., Kumar, P., Honys, D., Colombo, L., Mendes, M., Benhamed, M., Fotopoulos, V., Lieberman-Lazarovich, M. and Mueller-Roeber, B., Kaiserli E., Hafidh S. Fragkostefanakis S. 2025. Priming thermotolerance: unlocking heat resilience for climate-smart crops. Philosophical Transactions B, 380, p.20240234.
5. RECROP COST (2025). Integrative approaches to enhance reproductive resilience of crops for climate-proof agriculture. Plant Stress. 15, 100704. Doi.org/10.1016/j.stress.2024.100704.
6. Delarue M, Benhamed M, Fragkostefanakis S (2004). Epigenetic mechanisms in abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in tomato crop. New Crops. doi.org/10.1016/j.ncrops.2024.100044
7. Bakery A, Vraggalas S, Shalha B, Chauhan H, Benhamed M, Fragkostefanakis S. 2024 Heat stress transcription factors as the central molecular rheostat to optimize plant survival and recovery from heat stress. New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.20017.
8. Fragkostefanakis S, Lieberman-Lazarovich M, Honys D (2024) Resilience in crop reproduction for food security: introducing RECROP COST action. 10.1007/s00497-024-00497-8
9. Meyer et al. (2024) Stress Biology: Complexity and Multifariousness in Health and Disease, Cell Stress & Chaperones. doi.org/10.1016/j.cstres.2024.01.006  
10. Sylvester, F., Weichert, F.G., Lozano, V.L. et al. Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02117-6