Publications of Tobias G. Köllner

Stathaki, A.; Alam, R. M.; Köllner, T. G.; O’Connor, S. E.: Engineering of insect juvenile hormone III biosynthesis in the plant Nicotiana benthamiana. Metabolic Engineering 88, pp. 77 - 84 (2025)

Florean, M.; Schultz, H.; Wurlitzer, J.; O’Connor, S. E.; Köllner, T. G.: Independent evolution of plant natural products: Formation of benzoxazinoids in Consolida orientalis (Ranunculaceae). Journal of Biological Chemistry 301 (1), 108019 (2025)

Chen, X.; Urban, J. M.; Wurlitzer, J.; Wei, X.; Han, J.; O’Connor, S. E.; Rudolf, J. D.; Köllner, T. G.; Chen, F.: Canonical terpene synthases in arthropods: Intraphylum gene transfer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (51), e2413007121 (2024)

Thoenen, L.; Kreuzer, M.; Pestalozzi, C.; Florean, M.; Mateo, P.; Züst, T.; Wei, A.; Giroud, C.; Rouyer, L.; Gfeller, V. et al.; Notter, M. D.; Knoch, E.; Hapfelmeier, S.; Becker, C.; Schandry, N.; Robert, C. A. M.; Köllner, T. G.; Bruggmann, R.; Erb, M.; Schlaeppi, K.: The lactonase BxdA mediates metabolic specialisation of maize root bacteria to benzoxazinoids. Nature Communications 15, 6535 (2024)

Lyu, H.; Ernst, L.; Nakamura, Y.; Okamura, Y.; Köllner, T. G.; Luck, K.; Liu, B.; Chen, Y.; Beerhues, L.; Gershenzon, J. et al.; Paetz, C.: Phenylphenalenones and linear diarylheptanoid derivatives are biosynthesized via parallel routes in Musella lasiocarpa, the chinese dwarf banana. Organic Letters 26 (26), pp. 5522 - 5527 (2024)

Xu, H.; Köllner, T. G.; Chen, F.; Dickschat, J. S.: Mechanistic characterisation of a sesquiterpene synthase for asterisca-1,6-diene from the liverwort Radula lindenbergiana and implications for pentalenene biosynthesis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 22 (7), pp. 1360 - 1364 (2024)

Xu, H.; Köllner, T. G.; Chen, F.; Dickschat, J. S.: Functional and mechanistic characterization of the 4,5-diepi-isoishwarane synthase from the liverwort Radula lindenbergiana. Chembiochem, e202400104 (2024)

Gikonyo, M. W.; Ahn, S.-J.; Biondi, M.; Fritzlar, F.; Okamura, Y.; Vogel, H.; Köllner, T. G.; Şen, I.; Hernández-Teixidor, D.; Lee, C.-F. et al.; Letsch, H.; Beran, F.: A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, qpad197, pp. 127 - 145 (2024)

Müller, A. T.; Nakamura, Y.; Reichelt, M.; Luck, K.; Cosio, E.; Lackus, N.; Gershenzon, J.; Mithöfer, A.; Köllner, T. G.: Biosynthesis, herbivore induction, and defensive role of phenylacetaldoxime glucoside. Plant Physiology 194 (1), pp. 329 - 346 (2024)

Jiang, Y.; Chen, F.; Song, A.; Zhao, Y.; Chen, X.; Gao, Y.; Wei, G.; Zhang, W.; Guan, Y.; Fu, J. et al.; Chen, J.; Guo, W.; Wang, Z.; Köllner, T. G.; Li, Z.; Liu, N.; Sui, S.; Zhang, L.; Chen, F.: The genome assembly of Chimonanthus praecox var. concolor and comparative genomic analysis highlight the genetic basis underlying conserved and variable floral traits of wintersweet. Industrial Crops and Products 206, 117603 (2023)

Köllner, T. G.; Gershenzon, J.; Peters, R. J.; Zerbe, P.; Schmelz, E. A.: The terpene synthase gene family in maize – a clarification of existing community nomenclature. BMC Genomics 24, 744 (2023)

Florean, M.; Luck, K.; Hong, B.; Nakamura, Y.; O’Connor, S. E.; Köllner, T. G.: Reinventing metabolic pathways: Independent evolution of benzoxazinoids in flowering plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (42), e2307981120 (2023)

Chen, X.; Nowicki, M.; Wadl, P. A.; Zhang, C.; Köllner, T. G.; Payá-Milans, M.; Huff, M. L.; Staton, M. E.; Chen, F.; Trigiano, R. N.: Chemical profile and analysis of biosynthetic pathways and genes of volatile terpenes in Pityopsis ruthii, a rare and endangered flowering plant. PLoS One 18 (6), e0287524 (2023)

Kreuzenbeck, N. B.; Dhiman, S.; Roman, D.; Burkhardt, I.; Conlon, B. H.; Fricke, J.; Guo, H.; Blume, J.; Görls, H.; Poulsen, M. et al.; Dickschat, J. S.; Köllner, T. G.; Arndt, H.-D.; Beemelmanns, C.: Isolation, (bio)synthetic studies and evaluation of antimicrobial properties of drimenol-type sesquiterpenes of Termitomyces fungi. Communications Chemistry 6 (1), 79 (2023)

Nosenko, T.; Zimmer, I.; Ghirardo, A.; Köllner, T. G.; Weber, B.; Polle, A.; Rosenkranz, M.; Schnitzler, J.-P.: Predicting functions of putative fungal sesquiterpene synthase genes based on multiomics data analysis. Fungal Genetics and Biology 165, 103779 (2023)

Petrén, H.; Köllner, T. G.; Junker, R. R.: Quantifying chemodiversity considering biochemical and structural properties of compounds with the R package chemodiv. New Phytologist 237 (6), pp. 2478 - 2492 (2023)

Rebholz, Z.; Lancaster, J.; Larose, H.; Khrimian, A.; Luck, K.; Sparks, M. E.; Gendreau, K. L.; Shewade, L.; Köllner, T. G.; Weber, D. C. et al.; Gundersen-Rindal, D. E.; O’Maille, P.; Morozov, A. V.; Tholl, D.: Ancient origin and conserved gene function in terpene pheromone and defense evolution of stink bugs and hemipteran insects. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 152, 103879 (2023)

Krause, T.; Wiesinger, P.; González-Cabanelas, D.; Lackus, N.; Köllner, T. G.; Klüpfel, T.; Williams, J.; Rohwer, J.; Gershenzon, J.; Schmidt, A.: HDR, the last enzyme in the MEP pathway, differently regulates isoprenoid biosynthesis in two woody plants. Plant Physiology 192 (2), pp. 767 - 788 (2023)

Müller, A. T.; Reichelt, M.; Cosio, E. G.; Salinas, N.; Nina, A.; Wang, D.; Moossen, H.; Geilmann, H.; Gershenzon, J.; Köllner, T. G. et al.; Mithöfer, A.: Combined –omics framework reveals how ant symbionts benefit the Neotropical ant-plant Tococa quadrialata at different levels. iScience 25 (10), 105261 (2022)

Köllner, T. G.; David, A.; Luck, K.; Beran, F.; Kunert, G.; Zhou, J.-J.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Biosynthesis of iridoid sex pheromones in aphids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (42), e2211254119 (2022)