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Speaker: Thorsten Schnurbusch
Professor
Developmental Genetics of Crop Plants
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Title:
Immature Spike Greening—fundamental for Grain Yield Formation?
Time：19th Oct 2022, 10:00 am [Germany] 16:00 pm [PK]
ZOOM Meeting：
https://adelaide.zoom.us/j/9704587219?pwd=JFTUJZtd9wL4jurM3iq0Mx3lHy1tAN.1
Room No：970 458 7219
Passcode：111111
Host: Dabing Zhang
Research interest
The main focus of my lab’s research has been on the genetic and molecular elucidation of inflorescence (spike) and spikelet development; both organs are crucial for establishing the grain yield potential in small grain cereals, i.e. barley and wheat. We are utilizing natural spike variants from wheat, and induced spike mutants from barley to clarify the genetic make-up of genes underlying developmental phenotypes for reduced or increased grain number per spike. We are therefore interested in the genetic and molecular determinants of spikelet and floret fertility in relation to grain yield formation.
Speaker biography：
University training and degree
1992 Trainee-Work in a Permaculture-Park and on a certified Organic Farm, Dortmund Germany
1992 – 1996 Diploma (FH) in Agriculture, Soest/Westf., Germany
1996 Internship at DSV, Canola Breeding Station Salzkotten-Thüle, Germany
1996 – 1998 Diploma in Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
Advanced academic qualifications
1999 – 2003 Doctorate in Natural Sciences (Dr. sc. nat.), University of Zürich, Switzer- land; Thesis supervisor Prof. Dr. Beat Keller, Institute of Plant Biology; Molecular Genetics of Wheat
2014 Habilitation (Dr. habil. agr.), MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany;
Postgraduate professional career
2003 – 2004 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zürich, Switzerland, Institute of Plant Biology, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Prof. Beat Keller
2004 – 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow (Awardee, Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship), The University of Adelaide, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), Australia, Prof. Peter Langridge
2005 – 2007 Drought Focus Group Leader, The University of Adelaide, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), Australia
Since 2008 Head Research Group Plant Architecture, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
since 2019 Professor (Full) for Developmental Genetics of Crop Plants jointly appointed by IPK and MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Awards
2004 – 2005 Feodor-Lynen Postdoc-Research Fellowship, A.v. Humboldt Foundation
2008 – 2012 Young Investigator Grant, GABI-FUTURE Start Module, BMBF-funded
2015 – 2019 Heisenberg Research Fellowship, DFG-funded
2016 – 2021 ERC Consolidator Grant, LUSH SPIKE
2019 – 2022 Heisenberg Research Professorship, DFG-funded
Research outputs (selected) in recent 5 years:
1. KOPPOLU, R., S. CHEN and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2022) Evolution of inflorescence branch modification in cereal crops. Curr Opin Plant Biol 65: 102168
2. VENKATASUBBU, T., R. KOPPOLU, and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2021) Strategies of grain number determination differentiate barley row-types. J Exp Bot 72: 7754-7768
3. VENKATASUBBU, T. and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2021) ‘Spikelet stop’ determines the maximum yield potential stage in barley. J Exp Bot 72: 7743-7753
4. THIEL, J., R. KOPPOLU, C. TRAUTEWIG, C. HERTIG, S.M. KALE, S. ERBE, M. MASCHER, A. HIMMELBACH, T. RUTTEN, E. ESTEBAN, A. PASHA, J. KUMLEHN, N.J. PROVART, S. VANDERAUWERA, C. FROHBERG and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2021) Transcriptional landscapes of floral meristems in barley. Science Adv 7: eabf0832
5. WOLDE, G.M., M. SCHREIBER, C. TRAUTEWIG, A. HIMMELBACH, S. SAKUMA, M. MASCHER and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2021) Genome-wide identification of loci modifying spike-branching in tetraploid wheat. Theor Appl Genet 134: 1925-1943
6. POURSAREBANI, N., C. TRAUTEWIG, M. MELZER, T. NUSSBAUMER, U. LUNDQVIST, T. RUTTEN, T. SCH-MUTZER, R. BRANDT, A. HIMMELBACH, L. ALTSCHMIED, R. KOPPOLU, H.M. YOUSSEF, N. STEIN, Z. XIN and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2020) COMPOSITUM 1 contributes to the architectural simplification of bar-ley inflorescence via cell wall-mediated and meristem identity signals. Nat Communs 11: 5138
7. ABBAI, R., V.K. SINGH, R.J. SNOWDON, A. KUMAR and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2020) Seeking crops with balanced parts for the ideal whole. Trends Plant Sci 25: 1189-1193
8. SAKUMA, S. and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2020) Of floral fortune: Tinkering with the grain yield potential of cereal crops. New Phytol 225: 1873-1882
9. WOLDE, G.M., C. TRAUTEWIG, M. MASCHER and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2019) Genetic insights into morphometric inflorescence traits of wheat. Theor Appl Genet 132: 1661-1676
10. SAKUMA, S., G. GOLAN, Z. GUO, T. OGAWA, A. TAGIRI, K. SUGIMOTO, N. BERNHARDT, J. BRASSAC, M. MASCHER, G. HENSEL, S. OHNISHI, H. JINNO, Y. YAMASHITA, I. AYALON, Z. PELEG and T. SCHNURBUSCH*, T. KOMATSUDA* (2019) Unleashing floret fertility in wheat through the mutation of a homeobox gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 116: 5182-5187 (*joint corresponding-authorship) *Highly Cited Paper
11. GUO, Z., D. CHEN, M. RÖDER, M.W. GANAL and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2018) Genetic dissection of pre-anthesis sub-phase durations during the reproductive spike development of wheat. Plant J 95: 909-918
12. GUO, Z., G. LIU, M. RÖDER, J. C. REIF, M. GANAL and T. SCHNURBUSCH (2018) Genome-wide association analyses of plant growth traits during the stem elongation phase in wheat. Plant Biotech J 16: 2042-2052
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