Education:
 | Ph.D, 1984, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands |
Position:
| Professor and Head |
Research interests:
| Ethanolic fermentation |
| Leaf development |
| Petunia as a genetic model system |
Selected publications:
Kuhlemeier, C.; Reinhardt, D.: Auxin and Phyllotaxis. Trends in Plant Science, 6: (5) 187-189.
Caderas, D.; Muster, M.; Vogler, H.; Mandel, T.; Rose, J.K.C.; McQueen-Mason, S.; Kuhlemeier, C.: Limited correlation between expansin gene expression and elongation growth rate. Plant Physiol., 123: (4) 1399-1413.
Reinhardt, D., Mandel, T., Kuhlemeier, C.: Auxin Regulates the Initiation and Radial Position of Plant Lateral Organs. Plant Cell 12: 507-518.
Fleming, A.J., Caderas, D., Wehrli, E., McQueen-Mason, S., Kuhlemeier, C. Analysis of expansin-induced morphogenesis on the apical meristem of tomato. Planta 208(2), 166-174.
Tadege, M., Dupuis, I., Kuhlemeier, C.: Ethanolic fermentation: new functions for an old pathway. Trends Plant Sci. 4(8), 320-325.
Tadege, M., Bucher, M., Stähli, W., Suter, M., Dupuis, I., Kuhlemeier, C.: Activation of plant defense responses and sugar efflux by expression of pyruvate decarboxylase in potato leaves. Plant J. 16(6), 661-671.
Tadege, M., Brändle, R., and Kuhlemeier, C.: Anoxia tolerance in tobacco roots: effect of overexpression of pyruvate decarboxylase. Plant J. 14, 327-335.
Op den Camp, R.G.L. and Kuhlemeier, C. Phosphorylation of tobacco translation initiation factor 4A upon pollen tube germination. Nucleic Acids Res. 9, 2058-2062.
Reinhardt, D., Wittwer, F., Mandel, T., and Kuhlemeier, C. Localized upregulation of a new expansin gene predicts the site of leaf formatio in the tomato meristem. Plant Cell, 10 (9), 1427-1437.
Fleming, A.J., McQueen-Mason, S., and Kuhlemeier, C.: Induction of leaf primordia by the cell wall protein expansin. Science 276, 1415-1418, 1997.
Op den Camp, R.G.L., and Kuhlemeier, C.: Aldehyde dehydrogenase in tobacco pollen. Plant Mol. Biol.35, 355-365, 1997.
Tadege, M., and Kuhlemeier, C.: Aerobic fermentation during tobacco pollen development. Plant Mol. Biol.35, 343-354, 1997.
Bucher, M., Brändle, R. and Kuhlemeier, C.: Glycolytic gene expression in the amphibious Acorus calamus L. under natural conditions. Plant and Soil 178: 75 - 82, 1996.
Canevascini, S., Caderas, D., Fleming, A.J., Mandel, T., Dupuis, I. and Kuhlemeier, C.: Tissue-specific expression and promoter analysis of the tobacco ltp1 gene. Plant Physiol., 112: 513-524, 1996.
Fleming, A.J., Manzara, T., Gruissem, W. and Kuhlemeier, C.: Regulation of RBCS gene expression in the shoot apical meristem: an analysis by fluorescent imaging and RT-PCR. Plant J., 10: 745-754, 1996.