PUBLICATIONS

2025

Aiyesa LV, Kaufmann D, Zumbach B, Link W, Scholten S, and Beissinger T. Individual plant genetics reveal the control of local adaptation in European maize landraces. BMC Biol. 2025:23(1):138.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02241-8

Cedden D, Güney G, Debaisieux X, Scholten S, Rostás M, and Bucher G. Effective target genes for RNA interference-based management of the cabbage stem flea beetle. Insect Mol Biol. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/imb.12942

Güney G, Schmitt K, Zicola J, Toprak U, Rostás M, Scholten S, and Cedden D. The microRNA pathway regulates obligatory aestivation in the cabbage stem flea beetle Psylliodes chrysocephala. Commun Biol. 2025:8(1):1288. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08721-5

Heinrich E, Schierholt A, and Möllers C. QTL mapping of flowering time in Brassica napus: a study on the interplay between temperature and day length after vernalization. Front Plant Sci. 2025:16https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1513353

Ibeabuchi KO, Dourado MM, Scholten S, and Feuerstein U. Genome-wide association mapping reveals genetic loci underlying phenotypic variation in early root vigour improvement induced by osmopriming in Brassica napus L. BMC Plant Biol. 2025:25(1):1460. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-07540-4

Zicola J, Weber B, Tu X, Bader R, Zisis D, Aesaert S, Salvi S, Krajewski P, Van Lijsebettens M, Li C, et al. Vegetative to generative1 (Vgt1) is an enhancer affecting flowering time and jasmonate signaling in maize by promoting the expression of Zea mays Related to APETALA 2.7. Plant Physiol. 2025b:kiaf468.https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf468


2024

Cedden D, Güney G, Scholten S, and Rostás M. Lethal and sublethal effects of orally delivered double-stranded RNA on the cabbage stem flea beetle, Psylliodes chrysocephala. Pest Manag Sci. 2024:80(5):2282–2293. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7494

Güney G, Cedden D, Körnig J, Ulber B, Beran F, Scholten S, and Rostás M. Physiological and transcriptional changes associated with obligate aestivation in the cabbage stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala). Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2024:173:104165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2024.104165

Zicola J, Dasari P, Hahn KK, Ziese-Kubon K, Meurer A, Buhl T, and Scholten S. De novo transcriptome assembly of the oak processionary moth Thaumetopoea processionea. BMC Genomic Data. 2024:25(1):55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-024-01237-7


2023

Sana S, Vollhardt I, Kubon K, Rostás M, and Scholten S. De novo transcriptome assemblies of five major European oilseed rape insect pests. BMC Genomic Data. 2023:24(1):15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-023-01115-8


Before 2020

Seifert F, Thiemann A, Schrag TA, Rybka D, Melchinger AE, Frisch M, and Scholten S. Small RNA-based prediction of hybrid performance in maize. BMC Genomics. 2018b:19(1):371. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4708-8

Seifert F, Thiemann A, Grant-Downton R, Edelmann S, Rybka D, Schrag TA, Frisch M, Dickinson HG, Melchinger AE, and Scholten S. Parental Expression Variation of Small RNAs Is Negatively Correlated with Grain Yield Heterosis in a Maize Breeding Population. Front Plant Sci. 2018a:9https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00013

Westhues M, Schrag TA, Heuer C, Thaller G, Utz HF, Schipprack W, Thiemann A, Seifert F, Ehret A, Schlereth A, et al. Omics-based hybrid prediction in maize. Theor Appl Genet. 2017:130(9):1927–1939. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-017-2934-0

Dickinson H and Scholten S. And Baby Makes Three: Genomic Imprinting in Plant Embryos. PLOS Genet. 2013:9(12):e1003981. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003981

Scholten S. Genomic imprinting in plant embryos. Epigenetics. 2010:5(6):455–459. https://doi.org/10.4161/epi.5.6.12313

Meyer S, Pospisil H, and Scholten S. Heterosis associated gene expression in maize embryos 6 days after fertilization exhibits additive, dominant and overdominant pattern. Plant Mol Biol. 2007:63(3):381–391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-006-9095-x

Gutiérrez-Marcos JF, Costa LM, Prà MD, Scholten S, Kranz E, Perez P, and Dickinson HG. Epigenetic asymmetry of imprinted genes in plant gametes. Nat Genet. 2006:38(8):876–878. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1828

Scholten S, Lörz H, and Kranz E. Paternal mRNA and protein synthesis coincides with male chromatin decondensation in maize zygotes. Plant J. 2002:32(2):221–231. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01418.x