Maarten Koornneef

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Maarten Koornneef

Professor of Plant Genetics at Wageningen University
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIZ)

Ph.D. 1982, Wageningen University

Email: Maarten.Koornneef@wur.nl / koornnee@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
Tel WUR: (+) 31 317 483642
Tel MPIZ: (+) 49 221 5062401



Topics:

Arabidopsis genetics

Research Topics:

  • The genetic analysis of seed dormancy
  • The use of Arabidopsis natural variation for the genetic dissection of complex traits


Selected Publications (out of 220):

M. Koornneef, C. Alonso-Blanco, A.J.M. Peeters and W. Soppe
Genetic control of flowering time in Arabidopsis. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol.Biol.(1998) 49: 345-370

C. Alonso-Blanco, A.J.M. Peeters, M. Koornneef, C. Lister, C. Dean, N. van den Bosch, J. Pot and M.T.R. Kuiper
Development of an AFLP based linkage map of Ler, Col and Cvi Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes and contruction of a Ler/Cvi recombinant inbred line population. Plant J. (1998) 14: 259-271

D.W. Meinke, J.M. Cherry, C. Dean, S.D. Rounsley and M. Koornneef
Arabidopsis thaliana: a model plant for genome analysis. Science (1998) 282: 662-682

C. Alonso-Blanco, H. Blankestijn-De Vries, C.J. Hanhart and M. Koornneef
Natural allelic variation at seed size loci in relation to other life history traits of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1999) 96: 4710-4717

C. Alonso-Blanco and M. Koornneef
Natural variation, an underexploited resource of genetic variation for plant genetics. Trends in Plant Science (2000) 5: 22-29

W.J.J. Soppe, S.E. Jacobsen, C. Alonso-Blanco, J.P. Jackson, T. Kakutani, M. Koornneef and A.J.M. Peeters
The late flowering phenotype of fwa mutants is caused by gain-of-function epigenetic alleles of a homeodomain gene. Molecular Cell (2000) 6: 791-802

I. Debeaujon, A.J.M. Peeters, K.M. Léon-KloosterzTiel, and M. Koornneef
The TRANSPARENT TESTA12 gene of Arabidopsis encodes a multidrug secondary transporter-like protein required for flavonoid sequestration in vacuoles of the seed coat endothelium. Plant Cell (2001) 13: 853-871

S. E-D. El-Assal, C. Alonso-Blanco, A.J.M. Peeters, V. Raz and M. Koornneef
The cloning of a flowering time QTL reveals a novel allele of CRY2. Nature Genetics (2001) 29: 435-440

C. Alonso-Blanco, L. Bentsink, C.J. Hanhart, H. Blankestijn-de Vries and M. Koornneef
Analysis of natural allelic variation at seed dormancy loci of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. (2003) 164: 711-729

M. Koornneef, C. Alonso-Blanco and D. Vreugdenhil
Naturally occurring genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ann. Rev. Plant Biol. (2004) 55: 141-172

E.J.M. Clerkx, M.E. El-Lithy, E. Vierling, G.J. Ruys, H. Blankestijn-De Vries, S.P.C. Groot, D. Vreugdenhil, and M. Koornneef
Analysis of natural allelic variation of Arabidopsis seed quality traits between the accessions Landsberg erecta and Shakdara, using a new recombinant inbred line population. Plant Physiol. (2004) 135: 432-443

M.E. El-Lithy, E.J.M. Clerkx, G.J. Ruys, M. Koornneef and D. Vreugdenhil
QTL analysis of growth related traits in a new Arabidopsis recombinant inbred line population. Plant Physiol. (2004) 135:444-458

 

  
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