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University College Dublin: Dublin, Dublin, IE

2015-01-01 to present | Assistant Professor (School of Biology and Environmental Science)
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Rainer Melzer

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Jena, Thüringen, DE

2009-09-01 to 2014-12-31 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Faculty of Biological Sciences)
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Rainer Melzer

Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE

2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30 | Interim Professor of Genetics (Faculty of Life Sciences)
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Rainer Melzer

Education and qualifications (2)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Jena, Thüringen, DE

2005-07-01 to 2009-08-31 | Dr. rer. nat. (Faculty of Biological Sciences)
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Rainer Melzer

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Jena, Thüringen, DE

1999-10-01 to 2005-05-31 | Diploma in Biology (Faculty of Biological Sciences)
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Rainer Melzer

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European Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Dublin, Dublin, IE

2018-06-29 to present | Secretary
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Works (44)

Identification of genes associated with sex expression and sex determination in hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)

Journal of Experimental Botany
2025-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae429
Contributors: Jiaqi Shi; Matteo Toscani; Caroline A Dowling; Susanne Schilling; Rainer Melzer; Ricarda Jost
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Improving medicinal plant cultivation through in-depth understanding of environmental, physiological, metabolic, and genetic constraints

Journal of Experimental Botany
2025-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae463
Contributors: Ricarda Jost; Susanne Schilling; Rainer Melzer
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Flowering Newsletter 2024

Journal of Experimental Botany
2024-09-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae306
Contributors: Rainer Melzer
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A FLOWERING LOCUS T ortholog is associated with photoperiod‐insensitive flowering in hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)

The Plant Journal
2024-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16769
Contributors: Caroline A. Dowling; Jiaqi Shi; Jacob A. Toth; Michael A. Quade; Lawrence B. Smart; Paul F. McCabe; Susanne Schilling; Rainer Melzer
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Morphological and genetic analysis of inflorescence and flower development in hemp (Cannabis sativaL.)

2024-01-29 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.25.577276
Contributors: Jiaqi Shi; Susanne Schilling; Rainer Melzer
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Flowering Newsletter 2023

Journal of Experimental Botany
2023-08-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad258
Contributors: Rainer Melzer
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AFLOWERING LOCUS Tortholog is associated with photoperiod-insensitive flowering in hemp (Cannabis sativaL.)

2023-04-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.21.537862
Contributors: Caroline A. Dowling; Jiaqi Shi; Jacob A. Toth; Michael A. Quade; Lawrence B. Smart; Paul F. McCabe; Rainer Melzer; Susanne Schilling
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A protocol for rapid generation cycling (speed breeding) of hemp (Cannabis sativa) for research and agriculture

The Plant Journal
2023-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16051
Contributors: Susanne Schilling; Rainer Melzer; Caroline A. Dowling; Jiaqi Shi; Shaun Muldoon; Paul F. McCabe
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A protocol for rapid generation cycling (speed breeding) of hemp (Cannabis sativa) for research and agriculture

2022-09-14 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.09.12.507554
Contributors: Susanne Schilling; Rainer Melzer; Caroline A. Dowling; Jiaqi Shi; Shaun Muldoon; Paul F. McCabe
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Flowering Newsletter 2022

Journal of Experimental Botany
2022-08-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac269
Contributors: Rainer Melzer
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Phenotypic Variation from Waterlogging in Multiple Perennial Ryegrass Varieties under Climate Change Conditions

2022-03-08 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.07.483244
Contributors: Carl A. Frisk; Georgianna Xistris-Songpanya; Matthieu Osborne; Yastika Biswas; Rainer Melzer; Jon M. Yearsley
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Timing is everything: the genetics of flowering time in Cannabis sativa

The Biochemist
2021-06-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1042/bio_2021_138
Contributors: Caroline A. Dowling; Rainer Melzer; Susanne Schilling
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DNA-binding properties of the MADS-domain transcription factor SEPALLATA3 and mutant variants characterized by SELEX-seq

Plant Molecular Biology
2021-03-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-020-01108-6
Contributors: Sandra Käppel; Ralf Eggeling; Florian Rümpler; Marco Groth; Rainer Melzer; Günter Theißen
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The Cream of the Crop: Biology, Breeding and Applications of Cannabis sativa

2020-10-01 | Other
DOI: 10.22541/au.160139712.25104053/v2
Contributors: Susanne Schilling; Caroline A Dowling; Jiaqi Shi; Louise Ryan; David Hunt; Eve OReilly; Antoinette S Perry; Oliver Kinnane; Paul F McCabe; Rainer Melzer
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Epigenetics: possible applications in climate-smart crop breeding

Journal of Experimental Botany
2020-08-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa188
Contributors: Serena Varotto; Eleni Tani; Eleni Abraham; Tamar Krugman; Aliki Kapazoglou; Rainer Melzer; Aleksandra Radanović; Dragana Miladinović; Aline Probst
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Genome‐wide analysis of MIKC‐type MADS‐box genes in wheat: pervasive duplications, functional conservation and putative neofunctionalization

New Phytologist
2020-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/nph.16122
Contributors: Susanne Schilling; Alice Kennedy; Sirui Pan; Lars S. Jermiin; Rainer Melzer
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Love is in the air: ethylene and sex determination in Cucurbita pepo

Journal of Experimental Botany
2020-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz412
Contributors: Susanne Schilling; Paul F McCabe; Rainer Melzer
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Genome-wide analysis of MIKC-type MADS-box genes in wheat: pervasive duplications may have facilitated adaptation to different environmental conditions

2019-03-26 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/585232
Contributors: Susanne Schilling; Alice Kennedy; Sirui Pan; Lars S. Jermiin; Rainer Melzer
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The floral homeotic protein SEPALLATA3 recognizes target DNA sequences by shape readout involving a conserved arginine residue in the MADS‐domain

The Plant Journal
2018-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13954
Contributors: Sandra Käppel; Rainer Melzer; Florian Rümpler; Christian Gafert; Günter Theißen
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A conserved leucine zipper-like motif accounts for strong tetramerization capabilities of SEPALLATA-like MADS-domain transcription factors

Journal of Experimental Botany
2018-04-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery063
Contributors: Florian Rümpler; Günter Theißen; Rainer Melzer
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MADS-box genes and crop domestication: the jack of all traits

Journal of Experimental Botany
2018-03-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx479
Contributors: Susanne Schilling; Sirui Pan; Alice Kennedy; Rainer Melzer
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The floral homeotic protein SEPALLATA3 recognizes target DNA sequences by shape readout involving a conserved arginine residue in the MADS-domain

2017-05-03 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/133678
Contributors: Sandra Gusewski; Rainer Melzer; Florian Rüempler; Christian Gafert; Güenter Theiβen
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An evolutionarily conserved leucine zipper-like motif accounts for strong tetramerization capabilities of SEPALLATA-like MADS-domain transcription factors controlling flower development

2017-04-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/125294
Contributors: Florian Rümpler; Günter Theißen; Rainer Melzer
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MADS-domain transcription factors and the floral quartet model of flower development: Linking plant development and evolution

Development (Cambridge)
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1242/dev.134080
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Contributors: Theißen, G.; Melzer, R.; Ruümpler, F.
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Robust views on plasticity and biodiversity

Annals of Botany
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw066
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2-s2.0-84964932880
Contributors: Theißen, G.; Melzer, R.
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The significance of developmental robustness for species diversity

Annals of Botany
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw018
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2-s2.0-84964956224
Contributors: Melzer, R.; Theißen, G.
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Did Convergent Protein Evolution Enable Phytoplasmas to Generate 'Zombie Plants'?

Trends in plant science
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.08.004
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2-s2.0-84988473987
Contributors: Rümpler, F.; Gramzow, L.; Theißen, G.; Melzer, R.
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Arabidopsis SEPALLATA proteins differ in cooperative DNA-binding during the formation of floral quartet-like complexes.

2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku755
PMID: 25183521
PMC: PMC4176161
Contributors: Jetha K; Theißen G; Melzer R
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DEF- and GLO-like proteins may have lost most of their interaction partners during angiosperm evolution.

2014-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu094
PMID: 24902716
Contributors: Melzer R; Härter A; Rümpler F; Kim S; Soltis PS; Soltis DE; Theißen G
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Structural Basis for the Oligomerization of the MADS Domain Transcription Factor SEPALLATA3 in Arabidopsis

The Plant Cell
2014-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.127910
Contributors: S. Puranik; S. Acajjaoui; S. Conn; L. Costa; V. Conn; A. Vial; R. Marcellin; R. Melzer; E. Brown; D. Hart et al.
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The seirena B Class Floral Homeotic Mutant of California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) Reveals a Function of the Enigmatic PI Motif in the Formation of Specific Multimeric MADS Domain Protein Complexes

The Plant Cell
2013-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.105809
Contributors: M. Lange; S. Orashakova; S. Lange; R. Melzer; G. Theissen; D. R. Smyth; A. Becker
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Loss of deeply conserved C-class floral homeotic gene function and C- and E-class protein interaction in a double-flowered ranunculid mutant.

2012-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203686109
PMID: 22853954
PMC: PMC3427126
Contributors: Galimba KD; Tolkin TR; Sullivan AM; Melzer R; Theißen G; Di Stilio VS
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MADS and more: Transcription factors that shape the plant

Methods in Molecular Biology
2011 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-154-3-1
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2-s2.0-79960734001
Contributors: Melzer, R.; Theißen, G.
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MADS and More: Transcription Factors That Shape the Plant

Plant Transcription Factors
2011 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-154-3_1
Contributors: Rainer Melzer; Günter Theißen
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A double-flowered variety of lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor fl. pl.) that has persisted in the wild for more than 160 years.

2011-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr090
PMID: 21527418
PMC: PMC3108809
Contributors: Wang YQ; Melzer R; Theissen G
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GORDITA (AGL63) is a young paralog of the Arabidopsis thaliana Bsister MADS box gene ABS (TT16) that has undergone neofunctionalization

The Plant Journal
2010-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04290.x
Contributors: Robert Erdmann; Lydia Gramzow; Rainer Melzer; Günter Theißen; Annette Becker
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Molecular interactions of orthologues of floral homeotic proteins from the gymnosperm Gnetum gnemon provide a clue to the evolutionary origin of ‘floral quartets’

The Plant Journal
2010-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04325.x
Contributors: Yong-Qiang Wang; Rainer Melzer; Günter Theißen
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The naked and the dead: The ABCs of gymnosperm reproduction and the origin of the angiosperm flower

Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology
2010-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.11.015
Contributors: Rainer Melzer; Yong-Qiang Wang; Günter Theißen
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Reconstitution of 'floral quartets' in vitro involving class B and class E floral homeotic proteins.

2009-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp129
PMID: 19276203
PMC: PMC2677882
Contributors: Melzer R; Theissen G
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The class E floral homeotic protein SEPALLATA3 is sufficient to loop DNA in 'floral quartet'-like complexes in vitro.

2009-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn900
PMID: 19033361
PMC: PMC2615621
Contributors: Melzer R; Verelst W; Theissen G
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Molecular mechanisms underlying origin and diversification of the angiosperm flower.

2007-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm143
PMID: 17670752
PMC: PMC2533597
Contributors: Theissen G; Melzer R
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Combinatorial Control of Floral Organ Identity by MADS-domain Transcription Factors

Regulation of Transcription in Plants
2007-01-02 | Other
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988886.ch10
Contributors: Gnter Theien; Rainer Melzer
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Missing Links: DNA-Binding and Target Gene Specificity of Floral Homeotic Proteins

Advances in Botanical Research
2006 | Book
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2296(06)44005-2
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2-s2.0-33750633807
Contributors: Melzer, R.; Kaufmann, K.; Theißen, G.
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MIKC-type MADS-domain proteins: structural modularity, protein interactions and network evolution in land plants

Gene
2005-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.12.014
Contributors: Kerstin Kaufmann; Rainer Melzer; Günter Theißen
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Peer review (13 reviews for 7 publications/grants)

Review activity for Botany. (1)
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Review activity for New phytologist. (6)
Review activity for Sexual plant reproduction. (1)
Review activity for The plant cell. (1)
Review activity for The plant genome. (1)
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