Caubrière D., de Butler A., Moseler A., Leverrier P., Collet J.F., Meyer A.J., Rouhier N., Couturier J. (2025). Fusion of a bacterial cysteine desulfurase to redox-sensitive green fluorescent protein produces a highly sensitive cysteine biosensor for monitoring changes in intracellular cysteine. Redox Biology, 85:103785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2025.103785

Chu L., Shrestha V., Schäfer C.C., Niedens J., Meyer G.W., Darnell Z., Kling T., Dürr-Mayer T., Abramov A., Frey M., Jessen H.J., Schaaf G., Hochholdinger F., Nowak-Krol A., McSteen P., Angelovici R., Matthes M.S. (2025) Association of the benzoxazinoid pathway with boron homeostasis in maize. Plant Physiol, 197: kiae611. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiae611. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39514757. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae611

Custódio V., Salas-González I., Gopaulchan D., Flis P., Amoros R., Gao Y.Q., Jia X., Moreno A., Carrera E., Marcon C., Hochholdinger F., Oliveira M.M., Salt D.E., Castrillo G. (2025.). Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth. Cell Host Microbe 33: 436-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.02.002

Dresselhaus T., Balboni M., Berg L., Dolata A., Hochholdinger F., Huang Y., Jiang G., von Korff M., Ku J.-C., van der Linde K., Maika J., Mondragon C.L., Raissig M., Schnittger A., Schnurbusch T., Simon R., Stahl Y., Timmermans M., Thirulogachandar V., Zhao S., Zhou Y. (2025). How meristems shape plant architecture in cereals-Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS) Consortium. The Plant Cell, 37: koaf150. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf150

Guo L., Rosignoli S., Rasmussen M.W., Sureshd K., Sangiorgi G., Camerlengo F., Zeisler-Diehl V.V., Schreiber L., Dockter C., Pauly M., Tuberosa R., Hochholdinger F.*, Salvi S.* (2025). The putative endo-1,4-β-D-glucanase GLU3 regulates cellulose biosynthesis in barley roots. Plant Physiology, 198: kiaf311. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf311

He X., Hochholdinger F., Chen X., Yu P. (2025). Crop domestication and improvement reshape root trais and their associated microbiome structure and function. Front Agri Sci Eng (FASE) 12 (1): 27-36. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2024593

He X., Wang D., Baer M., Gu L., Schaaf G., Apostolakis A., Meijide A., Chen X.*, Hochholdinger F.*, Yu P.* (2025) Rhizosheath inhabiting Massilia are linked to heterosis in roots of maize. Nat Commun 16: 10777. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65829-2 

Hochholdinger F., Yu P. (2025). Molecular concepts to explain heterosis in crops. Trends Plant Sci., 30: 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.07.018

Islam M.A., Becker M., Krupnik T.J., Pariyar S. (2025). Farmers’ perception and adoption of intensification-related practices in rice production of coastal Bangladesh. Discover Sustainability, 6(1), 1238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-025-02251-0

Khan M., Nagarajan N., Schneewolf K., Marcon C., Wang D., Hochholdinger F., Yu P., Djamei A. (2025). Pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis exploits the lateral root regulators to induce pluripotency in maize shoots. New Phytol, doi: 10.1111/nph.70843. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41454386. https:\\doi.org\10.1111/nph.70843

Koch I., Kahmen A., Burkhardt J. (2025). Aerosol deposition affects water uptake and water loss of beech leaves. Tree Physiol., 45 (6). https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaf055

Magano D.A., Carvalho I.R., da Silva J.A.G., da Rosa J.A., Guedes J.V.C., Pariyar S., Burkhardt J., Hunsche M. (2025). Cuticular Penetration of Foliar Fertilizers: Evidences for Co-Penetration of Zn and Mn with Potassium Ions. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 56(7), 1079–1088. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2024.2445865

Maidment J.H.R., Moseler A. (2025). Small molecule, big impact: H2S contributes to pathogen-induced stomatal closure. Plant Physiology, kiaf530. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf530

Marcon C., Win Y.N., Du X., Hochholdinger F. (2025). BonnMu: a resource for functional genetics in maize (Zea mays L.). Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2025(9):pdb.top108465. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.top108465

Marcon C., Brox A., Win Y.N., Stöcker T., Du X., Schoof H., Hochholdinger F. (2025). Identification of transposon insertion sites in maize Mu-tagged mutants using Mu-seq. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2025(9):pdb.prot108586. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108586

Moseler A. (2025). Holding all the CARDs: quinone-induced oxidation and phosphorylation of GRXC1 impacts root growth. Plant Physiology, 199:kiaf450. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf450

Moseler A. (2025). Turning the knob: The impact of glutathionylation on starch metabolism. Plant Physiology, 198:kiaf322. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf322

Moseler A., Reyes-Hernández B.J. (2025). From Peptides to Patterning: Redox Control of the master regulator PLT2 in Arabidopsis Roots. Plant Physiology, 198:kiaf264. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf264

Moseler A., Wagner S., Meyer A.J. (2025). How to build a [2Fe–2S] cluster. Nat Chem Biol, 21: 617–618. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01835-7

Pitz M., Baldauf J.A., Piepho H.P,. Hochholdinger F. (2025). Nonadditive gene expression contributing to heterosis in partially heterozygous maize hybrids is predominantly regulated from heterozygous regions. New Phytol., 247: 669–683. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70128

Pitz M., Baldauf J.A., Piepho H.-P., Yu P., Schoof H., Mason A.S., Li G., Hochholdinger F. (2025). Regulation of heterosis associated gene expression complementation in maize hybrids. Genome Biol 26: 291. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03768-3

Richter A, Schroeder A, Marcon C, Hochholdinger Frank, Jander G, Negin B (2025) Catechol acetylglucose: A newly identified benzoxazinoid-regulated defensive metabolite in maize. New Phytol 244: 2474-2488. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20209

Sommer M.L., Zhou Y., Hochholdinger F. (2025). Differential Cold Stress Intensities Drive Unique Morphological and Transcriptomic Changes in Zea mays Root Hairs. BMC Genomics 26: 805. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-12001-1

Urzinger S., Avramova V., Frey M., Urbany C., Scheuermann D., Presterl T., Reuscher S., Ernst K., Mayer M., Marcon C., Hochholdinger F., Brajkovic S., Ordas B., Westhoff P., Ouzunova M., Schön C.-C. (2025). Embracing native diversity to enhance maximum quantum efficiency of photosystem II in maize (Zea mays L.). Plant Physiol 197: kiae670. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae670

Win Y.N., Pöschel M., Stöcker T., Du X., Klaus A., Braun B.W., Lukas L., Brox A., Schoof H., Hochholdinger F., Marcon C. (2025). Use of maize (Zea mays L.) Mutator transposon-induced mutants of the BonnMu resource for forward and reverse genetics studies. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2025(9):pdb.prot108587. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot108587

Zhao J., Chen Y., Tao Q., Schreiber L., Suresh K., Frei M., Alam M.S., Li B., Zhou Y., Baer M., Hochholdinger F., Wang C., Yu P. (2025). Enhanced CO₂ coordinates the spatial recruitment of diazotrophs in rice via root development. Plant Cell Environ. doi: 10.1111/pce.15259. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39526402. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.15259