Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kutschera

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPlant Physiology,Evolution and Systematics of Plants and Fungi
KeywordsEvolution, Evolutionary plant physiology, Photosynthesis, Phytohormones, Growth

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityFreiburg
InstitutionArbeitskreis (AK) Evolutionsbiologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Winslow R. BriggsDepartment of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford
Prof. Dr. Hans KendeDOE - Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/1985

Programme(s)

1985Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2025Kutschera, U. and Niklas, K. J.: Evolution of Sexuality in Animals and Plants: From Julius Sachs 1874 to HMG-box Genes. In: Biological Theory, 2025,
2024Kutschera, U. and Khanna, R.: Darwin’s Green Living Fossil: The Microalga Cyanophora Paradoxa and Evolutionary Stasis. In: Microorganisms, 12, 2024, 1-4
2024Kutschera, U. and Ehnes, I.: Darwin’s Toxic Tropical Land Planarians invade California and Europe: New Records. In: IJISET, 11, 2024, 1–5
2024Kutschera, U. and Khanna, R.: The Significance of Darwin’s Origin of Species 1872 and ecology of salt-marsh plants in Northern California, USA. In: Biodiversity Journal 15, 2024, 115-121
2023Kutschera, U.: The taxonomic status of the San Francisco Bay area Leech Helobdella triserialis (SF)(Annelida Hirudinida Glossiphoniidae) with notes on its ecology. In: Biodiversity Journal, 14, 2023, 537-546
2023Kutschera, U. and Khanna, R.: Why teaching evolution and photosynthesis is imperative for an understanding of the living world. In: IJISET, 10, 2023, 1-4
2023Kutschera, U. and Ehnes, I.: World Climate Declaration: Exhaled carbon dioxide promotes plant development. In: European Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences, 4, 2023, 1-4
2022Kutschera, U. and Ray, P. M.: Forever young: stem cell and plant regeneration one century after Haberlandt 1921. In: Protoplasma, 259, 2022, 3-18
2022Kutschera, U. and Khanna, R.: The origin of chloroplasts: Constantin S. Merezhkowsky (1855--1921) and symbiogenesis. In: Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 31, 2022, 178-184
2021Kutschera, U. and Khanna, R. Helicoidal cell walls and the Arabidopsis-enigma. In: Science 372/706: E-Letter Nov. 25, 2021, 1-3
2021Kutschera, U. and Ehnes, I. Obama nungara: A flatworm from South America invades Germany. In: Science 372/581: E-Letter May 12, 2021, 1-2
2020Kutschera, U. and Khanna, R.: Auxin action in developing maize coleoptiles: challenges and open questions. In: Plant Signaling & Behavior, 15/6, 2020, 1-6
2020Kutschera, U., Pieruschka, R., Farmer, S. and Berry, J. A. The Warburg-effects: basic metabolic processes with reference to cancer development and global photosynthesis. In: Plant signaling & behavior, 15/7, 2020, 1-10
2019Kutschera, U. and Wang, Z.-Y.: Light and plant development: the discovery of phototropins by Winslow R. Briggs (1928-2019). In: Plant Signaling & Behavior, 14/10, 2019, 1-9
2019Kutschera, U. and Briggs, W.R.: Photomorphogenesis of the root system in developing sunflower seedlings: a role for sucrose. In: Plant Biology, 21, 2019, 627-633