Lehrstuhl für Biochemie und Physiologie der Pflanzen
Fakultät für Biologie W5-134
Universität Bielefeld
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
Tel: 0521 106-5589
Fax: 0521 106-6039

e-mail: karl-josef.dietz@uni-bielefeld.de

Curriculum vitae:

Education and scientific carreer:

1977-1985: Study of Biology (Diplombiologie, Promotion) at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heber)

1983: Short term research stay at the ARC Institute for Photosynthesis (Prof. Dr. D.A. Walker), University of Sheffield, England

1985-87: Post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology (Prof. Dr. Lawrence Bogorad)

1986: Award of the "Unterfränkische Gedenkjahresstiftung für die Wissenschaft"

1988: Member and project leader of the special research initiative "Sonderforschungsbereich 176" on the "Molecular basis of signal transduction and transport at biomembranes"

1990: Habilitation at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Wuerzburg

1991: Short term stay at the Centre Physiologie Végétale of the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) with Prof. Dr. G. Marigo

1994: Member and project leader within Sonderforschungsbereich 251 der Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg mit dem Thema "Biochemistry, physiology and ecology of plant and animal productivity under stress"

1996: Short term stay at the Hitotsubashi University (Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan) with Prof. Dr. Tetsuro Mimura

1997: Professor für Stoffwechselphysiologie und Biochemie der Pflanzen (Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld)

1998/9: Member and project leader within the Sonderforschungsbereich 549 of the University of Bielefeld

2001: Coordinator of the Special Research Focus FOR 387 of the DFG "Redox control as central regulatory mechanism in organisms with oxygenic photosynthesis"

2002: Member and project leader within the Sonderforschungsbereich 613 'Physics of single molecule processes'

2002: Chairmen of the "Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology"-section of the German Society of Botany (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft)

Teaching:

Basic and advanced courses in biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology and ecophysiology of plants, lectures on plant physiology, molecular biology and biotechnology ( see Lehre for contents, in German)

Research interests:

Transmembrane transport

vacuolar membrane - proton pump - ion fluxes - amino acid transport

Redox-control and oxidative stress

Adaptation to stress: Heavy metals, salt and drought stress

Cell- and tissue-specific expression of genes in plants, the apoplast

Proteom and transcriptome analysis

List of publications:

A. Review

Recent reviews:

Baier M, Kandlbinder A, Golldack D, Dietz KJ (2005) Oxidative stress perception, signalling and response. Plant Cell and Environment, in press.

Baier M, Kandlbinder A, Dietz KJ, Golldack D (2005) New insights into abiotic stress signalling in plants. Progress in Botany, in press.

Dietz KJ, Stork T, Finkemeier I, Lamkemeyer P, Li WX, El-Tayeb MA, Michel KP, Baier M, Pistorius E (2004) The role of peroxiredoxins in oxygenic photosynthesis of cyanobacteria and higher plants: peroxide detoxification or redox sensing? In: Photoprotection, photoinhibition, gene regulation, and environment. Demmig-Adams B, Adams W, Mattoo A, eds. Kluwer Acad Press

Dietz KJ, Scheibe R (2004) Redox regulation, an introduction. Physiol. Plant. 120, 1-3.

Dietz KJ (2003) Plant peroxiredoxins. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 54, 93-107.

Dietz KJ (2003) Redox regulation, redox signalling and redox homeostasis in plant cells. Intern. Rev. Cytol. 228, 141-193.

Dietz KJ, Horling F, König J, Baier M (2002) The function of the chloroplast 2-cysteine peroxiredoxin in peroxide detoxification and its regulation. J. Exp. Bot. 53 (372), 1321-1329

Dietz KJ, Golldack D (2002) Crassulacean acid metabolism, a special case of pH regulation and H+-fluxes. In: Handbook of plant growth: pH as master variable in plant growth. Z. Rengel, ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 227-254.

Sauter A, Dietz K-J, Hartung W (2002) A possible stress physiological role of abscisic acid conjugates in root-to-shoot signalling. Plant Cell Environment 25 (2), 225-231

Dietz K-J, Tavakoli N, Kluge C, Mimura T, Sharma SS, Harris GC, Chardonnens AN, Golldack D (2001) Significance of the V-type ATPase for the adaptation to stressful growth conditions and its regulation on the molecular and biochemical level. J. Exp. Bot. 52 (363) 1969-1980

Dietz K-J, Link G, Pistorius EK, Scheibe R (2001) Redox regulation in oxigenic photosynthesis. Progress in Botany 63, 207-245.

Before/in 2000:

Dietz, K.-J. (1984) Carbon pathways: Enzymes, limitations and stress effects. Photosynthetica 18, 607-611.

Dietz, K.-J. (1987) Carbon pathways in C3, C4 and CAM plants: flux control and stress effects. Photosynthetica 21, 609-612.

Dietz, K.-J., Keller, F. (1996) Transient storage of photoassimilates in leaves. Chapter 47. In Handbook of Photosynthesis. Pessarakli M., ed., Marcel Dekker Verlag, pp. 717-737.

Dietz, K.-J., Hartung W. (1995) The leaf epidermis: Its ecophysiological significance. Progress in Botany 57, 32-53.

Dietz, K.-J., Harris, G. (1996) Photosynthesis under nutrient deficiency. Chapter 62. InHandbook of Photosynthesis. Pessarakli M., ed., Marcel Dekker Verlag, pp. 951-976.

Dietz, K.-J. (1996) Functions and responses of the leaf apoplast under stress. Progress in Botany 58, 221-254.

Baier M., Dietz K.J. (1998) The costs and benefits of oxygen in photosynthetic plant metabolism. Progress in Botany 60, 283 - 314

Dietz K.-J., Krämer U, Baier M (1999) Chapter 5: Free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) as mediators of damage during heavy metal stress. In: MNV Prasad Heavy metal stress in plants: Molecules to Ecosystem. Springer Verlag. pp. 73 - 97.

Baier M., Dietz K.-J. (1999) Alkyl hydroperoxide reductases: the way out of the oxidative breakdown of lipids in chloroplasts. Trends in Plant Science 4, 166 - 168.

Dietz K.-J. (2000) The extracellular matrix of the plant cell: Location of signal perception, transduction and response. Progress in Botany 62, submitted

B. Transmembrane transport
V-ATPase - vacuolar membrane - proton pump - ion fluxes - amino acid transport

Recent:

Kluge C, Seidel T, Bolte S, Sharma S, Hanitzsch M, Satiat-Jeunemaitre B, Roß J, Sauer M, Golldack D, Dietz KJ (2004) Subcellular distribution of the V-ATPase complex in plant cells, and in vivo localisation of the 100 kDa subunit VHA-a within the complex. BMC Cell Biology 5, 29 (16 pages).

Seidel T, Kluge C, Hanitzsch M, Roß J, Sauer M, Dietz KJ, Golldack D (2004) Colocalization and FRET-analysis of subunits c and a of the vacuolar H⁺-ATPase in living plant cells. J. Biotech. 112, 165-175.

Kluge C, Lamkemeyer P, Tavakoli N, Golldack D, Kandlbinder A, Dietz KJ (2003) cDNA cloning of a set of all 12 subunits of the V-type ATPase from Mesembryanthemum crystallinum and their expression under stress. Molecular Membrane Biology 20, 171-183.

Kluge C, Lahr L, Hanitzsch L, Bolte S, Golldack D, Dietz K-J (2003) New insight into the structure and regulation of the plant vacuolar V-ATPase. J. Bioenerg. Biomemb. 35, 377-388.

Popova O, Dietz KJ, Golldack D (2003) Salt-dependent expression of a nitrate transporter and two amino acid transport genes in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Plant Mol. Biol. 52, 569-578.

Dietz KJ, Golldack D (2002) Crassulacean acid metabolism, a special case of pH regulation and H+-fluxes. In: Handbook of plant growth: pH as master variable in plant growth. Z. Rengel, ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 227-254.

Tavakoli N, Kluge C, Golldack D, Mimura T, Dietz K-J (2001) Reversible redox control of the plant vacuolar H+-ATPase activity is related to disulfide bridge formation not only in subunit A but also in subunit E. Plant J. 28 (1) 51-60

Golldack D, Dietz K-J (2001) Developmental control and tissue-specificity of salt-induced expression of the vacuolar H⁺-ATPase in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Plant Physiol. 125, 1643-1654.

Dietz K-J, Tavakoli N, Kluge C, Mimura T, Sharma SS, Harris GC, Chardonnens AN, Golldack D (2001) Significance of the V-type ATPase for the adaptation to stressful growth conditions and its regulation on the molecular and biochemical level. J. Exp. Bot. 52 (363) 1969-1980.

Before/in 2000:

Dietz, K.-J., Kaiser, G., Martinoia, E. (1988) Characterization of vacuolar polypeptides of barley mesophyll cells by two dimensional gel electrophoresis and their affinity to lectins. Planta 176, 362-367.

Dietz, K.-J., Martinoia, E., Heber, U. (1989) Mobilisation of vacuolar amino acids in leaf cells as affected by ATP and the level of cytosolic amino acids: ATP regulates but appears not to energize vacuolar amino acid release, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 984, 57-62.

Mimura, T., Dietz, K.-J., Kaiser, W., Schramm, M., Kaiser, G., Heber, U. (1990) Phosphate transport across biomembranes and cytosolic phosphate homeostasis in barley leaves. Planta 180, 139-146.

Dietz, K.-J., Busch, H. (1990) Compartmentation, utilisation and transport of methionine in barley mesophyll cells. In: Sulfur nutrition and sulfur assimilation in higher plants. Rennenberg, H., Brunold, Ch., De Kok, L.J., Stulen, I., eds., SPB Academic Publishing, pp. 177-180.

Dietz, K.-J., Martinoia, E. (1989) Amino acid transport across the tonoplast membrane of barley mesophyll cells: Regulation by external amino acids. In: Plant Membrane Transport: The Current Position, Dainty, J., Marré, E., Rasi Caldogno, F., eds., Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 199-200.

Dietz, K.-J., Jäger, R., Kaiser, G., Martinoia, E. (1990) Amino acid transport across the tonoplast of vacuoles isolated from barley mesophyll protoplasts. Uptake of alanine, leucine and glutamine. Plant Physiology 92, 123-129.

Dietz, K.-J., Lang, M., Schönrock, M., Zink, C. (1990) ATP dependence of anion uptake by isolated vacuoles: Requirement for excess Mg2+. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1024, 318-322.

Yin, Z. H., Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U. (1990) Light dependent pH changes in the leaf mesophyll of C3 plants. III. Effects of inhibitors of photosynthesis and of the developmental state of the photosynthetic apparatus on cytosolic and vacuolar pH changes. Planta 182, 262-269.

Martinoia, E., Thume, M., Vogt, E., Rentsch, D., Dietz, K.-J. (1991) Transport of arginine and aspartic acid into isolated barley mesophyll vacuoles. Plant Physiol. 97, 644-650.

Thume, M., Dietz, K.-J. (1991) Reconstitution of the tonoplast amino acid carrier into liposomes. Evidence for an ATP regulated carrier in different species. Planta 185, 569-575.

Betz, M., Dietz, K.-J. (1991) Immunological characterization of two dominant tonoplast poly-peptides. Plant Physiology 97, 1294-1301.

Klughammer, B., Benz, B., Betz, M., Thume, M., Dietz, K.-J. (1992) Reconstitution of vacuolar ion channels into planar lipid bilayers. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1104, 308-316.

Dietz, K.-J., Canut, H., Marigo, G. (1992) Identification of an essential histidine residue at the active site of the tonoplast malate carrier from Catharanthus roseus. J. Memb. Biol. 129, 137-143.

Klughammer, B., Betz, M., Benz, R., Dietz, K.-J. (1992) Partial purification of a potassium channel with low permeability for sodium from tonoplast membranes of Hordeum vulgare cv. Gerbel. J. Memb. Biol. 128, 17-25.

Canut, H., Marigo, G., Dietz, K.-J. (1991) The carrier for organic anions at the tonoplast. In: Plant Sciences Today, Kouchkovsky, Y., ed., INRA, Paris, pp. 159-160.

Dietz, K.-J., Brune, A., Pfanz, H. (1992) Transtonoplast-transport of the sulfur-containing compounds sulfate, cysteine, methionine and glutathione. Phyton (Special issue on sulfur metabolism) 32, 37-40.

Dietz, K.-J., Klughammer, B., Lang, B., Thume, M. (1994) Solute transport across the tonoplast of barley mesophyll vacuoles: Mg2+ determines sprecificity, and ATP and lipophilic amino acids the activity. J. Memb. Biol. 137, 151-158.

Dietz, K.-J., Rudloff, S., Ageorges, A., Eckerskorn, C., Fischer, K., Arbinger, B. (1995) Subunit E of the vacuolar H+-ATPase of Hordeum vulgare L.: cDNA cloning, expression and immunological analysis. The Plant Journal 8(4), 521-529.

Dietz, K.-J., Arbinger, B. (1996) cDNA sequence and expression of subunit E of the vacuolar H+-ATPase in the inducible Crassulacean acid metabolism plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1281, 134-138.

Wolf, A.E., Dietz, K.-J., Schröder, P. (1996) Degradation of glutathione S-conjugates by carboxypeptidase in the plant vacuole. FEBS Letters 384, 31-34.

Dietz, K.-J., Hollenbach, B., Arnold, J. (1996) Nucleotide sequences of subunit E of the vacuolar proton-ATPase of Spinacia oleracea (Accession No. X96785) and Arabidopsis thaliana (Accession No. X92117). Plant Physiol. - Plant Gene Register 111, 652.

Tikhonova, L.I., Pottosin, I.I., Dietz, K.-J., Schönknecht, G. (1997) Fast activating cation channel in barley mesophyll vacuoles. Inhibition by calcium. Plant J. 11, 1059-1070.

Dietz K.-J., Heber U., Mimura T. (1998) Modulation of the vacuolar H⁺-ATPase by adenylates as basis for the transient CO₂-dependent acidification of the leaf vacuole upon illumination. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1373, 87 - 92.

Popova L., Balnokin Y., Dietz K.-J., Gimmler H. (1998) Na⁺-ATPase from the plasma membrane of the marine alga Tetraselmis (Platymonas) viridis forms a phosphorylated intermediate. FEBS Letters 426, 161-164.

Kluge C., Golldack D., Dietz K.-J. (1999) Subunit D of the vacuolar H⁺-ATPase of Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1419, 105-110.

Tavakoli N., Eckerskorn C., Golldack D., Dietz K.-J. (1999) Subunit C of the vacuolar H⁺-ATPase of Hordeum vulgare. FEBS Letters 456, 68-72.

Massonneau A, Martinoia E, Dietz K-J, Mimura T (2000) Phosphate uptake across the tonoplast of intact vacuoles isolated from suspension-cultured cells of Catharanthus roseus. Planta 211, 390-395.

C. Redox-control, peroxiredoxins and oxidative stress

Recent:
Finkemeier I, Goodman M, Lamkemeyer P, Kandlbinder A, Sweetlove LJ, Dietz KlJ (2005) The mitochondrial type II peroxiredoxin F is essential for redox homeostasis and root growth of Arabidopsis thaliana under stress.  Journal of Biological Chemistry, in press.

Dietz K-J, Lamkemeyer P, Finkemeier I, Li W-X, Kahmann U, Stork T, Baier M (2005) The function of chloroplast peroxiredoxins in peroxide detoxification and redox signalling in context of photosynthesis. Proceedings of the International Congress of Photosynthesis. Montreal, Canada, van der Est A, Bruce D, eds., in press.

Rouhier N, Villarejo A, Srivastava M, Gelhaye E, Keech O, Droux, Finkemeier I, Samuelsson G, Dietz KJ, Jacquot JP, Wingsle G (2005) Identification of plant glutaredoxin targets. Antioxidants and Redox Signalling, in press.

Collin V, Lamkemeyer P, Miginiac-Maslow M, Hirasawa M, Knaff DB, Dietz KJ, Issakidis-Bourguet E (2004) Characterization of plastidial thioredoxins from Arabidopsis belonging to the new y-type. Plant Physiol. 136, 4088-4095

Baier M, Ströher E, Dietz K-J (2004) The photosynthetic electron transport and ABA balance 2-Cys peroxiredoxin A promoter activity via antagonistically regulated protein kinase cascades. Plant Cell Physiol 45, 997-1006.

Kandlbinder A, Finkemeier I, Wormuth D, Hanitzsch M, Dietz KJ (2004) The antioxidant status of photosynthesising leaves under nutrient deficiency: redox regulation, gene expression and antioxidant activty in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiol. Plant., Special Issue on Redox Regulation, 120, 63-73.

König J, Lotte K, Plessow R, Brockhinke A, Baier M, Dietz KJ (2003) Reaction mechanism of the 2-Cys peroxiredoxin: Role of the C-terminus and the quarternary structure. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 24409 - 24420.

Dietz KJ (2003) Plant peroxiredoxins. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 54, 93-107.

Horling F, Lamkemeyer P, König J, Finkemeier I, Baier M, Kandlbinder A, Dietz KJ (2003) Divergent light-, ascorbate- and oxidative stress-dependent regulation of expression of the peroxiredoxin gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology, 131, 317-325.

Horling F, König J, Dietz KJ (2002) Type II peroxiredoxin C, a member of the peroxiredoxin family of Arabidopsis thaliana: its expression and activity in comparison with other peroxiredoxins. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 40 (6-8) 491-499.

König J, Baier M, Horling F, Kahmann U, Harris G, Schürmann P, Dietz KJ (2002) The plant-specific function of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin-mediated detoxification of peroxides in the redox-hierarchy of photosynthetic electron flux. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 5738-5743.

Baier M, König J, Horling F, Dietz KJ (2002) Detoxification of peroxides in the chloroplast: What's the role of 2-Cys peroxiredoxins. Proceedings of the International Congress on Photosynthesis, August 2001, Brisbaine, Australia S3-004.

Dietz KJ, Horling F, König J, Baier M (2002) The function of the chloroplast 2-cysteine peroxiredoxin in peroxide detoxification and its regulation. J. Exp. Bot. 53 (372), 1321-1329

Horling F, Baier M, Dietz K-J (2001) The cellular redox poise regulates expression of the peroxide detoxifying chloroplast 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in the liverwort Riccia fluitans. Planta 214, 283-287.

Before/in 2000:
Baier, M., Dietz, K.-J. (1996) Primary structure and expression of plant homologues of animal and fungal thioredoxin-dependent peroxide reductases and bacterial alkyl hydroperoxide reductases. Plant Mol. Biol. 31, 553-564.

Baier, M., Dietz, K.-J. (1996) The two-Cys peroxiredoxin Bas1: Insight in a new family of plant peroxidases. In: ‘Plant peroxidases, biochemistry and physiology’ Obinger, C., Burner, U., Ebermann, R., Penel, C., Greppin H. (eds.), University of Agriculture, Wien, Juni 1996, pp. 204-209.

Baier, M., Dietz K.-J. (1996) 2-Cys peroxiredoxin bas 1 from Arabidopsis thaliana.Plant Physiol. - Plant Gene Register 111, 651.

Baier, M., Dietz, K.-J. (1997) The plant 2-Cys peroxiredoxin BAS1 is a nuclear encoded chloroplast protein. Its expressional regulation, phylogenetic origin, and implications for its specific physiological function in plants. Plant J. 12, 179-190.

Klughammer B., Baier M., Dietz K.-J. (1998) Inactivation by gene disruption of 2-cysteine-peroxiredoxin in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 leads to increased stress sensitivity. Physiol. Plant., 104, 699 - 706.

Baier M., Dietz K.-J. (1998) The costs and benefits of oxygen in photosynthetic plant metabolism. Progress in Botany 60, 283-314.

Baier M., Dietz K.-J. (1998) The plant 2-Cys peroxiredoxin BAS1 is a homodimer whose subunits are linked by disulfide bonds and non-covalent interactions. In: Antioxidants in Higher Plants: Biosynthesis, Characteristics, Actions and Specific Functions in Stress Defence. Noga G., Schmitz M. eds., Shaker Verlag, Aachen. pp. 31-37.

Baier M., Dietz K.-J. (1999) The plant 2-Cys peroxiredoxin protects from oxidative damage in chloroplasts. In: Proceedings of the XI Int. Congr. on Photosynthesis, Garab et al. eds., Budapest. pp. 2003-2006.

Dietz K.-J., Krämer U, Baier M (1999) Chapter 5: Free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) as mediators of damage during heavy metal stress. In: Heavy metal stress in plants: Molecules to Ecosystem. Prasad M.N.V., Hagemeyer J. eds. Springer Verlag. pp. 73 - 97.

Yamamoto H., Miyake C., Dietz K.-J., Tomizawa K.I., Murata N., Yokota A. (1999) Thioredoxin peroxidase in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Letters 447, 269-273.

Baier M., Dietz K.-J. (1999) Protective function of chloroplast 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in photosynthesis: Evidence from transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 119, 1407 - 1414.

Baier M, Noctor G, Foyer CH, Dietz KJ (2000) Antisense suppression of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in Arabidopsis thaliana specifically enhances the activities and expression of enzymes associated with ascorbate metabolism, but not glutathione metabolism. Plant Physiol. 124, 823-832.

D. Heavy metals and mineral nutrition

Recent:

Metwally A, Safronova VI, Belimov AA, Dietz KJ (2005) Genotypic variation of the response to cadmium toxicity in Pisum sativum. J. Exp. Bot. 56, 167-178.

Sharma S, Kaul S, Metwally A, Goyal K, Finkemeier I, Dietz KJ (2004) Cd phytotoxicity to barley (Hordeum vulgare) as affected by varying Fe nutritional status. Plant Science, 166(5), 1287-1295.

Kandlbinder A, Finkemeier I, Wormuth D, Hanitzsch M, Dietz KJ (2004) The antioxidant status of photosynthesising leaves under nutrient deficiency: redox regulation, gene expression and antioxidant activty in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiologia Plantarum, Special Issue on Redox Regulation, 120, in press.

Rivera-Becerril F, Metwally A, Martin-Laurent F, Van Tuinen D, Dietz KJ, Gianinazzi S, Gianinazzi-Pearson V (2003) Genotypic variation in molecular responses of pea roots to cadmium. Submitted

Popova O, Dietz KJ, Golldack D (2003) Salt-dependent expression of a nitrate transporter and two amino acid transport genes in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Plant Mol. Biol. 52, 569-578.

 Finkemeier I, Kluge C, Metwally A, Georgi M, Grotjohann N, Dietz KJ (2003) Alterations in Cd-induced gene expression under nitrogen deficiency in Hordeum vulgare. Plant Cell & Environm 26, 821-833.

Metwally A, Finkemeier I, Georgi M, Dietz KJ (2003) Salicylic acid alleviates the cadmium toxicity in barley (Hordeum vulgare) seedlings. Plant Physiology 132, 272-281.

Cho M, Chardonnens AN, Dietz KJ (2003) Differential heavy metal tolerance of Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis thaliana: a leaf slice test. New Phytologist 158 (2), 287-293.

Before/in 2000:

Dietz, K.-J., Foyer, C. (1986) The relationship between phosphate status and photosynthesis in leaves. Reversibility of the effects of phosphate deficiency on photosynthesis. Planta 167, 376-381.

Dietz, K.-J. (1989) Leaf and chloroplast development in relation to nutrient availability. J. Plant Physiol. 134, 544-550.

Dietz, K.-J. (1989) Recovery of spinach leaves from sulfate and phosphate deficiency. J. Plant Physiol. 134, 551-557.

Dietz, K.-J., Schönrock, M. (1989) Abundance and translation of the psbA- ,rbcL- and cab- transcript in relation to leaf age and nutrient availability in spinach. Proceedings of the Symposium "Applied Plant Molecular Biology", Braunschweig 21-23.11.1988, Galling, G., ed., TU Braunschweig, 153-158.

Dietz, K.-J., Schönrock, M., Heilos, L., Mimura, T. (1989) Regulation of chloroplast development in relation to leaf age and N-, P- and S-nutrition. In: Plant Water Relations and Growth Under Stress, International Symposium Series 3, Tazawa, M., Katsumi, M., Masuda, Y., Okamoto, H., eds., Myu K.K., Tokyo, pp. 129-132.

Dietz, K.-J., Heilos, L. (1990) Carbon metabolism in spinach leaves as affected by leaf age and phosphorus and sulfur nutrition. Plant Physiol. 93, 1219-1225.

Brune, A., Urbach, W., Dietz, K.-J. (1994) Compartmentation and transport of zinc in barley primary leaves as basic mechanisms involved in zinc tolerance. Plant Cell and Environment 17, 153-162.

Brune, A., Urbach, W., Dietz, K.-J. (1994) Zinc stress induces changes in apoplasmic protein content and polypeptide composition of barley primary leaves. J. Exp. Bot.. 45, 1189-1196.

Baur, B., Fischer, K., Winter, K., Dietz, K.-J. (1994) cDNA sequence of a protein kinase from Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. encoding a SNF 1 homolog. Sequence update. Plant Physiol. 106, 1225-1226.

Brune, A., Dietz, K.-J. (1995) A comparative analysis of element composition of barley roots and leaves under cadmium-, molybdenum-, nickel- and zinc-stress. J. Plant Nutrition 18, 853-868.

Hollenbach, B., Schreiber, L., Hartung, W., Dietz, K.-J. (1997) Cadmium leads to stimulated expression of a lipid transfer protein (ltp) in barley: Implications for the involvement of LTP in wax assembly. Planta 203, 9-19.

Blinda, A., Abou-Mandour, A., Azarkovich, M., Brune, A., Dietz, K.-J. (1996) Heavy metal induced changes in peroxidase activity in leaves, roots and cell suspension cultures of Hordeum vulgare L. In: ‘Plant peroxidases, biochemistry and physiology’ Obinger, C., Burner, U., Ebermann, R., Penel, C., Greppin H. (eds.), University of Agriculture, Wien, Juni 1996, pp. 374-379.

Blinda, A. , Brune, A., Ramanjulu, S., Azarkovich, M., Dietz, K.-J. (1997) de novo synthesis and accumulation of apoplast proteins in leaves of heavy metal exposed barley seedlings. Plant Cell Environm. 20, 969-981.

Peuke A., Jeschke W.D., Dietz K.-J., Schreiber L., Hartung W., (1998) Foliar application of nitrate or ammonium as sole nitrogen supply in Ricinus communis. New Phytol. 138, 675-687.

Dietz K.-J., Krämer U, Baier M (1999) Chapter 5: Free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) as mediators of damage during heavy metal stress. In: Heavy metal stress in plants: Molecules to Ecosystem. Prasad M.N.V., Hagemeyer J. eds. Springer Verlag. pp. 73 - 97.

E. Apoplast, salt and drought stress, other subjects

Recent:

Golldack D, Vera P, Dietz KJ (2003) Expression of subtilisin-like serine proteases in Arabidopsis is cell-specific and responds to jasmonic acid and heavy metals with developmental differences. Physiologia Plantarum 118, 64-73.

Golldack D, Popova O, Dietz KJ (2002) Mutation of the matrix metalloproteinase At2-MMP inhibits growth, causes late flowering and early senescence in Arabidopsis. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 5541-5547.

Sauter A, Dietz K-J, Hartung W (2002) A possible stress physiological role of abscisic acid conjugates in root-to-shoot signalling. Plant Cell Environment 25 (2), 225-231.

Popova OV, Ismailov SF, Popova TN, Dietz KJ, Golldack D (2002) Salt-induced expression of NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase and ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Planta 215, 906-913.

Belimov AA, Safronova VI, Sergeyeva T, Egorova T, Stepanok VV, Tsyganov VE, Borisov AY, Kluge C, Preisfeld A, Dietz K-J, Tikhonovich IA (2001) Isolation of associative bacteria utilising 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid and their interaction with rape and pea plants. Can. J. Microbiol. 47(7), 642-652.

Golldack D, Dietz K-J (2001) Developmental control and tissue-specificity of salt-induced expression of the vacuolar H+-ATPase in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Plant Physiology 125, 1643-1654.

Before/in 2000:

Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U. (1983) Carbon dioxide gas exchange and the energy status of leaves of Primula palinura under water stress. Planta 159, 349-356.

Pfanz, H., Dietz, K.-J. (1987) A fluorescence method for the determination of the apoplastic proton concentration in intact leaf tissue. J. Plant Physiol. 129, 41-48.

Pfanz, H., Dietz, K.-J., Weinerth, I., Oppmann, B. (1990) Detoxification of sulfur dioxide by apoplastic peroxidases In: Sulfur nutrition and sulfur assimilation in higher plants. Rennenberg, H., Brunold, Ch., De Kok, L.J., Stulen, I., eds., SPB Academic Publishing, pp. 229-233.

Betz, M., Martinoia, E., Hincha, D.K., Schmitt, J.M., Dietz, K.-J. (1991) Purification and compartmentation of alpha-mannosidase isozymes of barley leaves. Phytochemistry 31, 433-440.

Mimura, T., Yin, Z.-H., Wirth, E., Dietz, K.-J. (1992) Phosphate transport and apoplastic phosphate homeostasis in barley leaves. Plant Cell Physiol. 33, 563-568.

Bender, M., Heber U., Dietz, K.-J. (1992) Saline growth conditions favour supercooling and increase the freezing tolerance of leaves of barley and wheat. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 47c, 695-700.

Mimura, T., Dietz, K.-J., Shimmen, T. (1992) Regulation of apoplastic ion concentration in barley leaves, In: Plant Cell Walls as Biopolymers with Physiological Functions. Yamada Science Foundation, Osaka, pp. 344-346.

Tommasini, R., Martinoia, E., Grill, E., Dietz, K.-J., Amrhein, N. (1993) Transport of oxidized glutathione into barley vacuoles; evidence for the involvement of the glutathione-S-conjugate ATPase. Z. Naturforsch. 48c, 867-871.

Hellwege E.M., Dietz, K.-J., Volk, O.H., Hartung, W. (1994) Abscisic acid and the induction of desiccation tolerance in the extremely xerophilic liverwort Exormotheca holstii.Planta 194, 525-531.

Dietz, K.-J., Hollenbach, B., Hellwege, E. (1994) The epidermis of barley leaves is a dynamic intermediary storage compartment of carbohydrates, amino acids and nitrate. Physiologia Plantarum 92, 31-36.

Golldack, D., Dietz K.-J., Gimmler, H. (1995) Salt dependent protein composition in the halotolerant green alga Dunaliella parva. Botanica Acta 108, 169-276.

Golldack, D., Dietz K.-J., Gimmler, H. (1995) Protein synthesis in Dunaliella parva under salt stress. J. Plant Physiol. 146, 508-514.

Hellwege, E.M., Dietz, K.-J., Hartung, W. (1996) Abscisic acid triggers genetic changes involved in the induction of the landform in the liverwort Riccia fluitans. Planta 198, 423-432.

Dietz, K.-J. (1996) Functions and responses of the leaf apoplast under stress. Progress in Botany 58, 221-254.

Hartung, W., Schiller, P., Dietz, K.-J. (1997) The physiology of poikilohydric plants. Progress in Botany 59, 299-327.

Krieger A., Bolte S., Dietz K.-J., Ducruet J.-M. (1998) Thermoluminescence studies on the facultative CAM plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Planta 205, 587-594.

Popova L., Balokin Y., Dietz K.-J., Gimmler H. (1999) characterization of phosphorylated intermediates synthesised during the catalytic cycle of the sodium adenosine triphosphatase in the plasma membrane of the marine unicellular algae Tetraselmis (Platymonas) viridis. J. Plant Physiol. 155, 302-309.

Ramanjulu S., Kaiser W.M., Dietz K.-J. (1999) Salt and drought stress differentially affect the accumulation of extracellular proteins in barley. Z. Naturforsch. 54, 337-347.

Bolte S., Schiene K., Dietz K.-J. (2000) Characterization of a small GTP binding protein of the rab 5b family in Mesembranthemum crystallinum with increased level of expression during early salt stress. submitted.

F. Cell- and tissue-specific expression of genes in plants

Recent (this topic has a major overlap with other subjects, only some representative papers are listed - recently we employ self-designed macro-cDNA arrays to analyse transcript abundance of chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear genes):

Kandlbinder A, Finkemeier I, Wormuth D, Hanitzsch M, Dietz KJ (2004) The antioxidant status of photosynthesising leaves under nutrient deficiency: redox regulation, gene expression and antioxidant activty in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiologia Plantarum, Special Issue on Redox Regulation, 120, in press.

Kluge C, Lamkemeyer P, Tavakoli N, Golldack D, Kandlbinder A, Dietz KJ (2003) cDNA cloning of a set of all 12 subunits of the V-type ATPase from Mesembryanthemum crystallinum and their expression under stress. Molecular Membrane Biology 20, 171-183.

Golldack D, Vera P, Dietz KJ (2003) Expression of subtilisin-like serine proteases in Arabidopsis is cell-specific and responds to jasmonic acid and heavy metals with developmental differences. Physiologia Plantarum 118, 64-73.

Horling F, Lamkemeyer P, König J, Finkemeier I, Baier M, Kandlbinder A, Dietz KJ (2003) Divergent light-, ascorbate- and oxidative stress-dependent regulation of expression of the peroxiredoxin gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology, 131, 317-325.

Golldack D, Popova O, Dietz KJ (2002) Mutation of the matrix metalloproteinase At2-MMP inhibits growth, causes late flowering and early senescence in Arabidopsis. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 5541-5547.

Horling F, König J, Dietz KJ (2002) Type II peroxiredoxin C, a member of the peroxiredoxin family of Arabidopsis thaliana: its expression and activity in comparison with other peroxiredoxins. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 40 (6-8) 491-499.

Golldack D., Dietz K.-J. (2001) Developmental control and tissue-specificity of salt-induced expression of the vacuolar H⁺-ATPase in Mesembranthemum crystallinum. Plant Physiology 125, 1643-1654.

Before/in 2000:

Dietz, K.-J., Bogorad, L. (1987) Plastid development in Pisum sativum leaves during greening. 1. A comparison of plastid polypeptide composition and in organello translation characteristics. Plant Physiol. 85, 808-815.

Dietz, K.-J., Bogorad, L. (1987) Plastid development in Pisum sativum leaves during greening. 2. Post translational uptake by plastids as an indicator system to monitor changes in translatable mRNA for nuclear encoded plastid polypeptides. Plant Physiol. 85, 816-822.

Winter, K., Zotz, G., Baur, B., Dietz, K.-J. (1992) Light and dark CO2 fixation in Clusia odorata as affected by plant water status and CO2 availability. Oecologia 91, 47-51.

Dietz, K.-J., Schramm, M., Betz, M., Busch, H., Zink, C., and Martinoia, E. (1992) Characterization of the epidermis of barley primary leaves. 1. Isolation of epidermal protoplasts. Planta 187, 425-430.

Dietz, K.-J., Schramm, M., Lang, B., Lanzl-Schramm, A., Zink, C., Martinoia, E. (1992) Characterization of the epidermis from barley primary leaves. 2. The role of the epidermis in ion compartmentation. Planta 187, 431-437.

Dietz, K.-J., Hollenbach, B., Kirch, J., Veit, M. (1994) Cell type and organelle specific accumulation and transtonoplast transport of flavonoids in barley primary leaves. Acta Horticulturae 381, 109-112.

Baur, B., Fischer, K., Winter, K., Dietz, K.-J. (1994) cDNA sequence of a protein kinase from Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. encoding a SNF 1 homolog. Sequence update. Plant Physiol. 106, 1225-1226.

Hollenbach, B., Dietz, K.-J. (1995) Molecular cloning of emip, a member of the major intrinsic protein gene family, preferentially expressed in epidermal cells of barley leaves. Botanica Acta 108, 425-431.

Dietz, K.-J., Hartung W. (1995) The leaf epidermis: Its ecophysiological significance. Progress in Botany 57, 32-53.

G. Regulation of metabolic pathways

Recent (this issue presently returns into the focus of part of our research activities):

Kandlbinder A, Finkemeier I, Wormuth D, Hanitzsch M, Dietz KJ (2004) The antioxidant status of photosynthesising leaves under nutrient deficiency: redox regulation, gene expression and antioxidant activty in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiol. Plant., Special Issue on Redox Regulation, in press

Horling F, Baier M, Dietz K-J (2001) The cellular redox poise regulates expression of the peroxide detoxifying chloroplast 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in the liverwort Riccia fluitans. Planta 214, 283-287.

Baier M, Noctor G, Foyer CH, Dietz KJ (2000) Antisense suppression of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in Arabidopsis thaliana specifically enhances the activities and expression of enzymes associated with ascorbate metabolism, but not glutathione metabolism. Plant Physiol. 124, 823-832.

Before/in 2000:

Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U. (1984) Pool sizes of Calvin cycle intermediates in chloroplasts as related to limitations of photosynthesis in leaves. In: Advances in Photosynthesis Research, Vol. 3, Sybesma, C., ed., Martinus Nijhoff/Dr. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague, 585-588.

Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U. (1984) Rate limiting factors in leaf photosynthesis. 1. Carbon fluxes in the Calvin cycle. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 767, 432-443.

Dietz, K.-J., Neimanis, S., Heber, U. (1984) Rate limiting factors in leaf photosynthesis. 2. Electron transport. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 767, 444-450.

Sivak, M., Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U., Walker, D.A. (1985) The relationship between light scattering and chlorophyll a fluorescence during oscillations in photosynthetic carbon assimilation. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 237, 513-519.

Dietz, K.-J. (1985) A possible rate limiting function of chloroplast hexosemonophosphate isomerase in starch synthesis of leaves. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 839, 240-248.

Dietz, K.-J. (1985) Regulation und Limitation in der Photosynthese von Blättern. Dissertation, Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg.

Dietz, K.-J., Schreiber, U., Heber, U. (1985) The relationship between the redox state of QA and photosynthesis in leaves at various carbon dioxide, oxygen and light regimes. Planta 166, 219-226.

Dietz, K.-J. (1986) An evaluation of light and CO2 limitation of leaf photosynthesis by CO2 gas exchange analysis. Planta 167, 260-263.

Prinsley, R.T., Dietz, K.-J., Leegood, R. (1986) Regulation of photosynthetic carbon assimilation in spinach leaves after a decrease in irradiance. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 849, 254-263.

Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U. (1986) Light and CO2 limitation of photosynthesis and states of the reactions regenerating ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate or reducing 3-phosphoglycerate. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 848, 392-401.

Heber, U., Neimanis, S., Dietz, K.-J., Viil, J. (1986) Assimilatory power as a driving force in photosynthesis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 852, 144-155.

Dietz, K.-J. (1987) Control function of hexosemonophosphate isomerase and phosphogluco-mutase in starch synthesis of leaves. In: Progress in Photosynthesis Research, Vol. 3, Biggins, J., ed., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dortrecht, 329-332.

Heber, U., Neimanis, S., Dietz, K.-J., Viil, J. (1987) Assimilatory force in relation to photosynthetic fluxes. In: Progress in Photosynthesis Research, Vol. 3, Biggins, J., ed., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dortrecht, 293-299.

Heber, U., Neimanis, S., Dietz, K.-J. (1988) Fractional control of photosynthesis by the QB protein, the cytochrome f/b6-complex and other components of the photosynthetic apparatus. Planta 173, 267-274.

Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U. (1989) Assimilatory force and regulation of photosynthetic carbon reduction in leaves. In: Techniques and New Developments in Photosynthesis, NATO ASI Series, Barber, J., ed., Plenum Press, New York, London, Washington, Boston, pp. 341-363.

Heber, U., Viil, J., Neimanis, S., Mimura, T., Dietz, K.-J. (1989) Photoinhibitory damage to chloroplasts under phosphate deficiency and alleviation of deficiency and damage by photorespiratory reactions. Zeitschrift f. Naturforschg. 44c, 524-536.

Heber, U., Schreiber, U., Siebke, K., Dietz, K.-J. (1990) Relationship between light driven electron transport, carbon reduction and carbon oxidation in photosynthesis. In: Perspectives in Biochemical and Genetic Regulation of Photosynthesis, Zelitch, I., ed., Allen R. Liss Inc, New York, pp. 17-37.

Siebke, K., Dietz, K.-J., Heber, U. (1990) Assimilatory force in illuminated leaves grown in sun or shade or under mineral deficiency. In: Current Research in Photosynthesis, Vol. IV., Baltscheffsky, M., ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht, pp. 19.753-756.

Baur, B., Dietz, K.-J., Winter, K. (1992) Regulatory protein phosphorylation of phosphoenol-pyruvate carboxylase in the facultative CAM plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. Eur. J. Biochem. 209, 95-101.

Mimura, T., Shimmen, T., Dietz, K.-J. (1992) Photosynthetic carbon transport in perfused Chara cells. In: Research in Photosynthesis, Volume III, ed. by Murata, N., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dortrecht, Boston, London, pp. 775-778.

Mimura, T., Müller, R., Kaiser, W.M., Shimmen, T., Dietz, K.-J. (1993) ATP dependent carbon transport in perfused Chara cells. Plant Cell and Environment 16, 653-661.

Dietz, K.-J., Harris, G. (1996) Photosynthesis under nutrient deficiency. Chapter 62. InHandbook of Photosynthesis. Pessarakli M., ed., Marcel Dekker Verlag, pp. 951-976.

Baier M, Bilger W, Wolf R, Dietz K-J. (1996) Photosynthesis in the basal growing zone of barley leaves. Photosynthesis Research 49, 169-181.

Dietz K.-J., Heber U., Mimura T (1998) Modulation of the vacuolar H⁺-ATPase by adenylates as basis for the transient CO₂-dependent acidification of the leaf vacuole upon illumination. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1373, 87-92.