Brief CV

• Sugar and nitrogen signalling pathways involved in the regulation of leaf senescence.
• Genetic variation in the regulation of leaf senescence.
• The role of trehalose metabolism in regulating plant growth and development.

Recent Publications

• Masclaux-Daubresse C., Purdy S., Lemaitre T., Pourtau N., Taconnat L., Renou J.-P., Wingler A. (2007) Genetic variation suggests interaction between cold acclimation and metabolic regulation of leaf senescence. Plant Physiology 143, 434-446.
• Pourtau N., Jennings R., Pelzer E., Pallas J., Wingler A. (2006) Effect of sugar-induced senescence on gene expression and implications for the regulation of senescence in Arabidopsis. Planta 224, 556-568.
• Wingler A., Brownhill E., Pourtau N. Mechanisms of the light-dependent induction of cell death in tobacco plants with delayed senescence. Journal of Experimental Botany 56, 2897-2905.
• Wingler A., Purdy S., MacLean J.A., Pourtau N. The role of sugars in integrating environmental signals during the regulation of leaf senescence. Journal of Experimental Botany, accepted.
• Diaz C., Purdy S., Christ A., Morot-Gaudry J.-F., Wingler A., Masclaux-Daubresse C. (2005) Characterization of new markers to determine the extent and variability of leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana: a metabolic profiling approach. Plant Physiology 138, 898-908.
• Levey S., Wingler A. (2005) Natural variation in the regulation of leaf senescence and relation to other traits in Arabidopsis. Plant, Cell and Environment, 28, 223-231.
• Pourtau N., Marès M., Purdy S., Quentin N., Ruël A., Wingler A. (2004) Interactions of abscisic acid and sugar signalling in the regulation of leaf senescence. Planta 219, 765-772.
• Kasinathan V., Wingler A. (2004) Effect of reduced arginine decarboxylase activity on salt tolerance and on polyamine formation during salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiologia Plantarum, 121, 101-107.
• Wingler A., Mares M., Pourtau N. (2004) Spatial patterns and metabolic regulation of photosynthetic parameters during leaf senescence. New Phytologist 161: 781-789.
• Wingler A. (2002) The function of trehalose biosynthesis in plants. Phytochemistry 60, 437-440.
• Brodmann D., Schuller A., Ludwig-Müller J., Aeschbacher R.A., Wiemken A., Boller T., Wingler A. (2002) Induction of trehalase in Arabidopsis plants infected with the trehalose-producing pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 15, 693-700.
• Vogel G., Fiehn O., Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel L., Boller T., Wiemken A., Aeschbacher R.A., Wingler A. (2001) Trehalose metabolism in Arabidopsis: Occurrence of trehalose and molecular cloning and characterisation of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase homologues. Journal of Experimental Botany 52, 1817-1826.
• Fritzius T., Aeschbacher R. A., Wiemken A., Wingler A. (2001) Induction of ApL3 expression by trehalose complements the starch-deficient Arabidopsis mutant adg2-1 lacking ApL1, the large subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase. Plant Physiology 126, 883-889.
• Müller J., Aeschbacher R. A., Wingler A., Boller T., Wiemken A. (2001) Trehalose and trehalase in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology 125, 1086-1093.
• Wingler A., Lea P. J., Quick, W. P, Leegood R. C. (2000) Photorespiration - metabolic pathways and their role in stress protection. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 355, 1517-1529.
• Chen Z.-H., Walker R. P., Acheson R. M., Técsi L. I., Wingler A., Lea P. J., Leegood R. C. (2000) Are isocitrate lyase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase involved in gluconeogenesis during senescence of barley leaves and cucumber cotyledons? Plant and Cell Physiology 41, 960-967.
• Wingler A., Fritzius T., Wiemken A., Boller T., Aeschbacher R. A. (2000) Trehalose induces the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase gene, ApL3, and starch synthesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 124, 105-114.