Philipp Zerbe

The paper identifies and characterizes terpene synthase genes in strawberry, revealing their role in terpene aroma diversity and providing resources for aroma trait improvement.

The paper determines the structure of Photosystem I-FCP from giant kelp and compares it to red-algal lineage structures to identify evolutionary drivers of antenna variation.

The paper discovers and characterizes the rosalexin biosynthesis pathway in maize, showing its role in antifungal defense and genetic variation across genotypes.

Trio-binned PacBio HiFi reads plus a 3.6 M-variant recombination map give phase-resolved assemblies of octoploid strawberry 'Royal Royce' and FaRR1, a 786.5 Mb haploid reference with 28 pseudomolecules.