Prof. Dr. Ralph Hückelhoven
Academic Career and Research Areas
Prof. Hückelhoven (b. 1969) researches the biological and molecular causes of plant diseases. His main interest is the natural immunity of plants. Particular attention is paid to transport and signal transduction processes in plants, in which pathogens can successfully intervene. Prof. Hückelhoven’s work covers all scale levels – from low-molecular signal through cell biology to epidemiology in open land.
After studying biology at RWTH Aachen, Prof. Hückelhoven obtained his doctorate at the University of Giessen (1999). He completed his lecturer qualification at that university in molecular phytopathology and cell biology in 2005. From 2002 to 2006, he headed up an independent German Research Foundation (DFG) junior research group on “Long-term disease resistance in barley”. Following offers from the Universities of Kiel and Hohenheim, he accepted the Chair of Phytopathology at TUM in 2006. Prof. Hückelhoven is a member of several German and international phytopathological societies and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.
Awards
- Independent DFG junior research group leader (2002-2006)
- Julius Kühn Prize of the German Phytomedical Society (2004)
Key Publications (all publications)
Coleman AD, Maroschek J, Raasch L, Takken FLW, Ranf S, Hückelhoven R (2021) “The Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase MIK2 is a crucial component of early immune responses to a fungal-derived elicitor”. New Phytol. 229: 3453-3466.
AbstractKutschera A, Dawid C, Gisch N, Schmid C, Raasch L, Gerster T, Schäffer M, Smakowska-Luzan E, Belkhadir Y, Vlot AC, Chandler CE, Schellenberger R, Schwudke D, Ernst RK, Dorey S, Hückelhoven R, Hofmann T, Ranf S (2019) “Bacterial medium-chain 3-hydroxy fatty acid metabolites trigger immunity in Arabidopsis plants”. Science 364:178-181.
AbstractRanf S, Gisch N, Schäffer M, Illig T, Westphal L, Knirel YA, Sánchez-Carballo PM, Zähringer U, Hückelhoven R, Lee J, Scheel D: (2015) "A lectn S-domain receptor kinase mediates lipopolysaccharide sensing in Arabisopsis thaliana". Nature Immunology. 2015; 16(4): 426-433.
AbstractHoefle C, Huesmann C, Schultheiss H, Börnke F, Hensel G, Kumlehn J, Hückelhoven R: “A barley ROP GTPase ACTIVATING PROTEIN associates with microtubules and regulates entry of the barley powdery mildew fungus into leaf epidermal cells”. The Plant Cell. 2011; 23(6): 2422-2439.
AbstractHückelhoven R, Dechert C, Kogel KH: “Overexpression of barley BAX inhibitor 1 induces breakdown of mlo-mediated penetration resistance to Blumeria graminis”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003; 100(9): 5555-5560.
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