Publications

Herde, M., Gaertner, K., Köllner, T.G., Fode, B., Boland, W., Gershenzon, J., Gatz, C., and Tholl, D. (2008) Identification and regulation of an Arabidopsis geranyllinalool synthase catalyzing the first step in the formation of the insect induced volatile C16-homoterpene TMTT. Plant Cell, 20, 1152-1168.

Tholl D. (2006) Terpene synthases and the regulation, diversity and biological roles of terpene metabolism. Cur. Opin. Plant Biol., 9, 297-304.

Tholl, D., Boland, W., Hansel, A., Loreto, F., Röse, U.S.R., and Schnitzler, J.P. (2006) Practical Approaches to Plant Volatile Analysis, Plant J., 45, 540-560, corresponding author.

Tholl, D., Chen, F., Petri, J., Gershenzon, J., and Pichersky, E. (2005) Two sesquiterpene synthases are responsible for the complex mixture of sesquiterpenes emitted from Arabidopsis flowers, Plant J., 42, 757-771, corresponding author.

Chen, F., Ro, D.-K., Petri, J., Gershenzon, J., Bohlmann, J., Pichersky, E., and Tholl, D. (2004) Characterization of a root-specific Arabidopsis terpene synthase responsible for the formation of the volatile monoterpene 1,8-cineole., Plant Physiol., 135, 1956-1966, corresponding author.

Tholl, D., Orlova, I., Kish, C.M., Sherman, D., Gershenzon, J., Pichersky, P., and Dudareva, N. (2004) Formation of Monoterpenes in Antirrhinum majus and Clarkia breweri flowers involves heterodimeric geranyl diphosphate synthases., Plant Cell, 16, 977-992.

Chen, F., D’Auria, J.C., Tholl, D., Ross, J.R., Gershenzon, J., Noel, J.P., and Pichersky, E. (2003) An Arabidopsis thaliana gene for methylsalicylate biosynthesis, identified by a biochemical genomics  approach, has a role in defense. Plant J., 36, 577-588.

Chen, F.*, Tholl, D.*, D’Auria, J.C., Farooq, A., Pichersky, E., and Gershenzon, J. (2003) Biosynthesis and emission of terpenoid volatiles from Arabidopsis flowers. Plant Cell, 15, 481-494, *co-first authors.

Martin, D., Tholl, D., Gershenzon, J., and Bohlmann, J. (2002) Induction of traumatic resin ducts, terpenoid resin biosynthesis and terpenoid accumulation in developing xylem of Norway spruce (Picea abies) stems. Plant Physiol., 129, 1003-1018.

Tholl, D., Croteau, R., and Gershenzon, J. (2001) Partial purification and characterization of the short-chain prenyltransferases, geranyl diphosphate and farnesyl diphosphate synthases, from Abies grandis (Grand fir). Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 386, 233-242.

Kaiser, A., Vollmert, M., Tholl, D., Graves, M.V., Gurnon, J.R., Xing, W., Lisec, A.D., Nickerson, K.W., and Van Etten, J.L. (1999) Chlorella virus PBCV-1 encodes a functional homospermidine synthase. Virology, 263, 254-262.

Tholl, D., Harms, R., and Kaiser, A. (1998) Retarded growth of an Escherichia coli mutant deficient in spermidine synthase can be unspecifically repaired by addition of various polyamines. World J. of Microbiol. Biotechnol., 14, 1-7.

Tholl, D., Ober, D., Martin, W., Kellermann, J., and Hartmann, T. (1996) Purification, molecular cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of homospermidine synthase from Rhodospeudomonas viridis. Europ. J. Biochem., 240, 373-379.

Ober, D., Tholl, D., Martin, W., and Hartmann, T. (1996)  Homospermidine synthase of Rhodopseudomonas viridis: substrate specificity and effects of the heterologously expressed enzyme on polyamine metabolism of E. coli . J. Gen. and Appl. Microbiol., 42, 411-419.

Herminghaus, S., Tholl, D., Ruegenhagen, C., Fecker, L.F., Leuscher, C., and Berlin, J. (1996) Improved metabolic action of a bacterial lysine decarboxylase gene in tobacco hairy root cultures by its fusion to a rbcS transit peptide coding sequence. Transgenic research, 5, 193-201.