Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr
Research focus
- Physiological concepts of plant environment interaction
- Quantitative phenotypes of geometries and mapping of function and ecophysiology of lifeforms (Research Area A)
- Screening of plants for altered physiological and anatomical phenotypes the cutting edge high-throughput phenotyping facilities for growth and photosynthesis (Research Area B)
Most important publications
- van Dusschoten D, Metzner R, Kochs J, Postma JA, Pflugfelder D, Buhler J, Schurr U, Jahnke S (2016) Quantitative 3D Analysis of Plant Roots Growing in Soil Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Plant Physiol 170(3):1176-1188. doi: 10.1104/pp.15.01388.
- Rascher U, Alonso L, Burkart A, Cilia C, Cogliati S, Colombo R, Damm A, Drusch M, Guanter L, Hanus J, Hyvärinen T, Julitta T, Jussila J, Kataja K, Kokkalis P, Kraft S, Kraska T, Matveeva M, Moreno J, Muller O, Panigada C, Pikl M, Pinto F, Prey L, Pude R, Rossini M, Schickling A, Schurr U, Schüttemeyer D, Verrelst J, Zemek F (2015) Sun-induced fluorescence - a new probe of photosynthesis: First maps from the imaging spectrometer. Global Change Biol 21(12):4673-4684. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13017.
- Metzner R, Eggert A, van Dusschoten D, Pflugfelder D, Gerth S, Schurr U, Uhlmann N, Jahnke S (2015) Direct comparison of MRI and X-ray CT technologies for 3D imaging of root systems in soil: potential and challenges for root trait quantification. Plant Methods 11. doi: 10.1186/s13007-015-0060-z.
- Bühler J, Rishmawi L, Pflugfelder D, Huber G, Scharr H, Hülskamp M, Koornneef M, Schurr U, Jahnke S (2015) phenoVein-A Tool for Leaf Vein Segmentation and Analysis. Plant Physiol 169(4):2359-2370. doi: 10.1104/pp.15.00974.
- Postma JA, Schurr U, Fiorani F (2014) Dynamic root growth and architecture responses to limiting nutrient availability: linking physiological models and experimentation. Biotechnol Adv 32(1):53-65. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.08.019.
- McCouch S, Baute GJ, Bradeen J, Bramel P, Bretting PK, Buckler E, Burke JM, Charest D, Cloutier S, Cole G, Dempewolf H, Dingkuhn M, Feuillet C, Gepts P, Grattapaglia D, Guarino L, Jackson S, Knapp S, Langridge P, Lawton-Rauh A, Lijua Q, Lusty C, Michael T, Myles S, Naito K, Nelson RL, Pontarollo R, Richards CM, Rieseberg L, Ross-Ibarra J, Rounsley S, Hamilton RS, Schurr U, Stein N, Tomooka N, van der Knaap E, van Tassel D, Toll J, Valls J, Varshney RK, Ward J, Waugh R, Wenzl P, Zamir D (2013) Agriculture: Feeding the future. Nature 499(7456):23-24. doi: 10.1038/499023a.
- Fiorani F, Schurr U (2013) Future scenarios for plant phenotyping. Annu Rev Plant Biol 64:267-291. doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120137.
- Fiorani F, Rascher U, Jahnke S, Schurr U (2012) Imaging plants dynamics in heterogenic environments. Curr Opin Biotechnol 23(2):227-235. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.12.010.
- De Smet I, White PJ, Bengough AG, Dupuy L, Parizot B, Casimiro I, Heidstra R, Laskowski M, Lepetit M, Hochholdinger F, Draye X, Zhang H, Broadley MR, Peret B, Hammond JP, Fukaki H, Mooney S, Lynch JP, Nacry P, Schurr U, Laplaze L, Benfey P, Beeckman T, Bennett M (2012) Analyzing lateral root development: how to move forward. Plant Cell 24(1):15-20. doi: 10.1105/tpc.111.094292.
- Rascher U, Blossfeld S, Fiorani F, Jahnke S, Jansen M, Kuhn AJ, Matsubara S, LLA MR, Merchant A, Metzner R, M ML-L, Nagel KA, Pieruschka R, Pinto F, Schreiber CM, Temperton VM, Thorpe MR, Dusschoten DV, Van Volkenburgh E, Windt CW, Schurr U (2011) Non-invasive approaches for phenotyping of enhanced performance traits in bean. Funct Plant Biol 38(12):968-983. doi: 10.1071/FP11164.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0369-8777