Annika Kortz

Research focus

I focus on the deciphering of the transcriptomic control underlying the mechanism of heterosis manifestation during lateral root formation in maize.

Academic CV

• Since 2018
  PhD studies at the chair of Crop Functional Genomics, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Faculty of Agriculture, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-University Bonn

• 2016 to 2018
  Master of Science “Crop Science”
  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-University Bonn

• 2012 to 2016
  Bachelor of Science “Agricultural Science”
  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-University Bonn

Publications

2020

• Marcon C, Altrogge L, Win Y, Stöcker T, Gardiner J, Portwood J, Opitz N, Kortz A, Baldauf J, Hunter C, McCarty D, Koch K, Schoof H, Hochholdinger F (2020) BonnMu: a sequence-indexed resource of transposon induced maize mutations for functional genomics studies. Plant Physiol 184, 620-631.

2019

• Kortz A, Hochholdinger F, Yu P (2019) Cell type-specific transcriptomics of lateral root formation and plasticity. Front Plant Sci 10: 21.  Free Article

2016

• Reinert S, Kortz A, Léon J, Naz A (2016) Genome-Wide Association Mapping in the Global Diversity Set Reveals New QTL Controlling Root System and Related Shoot Variation in Barley. Front Plant Sci 7: 1061.  Free PMC Article