Markus Riederer

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Markus Riederer (born May 2, 1956 in Landshut ) is a German botanist who mainly deals with the biology of plant surfaces.

Life

Riederer studied biology at the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich .

In 1984 he was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. doctorate, followed by his habilitation in 1990. From 1992 to 1994 he was Professor of Physiological Ecology at the University of Kaiserslautern . Since 1994 he has been Professor of Botany at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and Director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Würzburg. From 1999 to 2003 he was an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation . From 2001 to 2011 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 567 “Mechanisms of the Interspecific Interaction of Organisms”. From 2006 to 2009 he was the founding coordinator and then director of the Graduate School of Life Sciences at the University of Würzburg, which was funded by the excellence initiative of the federal and state governments.

He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and, since 2004, of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1985 he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize and in 1999 the Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 2011 he was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Scientific activity

Markus Riederer researches the biology of plant surfaces, especially with regard to the interactions between plants and their abiotic and biotic environment. Above-ground plant interfaces are covered by a cuticle .

Special research focuses are:

  • Chemical composition and molecular structure of the cuticular transport barrier;
  • Genetics and biosynthesis of cuticular waxes in plants;
  • Uptake and accumulation of organic environmental chemicals via plant interfaces;
  • Ecophysiology of cuticular perspiration ;
  • Mechanisms and optimization of the uptake of plant protection products in the above-ground organs of plants;
  • Chemical interactions between plant surfaces and insects and fungi.
  • Microbial consortia on leaf surface.

Publications

  • Biology of the Plant Cuticle (Ed. Together with C. Müller). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-3268-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Botanical Garden of the University of Würzburg
  2. ^ Website of the Graduate School of Life Sciences
  3. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Markus Riederer (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.


personal data
SURNAME Riederer, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut