Wilhelm Boland

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Wilhelm Boland (* 1950 ) is a German chemist.

Scientific career

After receiving his doctorate with Lothar Jaenicke on the subject of synthesis of multifidenes and related structures (1978) and his habilitation (1986), both at the University of Cologne , Boland received a C3 professor for organic chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe in 1987 . From 1994 he was full professor for bio-organic chemistry at the University of Bonn . Since 1996 he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and Head of the Bioorganic Chemistry Department (Emeritus since 2018). In 1998 he was appointed honorary professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

In his research, Boland deals with the defense chemistry of leaf beetles and the induced plant defense . Interactions of microorganisms with plants and insects are further research topics in his department. In addition to the development of new methods for analytical and synthetic chemistry, he is dedicated to the mechanisms of the sequestration of plant metabolites by leaf beetle larvae and generally to the detoxification of plant metabolites in the intestines of insects.

honors and awards

Publications (selection)

  • G. Arimura, R. Ozawa, T. Shimoda, T. Nishioka, W. Boland, J. Takabyashi: Herbivory-induced volatiles elicit defense genes in lima bean leaves. In: Nature . 406, No. 6795, 2000, pp. 512-515. doi: 10.1038 / 35020072
  • J. Kuhn, EM Pettersson, BK Feld, A. Burse, A. Termonia, JM Pasteels, W. Boland: Selective transport systems mediate sequestration of plant glucosides in leaf beetles: A molecular basis for adaptation and evolution. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 101, No. 38, 2004, pp. 13808-13813. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0402576101
  • M. Heil, S. Greiner, H. Meimberg, R. Kruger, JL Noyer, G. Heubl, KE Linsenmair, W. Boland: Evolutionary change from induced to constitutive expression of an indirect plant resistance. In: Nature. Volume 430, No. 6996, 2004, pp. 205-208. doi: 10.1038 / nature02703
  • A. Mithöfer, G. Wanner, W. Boland: Effects of feeding Spodoptera littoralis on lima bean leaves. II. Continuous mechanical wounding resembling insect feeding is sufficient to elicit herbivory-related volatile emission. In: Plant Physiology. Volume 137, No. 3, 2005, pp. 1160-1168. doi: 10.1104 / pp.104.054460
  • M. Heil, J. Rattke, W. Boland: Postsecretory hydrolysis of nectar sucrose and specialization in ant / plant mutualism. In: Science . Volume 308, No. 5721, 2005, pp. 560-563. doi: 10.1126 / science.1107536
  • G. Arimura, C. Kost, W. Boland: Herbivore-induced, indirect plant defense. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta . Volume 1734, 2005, 91-111. doi: 10.1016 / j.bbalip.2005.03.001
  • A. Walter, C. Mazars, M. Maitrejean, J. Hopke, R. Ranjeva, W. Boland, A. Mithöfer: Structural requirements of jasmonates and synthetic analogues as inducers of Ca 2+ signals in the nucleus and the cytosol of plant cells. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. Volume 48, No. 25, 2007, pp. 4783-4785. doi: 10.1002 / anie.200604989
  • P. Dabrowska, D. Freitak, H. Vogel, DG Heckel, W. Boland: The phyto-hormone precursor OPDA is isomerized in the insect gut by a single, specific glutathione transferase. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 106, No. 38, 2009, pp. 16304-16309. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0906942106
  • R. Kirsch, H. Vogel, A. Muck, K. Reichwald, JM Pasteels, W. Boland: Host plant shifts affect a major defense enzyme in Chrysomela lapponica. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 108, 2011, pp. 4897-4901. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1013846108
  • A. Mithöfer, W. Boland: Plant defense against herbivores: Chemical aspects. In: Annual Review of Plant Biology . Volume 63, 2012, pp. 25.1-25.20. doi: 10.1146 / annurev-arplant-042110-103854
  • A. Strauss, S. Peters, W. Boland, A. Burse: ABC transporter functions as a pacemaker for the sequestration of plant glucosides in leaf beetles. In: eLife. Volume 2013, No. 2, 2013, p. E01096. doi: 10.7554 / eLife.01096
  • M. González-Teuber, M. Kaltenpoth, W. Boland: Mutualistic ants as an indirect defense against leaf pathogens. In: New Phytologist. Volume 202, No. 2, 2014, pp. 640-650. doi: 10.1111 / nph.12664
  • J. Pesek, J. Svoboda, M. Sattler, S. Bartram, W. Boland: Biosynthesis of 8-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid, an iron chelator from the gut of the lepidopteran Spodoptera littoralis. In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Volume 13, 2015, pp. 178-184. doi: 10.1039 / c4ob01857e

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Wilhelm Boland at academictree.org, accessed on January 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Website of the MPI for Chemical Ecology .
  3. ↑ Living chemical plants: Chemical defense in leaf beetle larvae Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2009.
  4. ^ Leaf beetle larvae: Change of host plants changes poison cocktail yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2012.
  5. ↑ ISCE website .

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personal data
SURNAME Boland, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950