Dr. ir. H.A.C.F. (Melissa) Leeggangers

Dr. ir. H.A.C.F. (Melissa) Leeggangers

Researcher
Plant Stress Resilience
h.a.c.f.leeggangers@uu.nl

Publications

1. *Leeggangers, H.A.C.F., Rodriguez-Granados, N.Y., Macias-Honti, M.G., Sasidharan, R. (2023). A helping hand when drowning: The versatile role of ethylene in root flooding resilience. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 105422. Doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2023.105422

2. Liu, Z., Hartman, S., van Veen, H., Zhang, H., Leeggangers, H.A.C.F., Martopawiro, S., Bosman, F., de Deugd, F., Su, P., Hummel, M., Rankenberg, T., Hassal, K.L., Bailey-Serres, J., Theodoulou, F.L., Voesenek, L.A.C.J., Sasidharan, R. (2022) Ethylene augments root hypoxia tolerance through amelioration of reactive oxygen species and growth cessation. Plant Physiology, 190(2):1365-1383. Doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac245

3. van Tol N, Flores Andaluz G, Leeggangers H.A.C.F., Roushan MR, Hooykaas PJJ, van der Zaal BJ (2018). Zinc Finger Artificial Transcription Factor-Mediated Chloroplast Genome Interrogation In Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant & Cell Physiology, November 2018, Doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcy216

4. Leeggangers, H.A.C.F., Rosilio-Brami, T., Bigas-Nadal, J., Rubin, N., Van Dijk, A.D.J., Nunez de Caceres Gonzalez, F.F.N., Saadon-Shitrit, S., Nijveen, H., Hilhorst, H.W.M., Immink, R.G.H., Zaccai, M. (2018). Tulipa gesneriana and Lilium longiflorum PEBP genes and their putative roles in flowering time control. Plant & Cell Physiology 59(1):90-106, Doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcx164

5. Leeggangers, H.A.C.F., Nijveen, H., Bigas Nadal, J., Hilhorst, H.W.M, Immink, R.G.H. (2017).Molecular regulation of temperature-dependent floral induction in Tulipa gesneriana. Plant Physiology 173(3):1904-1919, Doi: 10.1104/pp.16.01758

6. *Moreno-Pachon, N., Leeggangers, H.A.C.F., Nijveen, H., Severing, E., Hilhorst, H.W.M, Immink, R.G.H (2016). Elucidating and mining the Tulipa and Lilium transcriptomes. Plant Molecular Biology 92(3):249-61. Doi: 10.1007/s11103-016-0508-1

7. *Leeggangers, H.A.C.F., Folta A., Murras, A., Nap, J.P. and Mlynarova, L. (2015).Reduced seed germination in Arabidopsis over-expressing SWI/SNF2 ATPase genes. Physiologia Plantarum 153(2):318-26. Doi 10.1111/ppl.12231. 

8. Todd, R.B., Zhou, M., Ohm, R.A., Leeggangers,  H.A.C.F., Visser, L. and de Vries R.P. (2014). Prevalence of transcription factors in ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi.  BMC genomics 15:214. Doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-214

9. *Leeggangers, H.A.C.F., Moreno-Pachon, N., Gude, H. and Immink R.G (2013). Transfer of knowledge about flowering and vegetative propagation from model species to bulbous plants. The International journal of developmental biology 57(6-8):611-20. Doi: 10.1387/ijdb.130238ri.

*: Shared first authorship

Publications

2022

Scholarly publications

Liu, Z., Hartman, S., van Veen, H., Zhang, H., Leeggangers, H. A. C. F., Martopawiro, S., Bosman, F., de Deugd, F., Su, P., Hummel, M., Rankenberg, T., Hassall, K. L., Bailey-Serres, J., Theodoulou, F. L., Voesenek, L. A. C. J., & Sasidharan, R. (2022). Ethylene augments root hypoxia tolerance via growth cessation and reactive oxygen species amelioration. Plant Physiology, 190(2), 1365–1383. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac245

2017

Scholarly publications

Leeggangers, H. A. C. F. (2017). The hot, the cold and the tulip: the regulation of flowering time and dormancy release.