Publications
| Eckardt, N.A., Ainsworth, E.A., Bahuguna, R.N., Broadley, M.R., Busch, W., Carpita, N.C., Castrillo, G., Chory, J., DeHaan, L.R., Duarte, C.M., Henry, A., Jagadish, S.V.K., Langdale, J.A., Leakey, A.D.B., Liao, J.C., Lu, K.J., McCann, M.C., McKay, J.K., Odeny, D.A., Jorge de Oliveira, E., Platten, J.D., Rabbi, I., Rim, E.Y., Ronald, P.C., Salt, D.E., Shigenaga, A.M., Wang, E., Wolfe, M., and Zhang, X. (2023) Climate change challenges, plant science solutions. Plant Cell, 35, 24-66. |
| Kuan-Jen Lu, Chiung-Wen Chang, Chun-Hsiung Wang, Frederic Y-H Chen, Irene Y. Huang1, Pin-Hsuan Huang1, Cheng-Han Yang1, Hsiang-Yi Wu1, Wen-Jin Wu, Kai-Cheng Hsu, Meng-Chiao Ho, Ming-Daw Tsai, James C. Liao (2023) An ATP-sensitive phosphoketolase regulates carbon fixation in cyanobacteria. Nature Metabolism, |
| Léo Bürgy, Simona Eicke, Christophe Kopp, Camilla Jenny, Kuan Jen Lu, Stephane Escrig, Anders Meibom, Samuel C Zeeman (2021) Coalescence and directed anisotropic growth of starch granule initials in subdomains of Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts. Nature communications, 12, 6944 |
| Kuan-Jen Lu, Camilla Jenny, Barbara Pfister, Simona Eicke, and Samuel C. Zeeman (2018) Distinct Functions of STARCH SYNTHASE 4 Domains in Determining Starch Granule Number and Morphology in Arabidopsis Leaves. Plant Physiology, 176 (1), 566-581 |
| David Seung, Julien Boudet, Jonathan Monroe, Tina B. Schreier, Laure C. David, Melanie Abt, Kuan-Jen Lu, Martina Zanella, and Samuel C. Zeeman (2017) Homologs of PROTEIN TARGETING TO STARCH Control Starch Granule Initia-tion in Arabidopsis Leaves. The Plant Cell, 29, 1657–1677 |
| Barbara Pfister, Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer, Ana Diaz, Kuanjen Lu, Caroline Otto, Mirko Holler, Farooque Razvi Shaik, Florence Meier, Raffaele Mezzenga, and Samuel C. Zeeman (2016) Recreating the Synthesis of Starch Granules in Yeast.. eLife, e15552 |
| David Seung, Kuan-Jen Lu, Michaela Stettler, Sebastian Streb and Samuel C. Zeeman (2016) Degradation of Glucan Primers in the Absence of Starch Synthase 4 Disrupts Starch Granule Initiation in Arabidopsis. Journal of Biochemistry, |
| Kuan-Jen Lu, Sebastian Streb, Florence Meier, Barbara Pfister, and Samuel C. Zee-man (2015) Molecular Genetic Analysis of Glucan Branching Enzymes from Plants and Bacteria in Arabidopsis Reveals Marked Differences in Their Functions and Capacity to Mediate Starch Granule Formation.. Plant Physiology, 169, 1638-1655 |
| Barbara Pfister1, Kuan-Jen Lu1, Simona Eicke, Regina Feil, John E. Lunn, Sebastian Streb, and Samuel C. Zeeman (2014) Genetic Evidence That Chain Length and Branch Point Distributions Are Linked Determinants of Starch Granule Formation in Arabidopsis.. Plant Physiology, 165, 1457-1474 |
Kuan-Jen Lu
Assistant Research Fellow
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klu@gate.sinica.edu.tw
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Assistant Research Fellow in ABRC (AS-BCST) 2024-now
Post-doctoral researcher in IBC Academia Sinica, Taiwan 2017-2024
Post-doctoral fellow in ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2016-2017
Ph.D study in Plant Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2011-2016