{"id":16,"date":"2015-10-01T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:55:05","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tWelcome\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n<header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tPlant Cell Biology Group, School of Biological Sciences\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"396\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/covers3-396x264.jpg\" alt=\"Collage of magazine covers.\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/covers3-396x264.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/covers3-792x528.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/covers3-990x660.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/covers3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We investigate plant&nbsp;cell biological phenomena that have an impact on whole plant physiology and ultimately on food security, climate change&nbsp;and bioenergy crops. We utilize molecular biological-, cell biological-, and bio-imaging tools and&nbsp;develop new methods and protocols to enable previously impossible studies. We like lab work as well as field work and sometimes do relatively unusual things like taking microscopes into the canopy of trees or on boats, to study the cell biology of large organisms <em>in situ<\/em>. Besides the standard instrumentation for molecular biological and biochemical work, we use state of the art and cutting edge bio-imaging instrumentation. <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/research\/\">Find out more about our research.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--thirds\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video autoplay controls loop src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/amperometrie1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Electric control of forisome reaction. Copyright Nature Publishing Group.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video autoplay controls loop src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/csnarf-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In situ root development<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video autoplay controls loop src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1020\/2015\/10\/forisome-in-situ.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Forisome (yellow) occluding a&nbsp;sieve&nbsp; element<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/02\/science\/trees-plants-nutrient-flow.html?_r=0\">See a New York Times video and article on our work<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check out more on our research in the textbook \u201cCampbell Essential Biology 6e\u201d on page 632<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41477-023-01418-9\">Just published: Plants can discriminate touch from letting go. Nature Plants<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selection of publications (click publications for a full list)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Howell AH, Volkner C, McGreevy P, Jensen KH, Waadt R, Gilroy S, Kunz H-H, Peters WS, Knoblauch M (2023) Pavement Cells Distinguish Touch From Letting Go. <em><strong>Nature Plants<\/strong><\/em> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41477-023-01418-9<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liu Y, Vasina VV, Kraner ME, Peters WS, Sonnewald U, Knoblauch M (2022) Proteomics of isolated sieve tubes from <em>Nicotiana tabacum<\/em>: sieve element-specific proteins reveal differentiation of the endomembrane system. <em><em><strong>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.<\/strong><\/em><\/em><em><span class=\"citation-doi\"> doi: 10.1073\/pnas.2112755119. <\/span><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\n<div class=\"gsc_oci_value\">Benjamin T Julius, Tyler J McCubbin, Rachel A Mertz, Nick Baert, Jan Knoblauch, DeAna G Grant, Kyle Conner, Saadia Bihmidine, Paul Chomet, Ruth Wagner, Jeff Woessner, Karen Grote, Jeanette Peevers, Thomas L Slewinski, Maureen C McCann, Nicholas C Carpita, Michael Knoblauch, David M Braun (2021) Maize Brittle Stalk2-Like3, encoding a COBRA protein, functions in cell wall formation and carbohydrate partitioning. <em><strong>The Plant Cell<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch J, Knoblauch M, Vasina VV, Peters WS, 2020. Sieve elements rapidly develop \u2018nacreous walls\u2019 following injury\u2212 a common wounding response? <strong><em>The Plant Journal<\/em><\/strong>102, 797-808.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span class=\"given-names\">Timothy J<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Ross-Elliott, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Kaare H<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Jensen, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Katrine S<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Haaning, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Brittney M<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Wager, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Jan<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Knoblauch, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Alexander H<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Howell, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Daniel L<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Mullendore, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Alexander G<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Monteith, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Danae<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Paultre, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Dawei<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Yan, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Sofia<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Otero, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Matthieu<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Bourdon, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Ross<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Sager, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Jung-Youn<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Lee, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Yk\u00e4<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Helariutta, <\/span><span class=\"given-names\">Michael<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Knoblauch<\/span>, <span class=\"given-names\">Karl J<\/span> <span class=\"surname\">Oparka<\/span>. (2017)&nbsp;Phloem unloading in Arabidopsis roots is convective and regulated by the phloem-pole pericycle. <span class=\"elife-doi-cite-as-data\"><strong>eLife<\/strong> 2017;6:e24125<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch, M., J. Knoblauch, D.L. Mullendore, J.A. Savage, B.A. Babst, S.D. Beecher, A.C. Dodgen, K.H. Jensen, and N.M. Holbrook. (2016). Testing the M\u00fcnch hypothesis of long distance phloem transport in plants. <strong><em>eLife<\/em><\/strong>. 5:e15341<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, Vendrell M, de Leau E, Paterlini A, Knox K, Ross-Elliot T, Reinders A, Brockman SA, Ward J, Oparka K. (2015) Multispectral phloem-mobile probes: properties and applications. <strong>Plant Physiology<\/strong> 167 1211-1220<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch J, Mullendore DL, Jensen KH, Knoblauch M (2014) Pico gauges for minimally invasive intracellular hydrostatic pressure measurements. <strong>Plant Physiology <\/strong>166, 1271-1279<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, Froelich DF, Pickard WF, Peters WS (2014) SEORious business: structural proteins in sieve tubes and their involvement in sieve element occlusion. <strong>Journal of Experimental Botany <\/strong>65 1879-1893.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dettmer J, Ursache, R, Campilho, A, Miyashima, S, Belevich, I, O&#8217;Regan, S, Mullendore, DL, Yadav, SR, Lanz, C, Beverina, L, Papagni, A, Schneeberger, K, Weigel, D, Stierhof, YD, Moritz, T, Knoblauch, M, Jokitalo, E, Helariutta, Y<u>&#8230;More<\/u>. (2014) CHOLINE TRANSPORTER-LIKE1 is required for sieve plate development to mediate long-distance cell-to-cell communication. <strong>Nature Communications<\/strong> 5, 1-11<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, Oparka KJ (2012) The structure of the phloem\u2013still more questions than answers. <strong>The Plant Journal<\/strong>. 70 (2012) 147-156<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Froelich DF, Mullendore DM, Jensen KH, Ross-Elliott TJ, Anstead JA, Thompson GA, Pelissier H, Knoblauch M (2011) Phloem Ultrastructure And Pressure Flow: Sieve-Element-Oclussion-Related Agglomerations Do Not Affect Translocation. <strong>The Plant Cell<\/strong>, 23<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, Peters WS (2010) M\u00fcnch, morphology, microfluidics \u2013 our structural problem with the phloem. <strong>Plant, Cell, Environment<\/strong> 33, 1439 \u2013 1452<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mullendore D, Windt CW, Van As H, Knoblauch M. (2010) Sieve tube geometry in relation to phloem flow. <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Plant Cell<\/strong> 22, 579-593<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pelissier, HC, Peters WS, Collier R, Van Bel AJE, Knoblauch M (2008) GFP Tagging of Sieve Element Occlusion (SEO) Proteins Results in Green Fluorescent Forisomes. <strong>Plant and Cell Physiology<\/strong>, 49 (11), 1699-1710<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, Noll GA, M\u00fcller T, Pr\u00fcfer D, Schneider-H\u00fcther I, Scharner D, van Bel AJE, Peters WS (2003) ATP-independent contractile proteins from plants. <strong>Nature Materials<\/strong> 2, 600-603<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, Peters WS, Ehlers K, van Bel AJE (2001) Reversible calcium-regulated stopcocks in legume sieve tubes. <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Plant Cell<\/strong> 13, 1221-1230<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, Hibberd JM, Gray JC, van Bel AJE (1999) A galinstan expansion femtosyringe for injection of eukaryotic organelles and prokaryotes. <strong>Nature Biotechnology<\/strong><em> 17<\/em>, 906-909<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knoblauch M, van Bel AJE (1998) Sieves tubes in action. <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Plant Cell<\/strong><em> 10<\/em>, 35-50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[332],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/knoblauch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}