Anna A. Dobritsa
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · The Ohio State University
Publications
40
Citations
2,166
Est. group size
~1
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
30
Publishing since 1997
Anna A. Dobritsa studies how pollen grains build their outer wall, focusing on the formation of the tough surface layer (exine) and specialized openings called apertures, mainly using the model plant Arabidopsis. This work aims to uncover the cellular and molecular mechanisms plants use to construct precise surface patterns on pollen, which are important for pollen survival and successful plant reproduction.
Publication output was fairly steady with a peak in 2021, followed by a slowdown in subsequent years through 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Forging the pollen fortress: Cell biological mechanisms of exine formation
Current Opinion in Plant Biology · 2025
- Molecular mechanisms of pollen aperture formation in Arabidopsis and rice
Journal of Experimental Botany · 2025
- Putting the brakes on pollen wall development: A conserved negative feedback loop regulates pollen exine formation in flowering plants
Molecular Plant · 2023
- Dynamic changes in primexine during the tetrad stage of pollen development
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · 2021
- Loss of<i>THIN EXINE2</i>disrupts multiple processes in the mechanism of pollen exine formation
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · 2021
- The Role of INAPERTURATE POLLEN1 as a Pollen Aperture Factor Is Conserved in the Basal Eudicot Eschscholzia californica (Papaveraceae)
Frontiers in Plant Science · 2021
- Building portals in pollen
Nature Plants · 2020
- Looking below the surface in plants
eLife · 2020
- Review for "Pollen wall patterns as a model for biological self‐assembly"
2020
- Formation of aperture sites on the pollen surface as a model for development of distinct cellular domains
Plant Science · 2019
- Decision letter: Imaging plant germline differentiation within Arabidopsis flowers by light sheet microscopy
2019
- Review for "Pollen wall patterns as a model for biological self‐assembly"
2019
- Arabidopsis Protein Kinase D6PKL3 Is Involved in the Formation of Distinct Plasma Membrane Aperture Domains on the Pollen Surface
The Plant Cell · 2018
- Exine and Aperture Patterns on the Pollen Surface: Their Formation and Roles in Plant Reproduction
Annual Plant Reviews online · 2018
- Effect of aperture number on pollen germination, survival and reproductive success in Arabidopsis thaliana
Annals of Botany · 2017
- PLANT PHYSIOLOGY×3
- The Plant Cell×2
- Journal of Experimental Botany×2
- Nature Plants×2
- eLife×2
- Subramanian Sankaranarayanan
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Yuan Zhou
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · The Ohio State University
- Xiao Wu
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Yang Xi
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Eileen L. Mallery
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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