Researcher Portfolio
Boccia, Marianna
Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Prof. Dr. Sarah O'Connor, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society, IMPRS Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society
Researcher Profile
Position: Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis, Prof. Dr. Sarah O'Connor, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society
Position: IMPRS Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Society
Additional IDs: http://purl.org/escidoc/metadata/terms/0.1/ISSN: 7165
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons275312
Publications
: Grzech, D., Smit, S. J., Alam, R. M., Boccia, M., Nakamura, Y., Hong, B., Barbole, R., Heinicke, S., Kunert, M., Seibt, W., Grabe, V., Caputi, L., Lichman, B. R., O’Connor, S. E., Aharoni, A., & Sonawane, P. D. (2025). Incorporation of nitrogen in antinutritional Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis. Nature Chemical Biology, 21, 131-142. doi:10.1038/s41589-024-01735-w. [PubMan] : Boccia, M., Ploß, K., Kunert, M., Keshan, R., Hatam, M., Grabe, V., O’Connor, S. E., & Sonawane, P. D. (2024). Metabolic engineering of vitamin D3 in Solanaceae plants. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 22(12), 3389-3391. doi:10.1111/pbi.14459. [PubMan] : Boccia, M., Kessler, D., Seibt, W., Grabe, V., Rodriguez Lopez, C. E., Grzech, D., Heinicke, S., O’Connor, S. E., & Sonawane, P. D. (2024). A scaffold protein manages the biosynthesis of steroidal defense metabolites in plants. Science, 386(6728), 1366-1372. doi:10.1126/science.ado3409. [PubMan] : Boccia, M. (2024). Elucidation and metabolic engineering of plant alkaloid and terpene biosynthetic pathways. PhD Thesis, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena. [PubMan] : Boccia, M., Grzech, D., Lopes, A. A., O’Connor, S. E., & Caputi, L. (2022). Directed biosynthesis of new to nature alkaloids in a heterologous Nicotiana benthamiana expression host. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13: 919443. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.919443. [PubMan]