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Fields of interest:

Potato biology

Regulation of flowering time and characterization of RNA binding proteins in Arabidopsis

Cross-Talk between resistance mechanisms to pathogen infection in Cereals

Post-transcriptional gene regulation

Virus Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS)

Molecular plant virology

Recent publications:

Hornyik C, Duc C, Rataj K, Terzi LC, Simpson GG. (2010):
Alternative polyadenylation of antisense RNAs and flowering time control.
Biochem Soc Trans. Aug 1;38(4):1077-81.

Hornyik C, Terzi LC and Simpson GG. (2010):
The spen family protein FPA controls alternative cleavage and polyadenylation of RNA.
Dev Cell. Feb 16;18(2):203-13.

Wypijewski K, Hornyik C, Shaw JA, Stephens J, Goraczniak R, Gunderson SI, Lacomme C. (2009):
Ectopic 5' splice sites inhibit gene expression by engaging RNA surveillance and silencing pathways in plants.
Plant Physiol. Oct;151(2):955-65.:

Madsen, C.T., Stephens, J., Hornyik, C., Shaw, J., Collinge, D.B., Lacomme, C. & Albrechtsen, M. (2009):
Identification and characterization of barley RNA-directed RNA polymerases.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. May, 1789 (5), 375-385.

S. Chen, M.R. Hajirezaei, M.I. Zanor, C. Hornyik, S. Debast, C. Lacomme, A.R. Fernie, U. Sonnewald and F. Börnke (2008):
RNA interference-mediated repression of sucrose-phosphatase in transgenic potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum) strongly affects the hexose-to-sucrose ratio upon cold storage with only minor effects on total soluble carbohydrate accumulation,
Plant Cell Environ., Vol. 31, (2008), pp. 165-76.

C. Hornyik, Z. Havelda and J. Burgyán (2006):
Identification of sequence elements of tombusvirus associated defective interfering RNAs required for symptom modulation,
Arch. Virol., Vol. 151, (2006), pp. 625-633.

C. Hornyik, Z. Havelda, A. Válóczi and J. Burgyán (2005):
Defective interfering RNA hinders the activity of tombusvirus encoded post-transcriptional gene silencing suppressor,
J. Virol., Vol. 79, (2005), pp. 450-457.

A. Válóczi, C. Hornyik, N. Varga, J. Burgyán, S. Kauppinen and Z. Havelda (2004):
Sensitive and specific detection of microRNAs by Northern blot analysis using LNA-modified oligonucleotide probes,
Nucleic Acids Res., Vol. 32, (2004), pp. e175.

Z. Havelda, C. Hornyik, A. Crescenzi and J. Burgyán 2003):
In situ characterization of Cymbidium ringspot tombusvirus infection induced post-transcriptional gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana,
J. Virol., Vol. 77, (2003), pp. 6082-6086.

D. Silhavy, A. Molnar, A. Lucioli, G. Szittya, C. Hornyik, M. Tavazza and J. Burgyan (2002):
A viral protein suppresses RNA silencing and binds silencing-generated, 21- to 25-nucleotide double-stranded RNAs,
EMBO J., Vol. 21, (2002), pp. 3070-3080.