Peter Geigenberger

Peter Geigenberger is a Professor of Plant Metabolism at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research focuses on understanding how plant metabolism is regulated in response to environmental signals like fluctuating light, low oxygen, and cold stress. He employs systems biology and hypothesis-driven approaches, including genetic and biochemical methods, to study these mechanisms in Arabidopsis and crops like potato and rice.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Redox regulation of photosynthetic and mitochondrial metabolism
  • Starch and carbohydrate metabolism under stress
  • Oxygen sensing via ERF-VII transcription factors
  • Biotechnological applications for crop improvement
• Recent Article Trends:
  • 2025 studies explore chloroplast thioredoxin networks in photosynthetic acclimation and synthetic biology approaches to hypoxia.
  • 2024 work highlights thioredoxin roles in mitochondrial pathways and light-responsive proteomes.
  • 2023 publications address NTRC-CP12 interactions during cold acclimation and thioredoxin reductases under elevated CO2.
• Labs & Collaborations:
  • Based at the LMU Munich Biocenter, Plant Metabolism group
  • Active in CRC TRR175 (subproject B02)
  • Collaborations with DFG, European researchers, and plant science consortia