Eleutherococcus (Syn. Acanthopanax) species are woody plants from Asia, cultivated for ornament as well as for their medicinal properties. In particular, I am interested in the structural aspects of their Endomycorrhizas as well as to test different possibilities of propagation. The results may help to optimize cultivation conditions of these economically important species.

Publications of Matthias Döring

1. Döring, M., Weber, H. Chr. (2000). Structural Investigations on Mycorrhiza of Eleutherococcus Maxim. 3rd International Congress on Symbiosis, Marburg (Germany), August 13 - 19 2000.

2. Döring, M., Weber, H. Chr. (2001). Structural Investigations on Mycorrhiza of Eleutherococcus Maxim. 15th International Symposium "Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology" of the German Botanical Society, Bochum (Germany), September 23 - 28 2001.

3. Döring, M., Weber, H. Chr., Imhof, S. (2003). The Mycorrhiza of the Medicinal and Ornamental Genus Eleutherococcus Max. (Araliaceae). 4th International Conference on Mycorrhizae, Montréal (Canada), August 10 - 15 2003.

4. Döring, M., Imhof, S., Weber, H. C., Ewald, D. (2003). Propagation by leaf cuttings of Eleutherococcus Max. (Araliaceae). J. Appl. Bot. - Angew. Bot. 77: 57-60. Abstract available.

5. Döring, M., Imhof, S., Weber, H. Chr., Ewald, D. (2003). Propagation by leaf cuttings of Eleutherococcus gracilistylus (W. W. Sm.) S. Y. Hu (Araliaceae). 16th International Symposium "Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology" of the German Botanical Society, Frankfurt/Main (Germany), September 21 - 27.

6. Franke, T., Beenken, L., Döring, M., Kocyan, A., Agerer, R. (2004). Mycorrhizal Specificity in the Myco-heterotrophic Genus Afrothismia (Burmanniaceae; tribe: Thismieae). 17th Annual Meeting 2004 "Biodiversity, and dynamics in tropical ecosystems" of the Society for Tropical Ecology, Bayreuth (Germany), February 18 - 20.

7. Döring, M., Ewald, D., Müller, P. (2005). Intracellular occurrence of bacteria in root hairs of Eleutherococcus sieboldianus (Makino) Koidz. plantlets. Symposium on Mechanisms of cellular compartmentalization of SFB 593, Marburg (Germany) April 6-8.
   

8. Ewald D., Döring, M. (2005). Investigations concerning the formation of somatic embryos in Eleutherococcus sieboldianus (Makino) Koidz. (Araliaceae). COST 843 and COST 851 Joint Meeting, Stara Lesna(Slovakia) June 28 - 3.

9. Grolig, F., Döring, M., Galland, P. (2006). Gravisusception by buoyancy: a mechanism ubiquitous among fungi? Protoplasma 229: 117-123.

10. Franke, T., Beenken, L., Döring, M., Kocyan, A., Agerer, R. (2006). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of the Glomus-group A lineage (Glomerales; Glomeromycota) detected from myco-heterotrophic plants from tropical Africa . Mycol. Prog. 5: 24-31.

11. Döring, M., Müller, P. (2006). Enigmatic organismic features of Eleutherococcus sp. plant tissue cultures: Motile microbes in root hairs and DNA sequence similarities to bacteria, chrysophytes and fungi. 5th ISS, Vienna (Austria), August 5-10.

12. Müller, P., Döring, M. (2009). Isothermal DNA amplification facilitates the identification of a broad spectrum of bacteria, fungi and protozoa in Eleutherococcus sp. plant tissue cultures. Plant Cell Tiss. Organ Cult. online first.
    
    

PhD-project:
Eleutherococcus (Syn. Acanthopanax) species are woody plants from Asia, cultivated for ornament as well as for their medicinal properties. In particular, I am interested in the structural aspects of their Endomycorrhizas as well as to test different possibilities of propagation. The results may help to optimize cultivation conditions of these economically important species.
Investigations on Propagation and Mycorrhiza of Eleutherococcus Maxim. (Araliaceae) (in german). Ph.D. Thesis 2007, Marburg.


Postdoc-Project:
As postdoctoral research associate of University of Hiroshima I analyse structural, molecularbiological and physiological the dark septate endophytic fungi in roots of Brassica rapa var. nippo-oleifera.