Wilhelm Boland Explained

Wilhelm Boland (born 5 January 1950 in Wesel) is a German chemist.

Scientific career

After his dissertation (1978) and habilitation (1986) at the University of Cologne, Boland became associate professor of Organic Chemistry at Karlsruhe University in 1987. He was appointed Full Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at Bonn University in 1994. Since 1996 he is Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and head of the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry (Emeritus since 2018).^[1] In 1998 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

Boland studies the defensive chemistry of leaf beetles^[2] and the induction of plant defense pathways. Microbial interactions with plants and insects are further research topics in his department. He developed new methods in analytical and synthetic chemistry and investigates enzyme mechanisms and the gut chemistry of insects.^[3]

Awards and honors

Silverstein-Simeone Lecture Award of the International Society of Chemical Ecology, 1995^[4]
Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts (since 2002)
Hans Herloff Inhoffen Medal of the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), 2005
Peter Hemmerich Lecture, University of Konstanz, 2006
President of the International Society of Chemical Ecology 2008–2009
Silver Medal Award der International Society of Chemical Ecology 2023 ^[5]

Selected publications

10.1038/35020072 . 2000 . Takabayashi . Junji . Arimura . Gen-Ichiro . Ozawa . Rika . Shimoda . Takeshi . Nishioka . Takaaki . Boland . Wilhelm . Nature . 406 . 6795 . 512–5 . 10952311 . Herbivory-induced volatiles elicit defence genes in lima bean leaves. 2000Natur.406..512A . 4427770 .
10.1073/pnas.0402576101 . Selective transport systems mediate sequestration of plant glucosides in leaf beetles: A molecular basis for adaptation and evolution . 2004 . Kuhn . J. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 101 . 38 . 13808–13813 . 15365181 . 518838. 2004PNAS..10113808K . free .
10.1038/nature02703 . Evolutionary change from induced to constitutive expression of an indirect plant resistance . 2004 . Heil . Martin . Greiner . Sabine . Meimberg . Harald . Krüger . Ralf . Noyer . Jean-Louis . Heubl . Günther . Eduard Linsenmair . K. . Boland . Wilhelm . Nature . 430 . 6996 . 205–8 . 15241414. 2004Natur.430..205H . 4416036 .
10.1104/pp.104.054460 . Effects of Feeding Spodoptera littoralis on Lima Bean Leaves. II. Continuous Mechanical Wounding Resembling Insect Feeding is Sufficient to Elicit Herbivory-Related Volatile Emission . 2005 . Mithofer . A. . Plant Physiology . 137 . 3 . 1160–8 . 15728342 . Wanner . G . Boland . W . 1065415. .
10.1126/science.1107536 . Postsecretory Hydrolysis of Nectar Sucrose and Specialization in Ant/Plant Mutualism . 2005 . Heil . M. . Science . 308 . 5721 . 560–3 . 15845855 . Rattke . J . Boland . W. 2005Sci...308..560H . 18065410 .
10.1016/j.bbalip.2005.03.001 . 15904867 . Herbivore-induced, indirect plant defences . 2005 . Arimura . Gen-Ichiro . Kost . Christian . Boland . Wilhelm . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids . 1734 . 2 . 91–111.
10.1002/anie.200604989 . Structural Requirements of Jasmonates and Synthetic Analogues as Inducers of Ca2+ Signals in the Nucleus and the Cytosol of Plant Cells . 2007 . Walter . Agnes . Mazars . Christian . Maitrejean . Mathias . Hopke . Jörn . Ranjeva . Raoul . Boland . Wilhelm . Mithöfer . Axel . Angewandte Chemie International Edition . 46 . 25 . 4783–5 . 17487903.
10.1073/pnas.0906942106 . The phytohormone precursor OPDA is isomerized in the insect gut by a single, specific glutathione transferase . 2009 . Dabrowska . P. . Freitak . D. . Vogel . H. . Heckel . D. G. . Boland . W. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 106 . 38 . 16304–9 . 19805297 . 2752597. 2009PNAS..10616304D . free .
10.1073/pnas.1013846108 . Host plant shifts affect a major defense enzyme in Chrysomela lapponica . 2011 . Kirsch . R. . Vogel . H. . Muck . A. . Reichwald . K. . Pasteels . J. M. . Boland . W. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108 . 12 . 4897–901 . 21383196 . 3064323. 2011PNAS..108.4897K . free .
10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103854 . 22404468 . Plant defense against herbivores: Chemical aspects . 2012 . Mithöfer . Axel . Boland . Wilhelm . Annual Review of Plant Biology . 63 . 431–450.
10.7554/eLife.01096 . 24302568 . ABC transporter functions as a pacemaker for the sequestration of plant glucosides in leaf beetles . 2013 . Strauß . A. . Peters . S. . Boland . W. . Burse . A. . eLife . 2013;2:e01096. e01096 . 3843118 . free .
10.1111/nph.12664 . Mutualistic ants as an indirect defence against leaf pathogens . 2014 . González-Teuber . M. . Kaltenpoth . M. . Boland . W. . New Phytologist . 202 . 2 . 640–650 . 24392817. 11858/00-001M-0000-0014-BEF8-A . free .
10.1039/c4ob01857e . 25356857 . Biosynthesis of 8-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid, an iron chelator from the gut of the lepidopteran Spodoptera littoralis . 2015 . Pesek . J. . Svoboda . J. . Sattler . M. . Bartram . S. . Boland . W. . Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry . 13 . 12 . 178–184.

References

http://www.ice.mpg.de MPI for Chemical Ecology Website
http://www.mpg.de/1206477/host_change_toxic_cocktail Host Change Alters Toxic Cocktail
http://www.mpg.de/4409007/Insect_microbe_iron_reservoir Insect gut microbe with a molecular iron reservoir
http://www.chemecol.org/ ISCE Webseite
https://chemecol.org/silvermedal.shtml The ISCE Silver Medal Award

External links

Webpage of the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology