Plant & Environmental
Biotechnology Laboratory

Our publications represent the core of our scientific contributions, translating rigorous experimentation into peer-reviewed insights. Here, you will find our latest research papers, conference proceedings, and collaborative studies pushing the boundaries of Biotechnology & Synthetic biology.
Publications in Biotechnology & Synthetic biology
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Garcia-Ruiz M., Brader G., Saraiva JP., Guijarro Díaz-Otero B., Karpouzas D.G., Declerck S., (2026) Machine learning for designing low risk microbial consortia pesticides. Trends in Biotechnology doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2025.12.027

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Ribeiro, H., Papadopoulou, E. S., Zhang, K., Kanellopoulos, A. E., Papadopoulou, K. K., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2026). The potential of plant-derived triterpenoids as biological nitrification inhibitors. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 110(1), 107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-026-13776-3

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Valmas, M. I., Kormas, K., Karpouzas, D. G., Konstantinidis, K. T., Rozman, S. D., Udiković-Kolić, N., Remus-Emsermann, M. N. P., & Vasileiadis, S. (2025). Targeted analysis of metagenomes: Divide and conquer. Biotechnology Advances, 83, 108619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2025.108619

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Markou, P., Garagounis, C., Fasoula, D. A., Ioannides, I. M., Omirou, M., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2024). Identification, functional characterization and expression profiling of three triterpene synthases from the legume plant Vigna unguiculata. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 738, 150935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150935

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Solovou, T. G. A., Stravodimos, G., Papadopoulos, G. E., Skamnaki, V. T., Papadopoulou, K., & Leonidas, D. D. (2024). Biochemical and Structural Studies of LjSK1, a Lotus japonicus GSK3β/SHAGGY-like Kinase, Reveal Its Functional Role. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 72(7), 3763–3772. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.3c07101

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Koukara, J., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2023). Advances in plant synthetic biology approaches to control expression of gene circuits. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 654, 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.02.061

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Elena Papadopoulou*, Fotiοs Bekris*, Sotirios Vasileiadis, Afroditi Krokida, Theodora Rouvali, Aristidis S. Veskoukis, Kalliopi Liadaki, Demetrios Kouretas, Dimitrios G. Karpouzas (2023). Vineyard-mediated factors are still operative in spontaneous and commercial fermentations shaping the vinification microbial community and affecting the antioxidant and anticancer properties of wines. Food Research International 173 (2): 113359. [*equal contribution] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2023.113359

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Vasileiadis, S., Perruchon, C., Scheer, B., Adrian, L., Steinbach, N., Trevisan, M., Plaza‐Bolaños, P., Agüera, A., Chatzinotas, A., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2022). Nutritional inter‐dependencies and a carbazole‐dioxygenase are key elements of a bacterial consortium relying on a Sphingomonas for the degradation of the fungicide thiabendazole. Environmental Microbiology, 24(11), 5105–5122. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16116

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Karaolia P., Vasileiadis S., Michael S.G., Karpouzas D.G., Fatta-Kasinos D. (2021) Shotgun metagenomics assessment of the resistome, mobilome, pathogen dynamics and their ecological control modes in full-scale urban wastewater treatment plants. Journal of Hazardous Materials 418: 126387 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126387

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Garagounis, C., Delkis, N., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2021). Unraveling the roles of plant specialized metabolites: Using synthetic biology to design molecular biosensors. New Phytologist, 231(4), 1338–1352. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17470

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Solovou, T. G. A., Garagounis, C., Kyriakis, E., Bobas, C., Papadopoulos, G. E., Skamnaki, V. T., Papadopoulou, K. K., & Leonidas, D. D. (2021). Mutagenesis of a Lotus japonicus GSK3β/Shaggy-like kinase reveals functionally conserved regulatory residues. Phytochemistry, 186, 112707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112707

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Storck, V., Gallego, S., Vasileiadis, S., Hussain, S., Béguet, J., Rouard, N., Baguelin, C., Perruchon, C., Devers-Lamrani, M., Karpouzas, D. G., & Martin-Laurent, F. (2020). Insights into the Function and Horizontal Transfer of Isoproturon Degradation Genes ( pdmAB ) in a Biobed System. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(14), e00474-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00474-20

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Garagounis, C., Beritza, K., Georgopoulou, M.-E., Sonawane, P., Haralampidis, K., Goossens, A., Aharoni, A., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2020). A hairy-root transformation protocol for Trigonella foenum-graecum L. as a tool for metabolic engineering and specialised metabolite pathway elucidation. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 154, 451–462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.06.011

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Argyropoulou, M., Veskoukis, A. S., Karanatsiou, P.-M., Manolakelli, A., Kostoglou-Athanassiou, I., Vilaras, G., Karameris, A., & Liadaki, K. (2020). Low Prevalence of TERT Promoter, BRAF and RAS Mutations in Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Greek Population. Pathology & Oncology Research, 26(1), 347–354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12253-018-0497-2

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Fatemi, F., Abdollahi, M. R., Mirzaie-asl, A., Dastan, D., & Papadopoulou, K. (2020). Phytochemical, antioxidant, enzyme activity and antifungal properties of Satureja khuzistanica in vitro and in vivo explants stimulated by some chemical elicitors. Pharmaceutical Biology, 58(1), 286–296. https://doi.org/10.1080/13880209.2020.1743324

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Jozwiak, A., Sonawane, P. D., Panda, S., Garagounis, C., Papadopoulou, K. K., Abebie, B., Massalha, H., Almekias-Siegl, E., Scherf, T., & Aharoni, A. (2020). Plant terpenoid metabolism co-opts a component of the cell wall biosynthesis machinery. Nature Chemical Biology, 16(7), 740–748. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-020-0541-x

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Garagounis, C., Tsikou, D., Plitsi, P. K., Psarrakou, I. S., Avramidou, M., Stedel, C., Anagnostou, M., Georgopoulou, M. E., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2019). Lotus SHAGGY‐like kinase 1 is required to suppress nodulation in Lotus japonicus. The Plant Journal, 98(2), 228–242. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14207

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Katsarou, D., Omirou, M., Liadaki, K., Tsikou, D., Delis, C., Garagounis, C., Krokida, A., Zambounis, A., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2016). Glucosinolate biosynthesis in Eruca sativa. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 109, 452–466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2016.10.024

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Georgatza D, Gorgogietas VA, KylindriP, Charalambous MCh, Papadopoulou KK, Hayes JM, Psarra AMG. (2016) The triterpene echinocystic acid and its 3-O-glucoside derivative are revealed as potent and selective glucocorticoid receptor agonists. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 79: 277–287 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2016.08.028

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Mosses T, Papadopoulou KK, Osbourn AE (2014) Metabolic and functional diversity of saponins, biosynthetic intermediates and semi-synthetic derivatives. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2014.953628

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