Publications
2025
Bukat, A., Bukowicki, M., Bykowski, M., Kuczkowska, K., Nowakowski, S., Śliwińska A., Kowalewska, Ł. (2025), GRANA: Accelerating Chloroplast Grana Nanomorphology Analysis with Hybrid Intelligence. Plant Physiology, accepted for publication 21.04.2025
Wójtowicz, J., Mazur, R., Jakubauskas, D., Sokolova, A., Garvey, C., Mortensen, K., Jensen, P.E., Kirkensgaard, J.J.K. & Kowalewska, Ł. (2025), Shrink or expand? Just relax! Bidirectional grana structural dynamics as early light-induced regulator of photosynthesis. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70175
2024
Li, B., Armarego-Marriott, T., Kowalewska, Ł., Thiele, W., Erban, A., Ruf, S., Kopka, J., Schöttler, M. A., & Bock, R. (2024). Membrane protein provision controls prothylakoid biogenesis in tobacco etioplasts. The Plant cell, 36(12), 4862–4880. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae259
Wójtowicz, J., Węgrzyn, A., Bukat, A., Bykowski, M., Mostowska, A., Kowalewska., Ł. (2024). Prolamellar Body – Getting Ready for Photosynthesis in Handbook of Photosynthesis (4th edition Pessarakli M. ed.); Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton
Krysiak, M., Węgrzyn, A., Kowalewska, Ł., Kulik, A., Ostaszewska-Bugajska, M., Mazur, J., Garstka, M., & Mazur, R. (2024). Light-independent pathway of STN7 kinase activation under low temperature stress in runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus L.). BMC plant biology, 24(1), 513. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-024-05169-3
Vaccaro, F., Passeri, I., Ajijah, N., Bettini, P., Courty, P. E., Dębiec-Andrzejewska, K., Joshi, N., Kowalewska, Ł., Stasiuk, R., Musiałowski, M., Pranaw, K., & Mengoni, A. (2024). Genotype-by-genotype interkingdom cross-talk between symbiotic nitrogen fixing Sinorhizobium meliloti strains and Trichoderma species. Microbiological research, 285, 127768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2024.127768
2023
Schamberger, B., Ziege, R., Anselme, K., Ben Amar, M., Bykowski, M., Castro, A. P. G., Cipitria, A., Coles, R. A., Dimova, R., Eder, M., Ehrig, S., Escudero, L. M., Evans, M. E., Fernandes, P. R., Fratzl, P., Geris, L., Gierlinger, N., Hannezo, E., Iglič, A., Kirkensgaard, J. J. K., Kollmannsberger, P., Kowalewska, Ł., Kurniawan, N.A., Papantoniou, I., Pieuchot, L., Pires, T.H.V., Renner, L.D., Sageman-Furnas, A.O., Schröder-Turk, G.E., Sengupta, A., Sharma, V.R., Tagua, A., Tomba, C., Trepat, X., Waters, S.L., Yeo, E.F., Roschger, A., Bidan, C.M., Dunlop, J. W. C. (2023). Curvature in Biological Systems: Its Quantification, Emergence, and Implications across the Scales. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 35(13), e2206110. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202206110
Musiałowski, M., Kowalewska, Ł., Stasiuk, R., Krucoń, T., & Dębiec-Andrzejewska K. (2023). Metabolically versatile psychrotolerant Antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. ANT_H12B is an efficient producer of siderophores and accompanying metabolites (SAM) useful for agricultural purposes. Microbial cell factories 22: 85. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-023-02105-2
2022
Hain, T. M., Bykowski, M., Saba, M., Evans, M. E., Schröder-Turk, G. E., & Kowalewska, Ł. (2022). SPIRE-a software tool for bicontinuous phase recognition: application for plastid cubic membranes. Plant physiology, 188(1), 81–96. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab476
2021
Bykowski, M., Mazur, R., Wójtowicz, J., Suski, S., Garstka, M., Mostowska, A., & Kowalewska, Ł. (2021). Too rigid to fold: Carotenoid-dependent decrease in thylakoid fluidity hampers the formation of chloroplast grana. Plant physiology, 185(1), 210–227. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaa009
Sandoval-Ibáñez, O., Sharma, A., Bykowski, M., Borràs-Gas, G., Behrendorff, J. B. Y. H., Mellor, S., Qvortrup, K., Verdonk, J. C., Bock, R., Kowalewska, Ł., & Pribil, M. (2021). Curvature thylakoid 1 proteins modulate prolamellar body morphology and promote organized thylakoid biogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(42), e2113934118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113934118
Mazur, R., Mostowska, A., & Kowalewska, Ł. (2021). How to Measure Grana – Ultrastructural Features of Thylakoid Membranes of Plant Chloroplasts. Frontiers in plant science, 12, 756009. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.756009
2020
Armarego-Marriott, T., Sandoval-Ibañez, O., & Kowalewska, Ł. (2020). Beyond the darkness: recent lessons from etiolation and de-etiolation studies. Journal of experimental botany, 71(4), 1215–1225. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz496
Mazur, R., Gieczewska, K., Kowalewska, Ł., Kuta, A., Proboszcz, M., Gruszecki, W. I., Mostowska, A., & Garstka, M. (2020). Specific Composition of Lipid Phases Allows Retaining an Optimal Thylakoid Membrane Fluidity in Plant Response to Low-Temperature Treatment. Frontiers in plant science, 11, 723. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00723
Bykowski, M., Mazur, R., Buszewicz, D., Szach, J., Mostowska, A., & Kowalewska, Ł. (2020). Spatial Nano-Morphology of the Prolamellar Body in Etiolated Arabidopsis thaliana Plants With Disturbed Pigment and Polyprenol Composition. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 8, 586628. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2020.586628
2019
Piotrowska, P., Łazicka, M., Palińska-Saadi, A., Paterczyk, B., Kowalewska, Ł., Grzyb, J., Maj-Żurawska, M., & Garstka, M. (2019). Electrochemical characterization of LHCII on graphite electrodes – Potential-dependent photoactivation and arrangement of complexes. Bioelectrochemistry (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 127, 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2019.01.005
Armarego-Marriott, T., Kowalewska, Ł., Burgos, A., Fischer, A., Thiele, W., Erban, A., Strand, D., Kahlau, S., Hertle, A., Kopka, J., Walther, D., Reich, Z., Schöttler, M. A., & Bock, R. (2019). Highly Resolved Systems Biology to Dissect the Etioplast-to-Chloroplast Transition in Tobacco Leaves. Plant physiology, 180(1), 654–681. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.01432
Kowalewska, Ł., Bykowski, M., & Mostowska A. (2019). Spatial organization of thylakoid network in higher plants, Botany Letters, 166:3, 326-343, https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2019.1619195
Mazur, R., Mostowska, A., Szach, J., Gieczewska, K., Wójtowicz, J., Bednarska, K., Garstka, M., & Kowalewska, Ł. (2019). Galactolipid deficiency disturbs spatial arrangement of the thylakoid network in Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Journal of experimental botany, 70(18), 4689–4704. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erz219
Jakubauskas, D., Kowalewska, Ł., Sokolova, A. V., Garvey, C. J., Mortensen, K., Jensen, P. E., & Kirkensgaard, J. J. K. (2019). Ultrastructural modeling of small angle scattering from photosynthetic membranes. Scientific reports, 9(1), 19405. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55423-0
2018
Mazur, R., Trzcinska-Danielewicz, J., Kozlowski, P., Kowalewska, Ł., Rumak, I., Shiell, B. J., Mostowska, A., Michalski, W. P., & Garstka, M. (2018). Dark-chilling and subsequent photo-activation modulate expression and induce reversible association of chloroplast lipoxygenase with thylakoid membrane in runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus L.). Plant physiology and biochemistry: PPB, 122, 102–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2017.11.015
2017
Skupień, J., Wójtowicz, J., Kowalewska, Ł., Mazur, R., Garstka, M., Gieczewska, K., & Mostowska, A. (2017). Dark-chilling induces substantial structural changes and modifies galactolipid and carotenoid composition during chloroplast biogenesis in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) cotyledons. Plant physiology and biochemistry: PPB, 111, 107–118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2016.11.022
Spińczyk, D., Kowalewska Ł. (2017). Przegląd metod segmentacji i interpretacji stosowanych w analizie obrazów mikroskopowych. Acta Bio-Optica et Informatica Medica. Inżynieria Biomedyczna, 23(4), 261-269.
2016
Kowalewska, Ł., Mazur, R., Suski, S., Garstka, M., & Mostowska, A. (2016). Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Tubular-Lamellar Transformation of the Internal Plastid Membrane Network during Runner Bean Chloroplast Biogenesis. The Plant cell, 28(4), 875–891. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.15.01053
Kowalewska, Ł., & Mostowska, A. (2016). Biogenesis of Thylakoid Membranes – Correlation of Structure and Function in Handbook of Photosynthesis, (3nd edition, Pessarakli M. ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton 3:3-15
Mazur, R., Sadowska, M., Kowalewska, Ł., Abratowska, A., Kalaji, H. M., Mostowska, A., Garstka, M., & Krasnodębska-Ostręga, B. (2016). Overlapping toxic effect of long term thallium exposure on white mustard (Sinapis alba L.) photosynthetic activity. BMC plant biology, 16(1), 191. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-016-0883-4