Emily Servante
Postdoctoral research associate
Research group: Cereal symbiosis
Biography
Emily is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Cereal Symbiosis group at the Crop Science Centre. She completed her PhD at University of Cambridge, where she worked in collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines to investigate the molecular genetics of diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in indica rice. Her research now focuses further on considering the potential for the beneficial symbiosis as a biofertilizer in sustainable, water-saving rice cultivation. She collaborates with IRRI, Philippines and West African Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), Ghana to conduct field trials evaluating the efficacy of native and applied inoculum in diverse and local host genotypes.
Publications
Publication
Independent regulation of strigolactones and blumenols during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice
Date: 31 May 2024
Contributors: Emily K. Servanté, Rayko Halitschke, Catarina Rocha, Ian T. Baldwin, Uta Paszkowski
Journal: The plant journal
Publication
Deep learning-based quantification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant roots
Date: 27 August 2021
Contributors: Edouard Evangelisti, Carl Turner, Alice McDowell, Liron Shenhav, Temur Yunusov, Aleksandr Gavrin, Emily K. Servante, Clément Quan, Sebastian Schornack
Journal: New Phytologist
Publication
The negative regulator SMAX1 controls mycorrhizal symbiosis and strigolactone biosynthesis in rice
Date: 30 April 2020
Contributors: Jeongmin Choi, Tak Lee, Jungnam Cho, Emily K. Servante, Boas Pucker, William Summers, Sarah Bowden, Mehran Rahimi, Kyungsook An, Gynheung An, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Emma J. Wallington, Giles Oldroyd and Uta Paszkowski
Journal: Nature Communications
