Titis Wardhani
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research group: Sustainable crop nutrition
Biography
Titis Wardhani is a postdoctoral research associate at the Crop Science Center. She earned her BSc in Chemistry from the University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She then worked as a researcher at an Indonesian institute, focusing on pest and disease management in cocoa, maize, and palm oil. In 2012, she received a Netherlands Fellowship Programme award, enabling her to complete an MSc in Molecular Life Sciences at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands. She continued her academic journey at WUR with a PhD in Molecular Biology, where she worked with René Geurts on cytokinin signalling in nitrogen-fixing symbiosis using Chamaecrista and Parasponia as models. She then worked as a postdoc in the same group, aiming to engineer nitrogen-fixing symbiotic traits into cassava (ENSA project). Since July 2024, she has been investigating the regenerative capacities of various cassava cultivars within the Giles Oldroyd group. This knowledge gap she wishes to resolve is fundamental for advancing genetic tools of cassava in African-elite germplasm. She will continue collaborating with WUR and research partners in Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire (WAVE, IITA, and NRCRI).
Publications
Publication
The Effect of Exogenous Nitrate on LCO Signalling, Cytokinin Accumulation, and Nodule Initiation in Medicago truncatula
Date: 28 June 2021
Contributors: Gühl, K., Holmer, R., Xiao, T.T., Shen, D., Wardhani, T. A. K., Geurts, R., van Zeijl, A., Kohlen, W.
Journal: Genes
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Transforming, Genome Editing and Phenotyping the Nitrogen-fixing Tropical Cannabaceae Tree Parasponia andersonii
Date: 18 August 2019
Contributors: Wardhani, T. A. K., Roswanjaya, Y. P., Dupin, S., Li, H., Linders, S., Hartog, M., Geurts,R., van Zeijl, A.
Journal: Genes
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Comparative genomics of the nonlegume Parasponia reveals insights into evolution of nitrogen-fixing rhizobium symbioses
Date: 1 May 2018
Contributors: Robin van Velzen , Rens Holmer , Fengjiao Bu, Luuk Rutten, Arjan van Zeijl, Wei Liu, Luca Santuari, Qingqin Cao, Trupti Sharma, Defeng Shen, Yuda Roswanjaya, Titis A K Wardhani, Maryam Seifi Kalhor, Joelle Jansen, Johan van den Hoogen, Berivan Güngör, Marijke Hartog, Jan Hontelez, Jan Verver, Wei-Cai Yang, Elio Schijlen, Rimi Repin, Menno Schilthuizen, M Eric Schranz, Renze Heidstra, Kana Miyata, Elena Fedorova, Wouter Kohlen, Ton Bisseling, Sandra Smit, Rene Geurts
Journal: PNAS
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CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Mutagenesis of Four Putative Symbiosis Genes of the Tropical Tree Parasponia andersonii Reveals Novel Phenotypes
Date: 6 March 2018
Contributors: Arjan van Zeijl, Titis A. K. Wardhani, Maryam Seifi Kalhor, Luuk Rutten, Fengjiao Bu, Marijke Hartog, Sidney Linders, Elena E. Fedorova, Ton Bisseling, Wouter Kohlen, Rene Geurts,
Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science
