Uta Paszkowski
Acting Director of the Crop Science Centre
Research group: Cereal symbiosis
Biography
Uta Paszkowski is Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics at the Department of Plant Sciences of the University of Cambridge and leads the Cereal Symbiosis Group at the Crop Science Centre. She did her undergraduate studies at the University Cologne (Germany) gaining a Master (Diplom) degree in phytopathology at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding. Uta received her PhD in Biotechnology at the ETH-Zurich (Switzerland) and conducted two postdocs on molecular genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at the University Basel (Switzerland) and the Torrey Mesa Research Institute in San Diego (USA). She started her own research group at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), followed by an Assistant Professorship position at the University Lausanne (Switzerland) before moving to Cambridge University in October 2012 where she now is a full professor. Her research investigates molecular mechanisms underlying formation and functioning of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses in rice and maize with a particular focus on plant-fungal communication.
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
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi induce lateral root development in angiosperms via a conserved set of MAMP receptors.
Date: 6 June 2023
Contributors: Chiu CH, Roszak P, Orvošová M, Paszkowski U.
Journal: Current Biology
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A highly contiguous genome assembly reveals sources of genomic novelty in the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis.
Date: 1 June 2023
Contributors: Manley BF, Lotharukpong JS, Barrera-Redondo J, Llewellyn T, Yildirir G, Sperschneider J, Corradi N,
Journal: G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics,
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Nutrient regulation of lipochitooligosaccharide recognition in plants via NSP1 and NSP2
Date: 28 October 2022
Contributors: Xin-Ran Li, Jongho Sun, Doris Albinsky, Darius Zarrabian, Raphaella Hull, Tak Lee, Edwin Jarratt-Barnham, Chai Hao Chiu, Amy Jacobsen, Eleni Soumpourou, Alessio Albanese, Wouter Kohlen, Leonie H. Luginbuehl, Bruno Guillotin, Tom Lawrensen, Hui Lin, Jeremy Murray, Emma Wallington, Wendy Harwood, Jeongmin Choi, Uta Paszkowski & Giles E. D. Oldroyd
Journal: Nature Communications
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Conditioning plants for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis through DWARF14-LIKE signalling.
Date: 2 August 2021
Contributors: Hull R, Choi J, Paszkowski U
Journal: Current Opinion in Plant Biology
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How membrane receptors tread the fine balance between symbiosis and immunity signaling.
Date: 3 June 2021
Contributors: Chiu CH, Paszkowski U
Journal: PNAS
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A mycorrhiza-associated receptor-like kinase with an ancient origin in the green lineage
Date: 11 May 2021
Contributors: Héctor Montero, Tak Lee, Boas Pucker, Gabriel Ferreras-Garrucho, Giles Oldroyd, Samuel F. Brockington, Akio Miyao, Uta Paszkowski
Journal: PNAS
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The genetic architecture of host response reveals the importance of arbuscular mycorrhizae to maize cultivation
Date: 23 November 2020
Contributors: M. Rosario Ramírez-Flores, Sergio Perez-Limón, Meng Li, Benjamin Barrales-Gamez, Doris Albinsky, Uta Paszkowski, Víctor Olalde-Portugal and Ruairidh J. H. Sawers
Journal: Plant Biology
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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
Publication
Arbuscular mycorrhizal phenotyping: the do’s and don’t’s
Date: 17 September 2018
Contributors: Hector Montero, Jeongmin Choi, Uta Paszkowski
Journal: New Phytologist
Publication
Mechanisms Underlying Establishment of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbioses
Date: 1 June 2018
Contributors: Jeongmin Choi, William Summers, Uta Paszkowski,
Journal: Annual Review of Phytopathology
Publication
Independent Signalling Cues Underpin Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Large Lateral Root Induction in Rice
Date: 30 November 2017
Contributors: Chai Hao Chiu, Jeongmin Choi, Uta Paszkowski
Journal: New Phytologist
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Rice Perception of Symbiotic Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Requires the Karrikin Receptor Complex
Date: 18 December 2015
Contributors: Caroline Gutjahr, Enrico Gobbato, Jeongmin Choi, Michael Riemann, Matthew G. Johnston, William Summers, Samy Carbonnel, Catherine Mansfield, Shu-Yi Yang, Marina Nadal, Ivan Acosta, Makoto Takano, Wen-Biao Jiao, Korbinian Schneeberger, Krystyna A. Kelly and Uta Paszkowski
Journal: Science
