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Phosphorus acquisition efficiency in arbuscular mycorrhizal maize is correlated with the abundance of root-external hyphae and the accumulation of transcripts encoding PHT1 phosphate transporters by Sawers, Ruairidh J. H., Svane, Simon F., Quan, Clement, Grønlund, Mette, Wozniak, Barbara, Gebreselassie, Mesfin‐Nigussie, González‐Muñoz, Eliécer, Chávez Montes, Ricardo A., Baxter, Ivan, Goudet, Jerome, Jakobsen, Iver, Paszkowski, Uta

“…Plant interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have long attracted interest for their potential to promote more efficient use of mineral resources in…”
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Cereal mycorrhiza: an ancient symbiosis in modern agriculture by Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Gutjahr, Caroline, Paszkowski, Uta

“…The majority of terrestrial plants live in association with symbiotic fungi that facilitate mineral nutrient uptake. The oldest and most prevalent of these…”
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Transcriptome diversity among rice root types during asymbiosis and interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi by Gutjahr, Caroline, Sawers, Ruairidh J. H., Marti, Guillaume, Andrés-Hernández, Liliana, Yang, Shu-Yi, Casieri, Leonardo, Angliker, Herbert, Oakeley, Edward J., Wolfender, Jean-Luc, Abreu-Goodger, Cei, Paszkowski, Uta

“…Root systems consist of different root types (RTs) with distinct developmental and functional characteristics. RTs may be individually reprogrammed in response…”
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The impact of domestication and crop improvement on arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals: insights from genetics and genomics by Sawers, Ruairidh J H, M Rosario Ramírez‐Flores, Víctor Olalde‐Portugal, Paszkowski, Uta

“…Cereals (rice, maize, wheat, sorghum and the millets) provide over 50% of the world’s caloric intake, a value that rises to > 80% in developing countries…”
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Adaptive phenotypic divergence in an annual grass differs across biotic contexts by O’Brien, Anna M., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Strauss, Sharon Y., Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey

“…Climate is a powerful force shaping adaptation within species, yet adaptation to climate occurs against a biotic background: species interactions can filter…”
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Characterization and Transposon Mutagenesis of the Maize (Zea mays) Pho1 Gene Family by Salazar-Vidal, M Nancy, Acosta-Segovia, Edith, Sánchez-León, Nidia, Ahern, Kevin R, Brutnell, Thomas P, Sawers, Ruairidh J H

“…Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for all plants, but also one of the least mobile, and consequently least available, in the soil. Plants have evolved a…”
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Genome sequencing reveals evidence of adaptive variation in the genus Zea by Chen, Lu, Luo, Jingyun, Jin, Minliang, Yang, Ning, Liu, Xiangguo, Peng, Yong, Li, Wenqiang, Phillips, Alyssa, Cameron, Brenda, Bernal, Julio S., Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh J. H., Liu, Qing, Yin, Yuejia, Ye, Xinnan, Yan, Jiali, Zhang, Qinghua, Zhang, Xiaoting, Wu, Shenshen, Gui, Songtao, Wei, Wenjie, Wang, Yuebin, Luo, Yun, Jiang, Chenglin, Deng, Min, Jin, Min, Jian, Liumei, Yu, Yanhui, Zhang, Maolin, Yang, Xiaohong, Hufford, Matthew B., Fernie, Alisdair R., Warburton, Marilyn L., Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Yan, Jianbing

“…Maize is a globally valuable commodity and one of the most extensively studied genetic model organisms. However, we know surprisingly little about the extent…”
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Low nitrogen availability inhibits the phosphorus starvation response in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) by Torres-Rodríguez, J. Vladimir, Salazar-Vidal, M. Nancy, Chávez Montes, Ricardo A, Massange-Sánchez, Julio A, Gillmor, C. Stewart, Sawers, Ruairidh J. H

“…Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are macronutrients essential for crop growth and productivity. In cultivated fields, N and P levels are rarely sufficient,…”
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Evidence that variation in root anatomy contributes to local adaptation in Mexican native maize by McLaughlin, Chloee M., Li, Meng, Perryman, Melanie, Heymans, Adrien, Schneider, Hannah, Lasky, Jesse R., Sawers, Ruairidh J. H.

“…Mexican native maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) is adapted to a wide range of climatic and edaphic conditions. Here, we focus specifically on the potential role of…”
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Mycorrhizal status and host genotype interact to shape plant nutrition in field grown maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) by Li, Meng, Perez-Limón, Sergio, Ramírez-Flores, M. Rosario, Barrales-Gamez, Benjamín, Meraz-Mercado, Marco Antonio, Ziegler, Gregory, Baxter, Ivan, Olalde-Portugal, Víctor, Sawers, Ruairidh J. H.

“…Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) establish symbioses with the major cereal crops, providing plants with increased access to nutrients while enhancing their…”
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Genetic mapping of maize metabolites using high-throughput mass profiling by González-Rodríguez, Tzitziki, Pérez-Limón, Sergio, Peniche-Pavía, Héctor, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Winkler, Robert

“…Plant metabolites are the basis of human nutrition and have biological relevance in ecology. Farmers selected plants with favorable characteristics since…”
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Cis- and Trans-Regulatory Variations in the Domestication of the Chili Pepper Fruit by Díaz-Valenzuela, Erik, Sawers, Ruairidh H, Cibrián-Jaramillo, Angélica

“…Abstract The process of domestication requires the rapid transformation of the wild morphology into the cultivated forms that humans select for. This process…”
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Maize zinc uptake is influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis under various soil phosphorus availabilities by Yu, Baogang, Zhou, Chengxiang, Wang, Zhonghua, Bucher, Marcel, Schaaf, Gabriel, Sawers, Ruairidh J. H., Chen, Xinping, Hochholdinger, Frank, Zou, Chunqin, Yu, Peng

“…Summary The antagonistic interplay between phosphorus (P) and zinc (Zn) in plants is well established. However, the molecular mechanisms mediating those…”
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Characterizing variation in mycorrhiza effect among diverse plant varieties by Sawers, Ruairidh J. H, Gebreselassie, Mesfin N, Janos, David P, Paszkowski, Uta

“…Exploitation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi may be an important approach for development of reduced-input agriculture. We discuss the use of linear models to…”
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The genetic architecture of host response reveals the importance of arbuscular mycorrhizae to maize cultivation by Ramírez-Flores, M Rosario, Perez-Limon, Sergio, Li, Meng, Barrales-Gamez, Benjamín, Albinsky, Doris, Paszkowski, Uta, Olalde-Portugal, Víctor, Sawers, Ruairidh Jh

“…Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are ubiquitous in cultivated soils, forming symbiotic relationships with the roots of major crop species. Studies in…”
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Phosphate Deprivation in Maize: Genetics and Genomics by Calderón-Vázquez, Carlos, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Herrera-Estrella, Luis

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Tissue-Adapted Invasion Strategies of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae by Marcel, Sylvain, Sawers, Ruairidh, Oakeley, Edward, Angliker, Herbert, Paszkowski, Uta

“…Magnaporthe oryzae causes rice blast, the most serious foliar fungal disease of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa). During hemibiotrophic leaf infection, the…”
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An adaptive teosinte mexicana introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time by Barnes, Allison C, Rodríguez-Zapata, Fausto, Juárez-Núñez, Karla A, Gates, Daniel J, Janzen, Garrett M, Kur, Andi, Wang, Li, Jensen, Sarah E, Estévez-Palmas, Juan M, Crow, Taylor M, Kavi, Heli S, Pil, Hannah D, Stokes, Ruthie L, Knizner, Kevan T, Aguilar-Rangel, Maria R, Demesa-Arévalo, Edgar, Skopelitis, Tara, Pérez-Limón, Sergio, Stutts, Whitney L, Thompson, Peter, Chiu, Yu-Chun, Jackson, David, Muddiman, David C, Fiehn, Oliver, Runcie, Daniel, Buckler, Edward S, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Hufford, Matthew B, Sawers, Ruairidh J H, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén

“…Native Americans domesticated maize ( ssp. ) from lowland teosinte ( ssp. in the warm Mexican southwest and brought it to the highlands of Mexico and South…”
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Gene regulatory effects of a large chromosomal inversion in highland maize by Crow, Taylor, Ta, James, Nojoomi, Saghi, Aguilar-Rangel, M Rocío, Torres Rodríguez, Jorge Vladimir, Gates, Daniel, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh, Runcie, Daniel

“…Chromosomal inversions play an important role in local adaptation. Inversions can capture multiple locally adaptive functional variants in a linked block by…”
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Structural Determinants of Antimicrobial and Antiplasmodial Activity and Selectivity in Histidine-rich Amphipathic Cationic Peptides by Mason, A. James, Moussaoui, Wardi, Abdelrahman, Tamer, Boukhari, Alyae, Bertani, Philippe, Marquette, Arnaud, Shooshtarizaheh, Peiman, Moulay, Gilles, Boehm, Nelly, Guerold, Bernard, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Kichler, Antoine, Metz-Boutigue, Marie-Háléne, Candolfi, Ermanno, Právost, Gilles, Bechinger, Burkhard

“…Designed histidine-rich amphipathic cationic peptides, such as LAH4, have enhanced membrane disruption and antibiotic properties when the peptide adopts an…”
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