Ruairidh Sawers
Assistant Professor of Plant Response to Abiotic Stress
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204 Tyson
University Park, PA - rjs6686@psu.edu
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Local adaptation and stress tolerance in crop plants and their wild relatives; plant nutrition; arbuscular mycorrhizae; maize genetics and genomics.
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Symbiosis Fungi Zea Mays Corn Phosphorus Oryza Membranes Hyphae Genome Genomics Rice Mycorrhizal Fungi Zea Mays Subsp. Mays Genotype Transporters Phosphotransferases Regulator Genes Domestication Threonine Crops Transcriptome Breeding Nutrients Ions MycorrhizaeMost Recent Publications
Demonstration of local adaptation of maize landraces by reciprocal transplantation
Garrett Janzen, María Aguilar-Rangel, Carolina Cíntora-Martínez, Karla Blöcher-Juárez, Eric González-Segovia, Anthony Studer, Daniel Runcie, Sherry Flint-Garcia, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez, Ruairidh Sawers, Matthew Hufford,
IMPACTO DE LOS HONGOS MICORR\'IZICOS ARBUSCULARES NATIVOS EN EL RENDIMIENTO DE MA\'IZ Instituci\'on
Ruairidh Sawers,
Seedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion
Peng Yu, Chunhui Li, Meng Li, Xiaoming He, Danning Wang, Hongjie Li, Caroline Marcon, Yu Li, Sergio Perez-Limón, Xinping Chen, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Robert Koller, Ralf Metzner, Dagmar van Dusschoten, Daniel Pflugfelder, Ljudmilla Borisjuk, Iaroslav Plutenko, Audrey Mahon, Marcio Resende, Silvio Salvi, Asegidew Akale, Mohanned Abdalla, Mutez Ahmed, Felix Bauer, Andrea Schnepf, Guillaume Lobet, Adrien Heymans, Kiran Suresh, Lukas Schreiber, Chloee McLaughlin, Chunjian Li, Manfred Mayer, Chris-Carolin Schön, Vivian Bernau, Nicolaus von Wirén, Ruairidh Sawers, Tianyu Wang, Frank Hochholdinger, Nature Genetics
Landscape transcriptomics as a tool for addressing global change effects across diverse species
J Keagy, Chloe Drummond, Kadeem Gilbert, C Grozinger, J Hamilton, H Hines, J Lasky, Cheryl Logan, Ruairidh Sawers, T Wagner, Molecular Ecology Resources
Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties
Xiaoming He, Danning Wang, Yong Jiang, Meng Li, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Chloee McLaughlin, Caroline Marcon, L Guo, Marcel Baer, Yudelsy Moya, Nicolaus von Wirén, Marion Deichmann, Gabriel Schaaf, Hans-Peter Piepho, Zhikai Yang, Jinliang Yang, Bunlong Yim, Kornelia Smalla, Sofie Goormachtig, Franciska de Vries, Hubert Hüging, Mareike Baer, Ruairidh Sawers, Jochen Reif, Frank Hochholdinger, Xinping Chen, Peng Yu, Nature Plants on p. 598-617
Evidence that variation in root anatomy contributes to local adaptation in Mexican native maize
Chloee M. McLaughlin, Meng Li, Melanie Perryman, Adrien Heymans, Hannah Schneider, Jesse R. Lasky, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, 2024, Evolutionary Applications
Interplay between developmental cues and rhizosphere signals from mycorrhizal fungi shape root anatomy, impacting crop productivity
Alexandre Grondin, Meng Li, Rahul Bhosale, Ruairidh Sawers, Hannah M. Schneider, 2024, Plant and Soil
Differences in mucilage properties and stomatal sensitivity of locally adapted Zea mays in relation with precipitation seasonality and vapour pressure deficit regime of their native environment
Bernd J. Berauer, Asegidew Akale, Andreas H. Schweiger, Mathilde Knott, Dörte Diehl, Marc Philip Wolf, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Mutez A. Ahmed, 2023, Plant Direct
Genetic mapping of maize metabolites using high-throughput mass profiling
Tzitziki González-Rodríguez, Sergio Pérez-Limón, Héctor Peniche-Pavía, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Robert Winkler, 2023, Plant Science
Genetic analysis and QTL mapping of domestication-related traits in chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)
Hector Lopez-Moreno, Ana Celia Basurto-Garduño, Maria Alejandra Torres-Meraz, Eric Diaz-Valenzuela, Sergio Arellano-Arciniega, Juan Zalapa, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Angelica Cibrián-Jaramillo, Luis Diaz-Garcia, 2023, Frontiers in Genetics
Most-Cited Papers
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
Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Simon F. Svane, Clement Quan, Mette Grønlund, Barbara Wozniak, Mesfin Nigussie Gebreselassie, Eliécer González-Muñoz, Ricardo A. Chávez Montes, Ivan Baxter, Jerome Goudet, Iver Jakobsen, Uta Paszkowski, 2017, New Phytologist on p. 632-643
Transcriptome diversity among rice root types during asymbiosis and interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Caroline Gutjahr, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Guillaume Marti, Liliana Andrés-Hernández, Shu Yi Yang, Leonardo Casieri, Herbert Angliker, Edward J. Oakeley, Jean Luc Wolfender, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Uta Paszkowski, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 6754-6759
An N-acetylglucosamine transporter required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses in rice and maize
Marina Nadal, Ruairidh Sawers, Shamoon Naseem, Barbara Bassin, Corinna Kulicke, Abigail Sharman, Gynheung An, Kyungsook An, Kevin R. Ahern, Amanda Romag, Thomas P. Brutnell, Caroline Gutjahr, Niko Geldner, Christophe Roux, Enrico Martinoia, James B. Konopka, Uta Paszkowski, 2017, Nature Plants
The impact of domestication and crop improvement on arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals: insights from genetics and genomics
Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, M. Rosario Ramírez-Flores, Víctor Olalde-Portugal, Uta Paszkowski, 2018, New Phytologist on p. 1135-1140
The maize (Zea mays ssp. mays var. B73) genome encodes 33 members of the purple acid phosphatase family
Eliécer González-Muñoz, Aida Odette Vázquez Avendaño, Ricardo A. Chávez Montes, Stefan de Folter, Liliana Andrés-Hernández, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, 2015, Frontiers in Plant Science on p. 1-12
A rice Serine/Threonine receptor-like kinase regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at the peri-arbuscular membrane
Ronelle Roth, Marco Chiapello, Héctor Montero, Peter Gehrig, Jonas Grossmann, Kevin O’Holleran, Denise Hartken, Fergus Walters, Shu Yi Yang, Stefan Hillmer, Karin Schumacher, Sarah Bowden, Melanie Craze, Emma J. Wallington, Akio Miyao, Ruairidh Sawers, Enrico Martinoia, Uta Paszkowski, 2018, Nature Communications on p. 4677
Gene regulatory effects of a large chromosomal inversion in highland maize
Taylor Crow, James Ta, Saghi Nojoomi, M. Rocío Aguilar-Rangel, Jorge Vladimir Torres Rodríguez, Daniel Gates, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez, Ruairidh Sawers, Daniel Runcie, 2020, PLoS Genetics
Genome sequencing reveals evidence of adaptive variation in the genus Zea
Lu Chen, Jingyun Luo, Minliang Jin, Ning Yang, Xiangguo Liu, Yong Peng, Wenqiang Li, Alyssa Phillips, Brenda Cameron, Julio Bernal, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Qing Liu, Yuejia Yin, Xinnan Ye, Jiali Yan, Qinghua Zhang, Xiaoting Zhang, Shenshen Wu, Songtao Gui, Wenjie Wei, Yuebin Wang, Yun Luo, Chenglin Jiang, Min Deng, Min Jin, Liumei Jian, Yanhui Yu, Maolin Zhang, Xiaohong Yang, Matthew Hufford, Alisdair Fernie, Marilyn Warburton, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Jianbing Yan, 2022, Nature Genetics on p. 1736-1745
Co-ordinated changes in the accumulation of metal ions in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) in response to inoculation with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus funneliformis mosseae
M. Rosario Ramrez-Flores, Rubn Relln-Lvarez, Barbara Wozniak, Mesfin Nigussie Gebreselassie, Iver Jakobsen, Vctor Olalde-Portugal, Ivan Baxter, Uta Paszkowski, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, 2017, Plant and Cell Physiology on p. 1689-1699
The genetic architecture of host response reveals the importance of arbuscular mycorrhizae to maize cultivation
M. Rosario Ramírez-Flores, Sergio Perez-Limon, Meng Li, Benjamín Barrales-Gamez, Doris Albinsky, Uta Paszkowski, Víctor Olalde-Portugal, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, 2020, eLife on p. 1-18