Ruairidh Sawers
Assistant Professor of Plant Response to Abiotic Stress
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204 Tyson
University Park, PA - rjs6686@psu.edu
- 814-863-2252
Research Summary
Local adaptation and stress tolerance in crop plants and their wild relatives; plant nutrition; arbuscular mycorrhizae; maize genetics and genomics.
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Zea Mays Corn Symbiosis Alleles Genes Phosphorus Fungi Maize Highlands Genome Rhizosphere Genomics Zea Mays Subsp. Mays Landraces Gene Membranes Starvation Population Genotype Hyphae Mutation Gene Expression Regulator Genes Allele NutrientsMost Recent Publications
Portrait of a genus: genome sequencing reveals evidence of adaptive variation in <i>Zea</i>
Lu Chen, Jingyun Luo, Minliang Jin, Ning Yang, Xiangguo Liu, Yong Peng, Wenqiang Li, Alyssa Philips, Brenda Cameron, Julio Bernal, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez, Ruairidh Sawers, Liu Qing, Yuejia Yin, Xinnan Ye, Jiali Yan, Qinghua Zhang, Xiaoting Zhang, Shenshen Wu, Songtao Gui, Wenjie Wei, Yuebin Wang, Yun Luo, Chengling Jiang, Min Deng, Min Jin, Liumei Jian, Yanhui Yu, Maolin Zhang, Xiaohong Yang, Matthew Hufford, Alisdair Fernie, Marilyn Warburton, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Jianbing Yan,
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,
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
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 S. 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 B. Hufford, Alisdair R. Fernie, Marilyn L. Warburton, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Jianbing Yan, 2022, Nature Genetics on p. 1736-1745
Allele-specific Expression Reveals Multiple Paths to Highland Adaptation in Maize
Haixiao Hu, Taylor Crow, Saghi Nojoomi, Aimee J. Schulz, Juan M. Estévez-Palmas, Matthew B. Hufford, Sherry Flint-Garcia, Ruairidh Sawers, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Daniel E. Runcie, 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
An adaptive teosinte mexicana introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time
Allison C. Barnes, Fausto Rodríguez-Zapata, Karla A. Juárez-Núñez, Daniel J. Gates, Garrett M. Janzen, Andi Kur, Li Wang, Sarah E. Jensen, Juan M. Estévez-Palmas, Taylor M. Crow, Heli S. Kavi, Hannah D. Pil, Ruthie L. Stokes, Kevan T. Knizner, Maria R. Aguilar-Rangel, Edgar Demesa-Arévalo, Tara Skopelitis, Sergio Pérez-Limón, Whitney L. Stutts, Peter Thompson, Yu Chun Chiu, David Jackson, David C. Muddiman, Oliver Fiehn, Daniel Runcie, Edward S. Buckler, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Matthew B. Hufford, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The pho1;2a′-m1.1 allele of Phosphate1 conditions misregulation of the phosphorus starvation response in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.)
Ana Laura Alonso-Nieves, M. Nancy Salazar-Vidal, J. Vladimir Torres-Rodríguez, Leonardo M. Pérez-Vázquez, Julio A. Massange-Sánchez, C. Stewart Gillmor, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, 2022, Plant Direct
Demonstration of local adaptation in 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, 2022, Evolutionary Applications on p. 817-837
A B733Palomero Toluqueño mapping population reveals local adaptation in Mexican highland maize
Sergio Perez-Limón, Meng Li, G. Carolina Cintora-Martinez, M. Rocio Aguilar-Rangel, M. Nancy Salazar-Vidal, Eric González-Segovia, Karla Blöcher-Juárez, Alejandro Guerrero-Zavala, Benjamin Barrales-Gamez, Jessica Carcaño-Macias, Denise E. Costich, Jorge Nieto-Sotelo, Octavio Martinez de la Vega, June Simpson, Matthew B. Hufford, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Sherry Flint-Garcia, Luis Diaz-Garcia, Ruben Rellán-Álvarez, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, 2022, G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Rhizosphere bacterial communities differ among traditional maize landraces
Mads Lund, Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Ruairidh Sawers, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Christopher James Barnes, 2022, Environmental DNA
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
Allele specific expression analysis identifies regulatory variation associated with stress-related genes in the Mexican highland maize landrace Palomero Toluqueño
M. Rocío Aguilar-Rangel, Ricardo A.Chávez Montes, Eric González-Segovia, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, June K. Simpson, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, 2017, PeerJ
Evolutionary responses to conditionality in species interactions across environmental gradients
Anna M. O'brien, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Sharon Y. Strauss, 2018, American Naturalist on p. 715-730
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