Current Personnel

    

 

 

The Basel group over the years:


Dirk Redecker, Philipp Raab, Zuzana Sykorova, Susanne Appoloni, Boris Börstler, Odile Thiéry

Research:

We are developing and using molecular sequence markers for Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (Glomeromycota). The goals are

  • to elucidate the phylogeny of these fungi
  • to facilitate their molecular identification within roots
  • to study their ecology in the field on the community and population level

The current project funded by the Swiss National Foundation (2009-2012) is entitled "Characterizing life history strategies of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi using mitochondrial and nuclear-encoded marker genes".

Another project we have participated in is the ISCB project. Together with Cathy Zabinski's lab at Montana State University, communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in geothermal soils of Yellowstone National Park have been studied. Mycorrhizal fungi from dunes and cultivated lands on the Arabic pensinsula were analyzed by Mohamed Al-Yahya'ei.

A collaboration with researchers in California, Argentina and England yielded some interesting findings on mycoheterotrophic plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Former members of the group:

Guest researchers

Temporary group members:

The following students conducted short-term projects in our team:

or have worked with us as student helpers:

Field trips

See members of our team on field trips to the sampling sites and other interesting locations:

Publications

  • BLASZKOWSKI, J., RYSZKA, P., OEHL, F., KOEGEL, S., WIEMKEN, A., KOVACS, G.M., REDECKER, D. (2009): Glomus achrum and G. bistratum, two new species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) found in maritime sand dunes. Botany 87, 260-271.

  • BÖRSTLER, B., RAAB, P.A., THIERY, O., MORTON, J.B., REDECKER, D. (2008): Genetic diversity of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices as determined by mitochondrial large subunit rRNA gene sequences is considerably higher than previously expected. New Phytologist 180, 452-465.

  • APPOLONI, S., LEKBERG, Y., TERCEK, M. T., ZABINSKI, C. A., REDECKER, D. (2008): Molecular community analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of geothermal soils in Yellowstone National Park (USA). Microbial Ecology 56, 649-559.

  • MATHIMARAN, N., FALQUET, L., INEICHEN, K., PICARD, C., REDECKER, D., BOLLER, T., WIEMKEN, A. (2008): Microsatellites for disentangling underground networks: Strain-specific identification of Glomus intraradices, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 45, 812-817.

  • MATHIMARAN, N., FALQUET, L., INEICHEN, K., PICARD, C., REDECKER, D., WIEMKEN, A., BOLLER, T. (2008): Unexpected vagaries of microsatellite loci in Glomus intraradices: length polymorphisms are rarely caused by variation in repeat number only. New Phytologist 180, 568-570.
  • SYKOROVA, Z., WIEMKEN, A., REDECKER, D. (2007): Co-occurring Gentiana verna and Gentiana acaulis and their neighboring plants in two Swiss upper montane meadows harbor distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73, 5426-5434.

  • SYKOROVA, Z., INEICHEN, K. WIEMKEN, A., REDECKER, D. (2007): The cultivation bias: different communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi detected in roots from the field, from bait plants transplanted to the field, and from a greenhouse trap experiment, Mycorrhiza,18, 1-14.
  • REDECKER, D., RAAB, P., OEHL, F., CAMACHO, F.J., COURTECUISSE, R. (2007): A novel clade of sporocarp-forming glomeromycotan fungi in the Diversisporales lineage. Mycological Progress 6, 35-44.
  • REDECKER, D., RAAB, P. (2006): Phylogeny of the Glomeromycota (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi): recent developments and new gene markers. Mycologia 98, 885-895.
  • REDECKER D. (2006): Evolution of metazoa and fungi. Comment on Rokas et al. (Science 310, 1933-1937). Science 312, 53.

  • HIJRI I., Z. SYKOROVA, F. OEHL, K. INEICHEN, P. MÄDER, A. WIEMKEN, D. REDECKER (2006): Communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in arable soils are not necessarily low in diversity. Molecular Ecology 15, 2277-2289.
  • OEHL, F., Z. SYKOROVA, D. REDECKER, A. WIEMKEN, E. SIEVERDING (2006): Acaulospora alpina, a new arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species characteristic for high mountainous and alpine regions of the Swiss Alps. Mycologia 98, 286-294.
  • RAAB, P., A. BRENNWALD, D. REDECKER (2005): Mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit sequences are homogeneous within isolates of Glomus (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Glomeromycota). Mycol. Res., 109, 1315-1322

  • ROESTI, D. , K. INEICHEN, O. BRAISSANT, D. REDECKER, A. WIEMKEN, M. ARAGNO (2005): Bacteria associated with spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomus geosporum and Glomus constrictum. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71, 6673-6679.

  • OEHL, F., D. REDECKER, E. SIEVERDING (2005): Glomus badium, a new sporocarpic mycorrhizal fungal species from european grasslands with higher soil pH. J. Appl. Bot. 79, 38-43
  • REDECKER, D., I. HIJRI, A. WIEMKEN. (2003): Molecular identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots: perspectives and problems. Folia Geobotanica 38, 113-124.
  • BIDARTONDO, M. I., D. REDECKER, I. HIJRI, A. WIEMKEN, T. D. BRUNS, L. DOMINGUEZ, A. SERSIC, J. R. LEAKE, D. J. READ (2002): Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 419, 389-392.
    (Abstract of article, PDF file of article, accompanying News&Views article by David Hibbett, Erläuterungen zu dieser Studie auf Deutsch)

  • REDECKER, D (2002): New views on fungal evolution based on DNA markers and the fossil record. Research in Microbiology, 153, 125-130.

  • REDECKER, D (2002): Molecular identification and phylogeny of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plant and Soil 244, 67-73.

 

 

Most recent update: Dec 2, 2009