Dirk Redecker

Short CV:

1992-1995	PhD thesis at Philipps-Universität (Marburg, Germany) and at CIAT (Cali, Colombia):
1995-1997	Postdoc at Philipps-Universität (Marburg, Germany)
1997-2000	Postdoc at University of California at Berkeley (USA)
2000	Postdoc at University of California at Davis (USA)
2001-2009	Principal investigator, research associate and lecturer at University of Basel (Switzerland)
2003	Habilitation in Botany
2004	Alexopoulos prize of the Mycological Society of America
2004-2014	Associate editor of Molecular Ecology
2009-	Professor of Environmental Microbiology (Dijon, France)
2011-2022	Head of Master programs 2nd year "Plantes productions biotechnologies" and "Integrative Biology of Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions"
2012-2015	Codirection/Direction of research group "Mycorrhiza: mechanisms and management"
2012-	Curator, International Bank of the Glomeromycota (IBG/BEG)
2017-	Coordinator, Biological Resource Center of Agroecology unit (ERB)
2022-	Program director of International Master in Microbiology - ForTheMicrobes (with University of Mainz, Germany)

Publications:

Journal articles:

• Taschen E, Guillot E, Plassard C, Kerbiriou E, Dezette D, Taudière A, Personne A, Robin A, Redecker D, Hinsinger P. 2026. Contrasting biotic and abiotic drivers of Glomeromycotina and Mucoromycotina mycorrhizal associations in field-grown durum wheat. Mycorrhiza 36, 47.
  
  
• Pelosi C, Taschen E, Redecker D, Blouin M, 2024. Earthworms as conveyors of mycorrhizal fungi in soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 189:109283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109283

• Détain A, Redecker D, Leborgne-Castel N, Ochatt S (2021) Structural conservation of WEE1 and its role in cell cycle regulation in plants. Science Reports 11:23862. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03268-x
  
  
• Crossay T, Cavaloc Y, Majorel C, Redecker D, Medevielle V, Amir H. 2020. Combinations of different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve fitness and metal tolerance of sorghum in ultramafic soil. Rhizosphere. 14:100204, doi:10.1016/j.rhisph.2020.100204.
  
  
• Thioye B, Redecker D, van Tuinen D, Kane A, de Faria S, Fall D, Sanogo D, Ndiaye C, Duponnois R, Sylla SN, Ba A. 2020. Correction to: Tracing Rhizophagus irregularis isolate IR27 in Ziziphus mauritiana roots under field conditions. Mycorrhiza 30:171–171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-020-00935-1
  
  
• Crossay T, Majorel C, Redecker D, Gensous S, Medevielle V, Durrieu G, Cavaloc Y, Amir H. 2019. Is a mixture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi better for plant growth than single-species inoculants? Mycorrhiza 29, 325-339
  
  
• Crossay T, Cilia A, Cavaloc Y, Amir H, Redecker D. 2018. Four new species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) associated with endemic plants from ultramafic soils of New Caledonia. Mycological Progress. doi: 10.1007/s11557-018-1386-5
  

• Walker C, Gollotte A, Redecker D. 2018. A new genus, Planticonsortium (Mucoromycotina), and new combination (P. tenue), for the fine root endophyte, Glomus tenue (basionym Rhizophagus tenuis). Mycorrhiza. doi: 10.1007/s00572-017-0815-7.

• Crossay T, Antheaume, C, Redecker D, Bon L, Chedri N, Richert C, Guentas L, Cavaloc Y, Amir A. 2017. New method for the identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi by proteomic-based biotyping of spores using MALDI-TOF-MS. Scientific Reports, 7: 14306. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14487-6
  

• Bruns TD, Corradi N, Redecker, D, Taylor JW, Öpik M. 2017. Glomeromycotina: What is a species and why should we care? New Phytologist,  doi:10.1111/nph.14913

• Walker C, Trappe JM, Schüßler A, Hawksworth DL, Cazares E, Elliott TF, Redecker D. 2017. (2491) Proposal to conserve the name Rhizophagus with a conserved type (Fungi: Glomeromycota: Glomeraceae). Taxon. 66:199–200, doi:10.12705/661.1

• Morriën E, Hannula SE, Snoek LB, Helmsing NR, Zweers H, de Hollander M, Lujan Soto R, Bouffaud M-L, Buée M, Dimmers W, Duyts H, Geisen S, Girlanda M, Griffiths RI, Jörgensen H-BJO, Jensen J, Plassart P, Redecker D, Schmelz R, Schmidt O, Thomson BC, Tisserant E, Uroz S, Winding A, Bailey MJ, Bonkowski M, Faber JH, Martin F, Lemanceau P, de Boer W, van Veen JA, van der Putten WH. 2017. Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses. Nature Communications. 8:1–10, doi:10.1038/ncomms14349.

• Bouffaud M-L, Creamer RE, Stone D, Plassart P, van Tuinen D, Lemanceau P, Wipf D, Redecker D. 2016. Indicator species and co-occurrence in communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at the European scale. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 103:464–470, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.09.022.
  
  
• Bouffaud M-L, Bragalini C, Berruti A, Peyret-Guzzon M, Voyron S, Stockinger H, Tuinen D, Lumini E, Wipf D, Plassart P, Lemanceau P, Bianciotto V, Redecker D, Girlanda M. 2016. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community differences among European long-term observatories. Mycorrhiza. doi:10.1007/s00572-016-0753-9.
  
  
• Bouffaud, M-L, Bernaud E, Colombet A, van Tuinen D, Wipf D, Redecker D. 2016. Regional-scale analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: the case of Burgundy vineyards. OENO One, 50(1), 1–291. http://doi.org/10.20870/oeno-one.2016.50.1.49
  
  
• Creamer RE, Hannula SE, van Leeuwen JP, Stone D, Rutgers M, Schmelz RM, de Ruiter PC, Bohse Hendriksen N, Bolger T, Bouffaud ML, Buée M, Carvalho F, Costa D, Dirilgen T, Francisco R, Griffiths BS, Griffiths R, Martin F, Martins da Silva P, Mendes S, Morais PV, Pereira C, Philippot L, Plassart P, Redecker D, Römbke J, Sousa JP, Wouterse M, Lemanceau P 2016. Ecological network analysis reveals the inter-connection between soil biodiversity and ecosystem function as affected by land use across Europe. Applied Soil Ecology 97, 112-124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.08.006
  

• Peyret-Guzzon M, Stockinger H, Bouffaud ML, Farcy P, Wipf, D Redecker D. 2016. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities and Rhizophagus irregularis populations shift in response to short term ploughing and fertilisation in a buffer strip. Mycorrhiza DOI 10.1007/s00572-015-0644-5

• Stockinger H, Peyret-Guzzon M, Koegel S, Bouffaud ML, Redecker D. 2014. The largest subunit of RNA polymerase II as a new marker gene to study assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the field. PLoS ONE, 9(10): e107783. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107783

• Schoch CL, Robbertse B, Robert V, Vu D, Cardinali G, Irinyi L, Meyer W, Nilsson RH, Hughes K, Miller AN, Kirk PM, ... Redecker D, et al. 2014. Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi. Database doi:10.1093/database/bau061

• Molinier V, van Tuinen D, Chevalier G, Gollotte A, Wipf D, Redecker D. 2013. A multigene phylogeny demonstrates that Tuber aestivum and Tuber uncinatum are conspecific. Organisms, Phylogeny and Evolution 13:503-512
  
  
• Redecker D, Schüssler A, Stockinger H, Stürmer SL, Morton JB, Walker C. 2013. An evidence-based consensus for the classification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota). Mycorrhiza, doi 10.1007/s00572-013-0486-y
  
  
• Binet MN, Sage L, Malan C, Clément JC, Redecker D, Wipf D, Geremia R, Lavorel S, Mouhamadou B. 2013. Effects of mowing on fungal endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in subalpine grasslands. Fungal Ecology 6: 248-255
  
  
• Schoch CL, Seifert KA, Huhndorf S, Robert V, Spouge JL, Chen W, Levesque CA, Fungal Barcoding Consortium, 2012. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) as a universal DNA barcode maker for fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 109: 6241–6246.
  
  
• Sýkorová Z, Börstler B, Zvolenská S, Fehrer J, Gryndler M, Vosátka M, Redecker D, 2012. Long-term tracing of Rhizophagus irregularis isolate BEG140 inoculated on Phalaris arundinacea in a coalmine spoil bank, using mitochondrial large subunit rDNA markers. Mycorrhiza 22, 69-80, DOI: 10.1007/s00572-011-0375-1.
  
  
• Lekberg Y, Meadow J, Rohr JR, Redecker D, Zabinski CA, 2011. Importance of dispersal and thermal environment for mycorrhizal communities: Lessons from Yellowstone National Park. Ecology, 92, 1292-1302.
  
  
• Weiß M, Sykorová Z, Garnica S, Riess K, Martos F, Krause C, Oberwinkler F, Bauer R, Redecker D, 2011. Sebacinales everywhere: previously overlooked ubiquitous fungal endophytes of plants. PloS ONE, 6(2): e16793. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016793.
  
  
• Baar J, Paradi I, Lucassen ECHT, Hudson-Edwards KA, Redecker D, Roelofs JGM, Smolders AJP, 2011. Molecular analysis of AMF diversity in aquatic macrophytes: A comparison of oligotrophic and ultra-oligotrophic lakes. Aquatic Botany 94, 53-61.
  
  
• Al-Yahya'ei MN , Oehl F, Vallino M, Lumini E, Redecker D, Wiemken A, Bonfante P, 2010. Unique arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities uncovered in date palm plantations and surrounding desert habitats of Southern Arabia. Mycorrhiza, DOI: 10.1007/s00572-010-0323-5
  
  
• Thiéry O, Börstler B, Ineichen K, Redecker D, 2010. Evolutionary dynamics of introns and homing endonuclease ORFs in a region of the large subunit of the mitochondrial rRNA in Glomus species (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Glomeromycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55, 599-610.
  
  
• Börstler B, Thiéry O, Sýkorová Z, Berner A, Redecker D, 2010. Diversity of mitochondrial large subunit rDNA haplotypes of Glomus intraradices in two agricultural field experiments and two semi-natural grasslands. Molecular Ecology 19, 1497-1511
  
  
• Blaszkowski J, Ryszka P, Oehl F, Koegel S, Wiemken A, Kovács GM, 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Börstler B, Raab PA, Thiéry O, Morton JB, 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, Zabinski C, Redecker D, 2008. Molecular community analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots from geothermal soils in Yellowstone National Park (USA). Microbial Ecology 56, 649-559.
  
  
• Sýkorová 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.
  
  
• Sýkorová 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 FJ, Courtecuisse R, 2007. A novel clade of sporocarp-forming species of 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.
  
  
• Oehl F, Sýkorová Z, Redecker D, Wiemken A, Sieverding E, 2006. Acaulospora alpina, a new arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species characteristic for high mountainous and alpine regions of the Swiss Alps. Mycologia 98, 286-294.
  
  
• Hijri I, Sýkorová Z, Oehl F, Ineichen K, Mäder P, Wiemken A, Redecker D, 2006. Communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in arable soils are not necessarily low in diversity. Molecular Ecology 15, 2277-2289.
  
  
• Roesti D, Ineichen K, Braissant O, Redecker D, Wiemken A, Aragno M, 2005. Bacteria associated with spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomus geosporum and Glomus constrictum. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71, 6673-6679.
  
  
• Raab P, Brennwald A, Redecker D, 2005. Mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit sequences are homogeneous within isolates of Glomus (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Glomeromycota). Mycological Research 109, 1315-1322.
  
  
• Oehl F, Redecker D, Sieverding E, 2005. Glomus badium, a new sporocarpic mycorrhizal fungal species from European grasslands with higher soil pH. Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality 79, 38-43.
  
  
• Redecker D, Hijri I, Wiemken A, 2003. Molecular identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots: perspectives and problems. Folia Geobotanica 38, 113-124.
  
  
• Redecker D, Kodner R, Graham LE, 2002. Palaeoglomus grayi from the Ordovician. Mycotaxon 84, 33-37.
  
  
• Redecker D, 2002. Molecular identification and phylogeny of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plant and Soil 244, 67-73.
  
  
• Redecker D, 2002. New views on fungal evolution based on DNA markers and the fossil record. Research in Microbiology 153, 125-130.
  
  
• Hijri M, Redecker D, Macdonald-Comber Petetot JA, Voigt K, Wöstemeyer J, Sanders IR, 2002. Identification and isolation of two Ascomycete fungi from spores of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Scutellospora. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68, 4567-4573.
  
  
• Bruns T, Tan J, Szaro TM, Bidartondo M, Redecker D, 2002. Survival of Suillus pungens and Amanita francheti ectomycorrhizal genets was rare or absent after a stand-replacing wildfire. New Phytologist 155, 517-523.
  
  
• Bidartondo MI, Redecker D, Hijri I, Wiemken A, Bruns TD, Domínguez L, Sérsic A, Leake JR, Read DJ, 2002. Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 419, 389-393.
  
  
• Redecker D, Szaro TM, Bowman RJ, Bruns TD, 2001. Small genets of Lactarius xanthogalactus, Russula cremoricolor and Amanita francheti in late-stage ectomycorrhizal successions. Molecular Ecology 10, 1025 –1034.
  
  
• Morton JB, Redecker D, 2001. Two new families of Glomales, Archaeosporaceae and Paraglomaceae, with two new genera Archaeospora and Paraglomus, based on concordant molecular and morphological characters. Mycologia 93, 181-195.
  
  
• Redecker D, Morton JB, Bruns TD, 2000. Molecular phylogeny of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomus sinuosum and Sclerocystis coremioides. Mycologia 92, 282-285.
  
  
• Redecker D, Morton JB, Bruns TD, 2000. Ancestral lineages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomales). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14, 276-284.
  
  
• Redecker D, Kodner R, Graham LE, 2000. Glomalean fungi from the Ordovician. Science 289, 1920-1921.
  
  
• Redecker D, 2000. Specific PCR primers to identify arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi within colonized roots. Mycorrhiza 10, 73-80.
  
  
• Redecker D, Hijri M, Dulieu H, Sanders IR, 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of a dataset of fungal 5.8S rDNA sequences shows that highly divergent copies of Internal Transcribed Spacers reported from Scutellospora castanea are of Ascomycete origin. Fungal Genetics and Biology 28, 238-244.
  
  
• Redecker D, Feder IS, Vinuesa P, Batinic T, Schulz U, Kosch K, Werner D, 1999. Biocontrol strain Pseudomonas sp. W34: specific detection and quantification in the rhizosphere of Cucumis sativus with a DNA probe and genotypic characterization by DNA fingerprinting. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 54c, 359-370.
  
  
• Redecker D, Von Berswordt-Wallrabe P, Beck DP, Werner D, 1997. Influence of inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on stable isotopes of nitrogen in Phaseolus vulgaris. Biology and Fertility of Soils 24, 344-346.
  
  
• Redecker D, Thierfelder H, Walker C, Werner D, 1997. Restriction analysis of PCR-amplified internal transcribed spacers of ribosomal DNA as a tool for species identification in different genera of the order glomales. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63, 1756-1761.
  
  
• Abrecht H, Redecker D, Thierfelder H, Werner D, 1996. Increases in alpha-mannosidase activity in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of Allium schoenoprasum. Mycorrhiza 6, 31-34.
  
  
• Redecker D, Thierfelder H, Werner D, 1995. A new cultivation system for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on glass beads. Angewandte Botanik 69, 189-191.
  
  
• Redecker D, Wehrmeyer W, Reuter W, 1993. Core substructure of the hemiellipsoidal phycobilisome from the red alga Porphyridium cruentum. European Journal of Cell Biology 62, 442-450.

Reviews:

• Trouvelot S, Bonneau L, Redecker D, van Tuinen D, Adrian M, Wipf D. 2015. Arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis in viticulture: a review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 35, 1449-1467
  
  
• Courty PE, Smith P, Koegel S., Redecker D, Wipf D. 2015. Inorganic nitrogen uptake and transport in beneficial plant root-microbe interactions. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 34:4-16.

• Gianinazzi S, Gollotte A, Binet MN, van Tuinen D, Redecker D, Wipf D, 2010. Agroecology: the key role of arbuscular mycorrhizas in ecosystem services. Mycorrhiza 8, 519-530.
  
  
• Redecker D, 2002. Molecular identification and phylogeny of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plant and Soil 244, 67-73.
  
  
• Redecker D, 2002. New views on fungal evolution based on DNA markers and the fossil record. Research in Microbiology 153, 125-130.
  

Comments:

• Redecker D, 2006. Evolution of metazoa and fungi. Comment on Rokas et al. (Science 310, 1933-1937).
  
  
• 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 due to variation in repeat number only. New Phytologist 180, 568-570. New Phytologist 180, 568-570.
  

For the broad public:

• Gautheron E, Koszela N, Redecker D, Wipf D. 2025. Les collections de micro-organismes bénéfiques: un pilier essentiel pour la recherche, l'agriculture et la viticulture durables. Revue des Oenologues 197, 55-58.

• Seysen-Fouan S, Redecker D. 2016. Mycorhizes. Des alliés à respecter. Cultivar 64, 56-58
  

• Redecker D, 2009.  Symbiosen – uralte Partnerschaften. Uni Nova 111 (special issue on Darwin and evolution)
  
  

Book sections:

• Redecker D, Schüßler A, 2014. Glomeromycota. In: McLaughlin D, Spatafora J (Eds), The Mycota, Vol. VII, Systematics and Evolution 2nd ed. Springer, Heidelberg.
  
  
• Gianinazzi-Pearson V, van Tuinen D, Wipf D, Dumas-Gaudot E, Recorbet G, Liu Y, Doidy J, Redecker D, Ferrol N, 2012. Exploring the Genome of Glomeromycotan Fungi. In: Hock B (Ed), The Mycota, Vol. IX: Fungal Associations 2nd ed. Springer, Heidelberg.

• Redecker D, 2012. Divisio/Phylum Glomeromycota. In: Frey W (Ed), Syllabus of Plant Families, Part 1: Blue-green Algae, Myxomycetes and Fungi, 13th ed. Bornträger Science Publishers, Stuttgart.

• Redecker D. 2006. Molecular ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a review of PCR-based techniques. In: "Molecular Techniques for Soil and Rhizosphere Microorganisms", (J. Cooper, J. R. Rao, eds.) CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, 198-212.
  
  
• Redecker D, Thierfelder H, Werner D, 1998. Production of biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the glass bead compartment system. In: Mycorrhiza manual (Ed.: A. Varma). Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 495-498.
  
  
• Redecker D, Streit W, Thierfelder H, Parra A, Beck DP, Werner D, 1996. Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia in the symbiosis with Phaseolus vulgaris. In: Azcón-Aguilar C, Barea J (Eds), Mycorrhizas in integrated systems from genes to plant development. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, pp. 653-656.

Miscellaneous:

....and the other side of Dirk: a website with his artwork

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