A5008298432- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Potato Plant Research
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Soybean genetics and cultivation
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Agroscope
2021-2022
ETH Zurich
2020-2021
Innsbruck Medical University
2012
Cancer Research Center
2012
Heidelberg University
2012
Cornell University
2012
Sterols play a key role in various physiological processes of plants. Commonly, stigmasterol, β-sitosterol and campesterol represent the main plant sterols, cholesterol is often reported as trace sterol. Changes especially β-sitosterol/stigmasterol levels, can be induced by different biotic abiotic factors. Plant parasitic nematodes, such root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita, are devastating pathogens known to circumvent defense mechanisms. In this study, we investigated changes sterols...
Iron is crucial for bacterial growth and virulence. Under iron-deficiency bacteria produce siderophores, iron chelators that facilitate the uptake into cell via specific receptors. Erwinia amylovora, causative agent of fire blight, produces hydroxamate-type desferrioxamine siderophores (DFO). The presented study reassesses impact DFO as a virulence factor E. amylovora during its epiphytic phase on apple flower. When inoculated in semisterile Golden Delicious flowers no difference replication...
The yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima is frequently isolated from environmental samples and has often been reported to exhibit strong antagonistic activity against plant pathogens. In order assess the potential of this species for its development into a protection product, survival during formulation storage were quantified field efficacy was assessed over period five years. Freeze dried liquid M. formulations (i.e., with skim milk powder (SMP), sucrose, glycerol, xanthan, without additives)...
New management practices must be developed to improve yam productivity. By allowing non-destructive analyses of important plant traits, image-based phenotyping techniques could help developing such practices. Our objective was determine the potential methods assess traits relevant for tuber yield formation in grown glasshouse and field. We took leaf pictures with consumer cameras. used numbers image pixels derive shoot biomass total surface calculated ‘triangular greenness index’ (TGI) which...
Management practices must be developed to improve yam production sustainability. Image-based phenotyping techniques could help developing such based on non-destructive analyses of important plant traits. Our objective was determine the potential image-based methods assess traits relevant for tuber yield formation in grown glasshouse and field. We took leaf pictures with consumer cameras. used numbers image pixels derive shoot biomass total surface calculated ‘triangular greenness...
Abstract Since 2005 we know that around 50% of all prostate cancers harbor a genetic gene rearrangement. This rearrangement is formed by fusion 5′ regulatory elements an androgen-regulated to the coding region member E twenty-six (ETS) family transcription factors. The major ETS factor involved in erythroblastosis virus E26 oncogene homolog (ERG). So far little known about cellular changes following ERG-rearrangement cancer. We performed meta-analysis on published expression data identify...