Welcome to the Ané lab!

Understanding how symbiotic associations between plants and microbes develop is an important biological question that is particularly relevant in modern agriculture and economy.

We seek to understand the molecular mechanisms controlling the establishment of plant - microbe symbioses and the stimulation of plant growth by microbial signals. Our goal is to maintain soil quality and sustainability while protecting the environment over the long term and reducing costs for food and Biofuel production.

We transfer information gained from model plants such as Medicago truncatula or Brachypodium distachyon to crops such as soybean, alfalfa and maize in order to take full advantage of the fantastic  opportunities offered by these symbiotic associations to our agriculture.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot - Leonardo da Vinci

• ATG seminar (UW Madison) - Dec 16, 2009
• North American Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation - University of Missouri-Columbia-  June 13-17, 2010

Recent publications

• Wang B, Yeun LH, Xue J , Liu Y, Ané JM, Qiu YL. Molecular Evidence for an Essential Role of Plant-Mycorrhizal Fungus Symbiosis in the Colonization of Land by Plants, New Phytologist, In press.
• Grimsrud PA, den Os D, Wenger CD, Schwartz D, Sussman MR, Ané JM, Coon J. Large-scale analysis of protein phosphorylation in Medicago truncatula roots, Plant Physiology. In press.
• Mukherjee, A, Ané JM. Plant hormones and initiation of legume nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhization. In: Environmental Aspects of Plant Nitrogen Metabolism, Editors: Polacco J., Todd C., Wiley-Blackwell. In press.
• Bhaskar, BP, Venkateshwaran M, Wu, L, Ané JM, Jiang, J. Agrobacterium-mediated transient gene expression and silencing in potato, PLoS ONE 4(6): e5812, 2009.
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