Ruairidh Sawers, Ph.D

Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits.
Evolution, O'Brien, A, Sawers, Ruairidh, Gasca-Pineda, J, Baxter, I, Eguiarte, L, Ross-Ibarra, J, Strauss, S, 2024

Seedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion
Nature Genetics, Yu, Peng, Li, Chunhui, Li, Meng, He, Xiaoming, Wang, Danning, Li, Hongjie, Marcon, Caroline, Li, Yu, Perez-Limón, Sergio, Chen, Xinping, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Koller, Robert, Metzner, Ralf, van Dusschoten, Dagmar, Pflugfelder, Daniel, Borisjuk, Ljudmilla, Plutenko, Iaroslav, Mahon, Audrey, Resende, Marcio F.R., Salvi, Silvio, Akale, Asegidew, Abdalla, Mohanned, Ahmed, Mutez Ali, Bauer, Felix Maximilian, Schnepf, Andrea, Lobet, Guillaume, Heymans, Adrien, Suresh, Kiran, Schreiber, Lukas, McLaughlin, Chloee M., Li, Chunjian, Mayer, Manfred, Schön, Chris Carolin, Bernau, Vivian, von Wirén, Nicolaus, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Wang, Tianyu, Hochholdinger, Frank, 2024

Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties
Nature Plants, He, Xiaoming, Wang, Danning, Jiang, Yong, Li, Meng, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, McLaughlin, Chloee, Marcon, Caroline, Guo, Li, Baer, Marcel, Moya, Yudelsy A.T., von Wirén, Nicolaus, Deichmann, Marion, Schaaf, Gabriel, Piepho, Hans Peter, Yang, Zhikai, Yang, Jinliang, Yim, Bunlong, Smalla, Kornelia, Goormachtig, Sofie, de Vries, Franciska T., Hüging, Hubert, Baer, Mareike, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Reif, Jochen C., Hochholdinger, Frank, Chen, Xinping, Yu, Peng, 2024

Evidence that variation in root anatomy contributes to local adaptation in Mexican native maize
Evolutionary Applications, McLaughlin, Chloee M., Li, Meng, Perryman, Melanie, Heymans, Adrien, Schneider, Hannah, Lasky, Jesse R., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2024

Interplay between developmental cues and rhizosphere signals from mycorrhizal fungi shape root anatomy, impacting crop productivity
Plant and Soil, Grondin, Alexandre, Li, Meng, Bhosale, Rahul, Sawers, Ruairidh, Schneider, Hannah M., 2024

Maize zinc uptake is influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis under various soil phosphorus availabilities
New Phytologist, Yu, Baogang, Zhou, Chengxiang, Wang, Zhonghua, Bucher, Marcel, Schaaf, Gabriel, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Chen, Xinping, Hochholdinger, Frank, Zou, Chunqin, Yu, Peng, 2024

Differences in mucilage properties and stomatal sensitivity of locally adapted Zea mays in relation with precipitation seasonality and vapour pressure deficit regime of their native environment
Plant Direct, Berauer, Bernd J., Akale, Asegidew, Schweiger, Andreas H., Knott, Mathilde, Diehl, Dörte, Wolf, Marc Philip, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Ahmed, Mutez A., 2023

Landscape transcriptomics as a tool for addressing global change effects across diverse species
Molecular Ecology Notes, Keagy, Jason, Drummond, Chloe P., Gilbert, Kadeem J., Grozinger, Christina M., Hamilton, Jill, Hines, Heather M., Lasky, Jesse, Logan, Cheryl A., Sawers, Ruairidh, Wagner, Tyler, 2023

Genetic analysis and QTL mapping of domestication-related traits in chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)
Frontiers in Genetics, Lopez-Moreno, Hector, Basurto-Garduño, Ana Celia, Torres-Meraz, Maria Alejandra, Diaz-Valenzuela, Eric, Arellano-Arciniega, Sergio, Zalapa, Juan, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Cibrián-Jaramillo, Angelica, Diaz-Garcia, Luis, 2023

Genetic mapping of maize metabolites using high-throughput mass profiling
Plant Science, González-Rodríguez, Tzitziki, Pérez-Limón, Sergio, Peniche-Pavía, Héctor, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Winkler, Robert, 2023

Mycorrhizal status and host genotype interact to shape plant nutrition in field grown maize (Zea mays ssp. mays)
Mycorrhiza, Li, Meng, Perez-Limón, Sergio, Ramírez-Flores, M. Rosario, Barrales-Gamez, Benjamín, Meraz-Mercado, Marco Antonio, Ziegler, Gregory, Baxter, Ivan, Olalde-Portugal, Víctor, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2023

Evidence that variation in root anatomy contributes to local adaptation in Mexican native maize
bioRxiv, McLaughlin, Chloee, Li, Meng, Perryman, Melanie, Heymans, Adrien, Schneider, Hannah, Lasky, J, Sawers, Ruairidh, 2023

Allele-specific Expression Reveals Multiple Paths to Highland Adaptation in Maize
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Hu, Haixiao, Crow, Taylor, Nojoomi, Saghi, Schulz, Aimee J., Estévez-Palmas, Juan M., Hufford, Matthew B., Flint-Garcia, Sherry, Sawers, Ruairidh, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Runcie, Daniel E., 2022

Genome sequencing reveals evidence of adaptive variation in the genus Zea
Nature Genetics, Chen, Lu, Luo, Jingyun, Jin, Minliang, Yang, Ning, Liu, Xiangguo, Peng, Yong, Li, Wenqiang, Phillips, Alyssa, Cameron, Brenda, Bernal, Julio, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Liu, Qing, Yin, Yuejia, Ye, Xinnan, Yan, Jiali, Zhang, Qinghua, Zhang, Xiaoting, Wu, Shenshen, Gui, Songtao, Wei, Wenjie, Wang, Yuebin, Luo, Yun, Jiang, Chenglin, Deng, Min, Jin, Min, Jian, Liumei, Yu, Yanhui, Zhang, Maolin, Yang, Xiaohong, Hufford, Matthew, Fernie, Alisdair, Warburton, Marilyn, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Yan, Jianbing, 2022

An adaptive teosinte mexicana introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Barnes, Allison C., Rodríguez-Zapata, Fausto, Juárez-Núñez, Karla A., Gates, Daniel J., Janzen, Garrett M., Kur, Andi, Wang, Li, Jensen, Sarah E., Estévez-Palmas, Juan M., Crow, Taylor M., Kavi, Heli S., Pil, Hannah D., Stokes, Ruthie L., Knizner, Kevan T., Aguilar-Rangel, Maria R., Demesa-Arévalo, Edgar, Skopelitis, Tara, Pérez-Limón, Sergio, Stutts, Whitney L., Thompson, Peter, Chiu, Yu Chun, Jackson, David, Muddiman, David C., Fiehn, Oliver, Runcie, Daniel, Buckler, Edward S., Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Hufford, Matthew B., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, 2022

The pho1;2a′-m1.1 allele of Phosphate1 conditions misregulation of the phosphorus starvation response in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.)
Plant Direct, Alonso-Nieves, Ana Laura, Salazar-Vidal, M. Nancy, Torres-Rodríguez, J. Vladimir, Pérez-Vázquez, Leonardo M., Massange-Sánchez, Julio A., Gillmor, C. Stewart, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2022

Demonstration of local adaptation in maize landraces by reciprocal transplantation
Evolutionary Applications, Janzen, Garrett, Aguilar‐Rangel, María, Cíntora‐Martínez, Carolina, Blöcher‐Juárez, Karla, González‐Segovia, Eric, Studer, Anthony, Runcie, Daniel, Flint‐Garcia, Sherry, Rellán‐Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh, Hufford, Matthew, 2022

A B733Palomero Toluqueño mapping population reveals local adaptation in Mexican highland maize
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Perez-Limón, Sergio, Li, Meng, Cintora-Martinez, G. Carolina, Aguilar-Rangel, M. Rocio, Salazar-Vidal, M. Nancy, González-Segovia, Eric, Blöcher-Juárez, Karla, Guerrero-Zavala, Alejandro, Barrales-Gamez, Benjamin, Carcaño-Macias, Jessica, Costich, Denise E., Nieto-Sotelo, Jorge, de la Vega, Octavio Martinez, Simpson, June, Hufford, Matthew B., Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Flint-Garcia, Sherry, Diaz-Garcia, Luis, Rellán-Álvarez, Ruben, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2022

Portrait of a genus: genome sequencing reveals evidence of adaptive variation in Zea, Chen, Lu, Luo, Jingyun, Jin, Minliang, Yang, Ning, Liu, Xiangguo, Peng, Yong, Li, Wenqiang, Philips, Alyssa, Cameron, Brenda, Bernal, Julio, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh, Qing, Liu, Yin, Yuejia, Ye, Xinnan, Yan, Jiali, Zhang, Qinghua, Zhang, Xiaoting, Wu, Shenshen, Gui, Songtao, Wei, Wenjie, Wang, Yuebin, Luo, Yun, Jiang, Chengling, Deng, Min, Jin, Min, Jian, Liumei, Yu, Yanhui, Zhang, Maolin, Yang, Xiaohong, Hufford, Matthew, Fernie, Alisdair, Warburton, Marilyn, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Yan, Jianbing, 2022

Rhizosphere bacterial communities differ among traditional maize landraces
Environmental DNA, Lund, Mads, Agerbo Rasmussen, Jacob, Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín, Sawers, Ruairidh, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Barnes, Christopher James, 2022

Low nitrogen availability inhibits the phosphorus starvation response in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.)
BMC Plant Biology, Torres-Rodríguez, J. Vladimir, Salazar-Vidal, M. Nancy, Chávez Montes, Ricardo A., Massange-Sánchez, Julio A., Gillmor, C. Stewart, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2021

Identification of the maize mediator cdk8 module and transposon-mediated mutagenesis of zmmed12a
International Journal of Developmental Biology, Alonso-Nieves, Ana L., Núñez-Ríos, Tania, Massange-Sánchez, Julio A., Ahern, Kevin R., Lepe-Soltero, Daniel, García-Aguilar, Marcelina, Brutnell, Thomas P., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Gillmor, C. Stewart, 2021

Gene regulatory effects of a large chromosomal inversion in highland maize
PLoS Genetics, Crow, Taylor, Ta, James, Nojoomi, Saghi, Aguilar-Rangel, M. Rocío, Rodríguez, Jorge Vladimir Torres, Gates, Daniel, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh, Runcie, Daniel, 2020

The phosphoglycerate kinase (Pgk) gene family of maize (zea mays var. b73)
Plants, Massange-Sánchez, Julio A., Casados-Vázquez, Luz E., Juarez-Colunga, Sheila, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Tiessen, Axel, 2020

The genetic architecture of host response reveals the importance of arbuscular mycorrhizae to maize cultivation
eLife, Ramírez-Flores, M. Rosario, Perez-Limon, Sergio, Li, Meng, Barrales-Gamez, Benjamín, Albinsky, Doris, Paszkowski, Uta, Olalde-Portugal, Víctor, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2020

Cis- And trans-regulatory variations in the domestication of the chili pepper fruit
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Diaz-Valenzuela, Erik, Díaz-Valenzuela, E, Sawers, Ruairidh, Cibrian-Jaramillo, Angelica, Cibrián-Jaramillo, A, 2020

Inoculation with the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis modulates the relationship between root growth and nutrient content in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.)
Plant Direct, Ramírez-Flores, M. Rosario, Bello-Bello, Elohim, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Olalde-Portugal, Víctor, 2019

Adaptive phenotypic divergence in an annual grass differs across biotic contexts*
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, O'Brien, Anna M., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Strauss, Sharon Y., Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, 2019

Characterization of introgression from the teosinte Zea mays ssp. mexicana to Mexican highland maize.
PeerJ, Gonzalez-Segovia, E, Pérez-Limon, S, Cíntora-Martínez, G, Guerrero-Zavala, A, Janzen, G, Hufford, M, Ross-Ibarra, J, Sawers, Ruairidh, 2019

Single-gene resolution of locally adaptive genetic variation in Mexican maize, Gates, Daniel, Runcie, Dan, Janzen, Garrett, Navarro, Alberto, Willcox, Martha, Sonder, Kai, Snodgrass, Samantha, Rodríguez-Zapata, Fausto, Sawers, Ruairidh, Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén, Buckler, Edward, Hearne, Sarah, Hufford, Matthew, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, 2019

A rice Serine/Threonine receptor-like kinase regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at the peri-arbuscular membrane
Nature Communications, Roth, Ronelle, Chiapello, Marco, Montero, Héctor, Gehrig, Peter, Grossmann, Jonas, O’Holleran, Kevin, Hartken, Denise, Walters, Fergus, Yang, Shu Yi, Hillmer, Stefan, Schumacher, Karin, Bowden, Sarah, Craze, Melanie, Wallington, Emma J., Miyao, Akio, Sawers, Ruairidh, Martinoia, Enrico, Paszkowski, Uta, 2018

Evolutionary responses to conditionality in species interactions across environmental gradients
American Naturalist, O'brien, Anna M., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Strauss, Sharon Y., 2018

The impact of domestication and crop improvement on arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals: insights from genetics and genomics
New Phytologist, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Ramírez-Flores, M. Rosario, Olalde-Portugal, Víctor, Paszkowski, Uta, 2018

Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
Environmental Science and Policy, Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio, Johnson, Andrew F., Agha, Mickey, Allen, Edith B., Allen, Michael F., González, Jesús Arellano, Arenas Moreno, Diego M., Beas-Luna, Rodrigo, Butterfield, Scott, Caetano, Gabriel, Caselle, Jennifer E., Gaytán, Gamaliel Castañeda, Castorani, Max C.N., Cat, Linh Anh, Cavanaugh, Kyle, Chambers, Jeffrey Q., Cooper, Robert D., Arafeh-Dalmau, Nur, Dawson, Todd, de la Vega Pérez, Aníbal Díaz, DiMento, Joseph F.C., Guerrero, Saúl Domínguez, Edwards, Matthew, Ennen, Joshua R., Estrada-Medina, Hector, Fierro-Estrada, Natalia, Gadsden, Héctor, Galina-Tessaro, Patricia, Gibbons, Paul M., Goode, Eric V., Gorris, Morgan E., Harmon, Thomas, Hecht, Susanna, Heredia Fragoso, Marco Antonio, Hernández-Solano, Alan, Hernández-Cortés, Danae, Hernández-Carmona, Gustavo, Hillard, Scott, Huey, Raymond B., Hufford, Matthew B., Jenerette, G. Darrel, Jiménez-Osornio, Juan, López-Nava, Karla Joana, Lara Reséndiz, Rafael A., Leslie, Heather M., López-Feldman, Alejandro, Luja, Víctor H., Méndez, Norberto Martínez, Mautz, William J., Medellín-Azuara, Josué, Meléndez-Torres, Cristina, de la Cruz, Fausto R.Méndez, Micheli, Fiorenza, Miles, Donald B., Montagner, Giovanna, Montaño-Moctezuma, Gabriela, Müller, Johannes, Oliva, Paulina, Ortinez Álvarez, José Abraham, Ortiz-Partida, J. Pablo, Palleiro-Nayar, Julio, Páramo Figueroa, Víctor Hugo, Parnell, P. Ed, Raimondi, Peter, Ramírez-Valdez, Arturo, Randerson, James T., Reed, Daniel C., Riquelme, Meritxell, Torres, Teresita Romero, Rosen, Philip C., Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Sánchez-Cordero, Victor, Sandoval-Solis, Samuel, Santos, Juan Carlos, Sawers, Ruairidh, Sinervo, Barry, Sites, Jack W., Sosa-Nishizaki, Oscar, Stanton, Travis, Stapp, Jared R., Stewart, Joseph A.E., Torre, Jorge, Torres-Moye, Guillermo, Treseder, Kathleen K., Valdez-Villavicencio, Jorge, Valle Jiménez, Fernando I., Vaughn, Mercy, Welton, Luke, Westphal, Michael F., Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo, Yunez-Naude, Antonio, Zertuche-González, José A., Taylor, J. Edward, 2018

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
Plant and Cell Physiology, Ramrez-Flores, M. Rosario, Relln-Lvarez, Rubn, Wozniak, Barbara, Gebreselassie, Mesfin Nigussie, Jakobsen, Iver, Olalde-Portugal, Vctor, Baxter, Ivan, Paszkowski, Uta, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2017

An N-acetylglucosamine transporter required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses in rice and maize
Nature Plants, Nadal, Marina, Sawers, Ruairidh, Naseem, Shamoon, Bassin, Barbara, Kulicke, Corinna, Sharman, Abigail, An, Gynheung, An, Kyungsook, Ahern, Kevin R., Romag, Amanda, Brutnell, Thomas P., Gutjahr, Caroline, Geldner, Niko, Roux, Christophe, Martinoia, Enrico, Konopka, James B., Paszkowski, Uta, 2017

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
New Phytologist, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Svane, Simon F., Quan, Clement, Grønlund, Mette, Wozniak, Barbara, Gebreselassie, Mesfin Nigussie, González-Muñoz, Eliécer, Chávez Montes, Ricardo A., Baxter, Ivan, Goudet, Jerome, Jakobsen, Iver, Paszkowski, Uta, 2017

Allele specific expression analysis identifies regulatory variation associated with stress-related genes in the Mexican highland maize landrace Palomero Toluqueño
PeerJ, Rocío Aguilar-Rangel, M., Montes, Ricardo A.Chávez, González-Segovia, Eric, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Simpson, June K., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2017

Characterization and transposon mutagenesis of the maize (Zea mays) Pho1 Gene Family
PLoS One, Salazar-Vidal, M. Nancy, Acosta-Segovia, Edith, Sanchez-León, Nidia, Ahern, Kevin R., Brutnell, Thomas P., Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2016

Transcriptome diversity among rice root types during asymbiosis and interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Gutjahr, Caroline, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., Marti, Guillaume, Andrés-Hernández, Liliana, Yang, Shu Yi, Casieri, Leonardo, Angliker, Herbert, Oakeley, Edward J., Wolfender, Jean Luc, Abreu-Goodger, Cei, Paszkowski, Uta, 2015

The maize (Zea mays ssp. mays var. B73) genome encodes 33 members of the purple acid phosphatase family
Frontiers in Plant Science, González-Muñoz, Eliécer, Avendaño, Aida Odette Vázquez, Chávez Montes, Ricardo A., de Folter, Stefan, Andrés-Hernández, Liliana, Abreu-Goodger, Cei, Sawers, Ruairidh J.H., 2015