Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

Publications of Caroline Gutjahr

Journal Article (53)

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Berger, F.; Muth, P.; Vahl, W. K.; Junker, A.; Altmann, T.; Kopriva, S.; Herz, M.; Gutjahr, C.: Automated phenotyping unveils trait‐specific genotypic variation in arbuscular mycorrhiza responsiveness in maize (Zea mays). Plant, Cell and Environment (2026)

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Siani, R.; Gutjahr, C.; Schloter, M.: Adaptation to a host-associated lifestyle is associated with convergent loss of flagella-related genes in Pseudomonadota. BMC Genomics 27, 366 (2026)

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Usländer, A.; Haag, M.; Cheng, A.; Lederer, B.; Khoo, J. Y.; Dunker, F.; Acosta, I.; Weiberg, A.; Gutjahr, C.: Cross-kingdom RNA interference promotes arbuscular mycorrhiza development. Nature Plants 12, pp. 695 - 702 (2026)

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Siani, R.; Si, Y.; Thaqi, S. K.; Stabl, G.; Gutjahr, C.; Schloter, M.: Loss of the flagellar regulator FlhC changes the transcriptional response of plant-associated Acidovorax delafieldii strains to metabolites from Rhizophagus irregularis-colonized Lotus japonicus roots. ISME Communications 6 (1), ycaf235 (2026)

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Mahmoud, F. M.; Edelmann, H.; Si, Y.; Endrejat, L.; Pritsch, K.; Gutjahr, C.; Ehrenreich, A.; Winkelmann, T.; Winkler, J. B.; Schnitzler, J. et al.; Schloter, M.: Transient colonization by Priestia megaterium B1L5 alters the structure of the rhizosphere microbiome towards potential plant beneficial bacterial groups in apple plantlets. Environmental Microbiome 20 (1), 104 (2025)

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Paries, M.; Hobecker, K.; Hernández Luelmo, S.; Binci, F.; Guercio, A.; Usländer, A.; Cardoso, C.; Si, Y.; Wankner, L.; Bashyal, S. et al.; Troycke, P.; Brückner , F.; Pimprikar, P.; Shabek, N.; Gutjahr, C.: The GRAS protein RAM1 interacts with WRI transcription factors to regulate plant genes required for arbuscule development and function. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 122 (21), e2427021122 (2025)

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Ranner, J.; Stabl, G.; Martyniak, C.; Paries, M.; Spaccasassi, A.; Gutjahr, C.; Stark, T.; Dawid, C.: Comprehensive Quantification of (Poly)phenols in Lotus japonicus with and without Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 73 (22), pp. 14044 - 14057 (2025)

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Ranner, J. L.; Stabl, G.; Piller, A.; Paries, M.; Sharma, S.; Zeng, T.; Spaccasassi, A.; Stark, T. D.; Gutjahr, C.; Dawid, C.: Untargeted metabolomics reveals novel metabolites in Lotus japonicus roots during arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. New Phytologist 246 (3), pp. 1256 - 1275 (2025)

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Das, D.; Varshney, K.; Ogawa, S.; Torabi, S.; Hüttl, R.; Nelson, D. C.; Gutjahr, C.: Ethylene promotes SMAX1 accumulation to inhibit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. Nature Communications 16 (1), 2025 (2025)

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Guillory, A.; Fournier, J.; Kelner, A.; Hobecker, K.; Auriac, M.-C.; Frances, L.; Delers, A.; Pedinotti, L.; Le Ru, A.; Keller, J. et al.; Delaux, P.-M.; Gutjahr, C.; Frei Dit Frey, N.; de Carvalho-Niebel, F.: Annexin- and calcium-regulated priming of legume root cells for endosymbiotic infection. Nature Communications 15 (1), 10639 (2024)

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Kakoulidou, I.; Piecyk, R. S.; Meyer, R. C.; Kuhlmann, M.; Gutjahr, C.; Altmann, T.; Johannes, F.: Mapping parental DMRs predictive of local and distal methylome remodeling in epigenetic F1 hybrids. Life science alliance 7 (4), e202402599 (2024)

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John, S.; Apelt, F.; Kumar, A.; Acosta, I.; Bents, D.; Annunziata, M. G.; Fichtner, F.; Gutjahr, C.; Mueller-Roeber, B.; Olas, J. J.: The Transcription factor HSFA7b controls thermomemory at the shoot apical meristem by regulating ethylene biosynthesis and signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Communications 5 (3), 100743 (2024)

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Sperschneider, J.; Yildirir, G.; Rizzi , Y. S.; Malar C, M.; Mayrand Nicol, A.; Sorwar, E.; Villeneuve-Laroche, M.; Chen, E. C. H.; Iwasaki, W.; Brauer, E. K. et al.; Bosnich, W.; Gutjahr, C.; Corradi, N.: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi heterokaryons have two nuclear populations with distinct roles in host–plant interactions. Nature Microbiology 8, pp. 2142 - 2153 (2023)

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Tal, L.; Guercio, A. M.; Varshney, K.; Young, A.; Gutjahr, C.; Shabek, N.: C-terminal conformational changes in SCF-D3/MAX2 ubiquitin ligase are required for KAI2-mediated signaling. New Phytologist 239 (6), pp. 2067 - 2075 (2023)

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Hamon-Josse, M.; Villaecija-Aguilar, J.; Ljung, K.; Leyser, O.; Gutjahr, C.; Bennett, T.: KAI2 regulates seedling development by mediating light-induced remodelling of auxin transport. New Phytologist 235 (1), pp. 126 - 140 (2022)

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Sepulveda, C.; Guzman, M.; Li, Q.; Villaecija-Aguilar, J.; Martinez, S.; Kamran, M.; Khosla, A.; Liu, W.; Gendron, J.; Gutjahr, C. et al.; Waters, M.; Nelson, D.: KARRIKIN UP-REGULATED F-BOX 1 (KUF1) imposes negative feedback regulation of karrikin and KAI2 ligand metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (11), e2112820119 (2022)

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Meng, Y.; Varshney , K.; Incze, N.; Badics, E.; Kamran, M.; Davies, S.; Oppermann, L.; Magne, K.; Dalmais, M.; Bendahmane, A. et al.; Sibout, R.; Vogel, J.; Laudencia-Chingcuanco, D.; Bond, C.; Soos, V.; Gutjahr, C.; Waters, M.: KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 regulates leaf development, root system architecture and arbuscular-mycorrhizal symbiosis in Brachypodium distachyon. The Plant Journal 109 (6), pp. 1559 - 1574 (2022)

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Guercio, A.; Torabi, S.; Cornu, D.; Dalmais, M.; Bendahmane, A.; Le Signor, C.; Pillot, J.; Le Bris, P.; Boyer, F.; Rameau, C. et al.; Gutjahr, C.; Germain, A.; Shabek, N.: Structural and functional analyses explain Pea KAI2 receptor diversity and reveal stereoselective catalysis during signal perception. COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY 5 (1), 126 (2022)

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Das, D.; Paries, M.; Hobecker, K.; Gigl, M.; Dawid, C.; Lam, H.; Zhang, J.; Chen, M.; Gutjahr, C.: Phosphate starvation response transcription factors enable arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. Nature Communications 13 (1), 477 (2022)

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Villaecija-Aguilar, J.; Korosy, C.; Maisch, L.; Hamon-Josse, M.; Petrich, A.; Magosch, S.; Chapman, P.; Bennett, T.; Gutjahr, C.: KAI2 promotes Arabidopsis root hair elongation at low external phosphate by controlling local accumulation of AUX1 and PIN2. Current Biology 32 (1), pp. 228 - 236 (2022)

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Siani, R.; Stabl, G.; Gutjahr, C.; Schloter, M.; Radl, V.: Acidovorax pan-genome reveals specific functional traits for plant beneficial and pathogenic plant-associations. Microbial Genomics 7 (12), 000666 (2021)

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Schmid, C.; Mittermeier-Klessinger, V.; Peters, V.; Berger, F.; Kramler, M.; Heuberger, H.; Rinder, R.; Hofmann, T.; Gutjahr, C.; Dawid, C.: Quantitative Mapping of Flavor and Pharmacologically Active Compounds in European Licorice Roots (Glycyrrhiza glabra L.) in Response to Growth Conditions and Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Symbiosis. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 69 (44), pp. 13173 - 13189 (2021)

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Carbonnel, S.; Torabi, S.; Gutjahr, C.: MAX2-independent transcriptional responses to rac-GR24 in Lotus japonicus roots. Plant Signaling & Behavior 16 (1), e1840852 (2021)

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Carbonnel, S.; Torabi, S.; Griesmann, M.; Bleek, E.; Tang, Y.; Buchka, S.; Basso, V.; Shindo, M.; Boyer, F.; Wang, T. et al.; Udvardi, M.; Waters, M.; Gutjahr, C.: Lotus japonicus karrikin receptors display divergent ligand-binding specificities and organ-dependent redundancy. PLoS Genetics 16 (12), e1009249 (2020)

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Carbonnel, S.; Das, D.; Varshney, K.; Kolodziej, M.; Villaecija-Aguilar, J.; Gutjahr, C.: The karrikin signaling regulator SMAX1 controls Lotus japonicus root and root hair development by suppressing ethylene biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (35), pp. 21757 - 21765 (2020)

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Altmann, M.; Altmann, S.; Rodriguez, P. A.; Weller, B.; Elorduy Vergara, L.; Palme, J.; Marín-de la Rosa, N.; Sauer, M.; Wenig, M.; Villaécija-Aguilar, J. A. et al.; Sales, J.; Lin, C.-W.; Pandiarajan, R.; Young, V.; Strobel, A.; Gross, L.; Carbonnel, S.; Kugler, K. G.; Garcia-Molina, A.; Bassel, G. W.; Falter, C.; Mayer, K. F. X.; Gutjahr, C.; Vlot, A. C.; Grill, E.; Falter-Braun, P.: Extensive signal integration by the phytohormone protein network. Nature 583 (7815), pp. 271 - 276 (2020)

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Das, D.; Torabi, S.; Chapman, P.; Gutjahr, C.: A Flexible, Low-Cost Hydroponic Co-Cultivation System for Studying Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Symbiosis. Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 63 (2020)

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Chiapello, M.; Das, D.; Gutjahr, C.: Ramf: An Open-Source R Package for Statistical Analysis and Display of Quantitative Root Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi. Frontiers in Plant Science 10, 1184 (2019)

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Villaecija-Aguilar, J.; Hamon-Josse, M.; Carbonnel, S.; Kretschmar, A.; Schmid, C.; Dawid, C.; Bennett, T.; Gutjahr, C.: SMAX1/SMXL2 regulate root and root hair development downstream of KAI2-mediated signalling in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genetics 15 (8), e1008327 (2019)

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Brands, M.; Wewer, V.; Keymer, A.; Gutjahr, C.; Dormann, P.: The Lotus japonicus acyl-acyl carrier protein thioesterase FatM is required for mycorrhiza formation and lipid accumulation of Rhizophagus irregularis. The Plant Journal 95 (2), pp. 219 - 232 (2018)

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Keymer, A.; Huber, C.; Eisenreich, W.; Gutjahr, C.: Tracking Lipid Transfer by Fatty Acid Isotopolog Profiling from Host Plants to Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi. BIO-PROTOCOL 8 (7), e2786 (2018)

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Yu, P.; Wang, C.; Baldauf, J.; Tai, H.; Gutjahr, C.; Hochholdinger, F.; Li, C.: Root type and soil phosphate determine the taxonomic landscape of colonizing fungi and the transcriptome of field-grown maize roots. New Phytologist 217 (3), pp. 1240 - 1253 (2018)

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Keymer, A.; Pimprikar, P.; Wewer, V.; Huber, C.; Brands, M.; Bucerius, S. L.; Delaux, P.-M.; Klingl, V.; Röpenack-Lahaye, E. v.; Wang, T. L. et al.; Eisenreich, W.; Dörmann, P.; Parniske, M.; Gutjahr, C.: Lipid transfer from plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi. eLife 6, e29107 (2017)

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Nadal, M.; Sawers, R.; Naseem, S.; Bassin, B.; Kulicke, C.; Sharman, A.; An, G.; An, K.; Ahern, K.; Romag, A. et al.; Brutnell, T.; Gutjahr, C.; Geldner, N.; Roux, C.; Martinoia, E.; Konopka, J.; Paszkowski, U.: An N-acetylglucosamine transporter required for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses in rice and maize. Nature Plants 3 (6), 17073 (2017)

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Couzigou, J.; Lauressergues, D.; Andre, O.; Gutjahr, C.; Guillotin, B.; Becard, G.; Combier, J.: Positive Gene Regulation by a Natural Protective miRNA Enables Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Cell Host & Microbe 21 (1), pp. 106 - 112 (2017)

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Pimprikar, P.; Carbonnel, S.; Paries, M.; Katzer, K.; Klingl, V.; Bohmer, M.; Karl, L.; Floss, D.; Harrison, M.; Parniske, M. et al.; Gutjahr, C.: A CCaMK-CYCLOPS-DELLA Complex Activates Transcriptiori of RAM1 to Regulate Arbuscule Branching. Current Biology 26 (8), pp. 987 - 998 (2016)

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Gutjahr, C.; Gobbato, E.; Choi, J.; Riemann, M.; Johnston, M.; Summers, W.; Carbonnel, S.; Mansfield, C.; Yang, S.; Nadal, M. et al.; Acosta, I.; Takano, M.; Jiao, W.; Schneeberger, K.; Kelly, K.; Paszkowski, U.: Rice perception of symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi requires the karrikin receptor complex. Science 350 (6267), pp. 1521 - 1524 (2015)

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Gutjahr, C.; Sawers, R.; Marti, G.; Andres-Hernandez, L.; Yang, S.; Casieri, L.; Angliker, H.; Oakeley, E.; Wolfender, J.; Abreu-Goodger, C. et al.; Paszkowski, U.: 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 112 (21), pp. 6754 - 6759 (2015)

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Gutjahr, C.; Siegler, H.; Haga, K.; Iino, M.; Paszkowski, U.: Full Establishment of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Rice Occurs Independently of Enzymatic Jasmonate Biosynthesis. PLOS ONE 10 (4), e0123422 (2015)

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Kobae, Y.; Gutjahr, C.; Paszkowski, U.; Kojima, T.; Fujiwara, T.; Hata, S.: Lipid Droplets of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Emerge in Concert with Arbuscule Collapse. Plant and Cell Physiology 55 (11), pp. 1945 - 1953 (2014)

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Etemadi, M.; Gutjahr, C.; Couzigou, J.; Zouine, M.; Lauressergues, D.; Timmers, A.; Audran, C.; Bouzayen, M.; Becard, G.; Combier, J.: Auxin Perception Is Required for Arbuscule Development in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 166 (1), pp. 281 - 292 (2014)

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Groth, M.; Kosuta, S.; Gutjahr, C.; Haage, K.; Hardel, S.; Schaub, M.; Brachmann, A.; Sato, S.; Tabata, S.; Findlay, K. et al.; Wang, T.; Parniske, M.: Two Lotus japonicus symbiosis mutants impaired at distinct steps of arbuscule development. The Plant Journal 75 (1), pp. 117 - 129 (2013)

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Nordstrom, K.; Albani, M.; James, G.; Gutjahr, C.; Hartwig, B.; Turck, F.; Paszkowski, U.; Coupland, G.; Schneeberger, K.: Mutation identification by direct comparison of whole-genome sequencing data from mutant and wild-type individuals using k-mers. Nature Biotechnology 31 (4), pp. 325 - 330 (2013)

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Gutjahr, C.; Radovanovic, D.; Geoffroy, J.; Zhang, Q.; Siegler, H.; Chiapello, M.; Casieri, L.; An, K.; An, G.; Guiderdoni, E. et al.; Kumar, C.; Sundaresan, V.; Harrison, M.; Paszkowski, U.: The half-size ABC transporters STR1 and STR2 are indispensable for mycorrhizal arbuscule formation in rice. The Plant Journal 69 (5), pp. 906 - 920 (2012)

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Gutjahr, C.; Novero, M.; Welham, T.; Wang, T.; Bonfante, P.: Root starch accumulation in response to arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization differs among Lotus japonicus starch mutants. Planta 234 (3), pp. 639 - 646 (2011)

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Gutjahr, C.; Casieri, L.; Paszkowski, U.: Glomus intraradices induces changes in root system architecture of rice independently of common symbiosis signaling. New Phytologist 182 (4), pp. 829 - 837 (2009)

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Gutjahr, C.; Novero, M.; Guether, M.; Montanari, O.; Udvardi, M.; Bonfante, P.: Presymbiotic factors released by the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita induce starch accumulation in Lotus japonicus roots. New Phytologist 183 (1), pp. 53 - 61 (2009)

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Gutjahr, C.; Banba, M.; Croset, V.; An, K.; Miyao, A.; An, G.; Hirochika, H.; Imaizumi-Anraku, H.; Paszkowski, U.: Arbuscular Mycorrhiza-Specific Signaling in Rice Transcends the Common Symbiosis Signaling Pathway. The Plant Cell 20 (11), pp. 2989 - 3005 (2008)

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Banba, M.; Gutjahr, C.; Miyao, A.; Hirochika, H.; Paszkowski, U.; Kouchi, H.; Imaizumi-Anraku, H.: Divergence of Evolutionary Ways Among Common sym Genes: CASTOR and CCaMK Show Functional Conservation Between Two Symbiosis Systems and Constitute the Root of a Common Signaling Pathway. Plant and Cell Physiology 49 (11), pp. 1659 - 1671 (2008)

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Siddique, I.; Gutjahr, C.; Seneviratne, G.; Breckling, B.; Ranwala, S.; Alexander, I.: Changes in soil chemistry associated with the establishment of forest gardens on eroded, acidified grassland soils in Sri Lanka. Biology and Fertility of Soils 44 (1), pp. 163 - 170 (2007)

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