Marie Barberon
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+41 22 379 68 16
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Plant Nutrition and Development
Research interests
Our research focuses on nutrient transport in roots and plant adaptation to abiotic stresses. We are particularly interested to characterize the relations between root development and plant nutrition.
Key Publications
De Bellis D., Kalmbach L., Marhavy P., Daraspe J., Geldner N. & Barberon M.:
Extracellular vesiculo-tubular structures associated with suberin deposition in plant cell walls.
Nat Commun 2022, 13(1):1489. PMID: 35304458. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29110-0.
Shukla V., Han J.P., Cléard F., Lefebvre-Legendre L., Gully K., Flis P., Berhin A., Andersen T.G., Salt D.E., Nawrath C. & Barberon M.:
Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021, 118(39):e2101730118. PMID: 34551972. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101730118.
Barberon M., Vermeer J.E., De Bellis D., Wang P., Naseer S., Andersen T.G., Humbel B.M., Nawrath C., Takano J., Salt D.E. & Geldner N.:
Adaptation of Root Function by Nutrient-Induced Plasticity of Endodermal Differentiation.
Cell 2016, 164(3):447-59. PMID: 26777403. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.021.
Further Reading
Robe K. & Barberon M.:
Nutrient carriers at the heart of plant nutrition and sensing.
Curr Opin Plant Biol 2023, 74:102376. PMID: 37182415. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102376.
Shukla V. & Barberon M.:
Building and breaking of a barrier: Suberin plasticity and function in the endodermis.
Curr Opin Plant Biol 2021, 64:102153. PMID: 34861611. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102153.
Ramakrishna P. & Barberon M.:
Polarized transport across root epithelia.
Curr Opin Plant Biol 2019, 52:23-29. PMID: 31323542. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.05.010.
Barberon M.:
The endodermis as a checkpoint for nutrients.
New Phytol 2017, 213(4):1604-1610. PMID: 27551946. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14140.