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Soumana Datta Sumita Kachhwaha Vidya Patni Ramani Payal Lodha Rao D.V Sharma Ramavtar Sharma Manju Manmohan Arya Navneet Singh Chaudhary Gunjan Dubey Shika Gupta Amit Kotiya Anil Kumar Lalita Rishi Kesh Meena VINAY KUMAR MEENA Praveen Mohil Aparna Pareek Dr. Chandra Pal Singh Dr Richard J. Colgan View MoreMichaela Leroch
Professor
Department of plant physiology
State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences
United States of America
2006: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) at the Department of Plant Physiology (Prof. Dr. E. Neuhaus); Kaiserslautern University. since 2006: Research Associate at the Department of Plant Pathology (Prof. Dr. M. Hahn); Kaiserslautern University
The grey mold fungus Botrytis cinerea causes serious economic losses in fruit and vegetable cultures. My research interest is focusing on the early stages of interaction between the asexual fungal spore (conidium) and its host plant. We have recently shown in the lab that surface contact is a crucial factor for the induction both of the germination process as well as for initiation of invasion into the plant cell. We are using knock-out mutants defective in MAP kinase signal transduction as well as in structural and sensory extracellular proteins (e.g. hydrophobins) to elucidate the regulation as well as the mechanisms of the early infection process.