ABC - Department for Plant Biotechnology - Plant Immunology Group

Research topic

In the 21st century agriculture faces the serious challenge of providing food supply in sufficient quantity and quality to the exploding human population, despite the shrinking crop lands and the increasingly severe weather conditions. In the future, agriculture can only meet this task if productivity is increased substantially. Food security is seriously threatened by numerous infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms (viruses, fungi etc.). Plants have evolved several defensive mechanisms to fight off these infections. The work in our group is focusing on the better understanding of these processes. To achieve this goal, we apply techniques of modern molecular biology and genome editing. Disentangling the details of plant immunity may open up novel ways to improve stress tolerance in plants, thereby resulting in increased crop yield and quality.

Support

Work in the group is supported by a grant from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary (K124705 „Study of the molecular mechanisms of antiviral RNA silencing in Solanaceous plants”)

 

Staff

Károly Fátyol PhD
Munkakör: csoportvezető, tudományos főmunkatárs
Munkavégzés helye: 2100 Gödöllő, Szent-Györgyi Albert utca 4.
Telephone: +36 28526197
Fax: +36 28526101
E-mail: fatyol.karoly[at]abc.naik.hu
Márta Ludman
Munkakör: tudományos segédmunkatárs
Munkavégzés helye: 2100 Gödöllő, Szent-Györgyi Albert utca 4.
Telephone: +36 28526158
Fax: +36 28526101
E-mail: ludman.marta[at]abc.naik.hu

Publications

Relevant publications from the last 5 years:

1. Ludman M, Fátyol K*
The virological model plant, Nicotiana benthamiana expresses a single functional rdr6 homeolog
VIROLOGY. (2019) ;537:143-148
IF: 3.315
*corresponding author

2. Fátyol K*
In vivo reporter system for miRNA mediated RNA silencing
RNA tagging
METHODS AND PROTOCOLS - METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Springer-New York, (2019) (közlésre elfogadva-nyomdában)
**corresponding author

3. Paudel DB, Ghoshal B, Jossey S, Ludman M, Fátyol K, Sanfaçon H
Expression and antiviral function of ARGONAUTE 2 in Nicotiana benthamiana plants infected with two isolates of tomato ringspot virus with varying degrees of virulence.
VIROLOGY. (2018) 524:127-139
IF: 3.374

4. Ludman M, Burgyán J, Fátyol K*
CRISPR/Cas9 mediated inactivation of Argonaute 2 reveals its differential involvement in antiviral responses.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2017) 7(1): 1010
IF: 4.259
**corresponding author

5. Fátyol K*, Burgyán J
Establishment of an ARGONAUTE reporter system
Plant Argonaute Proteins
METHODS AND PROTOCOLS - METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Springer-New York, (2017) 1640:73-91
**corresponding author

6. Fátyol K*, Ludman M, Burgyán J
Functional dissection of a plant Argonaute.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH (2016) 44(3): 1384-1397
IF: 10.162
**corresponding author

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