Benedicte Albrectsen

I do research on plant defense – from molecular mechanisms and ecological interactions, to evolutionary consequences.

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Research fellow at Department of Plant Physiology Units: Umeå Plant Science Centre - internal staff

KB. K3 (Fys. Bot.), Artedigränd 7, Fysiologisk botanik, UPSC, KB. K3 (B3.44.51) Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I study the evolution of plant resistance to fungal and insect pests, mostly with model plants but also with agricultural plants such as black mustard, sage and potatoes.

I am the project manager for a new NKJ-funded project, Northern Tubers of Potato network (N’TOP-net).

European aspen with high compared to low constitutive tannin defenses grow taller in response to anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment

Forest Ecology and Management, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 487

Bandau, Franziska; Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber; Robinson, Kathryn M.; et al.

SLI1 confers broad-spectrum resistance to phloem-feeding insects

Plant, Cell and Environment

Kloth, Karen J.; Shah, Parth; Broekgaarden, Colette; et al.

Mycobiomes of Young Beech Trees Are Distinguished by Organ Rather Than by Habitat, and Community Analyses Suggest Competitive Interactions Among Twig Fungi

Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2021, Vol. 12

Siddique, Abu Bakar; Biella, Paolo; Unterseher, Martin; et al.

Cell Wall Acetylation in Hybrid Aspen Affects Field Performance, Foliar Phenolic Composition and Resistance to Biological Stress Factors in a Construct-Dependent Fashion

Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers Media S.A. 2020, Vol. 11

Derba-Maceluch, Marta; Amini, Fariba; Donev, Evgeniy N.; et al.

Silver nanoparticle pollutants activate oxidative stress responses and rosmarinic acid accumulation in sage

Physiologia Plantarum: An International Journal for Plant Biology, Wiley-Blackwell 2020, Vol. 170, (3) : 415-432

Moazzami Farida, Seyed Hamed; Karamian, Roya; Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber

A global view of aspen: conservation science for widespread keystone systems

Global Ecology and Conservation, Elsevier 2020, Vol. 21

Rogers, Paul C.; Pinno, Bradley D.; Sebesta, Jan; et al.

PECTIN ACETYLESTERASE9 Affects the Transcriptome and Metabolome and Delays Aphid Feeding^1[OPEN]

Plant Physiology, Rockville: American Society of Plant Biologists 2019, Vol. 181, (4) : 1704-1720

Kloth, Karen J.; Abreu, Ilka N.; Delhomme, Nicolas; et al.

Leaf metabolic signatures induced by real and simulated herbivory in black mustard (Brassica nigra)

Metabolomics, Springer 2019, Vol. 15, (10)

Papazian, Stefano; Girdwood, Tristan; Wessels, Bernard A.; et al.

Defence priming in Arabidopsis: a Meta-Analysis

Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group 2019, Vol. 9

Westman, Sara; Kloth, Karen J.; Hanson, Johannes; et al.

Pedunculate Oaks (Quercus robur L.) Differing in Vitality as Reservoirs for Fungal Biodiversity

Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 9

Agostinelli, Marta; Cleary, Michelle; Martin, Juan A.; et al.

Both plant genotype and herbivory shape aspen endophyte communities

Oecologia, Springer 2018, Vol. 187, (2) : 535-545

Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber; Siddique, Abu Bakar; Decker, Vicki Huizu Guo; et al.

Does fungal endophyte inoculation affect the responses of aspen seedlings to carbon dioxide enrichment?

Fungal ecology, Elsevier 2018, Vol. 33 : 24-31

Randriamanana, Tendry R.; Nissinen, Katri; Ovaskainen, Anu; et al.

Genotypic variability in Populus tremula L. affects how anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment influences litter decomposition

Plant and Soil, Vol. 410, (1-2) : 467-481

Bandau, Franziska; Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber; Julkunen-Tiitto, Riitta; et al.

Aspen phenylpropanoid genes’ expression levels correlate with genets’ tannin richness and vary both in responses to soil nitrogen and associations with phenolic profiles

Tree Physiology, Vol. 37, (2) : 270-279

Decker, Vicki Huizu; Bandau, Franziska; Gundale, Michael J.; et al.

SIEVE ELEMENT-LINING CHAPERONE1 Restricts Aphid Feeding on Arabidopsis during Heat Stress

The Plant Cell, AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS 2017, Vol. 29, (10) : 2450-2464

Kloth, Karen J.; Busscher-Lange, Jacqueline; Wiegers, Gerrie L.; et al.

Dual herbivore attack and herbivore density affect metabolic profiles of Brassica nigra leaves

Plant, Cell and Environment, Vol. 40, (8) : 1356-1367

Ponzio, Camille; Papazian, Stefano; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; et al.

Central Metabolic Responses to Ozone and Herbivory Affect Photosynthesis and Stomatal Closure

Plant Physiology, Vol. 172, (3) : 2057-2078

Papazian, Stefano; Khaling, Eliezer; Bonnet, Christelle; et al.

Genotypic tannin levels in Populus tremula impact the way nitrogen enrichment affects growth and allocation responses for some traits and not for others

PLOS ONE, Vol. 10, (10)

Bandau, Franziska; Decker, Vicki Huizu Guo; Gundale, Michael J.; et al.

Nutritional niche overlap potentiates the use of endophytes in biocontrol of a tree disease

BioControl (Dordrecht), Vol. 60, (5) : 655-667

Blumenstein, Kathrin; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; Martin, Juan A.; et al.

Phenotype MicroArrays as a complementary tool to next generation sequencing for characterization of tree endophytes

Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers Media 2015, Vol. 6

Blumenstein, Kathrin; Macaya-Sanz, David; Martin, Juana A.; et al.

Ozone affects growth and development of Pieris brassicae on the wild host plant Brassica nigra

Environmental Pollution, Vol. 199 : 119-129

Khaling, Eliezer; Papazian, Stefano; Poelman, Erik H.; et al.

Relative impacts of environmental variation and evolutionary history on the nestedness and modularity of tree-herbivore networks

Ecology and Evolution, Wiley-Blackwell 2015, Vol. 5, (14) : 2898-2915

Robinson, Kathryn M; Hauzy, Céline; Loeuille, Nicolas; et al.

Comparative physiology of allopatric Populus species: geographic clines in photosynthesis, height growth, and carbon isotope discrimination in common gardens

Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers Media 2015, Vol. 6

Soolanayakanahally, Raju Y; Guy, Robert D; Street, Nathaniel R; et al.

No evidence of geographical structure of salicinoid chemotypes within Populus tremula

PLOS ONE, Public library science 2014, Vol. 9, (10) : e107189-

Keefover-Ring, Ken; Ahnlund, Maria; Abreu, Ilka Nacif; et al.

2 '-(Z)-Cinnamoylsalicortin: A novel salicinoid isolated from Populus tremula

Phytochemistry Letters, Vol. 7 : 212-216

Keefover-Ring, Ken; Carlsson, Marcus; Albrectsen, Benedicte R

Populus tremula (European aspen) shows no evidence of sexual dimorphism

BMC Plant Biology, Vol. 14 : 276-

Robinson, Kathryn; Delhomme, Nicolas; Mahler, Niklas; et al.

Geographic structure in metabolome and herbivore community co-occurs with genetic structure in plant defence genes

Ecology Letters, Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell 2013, Vol. 16, (6) : 791-798

Bernhardsson, Carolina; Robinson, Kathryn M.; Abreu, Ilka N.; et al.

How slug herbivory of juvenile hybrid willows alters chemistry, growth and subsequent susceptibility to diverse plant enemies

Annals of Botany, Vol. 112, (4) : 757-765

Orians, Colin M; Fritz, Robert S; Hochwender, Cris G; et al.

Effects of interspecific recombination on functional traits in trees revealed by metabolomics and genotyping-by-resequencing

Plant Ecology & Diversity, Vol. 5, (4) : 457-471

Caseys, Celine; Glauser, Gaetan; Stoelting, Kai N.; et al.

Genetic Variation in Functional Traits Influences Arthropod Community Composition in Aspen (Populus tremula L.)

PLOS ONE, Vol. 7, (5) : e37679-

Robinson, Kathryn M.; Ingvarsson, Pär K.; Jansson, Stefan; et al.

Global regulatory burden for field testing of genetically modified trees

Tree Genetics & Genomes, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2012, Vol. 8, (2) : 221-226

Viswanath, Venkatesh; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; Strauss, Steven H.

UHPLC-ESI/TOFMS Determination of Salicylate-like Phenolic Gycosides in Populus tremula Leaves

Journal of Chemical Ecology, Vol. 37, (8) : 857-70

Abreu, Ilka Nacif; Ahnlund, Maria; Moritz, Thomas; et al.

Endophytic fungi in European aspen (Populus tremula) leaves - diversity, detection, and a suggested correlation with herbivory resistance

Fungal diversity, Vol. 41, (1) : 17-28

Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; Björkén, Lars; Varad, Akkamahadevi; et al.

Large scale geographic clines of parasite damage to Populus tremula L

Ecography, Vol. 33, (3) : 483-493

Albrectsen, Benedicte R; Witzell, Johanna; Robinson, Kathryn M; et al.

Variation in protein complexation capacity among and within six plant species across a boreal forest chronosequence

Plant Ecology, Springer 2010, Vol. 211, (2) : 253-266

Gundale, Michael J.; Sverker, Jennie; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; et al.

Environmental stresses mediate endophyte-grass interactions in a boreal archipelago

Journal of Ecology, Vol. 98, (2) : 470-479

Saona, Nora M; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; Ericson, Lars E; et al.

Nutrient addition extends flowering display, which gets tracked by seed predators, but not by their parasitoids

Oikos, Wiley-Blackwell 2008, Vol. 117 : 473-480

Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; Ericson, Lars; Lundberg, Per

Ecosystem retrogression leads to increased insect abundance and herbivory across an island chronosequence

Functional Ecology, John Wiley & Sons 2008, Vol. 22, (5) : 816-823

Crutsinger, G M; Sanders, N J; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; et al.

Natural phenological variation in aspen (Populus tremula): the SwAsp collection

Tree Genetics & Genomes, SpringerLink 2008, Vol. 4 : 279-292

Luquez, Virginia; Hall, David; Albrectsen, Benedicte; et al.

Does the differential seedling mortality caused by slugs alter the foliar traits and subsequent susceptibility of hybrid willows to a generalist herbivore?

Ecological Entomology, Vol. 32 : 211-220

Albrectsen, Benedicte; Gutierrez, Laura; Fritz, Robert S; et al.

From micro towards the macro scale

New Phytologist, Vol. 172 : 7-10

Albrectsen, Benedicte; Jansson, Stefan

Fitness and genetic architecture of parent and hybrid willows in common gardens

Evolution, Society for the Study of Evolution 2006, Vol. 60, (6) : 1215-1227

Fritz, Robert S.; Hochwender, Chris G.; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.; et al.

Slugs, willow seedlings and nutrient fertilization: intrinsic vigor inversely affects palatability

Oikos, John Wiley & Sons 2004, Vol. 105 : 268-278

Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber; Gardfjell, Hans; Orians, Colin M.; et al.

Differences in constitutive tannin-level influence Populus tremula genotypes’ responses to anthropogenic N-enrichment

Bandau, Franziska; Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber; Gundale, Michael J.

Population differentiation in arthropod community structure and phenotypic association with inducible defense genes in European Aspen (Populus tremula L., salicaceae)

Bernhardsson, Carolina; Robinson, Kathryn M.; Abreu, Ilka N.; et al.

Foliar fungal endophytes respond to nitrogen fertilization and herbivory in aspen genotypes

Decker, Vicki Huizu; Agostinelli, A; Chen, SS; et al.

Specialist Leaf Beetles Enrich Diversity of Endophytic Fungi in Aspen Leaves, and Mask Intra-specific Host Specificity

Decker, Vicki Huizu; Siddique, A; Albrectsen, Benedicte

Herbivore-Induced Metabolic Responses in Brassica nigra are Shaped by Leaf Ontogeny

Papazian, Stefano; Girdwood, Tristan; Ripszam, Mátyás; et al.

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I am responsible for courses in scientific method for degree students at Umeå Plant Science Centre, UPSC.

Published: 18 Jun, 2021

Aphids don’t spit in the glass, but preferably in plant sap

Published: 22 Jun, 2020

Transgenic trees perform well in a Swedish field trial