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Benedicte Albrectsen

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

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E-mail
benedicte.albrectsen@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 70 11

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Affiliation
Research fellow at Department of Plant Physiology Units: Umeå Plant Science Centre - UmU
Location
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).

Read more about my research at Umeå Plant Science Centre  

Optimization of Protocol for Construction of Fungal ITS Amplicon Library for High-Throughput Illumina Sequencing to Study the Mycobiome of Aspen Leaves
Applied Sciences, MDPI 2022, Vol. 12, (3) : 1136-1136
Siddique, Abu Bakar; Albrectsen, Benedicte Riber; Ilbi, Hulya; et al.
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.
Recursive partitioning to prioritize morphometric traits that separate Aspen specialist Chaitophorus aphid by species and stage
International Journal of Tropical Insect Science
Raizada, Richa; Gaur, Rajarshi Kumar; Albrectsen, Benedicte R.
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 Feeding1[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.