Vanderschuren, Herve, Dr.

Dr. Herve Vanderschuren Professur für Pflanzenbiotechnologie LFW E 17 Universitätstrasse 2 8092 Zürich Phone: Office: +41 44 632 87 25 E-Mail:

Academic Background

2007- present: Cassava Research Group Leader
2003-2007: PhD (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
2000-2002: MSc. (INA Paris-Grignon, France)
1996-2000: BSc. and MSc. (FUSAGx, Belgium)

Link to Cassava Research

PUBLICATIONS

• Vanderschuren, H., Boycheva, S., Li, K-T, Szydlowski, N., Gruissem, W., Fitzpatrick, T.B. (2013)
  Strategies for vitamin B6 biofortification of plants: A dual role as a micronutrient and a stress protectant
  Frontiers in Plant Science, 4, 143, 1-7    [Link]
   
• Chetty CC, Rossin CB, Gruissem W, Vanderschuren H, Rey ME. (2013)
  Empowering biotechnology in southern Africa: establishment of a robust transformation platform for the production of transgenic industry-preferred cassava
  New Biotechnology, 2, 30, 136-143    [Link]
   
• Vanderschuren H (2012)
  Strengthening African R&D through effective transfer of tropical crop biotech to African institutions
  Nature Biotechnology, 30, 12, 1170-1172    [Link]
   
• Vanderschuren H, Moreno I, Anjanappa RB, Zainuddin IM, Gruissem W (2012)
  Exploiting the Combination of Natural and Genetically Engineered Resistance to Cassava Mosaic and Cassava Brown Streak Viruses Impacting Cassava Production in Africa
  PLoS One, Vol 7 (9), e45277    [Link]
   
• Zainuddin I, Schlegel K, Gruissem W, Vanderschuren H. (2012)
  Robust transformation procedure for the production of transgenic farmer-preferred cassava landraces
  Plants Methods, 8, 24    [Link]
   
• Bart R, Cohn M, Kassen A, McCallum EJ, Shybut M, Petriello A, Krasileva K, Dahlbeck D, Medina C, Alicai T, Kumar L, Moreira LM, Neto JR, Verdier V, Santana MA, Kositcharoenkul N, Vanderschuren H, Gruissem W, Bernal A, Staskawicz BJ (2012)
  High-throughput genomic sequencing of cassava bacterial blight strains identifies conserved effectors to target for durable resistance
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A    [Link]
   
• Niklaus, M., Gruissem, W., Vanderschuren, H. (2011)
  Efficient transformation and regeneration of transgenic cassava using the neomycin phosphotransferase gene as aminoglycoside resistance marker gene
  GM Crops, 2, 3, 193-200    [Link]
   
• Moreno, I., Gruissem, W., Vanderschuren, H. (2011)
  Reference genes for reliable potyvirus quantitation in cassava and analysis of Cassava brown streak virus load in host varieties
  Journal of Virological Methods, 177, 49-54    [Link]
   
• Sayre, R., Beeching, J. R., Cahoon, E. B., Egesi, C., Fauquet, C., Fellman, J., Fregene, M., Gruissem, W., Mallowa, S., Manary, M., Maziya-Dixon, B., Mbanaso, A., Schachtman, D. P., Siritunga, D., Taylor, N., Vanderschuren, H., Zhang, P. (2011)
  The BioCassava Plus Program: Biofortification of Cassava for Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Annu Rev Plant Biol, 62, 251-272    [Link]
   
• Owiti, J., Grossmann, J., Gehrig, P., Dessimoz, C., Laloi, C., Hansen, M.B., Gruissem, W., Vanderschuren, H. (2011)
  iTRAQ-based analysis of changes in the cassava root proteome reveals pathways associated with post-harvest physiological deterioration.
  The Plant Journal, 67, 145-156    [Link]
   
• Bull, S.E., Ndunguru, J., Gruissem, W., Beeching, J.R., Vanderschuren, H. (2011)
  Cassava: constraints to production and the transfer of biotechnology to African laboratories
  Plant Cell Reports, 5, 30, 779-787    [Link]
   
• Vanderschuren, H., Heinzmann, D., Faso, C., Stupak, M., Arga, K. Y., Hoerzer, H., Laizet, Y., Leduchowska, P., Silva, N., Simkova, K. (2010)
  A cross-sectional study of biotechnology awareness and teaching in European high schools.
  New Biotechnology, 6, 27, 822-828    [Link]
   
• Bull S E, Owiti J A, Niklaus M, Beeching J R, Gruissem W & Vanderschuren H. (2009)
  Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of friable embryogenic calli and regeneration of transgenic cassava
  Nature Protocols, 4, 1845 - 1854    [Link]
   
• Vanderschuren H, Alder A, Zhang P, Gruissem W. (2009)
  Dose-dependent RNAi-mediated geminivirus resistance in the tropical root crop cassava.
  Plant Molecular Biology , 70, (3), 265-272    [Link]
   
• Walser M, Pellaux R, Meyer A, Bechtold M, Vanderschuren H, Reinhardt R, Magyar J, Panke S, Held M. (2009)
  Novel method for high-throughput colony PCR screening in nanoliter-reactors.
  Nucleic Acids Research, 37, (8), ePub    [Link]
   
• Vanderschuren H, Akbergenov R, Pooggin M, Hohn T, Gruissem W and Zhang P (2007)
  Transgenic cassava resistance to African cassava mosaic virus is enhanced by viral DNA-A bidirectional promoter-derived siRNAs.
  Plant Molecular Biology, 64, 549-557    [Link]
   
• Vanderschuren H, Stupak M, Fütterer J, Gruissem W and Zhang P (2007)
  Engineering resistance to geminiviruses - Review and perspectives.
  Plant Biotechnology Journal, 5, 207-220    [Link]
   
• Stupak M, Vanderschuren H, Gruissem W and Zhang P (2006)
  Biotechnological approaches to cassava protein improvement.
  Trends in Food Science and Technology, 17, 634-641    [Link]
   
• Akbergenov R, Si-Ammour A, Blevins T, Amin I, Kutter C, Vanderschuren H, Zhang P, Gruissem W, Meins F Jr, Hohn T and Pooggin MM (2006)
  Molecular characterization of geminivirus-derived small RNAs in different plant species.
  Nucleic Acids Research, 34(2), 462-471    [Link]
   
• Zhang P, Vanderschuren H, Fütterer J and Gruissem W (2005)
  Resistance to cassava mosaic disease in transgenic cassava expressing antisense RNAs targeting virus replication genes.
  Plant Biotechnology Journal, 3, 385-397    [Link]