Gabriel Ferreras Garrucho
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research group: Cereal symbiosis
Biography
Gabriel is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cereal Symbiosis group at the Crop Science Centre. He completed his PhD in Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where he worked on the spatio-temporal regulation of pre-symbiotic signalling in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis between rice (Oryza sativa) and the AM fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. His research now focuses on more broadly using spatio-temporally resolved omic, genetic and microscopic technologies to investigate how phosphate starvation signalling feeds into AM symbiosis in distinct cell-types or developmental stages of the interaction. He collaborates with University of Cranfield, University of Bonn and Penn State University to expand this research from molecular mechanisms to agriculturally-relevant phenotypes in greenhouse and field trials.
Publications
Publication
Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution
Date: 2 November 2025
Contributors: Tania Chancellor, Gabriel Ferreras-Garrucho, Garo Z Akmakjian, Hector Montero, Sarah L Bowden, Matthew Hope, Emma Wallington, Samik Bhattacharya, Christian Korfhage, Julia Bailey-Serres, Uta Paszkowski
Journal: bioRxiv
Publication
Integrating single-cell omic techniques to resolve the spatio-temporal complexity of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Date: 1 October 2025
Contributors: Gabriel Ferreras-Garrucho, Tania Chancellor, Uta Paszkowski
Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany
Publication
Defining the pre-symbiotic transcriptional landscape of rice roots
Date: 29 September 2025
Contributors: Gabriel Ferreras Garrucho, Uta Paszkowski, Chai Hao Chiu
Journal: BioRxiv
Publication
Regulation of floral senescence in Arabidopsis by coordinated action of CONSTANS and jasmonate signaling
Date: 7 November 2022
Contributors: Gloria Serrano-Bueno, Pedro de los Reyes, Andrea Chini, Gabriel Ferreras-Garrucho, Víctor Sánchez de Medina-Hernández, Marta Boter, Roberto Solano, Federico Valverde
Journal: Molecular Plant
Publication
A mycorrhiza-associated receptor-like kinase with an ancient origin in the green lineage
Date: 11 May 2021
Contributors: Héctor Montero, Tak Lee, Boas Pucker, Gabriel Ferreras-Garrucho, Giles Oldroyd, Samuel F. Brockington, Akio Miyao, Uta Paszkowski
Journal: PNAS