[HTML][HTML] The grapevine microbiome to the rescue: Implications for the biocontrol of trunk diseases

R Cobos, A Ibañez, A Diez-Galán, C Calvo-Peña… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) are one of the most devastating pathologies that threaten
the survival and profitability of vineyards around the world. Progressive banning of chemical …

Current status of pan-genome analysis for pathogenic bacteria

Y Kim, C Gu, HU Kim, SY Lee - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Wealth of genome data are making pan-genome analysis increasingly
possible.•Pan-genome analysis is an effective approach to understand pathogenic …

Isolation, molecular characterization and virome analysis of culturable wood fungal endophytes in esca symptomatic and asymptomatic grapevine plants

L Nerva, M Turina, A Zanzotto… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Europe is the world largest grape producer, but in recent years, the report of diseases due to
infection by grapevine trunk pathogens (GTPs) is becoming one of the main constraints for …

The hidden world within plants: metatranscriptomics unveils the complexity of wood microbiomes

L Nerva, JF Garcia, F Favaretto… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The importance of plants as complex entities influenced by genomes of the associated
microorganisms is now seen as a new source of variability for a more sustainable …

[HTML][HTML] The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony

LI Rangel, MD Bolton - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Plants counter disease with an array of responses to styme pathogen ingress. In contrast to
this cacophony, plant pathogens orchestrate a finely tuned repertoire of virulence …

Prophage Tracer: precisely tracing prophages in prokaryotic genomes using overlapping split-read alignment

K Tang, W Wang, Y Sun, Y Zhou, P Wang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The life cycle of temperate phages includes a lysogenic cycle stage when the phage
integrates into the host genome and becomes a prophage. However, the identification of …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution, Function, and Evolution of a Gene Essential for Trichothecene Toxin Biosynthesis in Trichoderma

S Gutiérrez, SP McCormick, RE Cardoza… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Trichothecenes are terpenoid toxins produced by species in 10 fungal genera, including
species of Trichoderma. The trichothecene biosynthetic gene (tri) cluster typically includes …

Exploring the hydraulic failure hypothesis of esca leaf symptom formation

G Bortolami, GA Gambetta, S Delzon… - Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Vascular pathogens cause disease in a large spectrum of perennial plants, with leaf scorch
being one of the most conspicuous symptoms. Esca in grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is a vascular …

[HTML][HTML] Profiling grapevine trunk pathogens in planta: a case for community-targeted DNA metabarcoding

A Morales-Cruz, R Figueroa-Balderas, JF García… - BMC microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Background DNA metabarcoding, commonly used in exploratory microbial ecology studies,
is a promising method for the simultaneous in planta-detection of multiple pathogens …

Soil microbiome analysis in an ESCA diseased vineyard

L Nerva, A Zanzotto, M Gardiman, F Gaiotti… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The soil microbiome is linked to the microbial ecosystem of aboveground plant tissues and it
is able to modulate and stimulate plant responses. The community composition, ie diversity …