Genome sequencing of Xanthomonas species to study plant-associated saprophytic bacteria and their role in plant health and plant-pathogen interactions.
Phytoplasmas are phloem-restricted pathogens causing severe damage to several crops. Aimed to study a possible role of iron in the interaction phytoplasma-plant host, transcriptome changes of tomato c
The fungus Puccinia striiformis causes stripe rust disease in cereal crops. This project contains raw sequence reads from small RNA sequencing and Parallel Analysis of RNA Ends (PARE, i.e. degradome-s
The xylem-limited bacterium Xylella fastidiosa (XF) is the causal agent of Pierce’s disease (PD) in grapes and is a major threat to fruit, nut, olive, and coffee groves. PD is vectored by xylem sap-su
