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Antonio Di Pietro

Antonio Di Pietro

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
28879
World Ranking
9967
National Ranking
194

Overview

Antonio Di Pietro is affiliated with the University of Córdoba in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with substantial contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, their work emphasizes plant science, cell biology, molecular biology, pharmacology, and aspects of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their main topics of study include plant pathogens and fungal diseases, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, fungal biology and applications, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, fungal and yeast genetics research, plant disease resistance and genetics, and mycotoxins in agriculture and food.

Antonio Di Pietro has contributed to various frequent publication venues. These include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Methods in Molecular Biology, Frontiers in Microbiology, Nature Communications, and Trends in Plant Science.

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • David Turrà (15 co-authored works)
  • Manuel S. López-Berges (9 co-authored works)
  • Amey Redkar (9 co-authored works)
  • Tânia R. Fernandes (9 co-authored works)
  • Li-Jun Ma (6 co-authored works)

Some of Antonio Di Pietro's recent papers include:

  • "Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex" (2020), published in Phytopathology
  • "The genome of opportunistic fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum carries a unique set of lineage-specific chromosomes" (2020), published in Communications Biology
  • "No to Neocosmospora: Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium" (2020), published in mSphere
  • "A bacterial endophyte exploits chemotropism of a fungal pathogen for plant colonization" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Determinants of endophytic and pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi" (2022), published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology

    Ralph A. Dean;Jan A. L. van Kan;Zacharias A. Pretorius;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack

  • Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

    Li Jun Ma;H. Charlotte Van Der Does;Katherine A. Borkovich;Jeffrey J. Coleman

  • The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specialization

    Christina A. Cuomo;Ulrich Güldener;Jin Rong Xu;Frances Trail

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Data quality aware analysis of differential expression in RNA-seq with NOISeq R/Bioc package

    Sonia Tarazona;Pedro Furió-Tarí;David Turrà;Antonio Di Pietro

  • Fusarium oxysporum: exploring the molecular arsenal of a vascular wilt fungus

    Antonio Di Pietro;Marta P. Madrid;Zaira Caracuel;Jesús Delgado-Jarana

  • A MAP kinase of the vascular wilt fungus Fusarium oxysporum is essential for root penetration and pathogenesis

    Antonio Di Pietro;Fe I. García-Maceira;Emese Méglecz;M. Isabel G. Roncero

  • Comparative genomics of MAP kinase and calcium-calcineurin signalling components in plant and human pathogenic fungi.

    Nicolas Rispail;Darren M Soanes;Cemile Ant;Robert Czajkowski

  • One Fungus, One Name: Defining the Genus Fusarium in a Scientifically Robust Way That Preserves Longstanding Use

    David M. Geiser;Takayuki Aoki;Charles W. Bacon;Scott E. Baker

  • Fusarium oxysporum as a Multihost Model for the Genetic Dissection of Fungal Virulence in Plants and Mammals

    Montserrat Ortoneda;Josep Guarro;Marta P. Madrid;Zaira Caracuel

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • A fungal pathogen secretes plant alkalinizing peptides to increase infection.

    Sara Masachis;David Segorbe;David Turrà;Mercedes Leon-Ruiz

  • The pH signalling transcription factor PacC controls virulence in the plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum

    Zaira Caracuel;M. Isabel G. Roncero;Eduardo A. Espeso;Clara I. González-Verdejo

  • A nitrogen response pathway regulates virulence functions in Fusarium oxysporum via the protein kinase TOR and the bZIP protein MeaB.

    Manuel S. López-Berges;Nicolas Rispail;Rafael C. Prados-Rosales;Antoniodi di Pietro

  • The secreted peptide PIP1 amplifies immunity through receptor-like kinase 7.

    Shuguo Hou;Xin-Xin Wang;Donghua Chen;Xue Yang

  • Class V chitin synthase determines pathogenesis in the vascular wilt fungus Fusarium oxysporum and mediates resistance to plant defence compounds.

    Martan P. Madrid;Antonio Di Pietro;M. Isabel G. Roncero

  • Fungal pathogen uses sex pheromone receptor for chemotropic sensing of host plant signals

    David Turrà;Mennat El Ghalid;Federico Rossi;Antonio Di Pietro

  • Isolation and sequence of an endochitinase-encoding gene from a cDNA library of Trichoderma harzianum.

    Christopher K. Hayes;Sonja Klemsdal;Matteo Lorito;Antonio Di Pietro

  • The velvet complex governs mycotoxin production and virulence of Fusarium oxysporum on plant and mammalian hosts

    Manuel S. López-Berges;Concepción Hera;Michael Sulyok;Katja Schäfer

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Guarro
Josep Guarro Rovira i Virgili University
Kim E. Hammond-Kosack
Kim E. Hammond-Kosack Rothamsted Research
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Nicholas J. Talbot
Nicholas J. Talbot University of East Anglia
H. Corby Kistler
H. Corby Kistler University of Minnesota
Regine Kahmann
Regine Kahmann Max Planck Society
Gary E. Harman
Gary E. Harman Cornell University
Martijn Rep
Martijn Rep University of Amsterdam
Jin-Rong Xu
Jin-Rong Xu Purdue University West Lafayette
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore

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