Jesús Mercado-Blanco

Jesús Mercado-Blanco publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Jesús Mercado-Blanco D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Best Publications

• Overproduction of salicylic acid in plants by bacterial transgenes enhances pathogen resistance

  Marianne C. Verberne;Rob Verpoorte;John F. Bol;Jesus Mercado-Blanco;Jesus Mercado-Blanco

  379
  Citations

• Interactions between plants and beneficial Pseudomonas spp.: exploiting bacterial traits for crop protection.

  Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Peter A. H. M. Bakker

  361
  Citations

• Verticillium wilt of olive: a case study to implement an integrated strategy to control a soil-borne pathogen

  Francisco Javier López-Escudero;Jesús Mercado-Blanco

  343
  Citations

• Biological Control Agents Against Fusarium Wilt of Banana

  Giovanni Bubici;Manoj Kaushal;Maria Isabella Prigigallo;Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás

  322
  Citations

• Suppression of Verticillium wilt in olive planting stocks by root-associated fluorescent Pseudomonas spp.

  Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Dolores Rodríguez-Jurado;Ana B. Hervás;Rafael M. Jiménez-Díaz;Rafael M. Jiménez-Díaz

  237
  Citations

• Analysis of the pmsCEAB Gene Cluster Involved in Biosynthesis of Salicylic Acid and the Siderophore Pseudomonine in the Biocontrol Strain Pseudomonas fluorescens WCS374

  J. Mercado-Blanco;K.M.G.M. van der Drift;P.E. Olsson;J.E. Thomas-Oates

  225
  Citations

• Root Hairs Play a Key Role in the Endophytic Colonization of Olive Roots by Pseudomonas spp. with Biocontrol Activity

  Pilar Prieto;Elisabetta Schilirò;María Mercedes Maldonado-González;Raquel Valderrama

  172
  Citations

• Editorial special issue: soil, plants and endophytes

  Stéphane Compant;Kari Saikkonen;Birgit Mitter;Andrea Campisano

  159
  Citations

• Colonization process of olive tissues by Verticillium dahliae and its in planta interaction with the biocontrol root endophyte Pseudomonas fluorescens PICF7.

  Pilar Prieto;Carmen Navarro-Raya;Antonio Valverde-Corredor;Stefan G. Amyotte

  159
  Citations

• Belowground Microbiota and the Health of Tree Crops

  Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Isabel Abrantes;Anna Barra Caracciolo;Annamaria Bevivino

  154
  Citations

• Simultaneous Detection of the Defoliating and Nondefoliating Verticillium dahliae Pathotypes in Infected Olive Plants by Duplex, Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction

  J. Mercado-Blanco;D. Rodríguez-Jurado;S. Parrilla-Araujo;R. M. Jiménez-Díaz

  146
  Citations

• Molecular Variability Within and Among Verticillium dahliae Vegetative Compatibility Groups Determined by Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism and Polymerase Chain Reaction Markers

  Melania Collado-Romero;Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Concepción Olivares-García;Antonio Valverde-Corredor

  145
  Citations

• The biocontrol endophytic bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens PICF7 induces systemic defense responses in aerial tissues upon colonization of olive roots.

  Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás;Elisabetta Schilirò;Antonio Valverde-Corredor;Jesús Mercado-Blanco

  135
  Citations

• Major cereal crops benefit from biological nitrogen fixation when inoculated with the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 X940.

  Ana Romina Fox;Gabriela Soto;Gabriela Soto;Claudio Valverde;Claudio Valverde;Daniela Russo;Daniela Russo

  131
  Citations

• Linking belowground microbial network changes to different tolerance level towards Verticillium wilt of olive

  Antonio José Fernández-González;Martina Cardoni;Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás;Antonio Valverde-Corredor

  123
  Citations

• Detection of the nondefoliating pathotype of Verticillium dahliae in infected olive plants by nested PCR

  Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Dolores Rodríguez-Jurado;Encarnación Pérez-Artés;Rafael M. Jiménez-Díaz;Rafael M. Jiménez-Díaz

  121
  Citations

• Indigenous Pseudomonas spp. Strains from the Olive (Olea europaea L.) Rhizosphere as Effective Biocontrol Agents against Verticillium dahliae: From the Host Roots to the Bacterial Genomes.

  Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás;Garikoitz Legarda;David Ruano-Rosa;Paloma Pizarro-Tobías

  121
  Citations

• Quantitative monitoring of colonization of olive genotypes by Verticillium dahliae pathotypes with real-time polymerase chain reaction

  Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Melania Collado-Romero;Salud Parrilla-Araujo;Dolores Rodrı́guez-Jurado

  119
  Citations

• Spatiotemporal analysis of spread of infections by Verticillium dahliae pathotypes within a high tree density olive orchard in southern Spain.

  J. A. Navas-Cortés;B. B. Landa;J. Mercado-Blanco;J. L. Trapero-Casas

  111
  Citations

• Detection of the Defoliating Pathotype of Verticillium dahliae in Infected Olive Plants by Nested PCR

  Jesus Mercado-Blanco;Dolores Rodriguez-Jurado;Encarnacion Perez-Artes;Rafael M. Jimenez-Diaz

  105
  Citations

• Plasmids in rhizobia : The role of nonsymbiotic plasmids

  Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Nicolás Toro

  97
  Citations

• Genetic and Virulence Diversity in Verticillium dahliae Populations Infecting Artichoke in Eastern-Central Spain

  Rafael M Jiménez-Díaz;Jesús Mercado-Blanco;Concepción Olivares-García;Melania Collado-Romero

  92
  Citations