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Overview

Marco Thines is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The focus of their publications emphasizes various aspects of plant science, molecular biology, cell biology, and ecology related to fungi and plant-pathogen interactions.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Frequent publication venues for Marco Thines include:

  • Mycological Progress
  • Fungal Systematics and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Plant Pathology
  • IMA Fungus

Some of the recent published papers associated with their field of study are:

  • Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa - 2021 (2022, Mycosphere)
  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding? (2020, IMA Fungus)
  • Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0 (2021, IMA Fungus)
  • What is a species in fungal plant pathogens? (2021, Fungal Diversity)

Frequent collaborators in their academic work include:

  • Sebastian Ploch
  • Anthony Buaya
  • Bagdevi Mishra
  • Kevin D. Hyde
  • Andrey Yurkov

Marco Thines's contributions broadly address fungal biology within plant science, integrating molecular and genetic techniques to explore fungal taxonomy, plant-pathogen interactions, and plant immunity mechanisms. Their body of work contributes to understanding disease resistance and the complex interactions between plants and fungi at multiple biological levels.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

    Brian J Haas;Sophien Kamoun;Sophien Kamoun;Michael C Zody;Michael C Zody;Rays H Y Jiang;Rays H Y Jiang

  • Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa

    N. N. Wijayawardene;K. D. Hyde;L. K. T. Al-Ani;L. K. T. Al-Ani;L. Tedersoo

  • Signatures of adaptation to obligate biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis genome

    Laura Baxter;Sucheta Tripathy;Naveed Ishaque;Nico Boot

  • Genome evolution following host jumps in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage

    Sylvain Raffaele;Rhys A. Farrer;Liliana M. Cano;David J. Studholme

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    David L. Hawksworth;David L. Hawksworth;Pedro W. Crous;Scott A. Redhead;Don R. Reynolds

  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

    Robert Lücking;M. Catherine Aime;Barbara Robbertse;Andrew N. Miller

  • The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine.

    Kentaro Yoshida;Verena J. Schuenemann;Lililana M. Cano;Marina Pais

  • Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen Pythium ultimum reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire

    C. André Lévesque;C. André Lévesque;Henk Brouwer;Liliana Cano;John P Hamilton

  • Ancient class of translocated oomycete effectors targets the host nucleus

    Sebastian Schornack;Mireille van Damme;Tolga O. Bozkurt;Liliana M. Cano

  • Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell.

    P.W. Crous;P.W. Crous;L. Lombard;M. Sandoval-Denis;K.A. Seifert

  • Genome sequencing and mapping reveal loss of heterozygosity as a mechanism for rapid adaptation in the vegetable pathogen Phytophthora capsici.

    Kurt H. Lamour;Joann Mudge;Daniel Gobena;Oscar P. Hurtado-Gonzales

  • Oomycete-plant coevolution: recent advances and future prospects.

    Marco Thines;Sophien Kamoun

  • Ten things to know about oomycete effectors

    Sebastian Schornack;Edgar Huitema;Liliana M. Cano;Tolga O. Bozkurt

  • Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature.

    Robert Lücking;M. Catherine Aime;Barbara Robbertse;Andrew N. Miller

  • Phylogeny and evolution of plant pathogenic oomycetes—a global overview

    Marco Thines

  • Towards a universal barcode of oomycetes--a comparison of the cox1 and cox2 loci.

    Young Joon Choi;Gordon Beakes;Sally Glockling;Julia Kruse

  • An Illumina metabarcoding pipeline for fungi

    Miklós Bálint;Philipp-André Schmidt;Rahul Sharma;Marco Thines

  • Recent developments in effector biology of filamentous plant pathogens

    Ricardo Oliva;Joe Win;Sylvain Raffaele;Laurence Boutemy

  • Evolution, Diversity, and Taxonomy of the Peronosporaceae, with Focus on the Genus Peronospora

    Marco Thines;Young-Joon Choi

  • 3 Systematics of the Straminipila: Labyrinthulomycota, Hyphochytriomycota, and Oomycota

    Gordon W. Beakes;Daiske Honda;Marco Thines

Frequent Co-Authors

Hyeon-Dong Shin
Hyeon-Dong Shin Kunsan National University
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun University of East Anglia
Otmar Spring
Otmar Spring University of Hohenheim
Kevin D. Hyde
Kevin D. Hyde Mae Fah Luang University
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Hermann Voglmayr
Hermann Voglmayr University of Vienna
David L. Hawksworth
David L. Hawksworth Royal Botanic Gardens
Liliana M. Cano
Liliana M. Cano University of Florida
Roger G. Shivas
Roger G. Shivas University of Southern Queensland
Vincent Robert
Vincent Robert Utrecht University

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