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Matteo Garbelotto is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on plant pathology, with extensive work on plant pathogens and fungal diseases.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to sustainable disease management and host-pathogen interactions. Notable papers include:

  • "Green solutions and new technologies for sustainable management of fungus and oomycete diseases in the citrus fruit supply chain" (2024) published in the Journal of Plant Pathology
  • "History as grounds for interdisciplinarity: promoting sustainable woodlands via an integrative ecological and socio-cultural perspective" (2021) published in One Earth
  • "Human-mediated migration of plants, their pathogens and parasites" (2024) published in the Journal of Plant Pathology
  • "Innate Resistance and Phosphite Treatment Affect Both the Pathogen's and Host's Transcriptomes in the Tanoak-Phytophthora ramorum Pathosystem" (2021) published in the Journal of Fungi
  • "Pathogenicity and infectivity of Phytophthora ramorum vary depending on host species, infected plant part, inoculum potential, pathogen genotype, and temperature" (2020) published in Plant Pathology

Garbelotto's research spans several main fields of study, with the majority of work situated within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Within these broader fields, their subfields of focus include:

  • Plant Science
  • Cell Biology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Their work extensively covers multiple topics related to plant health and disease, such as:

  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research

Garbelotto has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Paolo Gonthier
  • Edoardo Scali
  • Tina Popenuck
  • Francesco Dovana
  • Thierry Candresse

Their most frequent publication venues include journals dedicated to plant pathology and fungal biology, such as:

  • Journal of Plant Pathology
  • Journal of Fungi
  • Plant Disease
  • Plant Pathology
  • Pathogens

Best Publications

  • Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

    Brett M. Tyler;Sucheta Tripathy;Xuemin Zhang;Paramvir Dehal;Paramvir Dehal

  • Phytophthora ramorum as the Cause of Extensive Mortality of Quercus spp. and Lithocarpus densiflorus in California.

    D. M. Rizzo;M. Garbelotto;J. M. Davidson;G. W. Slaughter

  • Phytophthora ramorum: integrative research and management of an emerging pathogen in California and Oregon forests.

    David M. Rizzo;Matteo Garbelotto;Everett M. Hansen

  • Sudden oak death: endangering California and Oregon forest ecosystems

    David M. Rizzo;Matteo Garbelotto

  • A strong species–area relationship for eukaryotic soil microbes: island size matters for ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Kabir G. Peay;Thomas D. Bruns;Peter G. Kennedy;Sarah E. Bergemann

  • Impacts of climate change on plant diseases—opinions and trends

    Marco Pautasso;Thomas F. Döring;Matteo Garbelotto;Lorenzo Pellis

  • Evidence of dispersal limitation in soil microorganisms: isolation reduces species richness on mycorrhizal tree islands.

    Kabir G. Peay;Matteo Garbelotto;Thomas D. Bruns

  • A sequence database for the identification of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes by phylogenetic analysis

    T. D. Bruns;T. M. Szaro;M. Gardes;K. W. Cullings

  • Emergence of the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum

    Niklaus J. Grunwald;Matteo Garbelotto;Erica M. Goss;Kurt Heungens

  • Biology, Epidemiology, and Control of Heterobasidion Species Worldwide

    Matteo Garbelotto;Paolo Gonthier

  • Microsatellite markers identify three lineages of Phytophthora ramorum in US nurseries, yet single lineages in US forest and European nursery populations

    K. Ivors;K. Ivors;M. Garbelotto;I. D. E. Vries;C. Ruyter-Spira

  • Insight into trade‐off between wood decay and parasitism from the genome of a fungal forest pathogen

    Åke Olson;Andrea Aerts;Fred Asiegbu;Lassaad Belbahri

  • Filling gaps in biodiversity knowledge for macrofungi: contributions and assessment of an herbarium collection DNA barcode sequencing project.

    Todd W. Osmundson;Vincent A. Robert;Conrad L. Schoch;Lydia J. Baker

  • Sudden Oak Death and Associated Diseases Caused by Phytophthora ramorum

    J. M. Davidson;S. Werres;M. Garbelotto;E. M. Hansen

  • AFLP and phylogenetic analyses of North American and European populations of Phytophthora ramorum.

    Kelly L. Ivors;Katherine J. Hayden;Peter J. M. Bonants;David M. Rizzo

  • Reconstruction of the Sudden Oak Death epidemic in California through microsatellite analysis of the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum.

    S. Mascheretti;P. J. P. Croucher;A. Vettraino;S. Prospero

  • Detection and Quantification of Phytophthora ramorum from California Forests Using a Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay

    Katherine J. Hayden;David Rizzo;Justin Tse;Matteo Garbelotto

  • Detection and Quantification of Airborne Conidia of Fusarium circinatum, the Causal Agent of Pine Pitch Canker, from Two California Sites by Using a Real-Time PCR Approach Combined with a Simple Spore Trapping Method

    Wolfgang Schweigkofler;Kerry O'Donnell;Matteo Garbelotto

  • Use of taxon-specific competitive-priming PCR to study host specificity, hybridization, and intergroup gene flow in intersterility groups of Heterobasidion annosum.

    M. Garbelotto;A. Ratcliff;T.D. Bruns;F.W. Cobb

  • A multiplex PCR-based method for the detection and early identification of wood rotting fungi in standing trees

    F. Guglielmo;S.E. Bergemann;P. Gonthier;G. Nicolotti

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Gonthier
Paolo Gonthier University of Turin
David M. Rizzo
David M. Rizzo University of California, Davis
Thomas D. Bruns
Thomas D. Bruns University of California, Berkeley
Paolo Capretti
Paolo Capretti University of Florence
Niklaus J. Grünwald
Niklaus J. Grünwald Oregon State University
AnnaMaria Vettraino
AnnaMaria Vettraino Tuscia University
Steven T. Koike
Steven T. Koike University of California, Berkeley
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Everett M. Hansen
Everett M. Hansen Oregon State University
Jan Stenlid
Jan Stenlid Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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