A5036831350- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Plant Disease Management Techniques
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Algal biology and biofuel production
Graz University of Technology
2016-2025
University of Southampton
2023-2025
Guizhou University
2019-2023
Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (Austria)
2016-2022
China Association of Agricultural Science Societies
2022
BioTechMed-Graz
2021-2022
Institute of Environmental Biology and Biotechnology
2011-2019
UNSW Sydney
2018
Rhizobiales (Alphaproteobacteria) are well-known beneficial partners in plant-microbe interactions. Less is known about the occurrence and function of lichen symbiosis, although it has previously been shown that Alphaproteobacteria dominating group growing thalli. We have analyzed taxonomic structure assigned functions to within a metagenomic dataset lung Lobaria pulmonaria L. One third (32.2%) overall bacteria belong Rhizobiales, particular families Methylobacteriaceae, Bradyrhizobiaceae...
In terrestrial ecosystems, plant leaves provide the largest biological habitat for highly diverse microbial communities, known as phyllosphere microbiota. However, underlying mechanisms of host-driven assembly these ubiquitous communities remain largely elusive. Here, we conduct a large-scale and in-depth assessment rice microbiome aimed at identifying specific host-microbe links. A genome-wide association study reveals strong between genotype members four bacterial orders, Pseudomonadales,...
Endophytes with plant growth-promoting activity can improve the health and development of plants during all life stages. However, less is known about their stability transmission across genotypes, habitats, generations. By combining community isolate analyses, we found that each habitat genotype harbored distinct bacterial communities bacteria (PGPB). Soil, root endosphere, rhizosphere were habitats highest diversity, while seeds hosted more selective communities. Seeds generated under field...
The plant microbiota is crucial for health and growth. Recently, vertical transmission of a beneficial core was identified crop seeds, but native plants, complementary mechanisms are almost completely unknown. We studied the seeds eight species growing together centuries under same environmental conditions in Alpine meadows (Austria) by qPCR, FISH-CLSM, amplicon sequencing targeting bacteria, archaea, fungi. Bacteria fungi were determined with approx. 1010 gene copy numbers g−1 seed as...
Arugula is a traditional medicinal plant and popular leafy green today. It mainly consumed raw in the Western cuisine known to contain various bioactive secondary metabolites. However, arugula has been also associated with high-profile outbreaks causing severe food-borne human diseases. A multiphasic approach integrating data from metagenomics, amplicon sequencing, arugula-derived bacterial cultures was employed understand specificity of indigenous microbiome resistome edible parts.Our...
Recent evidence of specific bacterial communities extended the traditional concept fungal-algal lichen symbioses by a further organismal kingdom. Although functional roles were already assigned to dominant members highly diversified microbiota, substantial fraction ubiquitous colonizers remained unexplored. We employed multi-omics approach characterize guilds in an unconventional model system.
Verticillium wilt caused by spp. results in severe yield losses a broad range of crops. outbreaks are challenging to control, and exacerbated increases soil temperatures drought associated with global warming. Employing natural antagonists as biocontrol agents offers promising approach addressing this challenge. Paenibacillus polymyxa Sb3-1 was proven reduce the growth V. longisporum during vitro experiments shown promote oilseed rape seedlings infested longisporum. Our novel combined planta...
ABSTRACT Microbes play an important role in plants and interact closely with their host starting from sprouting seeds, continuing during growth after harvest. The discovery of importance for plant postharvest health initiated a biotechnological development various antagonistic bacteria fungi disease control. Nevertheless, application often showed inconsistent effects. Recently, high-throughput sequencing-based techniques including advanced microscopy reveal fruits vegetables as holobionts....
Sugar loss due to storage rot has a substantial economic impact on the sugar industry. The gradual spread of saprophytic fungi such as Fusarium and Penicillium spp. during in beet clamps is an ongoing challenge for postharvest processing. Early detection shifts microbial communities promising approach initiation targeted countermeasures developing rot. In combined approach, high-throughput sequencing bacterial fungal genetic markers was complemented with cultivation-dependent methods...
Most convolutional neural network (CNN) models have various difficulties in identifying crop diseases owing to morphological and physiological changes tissues, cells. Furthermore, a single disease can show different symptoms. Usually, the differences symptoms between early late stages include area of color disease. This also poses additional for CNN models. Here, we propose lightweight model called GrapeNet identification symptom specific grape diseases. The main components are residual...
Microbiome assembly was identified as an important factor for plant growth and health, but this process is largely unknown, especially the fruit microbiome. Therefore, we analyzed strawberry plants of two cultivars by focusing on microbiome tracking during different stages storage using amplicon sequencing, qPCR, microscopic approaches.Strawberry carried a highly diverse microbiome, therein bacterial families Sphingomonadaceae (25%), Pseudomonadaceae (17%), Burkholderiaceae (11%); fungal...
Despite the numerous benefits plants receive from probiotics, maintaining consistent results across applications is still a challenge. Cultivation-independent methods associated with reduced sequencing costs have considerably improved overall understanding of microbial ecology in plant environment. As result, now, it possible to engineer consortium microbes aiming for health. Such synthetic communities (SynComs) contain carefully chosen species produce desired microbiome function. Microbial...