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Pietro Spanu
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 138
Citations - 9156
Pietro Spanu is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blumeria graminis & Powdery mildew. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 133 publications receiving 7251 citations. Previous affiliations of Pietro Spanu include University of Oxford & University of Turin.
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The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology
Ralph A. Dean,Jan A. L. van Kan,Zacharias A. Pretorius,Kim E. Hammond-Kosack,Antonio Di Pietro,Pietro Spanu,Jason J. Rudd,Martin B. Dickman,Regine Kahmann,Jeff Ellis,Gary D. Foster +10 more
TL;DR: A short resumé of each fungus in the Top 10 list and its importance is presented, with the intent of initiating discussion and debate amongst the plant mycology community, as well as laying down a bench-mark.
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Genome expansion and gene loss in powdery mildew fungi reveal tradeoffs in extreme parasitism
Pietro Spanu,James Abbott,Joelle Amselem,Timothy A. Burgis,Darren M. Soanes,Kurt Stüber,Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat,James K. M. Brown,Sarah Butcher,Sarah J. Gurr,Marc-Henri Lebrun,Christopher J. Ridout,Paul Schulze-Lefert,Nicholas J. Talbot,Nahal Ahmadinejad,Christian Ametz,Geraint Barton,Mariam Benjdia,Przemyslaw Bidzinski,Laurence V. Bindschedler,Maike Both,Marin Talbot Brewer,Lance Cadle-Davidson,Lance Cadle-Davidson,Molly Cadle-Davidson,Jérôme Collemare,Rainer Cramer,Omer Frenkel,Dale Godfrey,James Harriman,Claire Hoede,Brian C. King,Sven Klages,Jochen Kleemann,Daniela Knoll,Prasanna Koti,Jonathan Kreplak,Francisco J. Lopez-Ruiz,Xunli Lu,Takaki Maekawa,Siraprapa Mahanil,Cristina Micali,Michael G. Milgroom,Giovanni Montana,Sandra Noir,Richard J. O'Connell,Simone Oberhaensli,Francis Parlange,Carsten Pedersen,Hadi Quesneville,Richard Reinhardt,Matthias Rott,Soledad Sacristán,Sarah M. Schmidt,Moritz Schön,Pari Skamnioti,Hans Sommer,Amber E. Stephens,Hiroyuki Takahara,Hans Thordal-Christensen,Marielle Vigouroux,Ralf Weßling,Thomas Wicker,Ralph Panstruga +63 more
TL;DR: A group of papers analyzes pathogen genomes to find the roots of virulence, opportunism, and life-style determinants in plant pathogens, suggesting that most effectors represent species-specific adaptations.
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The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology: Top 10 fungal pathogens
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The wheat powdery mildew genome shows the unique evolution of an obligate biotroph
Thomas Wicker,Simone Oberhaensli,Francis Parlange,Jan P. Buchmann,Jan P. Buchmann,Margarita Shatalina,Stefan Roffler,Roi Ben-David,Roi Ben-David,Jaroslav Doležel,Hana Šimková,Paul Schulze-Lefert,Pietro Spanu,Rémy Bruggmann,Joelle Amselem,Hadi Quesneville,Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat,Timothy Paape,Kentaro Shimizu,Beat Keller +19 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that mildew genomes are mosaics of ancient haplogroups that existed before wheat domestication and there was no pronounced loss of genetic diversity upon formation of the new host bread wheat 10,000 years ago.
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Structure and evolution of barley powdery mildew effector candidates
Carsten Pedersen,Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat,Liam J. McGuffin,James Abbott,Timothy A. Burgis,Geraint Barton,Laurence V. Bindschedler,Laurence V. Bindschedler,Xunli Lu,Takaki Maekawa,Ralf Weßling,Rainer Cramer,Hans Thordal-Christensen,Ralph Panstruga,Ralph Panstruga,Pietro Spanu +15 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the associated genes originated from an ancestral gene, encoding a secreted ribonuclease, duplicated successively by repetitive DNA-driven processes and diversified during the evolution of the grass and cereal powdery mildew lineage.