Mercedes Rocafort

Microbiome manipulation by a soil-borne fungal plant pathogen using effector proteins

Nick C. Snelders, Hanna Rövenich, Gabriella C. Petti et al. · Nature Plants · 2020 · 216 citations · Full text

Effector Proteins, Plant-microbe Interaction, Soil Suppressiveness +10

The Venturia inaequalis effector repertoire is dominated by expanded families with predicted structural similarity, but unrelated sequence, to avirulence proteins from other plant-pathogenic fungi

Mercedes Rocafort, Joanna K. Bowen, Berit Hassing et al. · BMC Biology · 2022 · 54 citations · Full text

CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and rapid detection of gene-edited mutants using high-resolution melting in the apple scab fungus, Venturia inaequalis

Mercedes Rocafort, Saadiah Arshed, Debbie Hudson et al. · Fungal Biology · 2021 · 19 citations

A plant pathogen utilizes effector proteins for microbiome manipulation

Nick C. Snelders, Hanna Rövenich, Gabriella C. Petti et al. · 2020 · 12 citations · Full text

Microbial Pathogens, Plant Pathology, Pathogen Effector +16

Cell Wall Carbohydrate Dynamics during the Differentiation of Infection Structures by the Apple Scab Fungus, Venturia inaequalis

Mercedes Rocafort, Vaibhav Srivastava, Joanna K. Bowen et al. · Microbiology Spectrum · 2023 · 11 citations · Full text