Steve Marek
@stephenmarek2
Fungi, fungal biology, mycology, plant pathology, MPMI, entomopathogens, mushrooms, genomics, music, beer, life...opinions are my own, he/him/his 🍄🦠🌱🌾🔬🧫
Second day of taking #avocado samples for residue testing. This time we sampled trees that were drenched with the flutriafol product 🧪. Looking forward to seeing the results and hoping concentrations are optimal to prevent the infection, movement, and multiplication of the…
Three back-to-back Salicylic Acid biosynthesis papers 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4158… from Yuelin Zhang’s group (my PhD supervisor)
Nice to see our article 'Comparative transcriptomics uncovers poplar and fungal genetic determinants of ectomycorrhizal compatibility' in print in The Plant Journal ... many years of collaboration between many teams onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
Nice to see our article 'Comparative transcriptomics uncovers poplar and fungal genetic determinants of ectomycorrhizal compatibility' in print in The Plant Journal ... many years of collaboration between many teams onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
Nice to see our article 'Comparative transcriptomics uncovers poplar and fungal genetic determinants of ectomycorrhizal compatibility' in print in The Plant Journal ... many years of collaboration between many teams onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
An (Ophiocordyceps-related yeast-like) endosymbiotic origin of the crimson pigment from the lac insect | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Steering plant-soil feedback for sustainable agriculture | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
They're here. Reports of white mold mushrooms are coming in from around the state. Chances to manage are running out.
The genetic basis of microbiome recruitment in grapevine and its association with fermentative and pathogenic taxa - Flörl - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
From stool to sequence: decoding the human diet with FoodSeq | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…
Finally published. A big thank you to all contributors: Barley resistance and susceptibility to fungal cell entry involve the interplay of ROP signaling with phosphatidylinositol‐monophosphates - Weiß - 2025 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…
"Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery" doi.org/10.1371/journa…
The July issue is now fully online: nature.com/nplants/volume… On the cover: in hops, sex is determined by an X–A balance system in which plants with a high ratio of X sex chromosomes to autosomes become female and those with a lower ratio default to becoming male.
Excited to preprint work mainly by former postdocs Li Feng, Yingnan Hou @Cerhou, and the phylogenomics genius @amiralito_ @TheSainsburyLab. We found a plant defense gene family enabling pathogen gene silencing & explored engineering this pathway to boost disease resistance!
Excited to preprint work mainly by former postdocs Li Feng, Yingnan Hou @Cerhou, and the phylogenomics genius @amiralito_ @TheSainsburyLab. We found a plant defense gene family enabling pathogen gene silencing & explored engineering this pathway to boost disease resistance!
Excited to preprint work mainly by former postdocs Li Feng, Yingnan Hou @Cerhou, and the phylogenomics genius @amiralito_ @TheSainsburyLab. We found a plant defense gene family enabling pathogen gene silencing & explored engineering this pathway to boost disease resistance!
A conserved small RNA-generating gene cluster undergoes sequence diversification and contributes to plant immunity biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants
Excited to share our Commentary article in Nature News & Views on the discovery of three missing enzymes that complete the salicylic acid biosynthesis pathway via the PAL route! nature.com/articles/d4158…
Are Fungal Disease Outbreaks Instigated by Starship Transposons? - Urquhart - 2025 - Molecular Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mp…
The Silent Threat in Our Fields: Battling Aflatoxin Contamination in Peanuts morningagclips.com/the-silent-thr…
Offering up to £3,000 to graduate #PhD students and #postdocs, our Travelling Fellowships help early-career researchers undertake collaborative visits to other laboratories. Next application deadline is 8 August 2025 biologists.com/grants/travell…