Publications
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Research Articles
Research Articles
mBio-2018-Shapiro-e01307-18.full.pdf- Global crop plant movement and agricultural intensification can have unanticipated ecological effects. Here, we find that introduction and widescale cultivation of cucumber into Eastern North America likely drove the recent emergence of the virulent plant pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila
journal.pone.0208852.pdf- Microbial barcode based characterization of plant-associated microbial communities in indigenous milpa agro-ecosystems in Mexico
Haney_et_al-2017-Molecular_Ecology1-2.pdf- The benefit of association with rhizosphere Pseudomonas depends on the biotic stresses present
evw016.pdf- Erwinia tracheiphila, an emerging plant pathogen in Eastern North America has undergone dramatic evolutionary genomic changes
srep04155.pdf- Erwinia tracheiphila, the causal agent of bacterial wilt of cucurbits, inefficiently colonizes its obligate insect vector.
- There are no detectable fitness effects on beetle vector from colonization by this microbe
journal.pone.0077393.PDF- In natural systems, plants are concurrently exposed to multiple biotic stresses. For the wild gourd Cucurbita pepo ssp. texana, infection with the viral pathogen Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus (ZYMV) increases the amount of salicyclic acid induced after secondary exposure to bacterial wilt disease, Erwinia tracheiphila, but does not decrease the rate. Instead, E. tracheiphila incidence on ZYMV infected plants is decreased indirectly through impaired floral production and less recruitment of the beetle vectors of E. tracheiphila
Shapiro_et_al-2012-Ecology_Letters.pdf- Infection with a fatal bacterial wilt disease (caused by Erwinia tracheiphila) induces changes in the volatile organic compounds released by leaves and flowers of its host plant, the wild gourd Cucurbita pepo ssp. texana. These pathogen-induced volatile changes increase pathogen transmission by increasing insect vector movement between infected and healthy plants
PDIS-10-14-1068-FE-2.pdf- Review of recent progress in understanding the Erwinia tracheiphila pathosystem
The evolution of food preferences in Coccinellidae.pdf- Molecular reconstruction and phylogenetic analysis of the lady beetle phylogeny (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Genome Announcements
Genome Announcements
First high quality draft genome from Erwinia tracheiphila (lineage Et-C1)
Genome Announc.-2015-Shapiro-.pdfFirst bacteriophage genome from Erwinia tracheiphila (phage EtG)
Genome Announc.-2018-Andrade-Domínguez-.pdfFirst whole genome sequence from Erwinia tracheiphila lineage Et-melo
Microbiology Resource Announcements-2018-Shapiro-e01058-18.full.pdfBook Chapters
Book Chapters
Chemically mediated interactions among cucurbits, insects and microbes
Plants - Chemical Ecology of Insects.pdfEvolutionary determinants of host and vector manipulation by plant viruses
Advances in Virus Research 2018 chapter.pdfOpinion and Commentary
Opinion and Commentary
fevo-05-00125.pdf- Here we advocate for the importance of studying ecological interactions of crop plants - and their wild relatives - in the geographic region in which these plants evolved
rspb.2018.1977.pdf- Here we discuss the potential for citizen science involvement in agriculture