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2026

Yang J, Lorv JSH*, Bragard C, Vinatzer BA (2026) First Report of leaf scorch of Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) caused by Xylella fastidiosa in Virginia. Plant Disease https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-05-26-0895-PDN

Carpenter C, Kern K, Hanlon R, Vinatzer BA, Schmale DG III, Foroutan H (2026) Colonization of Microplastics by Different Strains of Pseudomonas syringae Increases Ice-Nucleation Activity. Environmental Science & Technology Vol 60/Issue 12

Eufemio RJ, Royas M, Shaw K, De Almeida Ribeiro I, Guo H-B, Renzer G, Belay KH*, Liu H*, Suseendran P, Wang X, Fröhlich-Nowoisky J, Pöschl U, Bonn M, Berry R, Molinero V, Vinatzer BA, Meister K (2026) A New Class of Fungal Ice-Nucleating Proteins with Bacterial Ancestry. Science Advances DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aed9652

Shin GY, De Armas S, Galván GA, Siri MI, Rojas M, Vinatzer BA, Asselin JAE, Stodghill P, Zhao M, Dutta B, Tambong J, Kvitko BH (2026) Comparative genomics of Pantoea allii lineages and distribution of ecologically relevant traits. Microbial Genomics doi:10.1099/mgen.0.001624

2025

Belay KH, Abdelrazek S, Kaur S, Mazloom R, Bily D, Gyatso T, Avin FA, Bonkowski J, Liyanapathiranage P, Rodriguez Salamanca L, Heath LS, Baysal-Gurel F, Vinatzer BA (2025) Genomic insights into Ceratobasidium sp. associated with vascular streak dieback of woody ornamentals in the United States using a metagenomic sequencing approach. Microbiology Spectrum doi:10.1128/spectrum.02523-25

Elmgreen VN, Ramirez B, Sharma R, Vinatzer BA, Lowe-Power TM, Pierce-Ward NT (2025) An interactive dashboard for global reports of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex. Access Microbiology doi:10.1099/acmi.0.001126.v2

Anderson RG, Chang JH, Dangl JL, Dinkeloo K, Donofrio N, Eulgem T, Grünwald NJ, Herlihy J, Long T, Shahid Muktar M, Pilot G, Sherif SM, Sonawala U, Tör M, Winkel B, Vinatzer BA (2025) John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many. Mol Plant-Microbe Interact doi:10.1094/MPMI-06-25-0072-LE

Bily D, Gyatso T, Avin FA, Bonkowski J, Liyanapathiranage P, Rodriguez Salamanca L, Vinatzer BA, Baysal-Gurel F (2025) A Ceratobasidium sp. D.P. Rogers associated with vascular streak dieback of woody ornamental plants in Virginia, U.S.A. Plant Disease doi:10.1094/PDIS-02-25-0375-RE

Eufemio RJ, Renzer G, Rojas M*, Miadlikowska J, Sformo TL, Lutzoni F, Vinatzer BA, Meister K (2025) Peltigera lichen thalli produce highly efficient ice nucleating agents. Biogeosciences. doi:10.5194/bg-22-2087-2025

Abdelrazek S, Rodriguez-Salamanca L, Vinatzer BA (2025) Metagenomic sequencing of tomato plants with wilt symptoms allows for strain-level pathogen identification and genome-based characterization. Phytopathology. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-09-24-0279-R

2024

Zhang X, Vinatzer BA, Li S (2024) Hyperspectral imaging analysis for early detection of tomato bacterial leaf spot disease. Scientific Reports doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78650-6

Silwal A, Zhang XM, Hadlock T, NeiceJ, Haque S, Kaundanya A, Lu C, Vinatzer BA, Kantor G, Li S (2024) Towards an AI-Driven Cyber-Physical System for Closed-Loop Control of Plant Diseases. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series doi.org/10.1609/aaaiss.v4i1.31828

Dewberry RJ, Sharma P, Prom JL, Kinscherf NA, Lowe-Power T, Mazloom R, Zhang X, Liu H, Arif M, Stulberg M, Heath LS, Eversole K, Beattie GA, Vinatzer BA, Allen C (2024) Genotypic and Phenotypic Analyses Show Ralstonia solanacearum Cool Virulence is a Quantitative Trait Not Restricted to 'Race 3 biovar 2'. Phytopathology doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-06-24-0187-R.

Pena MM, Bhandari R, Bowers RM, Weis K, Newberry E, Wagner N, Pupko T, Jones JB, Woyke T, Vinatzer BA, Jacques MA, Potnis N (2024) Genetic and Functional Diversity Help Explain Pathogenic, Weakly Pathogenic, and Commensal Lifestyles in the Genus Xanthomonas. Genome Biology and Evolution doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae074

Grünwald NJ, Bock C, Chang JH, Alves de Souza A, Del Ponte E, Du Toit LJ, Dorrance AE, Dung JKS, Gent DH, Goss EM, Lowe-Power T, Madden LV, Martin FN, McDowell JM, Naegele R, Potnis N, Quesada-Ocampo L, Sundin GW, Thiessen L, Vinatzer BA, Zeng Q (2024) Open Access and Reproducibility in Plant Pathology Research: Guidelines and Best Practices. Phytopathology doi/abs/10.1094/PHYTO-12-23-0483-IA

2023

Crosby KC, Rojas M, Sharma P, Johnson MA, Mazloom R, Kvitko BH, Smits TH, Venter SN, Coutinho TA, Heath LS, Palmer M, Vinatzer BA (2023) Genomic delineation and description of species and within-species lineages in the genus Pantoea. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1254999

Abdelrazek S, Bush E, Oliver CL, Liu H, Sharma P, Flores MA, Donegan MA, Almeida R, Nita M, Vinatzer BA (2023) A survey of Xylella fastidiosa in the US state of Virginia reveals wide distribution of both subspecies fastidiosa and multiplex in grapevine. Phytopathology. doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-06-23-0212-R

Vasebi Y, Khakvar R, Vinatzer BA (2023) Characterization of culturable epiphytic and endophytic bacteria of Prunus spp. and their potential for plant growth promotion and antagonistic activity against bacterial canker disease. Journal of Plant Pathology. doi.org.10.1007/s42161-023-01342-z

Johnson MA, Vinatzer BA, Li S (2023) Reference-Free Plant Disease Detection Using Machine Learning and Long-Read Metagenomic Sequencing. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, DOI. doi.org/10.1128/aem.00260-23

Lowe-Power T, Sharma P, 24 authors, Vinatzer BA, Allen C (2023) Letter to the Editor: The Ralstonia research community rejects the proposal to classify phylotype I Ralstonia into the new species Ralstonia nicotianae. PhytoFrontiers. doi.org/10.1094/PHYTOFR-06-23-0071-LE

2022

Leighton P, Brown CT, Harrington B, Heath LS, Pierce-Ward NT, Vinatzer BA (2022) Could a focus on the "Why" of taxonomy help taxonomy better respond to the needs of science and society? Frontiers in Microbiology doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.887310 

Yang S, Rojas M, Coleman JJ, Vinatzer BA (2022) Identification of Candidate Ice Nucleation Activity (INA) Genes in Fusarium avenaceum by Combining Phenotypic Characterization with Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics. Journal of Fungi doi.org/10.3390/jof8090958

Mazloom R, Pritchard L, Brown CT, Vinatzer BA, and Heath LS (2022) LINgroups as a principled approach to compare and integrate multiple bacterial taxonomies. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, BCB ’22, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: doi.org/10.1145/3535508.3545546

Johnson MA, Liu H, Bush E, Sharma P, Yang S, Mazloom R, Heath LS, Nita M, Li S, Vinatzer BA (2022) Investigating plant disease outbreaks with long-read metagenomics: sensitive detection and strain-level identification of Xylella fastidiosa. Microbial Genomics doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000822

Sharma P, Johnson MA, Mazloom R, Allen C, Heath LA, Lowe-Power TM, Vinatzer BA (2022) Meta-analysis of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) based on comparative evolutionary genomics and reverse ecology. Microbial Genomics 8(3). doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000791

Yang S, Johnson MA, Hansen MA, Bush E, Li S, Vinatzer BA (2022) Metagenomic sequencing for detection and identification of the boxwood blight pathogen Calonectria pseudonaviculata. Scientific Reports 12:1399. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05381-x

Yang S, Coleman J, Vinatzer BA (2022) Genome Resource: Draft genome of Fusarium avenaceum, F156N33, isolated from the atmosphere above Virginia and annotated based on RNA sequencing data. Plant Disease. doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-21-0787-A

Failor KC, Liu H, Mechan Llontop ME, LeBlanc S, Eckshtain-Levi N, Sharma P, Reed A, Yang S, Tian L, Lefevre C, Menguy N, Du L, Monteil CL, Vinatzer BA (2022) Ice nucleation in a Gram-positive bacterium isolated from precipitation depends on a polyketide synthase and non-ribosomal peptide synthetase. The ISME Journal. doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01140-4

2021

Veronica Roman-Reyna, Alicia Truchon, Parul Sharma, Francesca Peduto Hand, Reza Mazloom, Boris A. Vinatzer, Jonathan M. Jacobs, and Caitilyn Allen. “Genome Resource: Ralstonia Solanacearum Phylotype II Sequevar 1 (Race 3 Biovar 2) Strain UW848 From the 2020 U.S. Geranium Introduction.” Plant Disease 105, no. 1 (January 2021): 207–8. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-06-20-1269-A.

Remco Stam, Pierre Gladieux, Boris A Vinatzer, Erica M Goss, Neha Potnis, Thierry Candresse, Marin Talbot Brewer. “Population Genomic- and Phylogenomic-Enabled Advances to Increase Insight Into Pathogen Biology and Epidemiology.” Phytopathology® 111, no. 1 (January 2021): 8–11. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-20-0528-FI.

Long Tian, Reza Mazloom, Lenwood S. Heath, and Boris A. Vinatzer. “LINflow: A Computational Pipeline That Combines an Alignment-Free with an Alignment-Based Method to Accelerate Generation of Similarity Matrices for Prokaryotic Genomes.” PeerJ 9 (March 24, 2021): e10906. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10906.

Boris A. Vinatzer. “The Power of a Statewide Survey When Phenotypic Testing Is Combined with Genomics-Enabled Molecular Characterization and Network Analyses.” Phytopathology®, July 19, 2021, PHYTO-01-21-002. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-01-21-0025-IA.

Shu Yang, Jeffrey Coleman, and Boris Vinatzer. “Genome Resource: Draft Genome of Fusarium Avenaceum, Strain F156N33, Isolated from the Atmosphere above Virginia and Annotated Based on RNA Sequencing Data.” Plant Disease, July 22, 2021, PDIS-04-21-0787-A. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-21-0787-A.

2020

J. P. Dundore-Arias, E. A. Eloe-Fadrosh, L. M. Schriml, G. A. Beattie, F. P. Brennan, P. E. Busby, R. B. Calderon, et al. “Community-Driven Metadata Standards for Agricultural Microbiome Research.” Phytobiomes Journal 4, no. 2 (January 2020): 115–21. https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-09-19-0051-P.

Ken A. Aho, Carolyn F. Weber, Brent C. Christner, Boris A. Vinatzer, Cindy E. Morris, Rachel Joyce, Kevin C. Failor, Jason T. Werth, Aurora L. H. Bayless‐Edwards, and David G. Schmale. “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Microbial Composition and Diversity in Precipitation.” Ecological Monographs 90, no. 1 (February 2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1394.

Marco E. Mechan Llontop, Kelly Hurley, Long Tian, Vivian A. Bernal Galeano, Hans K. Wildschutte, Sasha C. Marine, Keith S. Yoder, and Boris A. Vinatzer. “Exploring Rain as Source of Biological Control Agents for Fire Blight on Apple.” Frontiers in Microbiology 11 (February 14, 2020): 199. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00199.

Long Tian, Chengjie Huang, Reza Mazloom, Lenwood S Heath, and Boris A Vinatzer. “LINbase: A Web Server for Genome-Based Identification of Prokaryotes as Members of Crowdsourced Taxa.” Nucleic Acids Research 48, no. W1 (July 2, 2020): W529–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa190.

Yalda Vasebi, Reza Khakvar, Mohammad Mehdi Faghihi, and Boris Alexander Vinatzer. “Expression of Pathogenicity and Virulence Related Genes in Pseudomonas Syringae Pv. Syringae under Copper Stress.” Zemdirbyste-Agriculture 107, no. 1 (February 7, 2020): 79–86. https://doi.org/10.13080/z-a.2020.107.011.

Yalda Vasebi, Reza Khakvar, Long Tian, Peter Moubarak, Franco Valentini, Alexandra J. Weisberg, and Boris A. Vinatzer. “Phenotypic Characterization and Phylogenetic Analysis of Pseudomonas Syringae Strains Associated with Canker Disease on Apricot in Iran within the Context of the Global Genetic Diversity of the P. Syringae Complex.” European Journal of Plant Pathology 158, no. 2 (October 2020): 545–60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-020-02101-x.

2019

K. C. Failor, L. Tian, C.L. Monteil, B.A. Vinatzer. (2019). Lysinibacillus. Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01570

Y. Vasebi, R. Khakvar, M.M. Faghihi, B.A. Vinatzer. (2019). Genomic and pathogenic properties of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae strains isolated from apricot in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcab.2019.101167

Y. Vasebi, M.E. Mechan-Llontop, R. Hanlon, D.G. Schmale III, R. Schnell, B.A. Vinatzer. (2019). Comprehensive characterization of an aspen (Populus tremuloides) leaf litter sample that maintained ice nucleation activity for 48 years. Biogeosciences. doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1675-2019

B.A. Vinatzer, L.S. Heath, H.M.J. Almohri, M.J. Stulberg, C. Lowe, S. Li (2019). Cyberbiosecurity Challenges of Pathogen Genome Databases. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology. doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00106 

2018

J.L. O'Brien, S.F. Ahmadi, K.C. Failor, C.E. Bisbano, M.D. Mulroe, S. Nath, B.A. Vinatzer, J.B. Boreyko. (2018). Spatial control of condensation and desublimation using ice nucleating proteins. Applied Physics Letters. doi.org/10.1063/1.5046187

N. Eckshtain‐Levi, A.J. Weisberg, B.A. Vinatzer. (2018). The population genetic test Tajima's D identifies genes encoding pathogen‐associated molecular patterns and other virulence‐related genes in Ralstonia solanacearum. Molecular plant pathology. doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12688

S. Ciarroni, C.R. Clarke, H. Liu, N. Eckshtain-Levi, A. Mazzaglia, G.M. Balestra, B.A. Vinatzer. (2018). A recombinant flagellin fragment, which includes the epitopes flg22 and flgII-28, provides a useful tool to study flagellin-triggered immunity. Journal of general plant pathology. doi.org/10.1007/s10327-018-0779-2

E. Markel, H. Dalenberg, C.L. Monteil, B.A. Vinatzer, B. Swingle. (2018). An AlgU-Regulated Antisense Transcript Encoded within the Pseudomonas syringae fleQ Gene Has a Positive Effect on Motility. Journal of Bacteriology. doi.org/10.1128/JB.00576-17

R.D. Curland, L. Gao, C.T. Bull, B.A. Vinatzer, R. Dill-Macky, L. Van Eck, C.A. Ishimaru. (2018). Genetic Diversity and Virulence of Wheat and Barley Strains of Xanthomonas translucens from the Upper Midwestern United States. Phytopathology. doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-08-17-0271-R

2017

K.C. Failor, D.G. Schmale III, B.A. Vinatzer, C.L. Monteil. (2017). Ice nucleation active bacteria in precipitation are genetically diverse and nucleate ice by employing different mechanisms. The ISME journal. doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.124

B.A. Vinatzer, L. Tian, L.S. Heath. (2017). A proposal for a portal to make earth’s microbial diversity easily accessible and searchable. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. doi.org/10.1007/s10482-017-0849-z

R. Hanlon, C. Powers, K. Failor, C.L. Monteil, B.A. Vinatzer, D.G. Schmale III. (2017). Microbial ice nucleators scavenged from the atmosphere during simulated rain events. Atmospheric environment. doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.05.030

C. Moretti, B.A. Vinatzer, A. Onofri, F. Valentini, R. Buonaurio. (2017). Genetic and phenotypic diversity of Mediterranean populations of the olive knot pathogen, Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi. Plant Pathology. doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12614

R.B. Pietsch, B.A. Vinatzer, D.G. Schmale III. (2017). Diversity and abundance of ice nucleating strains of Pseudomonas syringae in a freshwater lake in Virginia, USA. Frontiers in microbiology. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00318

C.R. Clarke, B.A. Vinatzer. (2017). Characterizing the immune-eliciting activity of putative microbe-associated molecular patterns in tomato. Plant Pattern Recognition Receptors. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6859-6_21

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