Brief Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor of Phytopathology, working on a) plant-microbiome-pathogen interactions, b) mechanisms of induced systemic resistance in plants, c) interaction between iron deficiency and pathogens, and d) plant defense mechanisms activated in response to phytopathogens and beneficial microbes.

His research expertise is "Phytopathology / Plant-Pathogen-Microbiome Interactions".

He has performed his PhD studies and later worked as postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (2012 - 2023). He has obtained his BSc (2003 - 2008) and MSc (2010 - 2012) degrees in Agricultural University of Athens. He completed his military service in Supply and Transportation Corps of Hellenic Army (2009 - 2010).

His office is located in the Laboratory of Phytopathology, at the 1st floor of the Central Building of Agricultural University of Athens.

Research Team Members

Dafni Paraskevopoulou (MSc) - PhD candidate

Dafni obtained a Bachelor in Biology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2014 - 2020). During 2020 - 2022, she studied at the “Molecular and Applied Plant Biology - Green Biotechnology” Masters program at the University of Crete. After her MSc studies, she did a 6-month Erasmus+ internship, at the Plant – Microbe Interactions Laboratory at Utrecht University (Netherlands). In addition, she gained work experience as a research fellow at the Horticultural Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory at CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agricultural Institute of Chania.

In her PhD, she is studying how plant defense responses and the microbiome can contribute to the resistance of wild and cultivated tomato plants against the phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae.

Email dafniparask@aua.gr

Twitter https://twitter.com/DafPara?t=XsTlqK3JsI_5C_bF1vuLLA&s=09

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Publications

Interplay between Amaryllidaceae alkaloids, the bacteriome and phytopathogens in Lycoris radiata

Cell type-specific transcriptomics reveals that root hairs and endodermal barriers play important roles in beneficial plant-rhizobacterium-interactions

Chemical symphony of coumarins and phenazines in rhizosphere iron solubilization

Techniques to Study Common Root Responses to Beneficial Microbes and Iron Deficiency

Decoupling Sugar and Spice in Soybean Rhizosphere Depends on BGLU Activity

Unearthing soil-plant-microbiota crosstalk: Looking back to move forward

Microbiome-assisted Agriculture: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Editorial: Beneficial Microbiota Interacting with the Plant Immune System

Evolutionary “Hide-and-Seek” between bacterial flagellin and the plant immune system

Transcriptome signatures in Pseudomonas simiae WCS417 shed light on role of root-secreted coumarins in Arabidopsis-mutualist communication

Pseudomonas simiae WCS417: star track of a model beneficial rhizobacterium.

Coumarin communication along the microbiome–root–shoot axis.

The Soil-Borne Identity: Looking Back to the Future.

Modulation of the root microbiome by plant molecules: The basis for targeted disease suppression and plant growth promotion.

Rhizosphere-associated Pseudomonas suppress local root immune responses by gluconic acid-mediated lowering of environmental pH.

Rhizosphere-enriched microbes as a pool to design synthetic communities for reproducible beneficial outputs.

Type III secretion system of beneficial rhizobacteria Pseudomonas simiae WCS417 and Pseudomonas defensor WCS374.

The age of coumarins in plant–microbe interactions.

Molecular dialogue between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the nonhost plant Arabidopsis thaliana switches from initial detection to antagonism.

Microbial small molecules – weapons of plant subversion.

MYB72-dependent coumarin exudation shapes root microbiome assembly to promote plant health.

Root transcriptional dynamics induced by beneficial rhizobacteria and microbial immune elicitors reveal signatures of adaptation to mutualists.

Rhizosphere microbiome recruited from a suppressive compost improves plant fitness and increases protection against vascular wilt pathogens of tomato

Iron and immunity

Evaluation of application methods and biocontrol efficacy of Paenibacillus alvei strain K-165, against the cotton black root rot pathogen Thielaviopsis basicola.

Seedling vaccination by stem injecting a conidial suspension of F2, a non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum strain, suppresses Verticillium wilt of eggplant

Mode of action of a non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum strain against Verticillium dahliae using Real Time QPCR analysis and biomarker transformation

Ioannis Stringlis