Gwénaëlle Comont

The paper links wood chemical traits to esca susceptibility and wood degradation in grapevines, showing that susceptibility is more related to wood degradability and metabolic responses than microbial communities.

This study shows that nitrogen nutrition levels affect esca disease incidence in grapevines by altering physiology, metabolism, and transpiration, with deficiency reducing disease and excess increasing it.

The paper presents genome sequences of four esca-associated Basidiomycetes, identifies virulence factors, and highlights their evolutionary patterns related to plant pathogenesis.