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Marta Torres

Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryORCID 0000-0002-0609-9123Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Organism:bacteria (other)· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Unraveling Fitness Landscapes in Plant-Associated Bacteroidota

Marta Torres, Vincent Lombard, Nicolas Terrapon, Adam M. Deutschbauer

This study uses RB-TnSeq to analyze gene fitness in Mucilaginibacter yixingensis, identifying key pathways for plant niche adaptation.

ISME Communications · Jan 1, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Bacterial fitness for plant colonization is influenced by plant growth substrate

Marta Torres, Morgan N. Price, Albina Khasanova, Suzanne M. Kosina, Kateryna V. Zhalnina, Trent R. Northen, Adam M. Deutschbauer

The paper identifies substrate-dependent genes for bacterial plant colonization in Paraburkholderia graminis and shows substrate influences on colonization fitness across multiple bacterial strains.

New Phytologist · Sep 30, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Novel enzymes for amino acid biosynthesis in diverse bacteria and archaea: GapMind 2026

Morgan N. Price, Valentine V. Trotter, Markus de Raad, Suzanne M. Kosina, Hira Lesea, Anthony L. Shiver, Leslie A. Day, Surya Tripathi, Marta Torres, Trenton K. Owens, Audrey Liwen Wang, Anna Lisa Fear, Xuanyu Tao, Jizhong Z. Zhou, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Adam P. Arkin

The paper updates GapMind to include novel enzymes for amino acid biosynthesis, reducing pathway gaps in prokaryotes from 1.4 to 0.7 per genome.

bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology