Francesca Desiderio

This study examines the transcriptional response of emmer wheat to single and mixed infections with two pathogens, revealing distinct immune patterns under mixed infections.

The paper surveys wheat pathogen diversity in Sweden to improve disease diagnostics and management by identifying pathogenic and non-pathogenic taxa and potential biological control agents.

This study analyzes the population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe, revealing population structure linked to wind patterns and identifying loci under selection, including fungicide targets and avirulence genes.

This paper presents an experimental approach to study multi-species interactions in the Fusarium-Head Blight complex in wheat, showing that Zymoseptoria tritici affects wheat's response to F. graminearum and that Fusarium species composition influences disease outcomes in a genotype-specific manner.