Katarina Bačnik

Serratus-guided Snakemake mining, expert curation, clustering and phylogenetic placement identify at least 32 putative novel tobamoviruses in public short-read data, mostly Amazon River metatranscriptomes; a random-forest classifier partly automates curation.

This study identifies the N-terminal region of PVY coat protein as critical for cell-to-cell movement and systemic spread in Nicotiana clevelandii plants.

The paper analyzes irrigation water viromes to understand plant virus diversity and distribution, finding novel viruses and linking water viromes to plant health.