Abraham Morales‐Cruz

This study analyzes introgression and adaptive repeatability across 48 Vitis species using whole-genome data, finding widespread introgression and shared genetic variation.

The paper investigates how transcription factor binding site position and chromatin context influence gene regulation in plants, revealing distinct regulatory roles for different genomic locations.

The paper presents a scalable TFBS assay to create an atlas of 3,000 genome-wide binding site maps for 360 TFs across 10 flowering plant species, revealing conservation and rewiring of regulatory elements.

The paper analyzes pangenomes of grapevine trunk pathogens to compare the evolution of virulence factors across species.

This study creates a reference genome for avocado and identifies genes potentially contributing to heterodichogamy through population genomics analysis.

This study identifies multigenic resistance to Xylella fastidiosa in wild grapes and shows climate dependence of resistance traits.

This study compares the phylogenomic evolution of virulence-related gene families in Botryosphaeriaceae fungi to identify associations with pathogenicity in woody plants.

This study reconstructs the genomes of Phytophthora megakarya and P. palmivora to understand virulence differences and evolutionary history.

The paper identifies structural genomic variation affecting secondary metabolism gene clusters in Phaeoacremonium minimum, highlighting the need for a pan-transcriptome reference to capture virulence factor diversity.

This study develops a closed-reference metatranscriptomics approach to profile virulence activities of multiple grapevine trunk pathogens in planta.