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Varsha Mathur

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant BiologyORCID 0000-0002-7695-034XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Evolutionary Biology· 1 Microbiology· 1 Plant Biology· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1

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Cross-species interactome analysis uncovers a conserved selective autophagy mechanism for protein quality control in plants

Víctor Sánchez de Medina Hernández, Marintia Mayola Nava García, Anita Bianchi, Marion Clavel, Ranjith K. Papareddy, Lina Benchalel, Veselin I. Andreev, Varsha Mathur, Azadeh Mohseni, Marta García-León, Peng Gao, Juan Carlos De la Concepción, Lorenzo Picchianti, Nenad Grujic, Roksolana Kobylinska, , Yasin Dagdas

The paper identifies a conserved selective autophagy receptor, CESAR, critical for proteostasis under heat stress in plants through cross-species interactome analysis.

Developmental Cell · Dec 1, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology

Phagocytosis repurposed: infection strategies in a globalmarine diatom-parasite interaction

Varsha Mathur, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Luis Javier Galindo, Elisabet Alacid, Michael Cunliffe, Sunju Kim, Ulrich Technau, Thomas A. Richards

This study investigates the infection strategies of the marine diatom parasite Pirsonia using genomic and transcriptomic analyses, revealing its reliance on actin-based phagocytosis and surface proteins.

bioRxiv · Jul 29, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan contains a plastid encoding chlorophyll biosynthesis

Waldan K. Kwong, Javier del Campo, Varsha Mathur, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Patrick J. Keeling

The paper identifies a coral-infecting apicomplexan, corallicola, which retains chlorophyll biosynthesis genes in its non-photosynthetic plastid, suggesting it is an evolutionary intermediate between free-living and parasitic apicomplexans.

bioRxiv · Aug 14, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology