Valérie Hofstetter

Landscape-scale endophytic community analyses in replicated grapevine stands reveal that dieback disease is not caused by specific fungal communities

The paper tests if specific fungal communities cause grapevine dieback disease using landscape-scale sampling and finds no such causal link.

Revisiting sour rot of grapevine through disease-associated microbiomes: a tripartite co-infection?

This study investigates the microbiome dynamics in sour rot of grapevines, finding that acetic acid bacteria may not be essential and that Geotrichum can initiate the disease, while insect vectors accelerate its expression.