Luigi Faino

This study identifies strain-specific genes and evolutionary genomic features in the fungal maize pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola through structural variant analysis and machine learning.

The paper evaluates genomic resources across the Nectriaceae family, identifying metadata gaps, assembly quality issues, and phylogenomic inconsistencies.

This study identifies AvrStb6 accumulation near stomata and its role in triggering wheat defense responses that inhibit fungal penetration.

This study identifies and characterizes centromeres in ten Verticillium species, revealing conserved and variable features linked to repetitive elements and genome evolution.

LoReAn improves genome annotation by integrating long-read cDNA sequencing with other data types, outperforming existing pipelines in gene structure prediction and discovery.

The paper shows that lineage-specific regions in V. dahliae are more conserved than core regions, suggesting host adaptation through presence/absence polymorphisms rather than sequence divergence.

This study shows transposons drive adaptive genome evolution in Verticillium dahliae by enabling segmental duplications and contributing to genomic plasticity, which impacts pathogen aggressiveness.