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Dianiris Luciano-Rosario

Postdoctoral Fellow, Food Quality Lab, USDA-ARS
Verified email at usda.gov
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Penicillium expansum: biology, omics, and management tools for a global postharvest pathogen causing blue mould of pome fruit

D LucianoRosario, NP Keller… - Molecular Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Blue mould, caused primarily by Penicillium expansum, is a major threat to the global pome
fruit industry, causing multimillion‐dollar losses annually. The blue mould fungus negatively …

[HTML][HTML] New insight into pathogenicity and secondary metabolism of the plant pathogen Penicillium expansum through deletion of the epigenetic reader SntB

J Tannous, O Barda, D Luciano-Rosario… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Penicillium expansum is one of the most harmful post-harvest pathogens of pomaceous fruits
and the causal agent of blue rot disease. During infection, P. expansum produces the toxic …

The KdmB-EcoA-RpdA-SntB chromatin complex binds regulatory genes and coordinates fungal development with mycotoxin synthesis

…, BT Pfannenstiel, D Luciano-Rosario… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin complexes control a vast number of epigenetic developmental processes.
Filamentous fungi present an important clade of microbes with poor understanding of underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of genetic diversity of sweet potato in Puerto Rico

…, F Bird-Pico, D Luciano-Rosario, D Siritunga - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is the seventh most important food crop due to its distinct
advantages, such as adaptability to different environmental conditions and high nutritional …

Transcription factor repurposing offers insights into evolution of biosynthetic gene cluster regulation

W Wang, M Drott, C Greco, D Luciano-Rosario, P Wang… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The fungal kingdom has provided advances in our ability to identify biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs) and to examine how gene composition of BGCs evolves across species and …

The hydrophobin gene family confers a fitness trade-off between spore dispersal and host colonization in Penicillium expansum

D Luciano-Rosario, JL Eagan, N Aryal, EG Dominguez… - Mbio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hydrophobins are small amphipathic surface proteins found exclusively in fungi. In filamentous
ascomycetes, one conserved role of a subset of hydrophobins is their requirement for …

[HTML][HTML] Blistering1 modulates Penicillium expansum virulence via vesicle-mediated protein secretion

…, WM Garrett, FJ Lichtner, D Luciano-Rosario… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2020 - ASBMB
The blue mold fungus, Penicillium expansum, is a postharvest apple pathogen that contributes
to food waste by rotting fruit and by producing harmful mycotoxins (eg patulin). To identify …

The histone demethylase KdmB is part of a trimeric protein complex and mediates virulence and mycotoxin production in Penicillium expansum

D Luciano-Rosario, O Barda, J Tannous… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Epigenetic modification of chromosome structure has increasingly been associated with
alterations in secondary metabolism and sporulation defects in filamentous fungal pathogens. …

[HTML][HTML] Avirulent Isolates of Penicillium chrysogenum to Control the Blue Mold of Apple Caused by P. expansum

HP Bartholomew, D Luciano-Rosario, MJ Bradshaw… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Blue mold is an economically significant postharvest disease of pome fruit that is primarily
caused by Penicillium expansum. To manage this disease and sustain product quality, novel …

Mai1 protein acts between host recognition of pathogen effectors and mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling

…, MJ Szarzanowicz, D Luciano-Rosario… - Molecular Plant …, 2019 - Am Phytopath Society
The molecular mechanisms acting between host recognition of pathogen effectors by
nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptor (NLR) proteins and mitogen-activated protein …