Academic Publications

2024

Adaptive gene loss in the common bean pan-genome during range expansion and domestication
Gaia Cortinovis, Leonardo Vincenzi, Robyn Anderson, Giovanni Marturano, Jacob Ian Marsh, Philipp Emanuel Bayer, Lorenzo Rocchetti, Giulia Frascarelli, Giovanna Lanzavecchia, Alice Pieri, Andrea Benazzo, Elisa Bellucci, Valerio Di Vittori, Laura Nanni, Juan José Ferreira Fernández, Marzia Rossato, Orlando Mario Aguilar, Peter Laurent Morrell, Monica Rodriguez, Tania Gioia, Kerstin Neumann, Juan Camilo Alvarez Diaz, Ariane Gratias, Christophe Klopp, … Roberto Papa
Nature Communications volume 15, Article number: 6698 (2024)
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51032-2
First Report of Colletotrichum incanum Causing Leaf Spots on Common Bean in Europe (Slovenia)
H.-J. Schroers, J. Zajc, B. Pipan, V. Meglič, E. Kovačec, and M. Žerjav
Plant Disease / July 2024 2231
doi: 10.1094/PDIS-02-24-0490-PDN
Implementation of theoretical non-photochemical quenching (NPQ(T)) to investigate NPQ of chickpea under drought stress with High-throughput Phenotyping
Madita Lauterberg, Henning Tschiersch, Yusheng Zhao, Markus Kuhlmann, Ingo Mücke, Roberto Papa, Elena Bitocchi & Kerstin Neumann
Scientifc Reports (2024); 14:13970
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-63372-6
Screening for resistance to four fungal diseases and associated genomic regions in a snap bean diversity panel
Ana Campa, Valérie Geffroy, Elena Bitocchi, Alicia Noly, Roberto Papa, Juan José Ferreira
Frontiers in Plant Science (2024); 15: 1386877.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1386877

2023

Genetic erosion within the Fabada dry bean market class revealed by high-throughput genotyping
Maria Jurado, Carmen García-Fernández, Ana Campa, Juan Jose Ferreira
Plant Genome.2023; e20379
doi: 10.1002/tpg2.20379
Challenges and Opportunities behind the Use of Herbaria in Paleogenomics Studies
Simone Papalini, Valerio Di Vittori, Alice Pieri, Marina Allegrezza, Giulia Frascarelli, Laura Nanni, Elena Bitocchi, Elisa Bellucci, Tania Gioia, Luis Guasch Pereira, Karolina Susek, Maud Tenaillon, Kerstin Neumann and Roberto Papa
Plants 2023, 12(19), 3452
doi: 10.3390/plants12193452
A comprehensive metabolomics and lipidomics atlas for the legumes common bean, chickpea, lentil and lupin
Mustafa Bulut, Regina Wendenburg, Elena Bitocchi, Elisa Bellucci, Magdalena Kroc, Tania Gioia, Karolina Susek, Roberto Papa, Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh
The Plant Journal (2023)
doi: 10.1111/tpj.16329
Engaging Precision Phenotyping to Scrutinize Vegetative Drought Tolerance and Recovery in Chickpea Plant Genetic Resources
Madita Lauterberg, Henning Tschiersch, Roberto Papa, Elena Bitocchi and Kerstin Neumann
Plants 2023, 12(15), 2866
doi: 10.3390/plants12152866
CRISPR-Cas9-based repeat depletion for the high-throughput genotyping of complex plant genomes
Marzia Rossato, Luca Marcolungo, Luca De Antoni, Giulia Lopatriello, Elisa Bellucci, Gaia Cortinovis, Giulia Frascarelli, Laura Nanni, Elena Biotcchi, Valerio Di Vittori, Leonardo Vincenzi, Filippo Lucchini, Kirstin E Bett, Larissa Remsay, David Konkin, Massimo Delledonne and Roberto Papa
Genome Res. 2023.
doi: 10.1101/gr.277628.122
CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Enrichment Coupled to Nanopore Sequencing Provides a Valuable Tool for the Precise Reconstruction of Large Genomic Target Regions
Giulia Lopatriello, Simone Maestri, Massimiliano Alfano, Roberto Papa, Valerio Di Vittori, Luca De Antoni, Elisa Bellucci, Alice Pieri, Elena Bitocchi, Massimo Delledonne, Marzia Rossato
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 1076
doi: 10.3390/ijms24021076
Selection and adaptive introgression guided the complex evolutionary history of the European common bean
Elisa Bellucci, Andrea Benazzo, Chunming Xu, Elena Bitocchi, Monica Rodriguez, Saleh Alseekh, Valerio Di Vittori, Tania Gioia, Kerstin Neumann, Gaia Cortinovis, Giulia Frascarelli, Ester Murube, Emiliano Trucchi, Laura Nanni, Andrea Ariani, Giuseppina Logozzo, Jin Hee Shin, Chaochih Liu, Liang Jiang, Juan José Ferreira, Ana Campa, Giovanna Attene, Peter L. Morrell, Giorgio Bertorelle, Roberto Papa
Nature Communications (2023) 14:1908
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37332-z
Legume byproducts as ingredients for food applications: Preparation, nutrition, bioactivity, and techno-functional properties
Ancuta Nartea, Anastasiya Kuhalskaya, Benedetta Fanesi, Oghenetega Lois Orhotohwo, Karolina Susek, Lorenzo Rocchetti, Valerio Di Vittori, Elena Bitocchi, Deborah Pacetti, Roberto Papa
Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf.2023;1–33
doi: 10.1111/1541-4337.13137
Transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis reveals that symbiotic nitrogen fixation enhances drought resistance in common bean
Cristina M. López, Saleh Alseekh, Fernando Torralbo, Félix J. Martínez Rivas, Alisdair R. Fernie, Francisco Amil-Ruiz, Josefa M. Alamillo
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023; erad083
doi: 10.1093/jxb/erad083
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites
Saleh Alseekh and Alisdair R. Fernie
Current Opinion in Plant Biology 2023, 73:102335
doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102335
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein and hairy roots: a perfect match for gene functional analysis and crop improvement
Josefa M. Alamillo, Cristina M. López, Félix J. Martínez Rivas, Fernando Torralbo, Mustafa Bulut, Saleh Alseekh
Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2023, 79: 102876
doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102876
Improved detection and phylogenetic analysis of plant proteins containing LysM domains
Dardo Dallachiesa A, O. Mario Aguilar A and Mauricio J. Lozano
Functional Plant Biology 51
doi: 10.1071/FP23131

2022

Shift in beneficial interactions during crop evolution
Hélène Fréville, Germain Montazeaud, Emma Forst, Jacques David, Roberto Papa, Maud I. Tenaillon
Evolutionary Applications. 2022;00:1–14.
doi: 10.1111/eva.13390
Nodulation competitiveness and diversification of symbiosis genes in common beans from the American centers of domestication
O. Mario Aguilar, Mónica M. Collavino & Ulises Mancini
Sci Rep 12, 4591 (2022)
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-08720-0
Towards the Development, Maintenance and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single-Seed-Descent Genetic Resources for Chickpea
Lorenzo Rocchetti, Tania Gioia, Giuseppina Logozzo, Creola Brezeanu, Luis Guasch Pereira, Lucía De la Rosa, Stefania Marzario, Alice Pieri, Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh, Karolina Susek, Douglas R. Cook, Rajeev K. Varshney, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Aladdin Hamwieh, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa
Current Protocolse371, Volume 2
doi: 10.1002/cpz1.371

2021

The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of Food-Legume Genetic Resources for European Agrofood Systems
Elisa Bellucci, Orlando Mario Aguilar, Saleh Alseekh, Kirstin Bett, Creola Brezeanu, Douglas Cook, Lucía De la Rosa, Massimo Delledonne, Denise F. Dostatny, Juan J Ferreira, Valérie Geffroy, Sofia Ghitarrini, Magdalena Kroc, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Giuseppina Logozzo, Mario Marino, Tristan Mary-Huard, Phil McClean, Vladimir Meglič, Tamara Messer, Frédéric Muel, Laura Nanni, Kerstin Neumann, Filippo Servalli, Silvia Străjeru, Rajeev K Varshney, Marta W Vasconcelos, Massimo Zaccardelli, Aleksei Zavarzin, Elena Bitocchi, Emanuele Frontoni, Alisdair R Fernie, Tania Gioia, Andreas Graner, Luis Guasch, Lena Prochnow, Markus Opperman, Karolina Susek, Maud Tenaillon, Roberto Papa
The Plant Journal (2021) 108, 646–660
doi: 10.1111/tpj.15472
Towards Development, Maintenance, and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single-Seed-Descent Genetic Resources for Lupins
Magdalena Kroc, Magdalena Tomaszewska, Katarzyna Czepiel, Elena Bitocchi, Markus Oppermann, Kerstin Neumann, Luis Guasch, Elisa Bellucci, Saleh Alseekh, Andreas Graner, Alisdair R. Fernie, Roberto Papa, Karolina Susek
Current Protocols e191, Volume 1
doi: 10.1002/cpz1.191
Intelligent Characterization of Lentil Genetic Resources: Evolutionary History, Genetic Diversity of Germplasm, and the Need for Well-Represented Collections
Azalea Guerra-García, Tania Gioia, Eric von Wettberg, Giuseppina Logozzo, Roberto Papa, Elena Bitocchi, Kirstin E. Bett
Current Protocols e134, Volume 1
doi: 10.1002/cpz1.134
Towards the Development, Maintenance, and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single-Seed-Descent Genetic Resources for Common Bean
Gaia Cortinovis, Markus Oppermann, Kerstin Neumann, Andreas Graner, Tania Gioia, Marco Marsella, Saleh Alseekh, Alisdair R. Fernie, Roberto Papa, Elisa Bellucci, Elena Bitocchi
Current Protocols e133, Volume 1
doi: 10.1002/cpz1.133