Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Huguet-Tapia Lab
Led by Jose Huguet-Tapia · Plant Pathology
What we study
The lab studies bacterial pathogens using genomics and bioinformatics. They develop tools to analyze plant pathogens and host interactions.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Wet lab
- Bacteria & microbes
- Plants
- Coding required
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Genomic insights into a multispecies bacterial pathogen complex driving bacterial blotch in white button mushrooms
2026 · Microbiological Research
Identified multiple bacterial species causing mushroom disease in the U.S.
- Draft genome sequences of Passalora arachidicola and Nothopassalora personata , causal agents of early and late leaf spots of peanut
2026 · Microbiology Resource Announcements
Sequenced genomes of two peanut leaf spot pathogens using PacBio technology.
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- Integrative genomic and pathogenicity analyses reveal emerging Fusarium threats to cacao in Colombia
2026 · Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
- Four Genome Assemblies Provide a Resource of Legacy Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Isolated from Indian Rice Fields
2026 · PhytoFrontiers™
Assembled and analyzed genomes of four rice pathogens to study their evolutionary changes.
- Identification of the biosynthetic gene cluster for desmethylmensacarcin, a phytotoxic polyketide produced by Streptomyces niveiscabiei ST1015
2025 · Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
Discovered and characterized a gene cluster for a phytotoxic compound in a potato pathogen.
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