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Blanca B. Landa

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Agricultural Engineer, Institute of Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, and University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain. July, 1999.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Population biology and biogeography of soilborne pathogens and biocontrol angents in the rhizosphere. Integrated control of plant pathogens; Rhizosphere microbial ecology; Biocontrol; Molecular diagnosis; Metagenomic analysis of microbial populations.

Agricultural Science Microbiology Molecular Biology Mycology Plant Science Soil Science

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Research Scientist

Institute for Sustainable Agriculture-CSIC

Crop Protection

Head of the "Biology and Ecology of soil microbiota" Lab

Research Scientist

CSIC

Crop Protection

Identities

@blancaracol

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

Edited 36

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May 20, 2025

Isolation and identification of endophytic fungi from Conyza blinii that exhibit antioxidant and antibacterial activities

Yujie Jia, Guodong Zhang, Qiqi Xie, Jiwen Tao, Tongliang Bu, Xinyu Zhang, Yirong Xiao, Zhao Chen, Qingfeng Li, Zizhong Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19464 PubMed 40416615

August 31, 2023

Accumulation and transfer of polystyrene microplastics in Solanum nigrum seedlings

JuKui Zhang, Lian Cao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Hanbo Li, Gang Duan, Ying Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15967 PubMed 37667751

December 19, 2022

You are what you eat: fungal metabolites and host plant affect the susceptibility of diamondback moth to entomopathogenic fungi

Sereyboth Soth, Travis R. Glare, John G. Hampton, Stuart D. Card, Jenny J. Brookes, Josefina O. Narciso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14491 PubMed 36570000

January 28, 2021

Effects of no-tillage sowing on soil properties and forage wheat and Italian ryegrass yields in winter fallow paddy fields

Liuxing Xu, Guojian Tang, Jing Tian, Xiaoya Wang, Jianguo Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10573 PubMed 33575121

October 13, 2020

Belowground fungal community diversity, composition and ecological functionality associated with winter wheat in conventional and organic agricultural systems

Sigisfredo Garnica, Ronja Rosenstein, Max Emil Schön

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9732 PubMed 33083101

August 3, 2020

Gut microbiota of obese and diabetic Thai subjects and interplay with dietary habits and blood profiles

Lucsame Gruneck, Niwed Kullawong, Kongkiat Kespechara, Siam Popluechai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9622 PubMed 32832269

July 15, 2020

Changes of diazotrophic communities in response to cropping systems in a Mollisol of Northeast China

Jiaxun Zou, Qin Yao, Junjie Liu, Yansheng Li, Fuqiang Song, Xiaobing Liu, Guanghua Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9550 PubMed 32742810

November 15, 2019

High-throughput sequence analysis reveals variation in the relative abundance of components of the bacterial and fungal microbiota in the rhizosphere of Ginkgo biloba

Rujue Ruan, Zhifang Jiang, Yuhuan Wu, Maojun Xu, Jun Ni

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8051 PubMed 31741799

November 5, 2019

Systematic analysis of NAC transcription factors in Gossypium barbadense uncovers their roles in response to Verticillium wilt

Zhanji Liu, Mingchuan Fu, Hao Li, Yizhen Chen, Liguo Wang, Renzhong Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7995 PubMed 31720116

June 24, 2019

Isolation and identification of a halophilic and alkaliphilic microalgal strain

Chenxi Liu, Jiali Liu, Songmiao Hu, Xin Wang, Xuhui Wang, Qingjie Guan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7189 PubMed 31275763

May 16, 2019

Metabarcoding reveals a high diversity of woody host-associated Phytophthora spp. in soils at public gardens and amenity woodlands in Britain

Carolyn E. Riddell, Debbie Frederickson-Matika, April C. Armstrong, Matt Elliot, Jack Forster, Pete E. Hedley, Jenny Morris, Peter Thorpe, David EL Cooke, Leighton Pritchard, Paul M. Sharp, Sarah Green

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6931 PubMed 31143546

February 25, 2019

Oxidative stress and the presence of bacteria increase gene expression of the antimicrobial peptide aclasin, a fungal CSαβ defensin in Aspergillus clavatus

Gabriela Contreras, Nessa Wang, Holger Schäfer, Michael Wink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6290 PubMed 30828484

February 18, 2019

Mycorrhization of Quercus acutissima with Chinese black truffle significantly altered the host physiology and root-associated microbiomes

Xiaoping Zhang, Lei Ye, Zongjing Kang, Jie Zou, Xiaoping Zhang, Xiaolin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6421 PubMed 30805248

February 8, 2019

Cover cropping can be a stronger determinant than host crop identity for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities colonizing maize and soybean

Masao Higo, Yuya Tatewaki, Kento Gunji, Akari Kaseda, Katsunori Isobe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6403 PubMed 30775179

January 14, 2019

Comparative genomics of 16 Microbacterium spp. that tolerate multiple heavy metals and antibiotics

Deric R. Learman, Zahra Ahmad, Allison Brookshier, Michael W. Henson, Victoria Hewitt, Amanda Lis, Cody Morrison, Autumn Robinson, Emily Todaro, Ethan Wologo, Sydney Wynne, Elizabeth W. Alm, Peter S. Kourtev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6258 PubMed 30671291

January 11, 2019

Effects of Trichoderma seedling treatment with System of Rice Intensification management and with conventional management of transplanted rice

Ram B. Khadka, Norman Uphoff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5877 PubMed 30693151

December 19, 2018

Transposons and pathogenicity in Xanthomonas: acquisition of murein lytic transglycosylases by TnXax1 enhances Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri 306 virulence and fitness

Amanda C.P. Oliveira, Rafael M. Ferreira, Maria Inês T. Ferro, Jesus A. Ferro, Mick Chandler, Alessandro M. Varani

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6111 PubMed 30588403

June 13, 2018

Seasonal dynamics alter taxonomical and functional microbial profiles in Pampa biome soils under natural grasslands

Anthony Diego Muller Barboza, Victor Satler Pylro, Rodrigo Josemar Seminot Jacques, Paulo Ivonir Gubiani, Fernando Luiz Ferreira de Quadros, Júlio Kuhn da Trindade, Eric W. Triplett, Luiz Roesch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4991 PubMed 29915701

June 4, 2018

Diversity, host-specificity and stability of sponge-associated fungal communities of co-occurring sponges

Mary T.H.D. Nguyen, Torsten Thomas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4965 PubMed 29888140

October 26, 2017

Erwinia amylovora psychrotrophic adaptations: evidence of pathogenic potential and survival at temperate and low environmental temperatures

Ricardo D. Santander, Elena G. Biosca

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3931 PubMed 29085749

July 26, 2017

Antimicrobial activities of widely consumed herbal teas, alone or in combination with antibiotics: an in vitro study

Mayram Hacioglu, Sibel Dosler, Ayse Seher Birteksoz Tan, Gulten Otuk

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3467 PubMed 28761777

May 2, 2017

Analysis of microsatellites from the transcriptome of downy mildew pathogens and their application for characterization of Pseudoperonospora populations

Emma C. Wallace, Lina M. Quesada-Ocampo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3266 PubMed 28480143

March 28, 2017

Evaluating multi-locus phylogenies for species boundaries determination in the genus Diaporthe

Liliana Santos, Artur Alves, Rui Alves

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3120 PubMed 28367371

February 1, 2017

Successive DNA extractions improve characterization of soil microbial communities

Mauricio R. Dimitrov, Annelies J. Veraart, Mattias de Hollander, Hauke Smidt, Johannes A. van Veen, Eiko E. Kuramae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2915 PubMed 28168105

January 11, 2017

Rhea: a transparent and modular R pipeline for microbial profiling based on 16S rRNA gene amplicons

Ilias Lagkouvardos, Sandra Fischer, Neeraj Kumar, Thomas Clavel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2836 PubMed 28097056

January 5, 2017

Endophytic fungal diversity of Fragaria vesca, a crop wild relative of strawberry, along environmental gradients within a small geographical area

Kazutomo Yokoya, Sarah Postel, Rui Fang, Viswambharan Sarasan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2860 PubMed 28168102

November 3, 2016

Analyzing pathogen suppressiveness in bioassays with natural soils using integrative maximum likelihood methods in R

Björn C. Rall, Ellen Latz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2615 PubMed 27833800

October 25, 2016

A single-nucleotide-polymorphism-based genotyping assay for simultaneous detection of different carbendazim-resistant genotypes in the Fusarium graminearum species complex

Hao Zhang, Balázs Brankovics, Theo A.J. van der Lee, Cees Waalwijk, Anne A.D. van Diepeningen, Jin Xu, Jingsheng Xu, Wanquan Chen, Jie Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2609 PubMed 27812414

September 27, 2016

Genetic diversity of Poa pratensis L. depending on geographical origin and compared with genetic markers

Magdalena Szenejko, Przemysław Śmietana, Edyta Stępień

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2489 PubMed 27703847

September 13, 2016

Characterization of novel bacteriophage phiC119 capable of lysing multidrug-resistant Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7

Luis Amarillas, Cristóbal Chaidez, Arturo González-Robles, Yadira Lugo-Melchor, Josefina León-Félix

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2423 PubMed 27672499

August 25, 2016

Thermal treatment and leaching of biochar alleviates plant growth inhibition from mobile organic compounds

Nigel V. Gale, Tara E. Sackett, Sean C. Thomas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2385 PubMed 27635349

August 18, 2016

Microbe-ID: an open source toolbox for microbial genotyping and species identification

Javier F. Tabima, Sydney E. Everhart, Meredith M. Larsen, Alexandra J. Weisberg, Zhian N. Kamvar, Matthew A. Tancos, Christine D. Smart, Jeff H. Chang, Niklaus J. Grünwald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2279 PubMed 27602267

June 23, 2016

Biodiversity management of organic orchard enhances both ecological and economic profitability

Jie Meng, Lijun Li, Haitao Liu, Yong Li, Caihong Li, Guanglei Wu, Xiaofan Yu, Liyue Guo, Da Cheng, Mahmud A. Muminov, Xiaotian Liang, Gaoming Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2137 PubMed 27366643

June 21, 2016

Diversity of Fusarium species isolated from UK forage maize and the population structure of F. graminearum from maize and wheat

Ryan Basler

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2143 PubMed 27366645

April 19, 2016

Genome sequencing and analysis of the first complete genome of Lactobacillus kunkeei strain MP2, an Apis mellifera gut isolate

Freddy Asenjo, Alejandro Olmos, Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich, Victor Polanco, Patricia Aldea, Juan A. Ugalde, Annette N. Trombert

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1950 PubMed 27114887

April 11, 2016

Differences in stability of seed-associated microbial assemblages in response to invasion by phytopathogenic microorganisms

Samir Rezki, Claire Campion, Beatrice Iacomi-Vasilescu, Anne Preveaux, Youness Toualbia, Sophie Bonneau, Martial Briand, Emmanuelle Laurent, Gilles Hunault, Philippe Simoneau, Marie-Agnès Jacques, Matthieu Barret

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1923 PubMed 27077013