Publications

This is a list of selected recent papers. Please, visit my Google Scholar profile for a full list of my publications.

Antonino Malacrinò, Chiara Bernardini, Micol Guaschino, Laura Bardi, Andrea Bossolasco, Guido Cipriani, Gloria De Mori, Giacomo Falcone, Giovanni Mian, Saveria Mosca, Luca Nari, Emanuele Spada, Athina Vasileiadou, Marta Martini, Paolo Ermacora, Davide Spadaro, Leonardo Schena (2026). Kiwifruit Vine Decline Syndrome: etiology, mechanisms, and management of a multifactorial disease. Plant Stress.

Edda Francomano, Meriem Miyassa Aci, Marialiusa Casuscelli, Leonardo Schena, Antonino Malacrinò (2026). Belowground pathogens rewire the phyllosphere microbiome in tomato plants. Plant and Soil.

Edda Francomano, Meriem Miyassa Aci, Saveria Mosca, Nesma Zakaria Mohamed, Giovanni Enrico Agosteo, Maria Giulia Li Destri Nicosia, Antonino Malacrinò, Leonardo Schena (2026). Plant health in the era of global changes, holobiont biology, and microbiome-based solutions. Horticulture Research.

Martin Schaefer, Antonino Malacrinò, Christoph Walcher, Piet Spaak, Marie Serwaty-Sarazova, Silvana Kaeser, Thea Bulas, Christine Dambone-Boesch, Eric Dexter, Juergen Hottinger, Laura Boettner, Christoph Vorburger, Dieter Ebert, Shuqing Xu (2025). Aphid herbivory on macrophytes drives adaptive evolution in an aquatic community via indirect effects. PNAS.

Jacob Hopkins, Giuseppina Vizzari, Alison E. Bennett, Antonino Malacrinò (2025). Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities. Global Change Biology.

Meriem Miyassa Aci, Giovanni E. Agosteo, Gabriele Pelle, Antonino Malacrinò, Leonardo Schena (2025). Environmental isolates of Pseudomonas spp. inhibit Armillaria mellea and promote plant growth through microbiome-mediated effects. Plant and Soil.

Fiama Guevara, Timothy Frey, Antonino Malacrinò, Maria Soledad Benitez Ponce (2025). Influence of System Type and Management Practices on Bacterial and Fungal Community Structure in Hydroponic Systems: Insights from Commercial Facilities in Ohio. Phytobiomes.

Antonino Malacrinò, Ruth Jacobs, Shuqing Xu, Caroline Müller (2025). Influences of plant maternal effects, chemotype, and environment on the leaf bacterial community. Plant Biology.

Alison E. Bennett, Scott Kelsey, Casey Saup, Mike Wilkins, Antonino Malacrinò (2024). Selenium alters the gene content but not the taxonomic composition of the soil microbiome. Environmental Microbiome.

Seth Bordenstein, Thomas Gilbert, Nichole Ginnan, Antonino Malacrinò, Maria Elena Martino, Antonn Alberdi (2024). The disciplinary matrix of holobiont biology. Science.

Saveria Mosca, Miya Aci, Giuseppina Procopio, Vittoria Vadalà, Giuseppina Vizzari, Edda Francomano, Nesma Zakaria Mohamed, Maria Giulia Li Destri Nicosia, Giovanni Enrico Agosteo, Davide Spadaro, Leonardo Schena, Antonino Malacrinò (2024). Integrated analyses of the plant and soil microbiome identify Phytopythium vexans as agent of the Kiwifruit Vine Decline Syndrome. Plant and Soil.

Jocelyn Holt, Nathalia Cavichiolli de Oliveira, Raul Medina, Antonino Malacrinò, Amelia Lindsey (2024). Insect–microbe interactions and their influence on organisms and ecosystems. Ecology and Evolution.

Antonino Malacrinò, Alison E. Bennett (2024). Soil microbiota and herbivory drive the assembly of tomato plant-associated microbial communities through different mechanisms. Communications Biology.

Nesma Zakaria Mohamed, Leonardo Schena, Antonino Malacrinò (2024). Lettuce seedlings rapidly assemble their microbiome from the environment through deterministic processes. Rhizosphere.

Wenkang Yan, Yuting Liu, Antonino Malacrinò, Jiaoyang Zhang, Xiaoli Cheng, Christopher Rensing, Zhongyi Zhang, Wenxiong Lin, Zhen Zhang, Hongmiao Wu (2024). Combination of biochar and PGPBs amendment suppresses soil-borne pathogens by modifying plant-associated microbiome. Applied Soil Ecology.

Antonino Malacrinò, Laura Böttner, Sara Nouere, Meret Huber, Martin Schäfer, Shuqing Xu (2024). Induced responses contribute to rapid adaptation of Spirodela polyrhiza to herbivory by Lymnaea stagnalis. Communications Biology.

Daowen Huo, Antonino Malacrinò, Laura Lindsey, Maria Soledad Benitez Ponce (2023). Subtle responses of soil bacterial communities to corn-soybean-wheat rotation. Phytobiomes.

Antonino Malacrinò, Ahmed Abdelfattah, Imen Belgacem, Leonardo Schena (2023). Plant genotype influence the structure of cereal seed fungal microbiome. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Laura Böttner, Antonino Malacrinò, Christian Schulze Gronover, Nicole van Deenen, Boje Müller, Shuqing Xu, Jonathan Gershenzon, Dirk Prüfer, Meret Huber (2023). Natural rubber reduces herbivory and alters the microbiome below ground. New Phytologist.

Raphael Tiziani, Begoña Miras-Moreno, Antonino Malacrinò, Rosa Vescio, Luigi Lucini, Tanja Mimmo, Stefano Cesco, Agostino Sorgonà (2022). Drought, heat, and their combination impact the root exudation patterns and rhizosphere microbiome in maize roots. Environmental and Experimental Botany.

Antonino Malacrinò, Ahmed Abdelfattah, Gabriele Berg, Maria-Soledad Benitez, Alison E. Bennett, Laura Böttner, Shuqing Xu, Leonardo Schena (2022). Exploring microbiomes for plant disease management. Biological Control.

Antonino Malacrinò (2022). Host species identity shapes the diversity and structure of insect microbiota. Molecular Ecology.

Antonino Malacrinò, Mingyuan Wang, Sandra Caul, Alison J. Karley, Alison E. Bennett (2021). Herbivory shapes the rhizosphere bacterial microbiota in potato plants. Environmental Microbiology Reports.

Antonino Malacrinò, Alison J. Karley, Leonardo Schena, Alison E. Bennett (2021). Soil Microbial Diversity Impacts Plant Microbiota More than Herbivory. Phytobiomes Journal.

Antonino Malacrinò, Victoria A. Sadowski, Tvisha K. Martin, Nathalia Cavichiolli de Oliveira, Ian J. Brackett, James D. Feller, Kristian J. Harris, Orlando Combita Heredia, Rosa Vescio, Alison E. Bennett (2020). Biological invasions alter environmental microbiomes: A meta-analysis. PLoS one.