Doctor Eleonora Egidi

Journal Articles

• Singh, P., Egidi, E., Macdonald, C. and Singh, B. (2023), 'Host selection has a stronger impact on leaf microbiome assembly compared to land-management practices', Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, vol 2, no 2 , pp 99 - 111.
• Greenwood, L., Nimmo, D., Egidi, E., Price, J., McIntosh, R. and Frew, A. (2023), 'Fire shapes fungal guild diversity and composition through direct and indirect pathways', Molecular Ecology, vol 32, no 17 , pp 4921 - 4939.
• Wadduwage, J., Liu, H., Egidi, E., Singh, B. and Macdonald, C. (2023), 'Effects of biostimulant application on soil biological and physicochemical properties : a field study', Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, vol 2, no 3 , pp 285 - 300.
• Saez-Sandino, T., Saez Sandino, T., Delgado Baquerizo, M., Egidi, E. and Singh, B. (2023), 'New microbial tools to boost restoration and soil organic matters', Microbial Biotechnology, vol 16, no 11 , pp 2019 - 2025.
• Decker, O., Egidi, E., Hopkins, A., Danks, M. and Gibb, H. (2023), 'Reintroduction of threatened digging mammals influences soil microbial communities differently along a rainfall gradient', Pedobiologia, vol 99-100 .
• Egidi, E., Delgado Baquerizo, M., Berdugo, M., Guirado, E., Albanese, D., Singh, B. and Coleine, C. (2023), 'UV index and climate seasonality explain fungal community turnover in global drylands', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 32, no 1 , pp 132 - 144.
• Singh, B., Delgado Baquerizo, M., Egidi, E., Guirado, E., Leach, J., Liu, H. and Trivedi, P. (2023), 'Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward', Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol 21, no 10 , pp 640 - 656.
• Coleine, C., Egidi, E., Delgado-Baquerizo, M. and Selbmann, L. (2023), 'Tracking endolithic microbiomes to support the sustainability and functioning of global drylands', Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, .
• Egidi, E., Coleine, C., Delgado Baquerizo, M. and Singh, B. (2023), 'Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes', Nature Microbiology, vol 8, no 12 , pp 2230 - 2233.
• Hirekodathakal Jayaramaiah, R., Egidi, E., Macdonald, C., Wang, J., Jeffries, T., Megharaj, M. and Singh, B. (2022), 'Soil initial bacterial diversity and nutrient availability determine the rate of xenobiotic biodegradation', Microbial Biotechnology, vol 15, no 1 , pp 318 - 336.
• Feng, Y., Zhang, J., Berdugo, M., Guirado, E., Guerra, C., Egidi, E., Wang, J., Singh, B. and Delgado-Baquerizo, M. (2022), 'Temperature thresholds drive the global distribution of soil fungal decomposers', Global Change Biology, vol 28, no 8 , pp 2779 - 2789.
• Coleine, C., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Albanese, D., Singh, B., Stajich, J., Selbmann, L. and Egidi, E. (2022), 'Rocks support a distinctive and consistent mycobiome across contrasting dry regions of Earth', FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol 98, no 3 .
• Bowd, E., Egidi, E., Lindenmayer, D., Wardle, D., Kardol, P., Cary, G. and Foster, C. (2022), 'Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest', Journal of Ecology, vol 110, no 7 , pp 1687 - 1703.
• Kaur, S., Egidi, E., Qiu, Z., Macdonald, C., Verma, J., Trivedi, P., Wang, J., Liu, H. and Singh, B. (2022), 'Synthetic community improves crop performance and alters rhizosphere microbial communities', Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, vol 1, no 2 , pp 118 - 131.
• Ega, S., Drendel, G., Petrovski, S., Egidi, E., Franks, A. and Muddada, S. (2020), 'Comparative analysis of structural variations due to genome shuffling of Bacillus subtilis VS15 for improved cellulase production', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol 21, no 4 .
• Delgado Baquerizo, M., Guerra, C., Cano-Diaz, C., Egidi, E., Wang, J., Eisenhauer, N., Singh, B. and Maestre, F. (2020), 'The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale', Nature Climate Change, vol 10 , pp 550 - 554.
• Qiu, Z., Wang, J., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Trivedi, P., Egidi, E., Chen, Y., Zhang, H. and Singh, B. (2020), 'Plant microbiomes : do different preservation approaches and primer sets alter our capacity to assess microbial diversity and community composition?', Frontiers in Plant Science, vol 11 .
• Guzman, C., Wood, J., Egidi, E., White-Monsant, A., Semenec, L., Grommen, S., Hill-Yardin, E., De Groef, B. and Franks, A. (2020), 'A pioneer calf foetus microbiome', Scientific Reports, vol 10 .
• Singh, B., Trivedi, P., Egidi, E., Macdonald, C. and Delgado-Baquerizo, M. (2020), 'Crop microbiome and sustainable agriculture', Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol 18, no 11 , pp 601 - 602.
• Egidi, E., Wood, J., Celestina, C., May, T., Mele, P., Edwards, J., Powell, J., Bissett, A. and Franks, A. (2019), 'Delving into the dark ecology : a continent-wide assessment of patterns of composition in soil fungal communities from Australian tussock grasslands', Fungal Ecology, vol 39 , pp 356 - 370.
• Qiu, Z., Egidi, E., Liu, H., Kaur, S. and Singh, B. (2019), 'New frontiers in agriculture productivity : optimised microbial inoculants and in situ microbiome engineering', Biotechnology Advances, vol 37, no 6 .
• Egidi, E., Delgado Baquerizo, M., Plett, J., Wang, J., Eldridge, D., Bardgett, R., Maestre, F. and Singh, B. (2019), 'A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide', Nature Communications, vol 10, no 1 .
• Wang, J., Egidi, E., Li, J. and Singh, B. (2019), 'Linking microbial diversity with ecosystem functioning through a trait framework', Journal of Biosciences, vol 44 .
• Madigan, A., Egidi, E., Bedon, F., Franks, A. and Plummer, K. (2019), 'Bacterial and fungal communities are differentially modified by melatonin in agricultural soils under abiotic stress', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol 10 .
• Coleine, C., Stajich, J., Zucconi, L., Onofri, S., Pombubpa, N., Egidi, E., Franks, A., Buzzini, P. and Selbmann, L. (2018), 'Antarctic cryptoendolithic fungal communities are highly adapted and dominated by Lecanoromycetes and Dothideomycetes', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol 9 .
• Egidi, E. and Franks, A. (2018), 'Incorporating fungal community ecology into invasion biology : challenges and opportunities', Microbiology Australia, vol 39, no 1 , pp 56 - 60.
• Egidi, E., May, T. and Franks, A. (2018), 'Seeking the needle in the haystack : undetectability of mycorrhizal fungi outside of the plant rhizosphere associated with an endangered Australian orchid', Fungal Ecology, vol 33 , pp 13 - 23.
• Xu, Y., He, Y., Egidi, E., Franks, A., Tang, C. and Xu, J. (2018), 'Pentachlorophenol alters the acetate-assimilating microbial community and redox cycling in anoxic soils', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol 131 , pp 133 - 140.
• Yu, Z., Li, Y., Hu, X., Jin, J., Wang, G., Tang, C., Liu, J., Liu, X., Franks, A., Egidi, E. and Xie, Z. (2018), 'Elevated CO2 increases the abundance but simplifies networks of soybean rhizosphere fungal community in Mollisol soils', Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol 264 , pp 94 - 98.
• Wijayawardene, N., Hyde, K., Rajeshkumar, K., Hawksworth, D., Madrid, H., Kirk, P., Braun, U., Singh, R., Crous, P., Kukwa, M., Lucking, R., Kurtzman, C., Yurkov, A., Haelewaters, D., Aptroot, A., Thorsten Lumbsch, H., Timdal, E., Ertz, D., Etayo, J., Phillips, A., Groenewald, J., Papizadeh, M., Selbmann, L., Dayarathne, M., Weerakoon, G., Gareth Jones, E., Suetrong, S., Tian, Q., Casta?eda-Ruiz, R., Bahkali, A., Pang, K., Tanaka, K., Dai, D., Sakayaroj, J., Hujslova, M., Lombard, L., Shenoy, B., Suija, A., Maharachchikumbura, S., Thambugala, K., Wanasinghe, D., Sharma, B., Gaikwad, S., Pandit, G., Zucconi, L., Onofri, S., Egidi, E., Raja, H., Kodsueb, R., Caceres, M., Perez-Ortega, S., Fiuza, P., Monteiro, J., Vasilyeva, L., Shivas, R., Prieto, M., Wedin, M., Olariaga, I., Lateef, A., Agrawal, Y., Fazeli, S., Amoozegar, M., Zhao, G., Pfliegler, W., Sharma, G., Oset, M., Abdel-Wahab, M., Takamatsu, S., Bensch, K., De Silva, N., De Kesel, A., Karunarathna, A., Boonmee, S., Pfister, D., Lu, Y., Luo, Z., Boonyuen, N., Daranagama, D., Senanayake, I., Jayasiri, S., Samarakoon, M., Zeng, X., Doilom, M., Quijada, L., Rampadarath, S., Heredia, G., Dissanayake, A., Jayawardana, R., Perera, R., Tang, L., Phukhamsakda, C., Hernandez-Restrepo, M., Ma, X., Tibpromma, S., Gusmao, L., Weerahewa, D. and Karunarathna, S. (2017), 'Notes for genera : Ascomycota', Fungal Diversity, vol 86, no 1 , pp 1 - 594.
• Egidi, E., McMullan-Fisher, S., Morgan, J., May, T., Zeeman, B. and Franks, A. (2016), 'Fire regime, not time-since-fire, affects soil fungal community diversity and composition in temperate grasslands', FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol 363, no 17 .
• Stielow, J., Levesque, C., Seifert, K., Meyer, W., Irinyi, L., Smits, D., Renfurm, R., Verkley, G., Groenewald, M., Chaduli, D., Lomascolo, A., Welti, S., Lesage-Meessen, L., Favel, A., Al-Hatmi, A., Damm, U., Yilmaz, N., Houbraken, J., Lombard, L., Quaedvlieg, W., Binder, M., Vaas, L., Vu, D., Yurkov, A., Begerow, D., Roehl, O., Guerreiro, M., Fonseca, A., Samerpitak, K., Diepeningen, A., Dolatabadi, S., Moreno, L., Casaregola, S., Mallet, S., Jacques, N., Roscini, L., Egidi, E., Bizet, C., Garcia-Hermoso, D., Martin, M., Deng, S., Groenewald, J., Boekhout, T., De Beer, W., Barnes, I., Duong, T., Wingfield, M., Hoog, G., Crous, P., Lewis, C., Hambleton, S., Moussa, T., Al-Zahrani, H., Almaghrabi, O., Louis-Seize, G., Assabgui, R., McCormick, W., Omer, G., Dukik, K., Cardinali, G., Eberhardt, U., Vries, M. and Robert, V. (2015), 'One fungus, which genes? : development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes', Persoonia, vol 35, no 1 , pp 242 - 263.
• Egidi, E., de Hoog, G., Isola, D., Onofri, S., Quaedvlieg, W., de Vries, M., Verkley, G., Stielow, J., Zucconi, L. and Selbmann, L. (2014), 'Phylogeny and taxonomy of meristematic rock-inhabiting black fungi in the Dothideomycetes based on multi-locus phylogenies', Fungal Diversity, vol 65, no 1 , pp 127 - 165.
• Selbmann, L., Isola, D., Egidi, E., Zucconi, L., Gueidan, C., Hoog, G. and Onofri, S. (2014), 'Mountain tips as reservoirs for new rock-fungal entities : Saxomyces gen. nov. and four new species from the Alps', Fungal Diversity, vol 65, no 1 , pp 167 - 182.
• Selbmann, L., Egidi, E., Isola, D., Onofri, S., Zucconi, L., De Hoog, G., Chinaglia, S., Testa, L., Tosi, S., Balestrazzi, A., Lantieri, A., Compagno, R., Tigini, V. and Varese, G. (2013), 'Biodiversity, evolution and adaptation of fungi in extreme environments', Plant Biosystems, vol 147, no 1 , pp 237 - 246.