JosÉ Francisco Marcos LÓpez
professor
food science
Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos
Spain
Biography
ose Marcos holds a CSIC Scientific Researcher position at IATA. He develops his scientific career in the area of molecular plant pathology, with contributions in food microbiology and plant biotechnology. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Valencia (1991) working on molecular plant virology and the characterization of plant viroids, under advice of Prof. R. Flores (IBMCP, Valencia). He then moved as a postdoctoral fellow for three years to the group of Prof. R. N. Beachy at TSRI (La Jolla, CA, USA), wherein he worked on plant genetic transformation for the development of virus-resistant plants
Research Interest
Research in the laboratory focuses on the identification, characterization, and development of antimicrobial and antifungal peptides and proteins with application in agriculture and food science, mainly with activity against phytopathogenic fungi
Publications
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López-GarcÃa, B., Harries, E., Carmona, L., Campos-Soriano, L., López, J. J., Manzanares, P., GandÃa, M., Coca, M., and Marcos, J. F. (2015) Concatemerization increases the inhibitory capacity of short cell-penetrating, cationic and tryptophan-rich antifungal peptides. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 99: 8011-8021.
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Harries, E., GandÃa, M., Carmona, L., and Marcos, J. F. (2015) The Penicillium digitatum Protein O–Mannosyltransferase Pmt2 is required for cell wall integrity, conidiogenesis, virulence and sensitivity to the antifungal peptide PAF26. Molecular Plant Pathology 16: 748-761.
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Garrigues, S., GandÃa, M., and Marcos, J. F. (2016) On the occurrence and function of fungal antifungal proteins: the case study of the citrus postharvest pathogen Penicillium digitatum. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 100: 2243–2256.
