Priscila Chaverri - Publications

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Recent Publications (since 2021)

  • Bolívar-González A., Tapia-Fernández A., Chaverri P., Gatica-Arias A. 2025. Differential gene expression in response to Hemileia vastatrix in chemically mutagenized coffee plants (Coffea arabica L. var. Catuaí). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (in press)
  • Chaverri, P., Goldson, N.*, Romberg, M.K., Dadkhahtehrani, A., Castlebury, L.A. 2025. A new species of Entyloma (Entylomatales, Exobasidiomycetes) on the ornamental plant Eryngium planum expands the En. eryngii species complex. Mycologia (in press, 10.1080/00275514.2025.2460002)
  • Castillo-González, H.*, Slot, J.C., Yarwood, S., Chaverri, P. 2025. Exploring biodiversity dynamics and taxonomy of Rubiaceae fungal endophytes in tropical regions. Peer Community Journal 5: e26.
  • Silva Peixoto, G.H., Fernandes da Silva, R.A., Zacaroni, A.B., Silva, T.F., Chaverri, P., Pinho, D.B., Marques de Mello, S.C. 2025. A Brazilian soil Trichoderma collection reveals a new species, T. cerradensis sp. nov. Frontiers in Microbiology 16:1279142.
  • Bhunjun CS, [+144 co-authors] Hyde KD, Crous PW. 2024. What are the 100 most cited fungal genera? Studies in Mycology 108: 1-411. *P. Chaverri is 55th author and contributed with the chapter on Trichoderma (pp. 22-27)
  • Castillo-González, H.*, Bloomberg, J., Alvarado-Picado, E., Yarwood, S., Chaverri, P. 2024. Agricultural practices influence foliar endophytic communities in coffee plants of different varieties. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment 2024;7:e20476. Article highlighted in CSA News (volume 68, issue 8: pages 4-7), the news journal of Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, and American Society of Agronomy (Joosse, T. 2024. Farming Practices, Fungal Endophytes, and Coffee. CSA News 69(8):4-7).
  • Zuffa, S., et al. [P. Chaverri: 36th co-author out of 106]. 2024. microbeMASST: A taxonomically-informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data. Nature Microbiology 9: 336-345.
  • Hyde, K.D., et al. 2023. Global consortium for the classification of fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 14(1): 1960-2012. (Global consortium paper with 100+ mycologists)
  • Escudero-Leyva E.*, Quirós-Guerrero, L., Vásquez-Chaves, V., Pereira-Reyes, R., Chaverri, P., Tamayo-Castillo, G. 2023. Differential volatile organic compound expression from the interaction of Daldinia eschscholtzii and Mycena citricolor. ACS Omega 8: 31373-31388. (Article selected for the cover of volume 8, issue 34, of ACS Omega)
  • Scott, K., Konkel, Z., Glück-Thaler, E., Valero David, G.E., Farinas, C., Grootmyer, D., Chaverri, P., Slot, J. 2023. Endophyte genomes support greater metabolic gene cluster diversity compared with non-endophytes in Trichoderma. PLoS ONE 18(12): e0289280
  • Escudero-Leyva, E.*, Granados-Montero, M., Orozco-Ortiz, C., Araya-Valverde, E., Alvarado-Picado, E., Chaves-Fallas, J.M., Aldrich-Wolfe, L., Chaverri, P. 2023. The endophytobiome of wild Rubiaceae as a source of antagonistic fungi against the American Leaf Spot of coffee (Mycena citricolor). Journal of Applied Microbiology 134: lxad090. (The Microbiologist, the news magazine for Applied Microbiology International, wrote a piece on this article. The news article is entitled: "Endophytes colonize and protect coffee seedlings" by L. Stewart; May 15, 2023)
  • Rojas-Gätjens, D., Avey-Arroyo, J., Chaverri, P., Rojas-Jiménez, K., Chavarría, M. 2023. Differences in fungal communities in the fur of two- and three-toed sloths revealed by ITS metabarcoding. Microbiology 169: 001309.
  • Chaverri, P., Romberg, M., Montero-Vargas, M., McKemy, J., Rane, K., Balbalian, C.J., Castlebury, L.A. 2023. Phylogeographic and phylogenomic structure of the quarantine plant pathogen Colletotrichum liriopes, including new reports in the United States. Plant Disease 107: 2816-2824.
  • Escudero-Leyva, E.*, Vieto, S., Avendaño, R., Rojas-Gätjens, D., Agüero, P., Pacheco, C., Montero, M.L., Chaverri, P., Chavarría, M. 2023. Fungi with history: Unveiling the mycobiota of historic documents of Costa Rica. PLoS ONE 18(1):e0279914. (Chaverri, corresponding author)
  • Castro-Moretti, F.R., Cocuron, J.-C., Castillo-Gonzalez, H.*, Escudero-Levya, E.*, Chaverri, P., Filho, O.G., Slot, J.C., Alonso, A.P. 2023. A metabolomic platform to identify and quantify polyphenols in coffee and related species using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:1057645.
  • Granados-Montero, M., Zuñiga-Castañeda, M., Chaverri, P., Escudero-Leyva, E.*, Mardones-Hidalgo, M. 2022. Patogenicidad de hongos asociados a plantas de fresa y descripción ultraestructural del patosistema [Pathogenicity of fungi associated to strawberries and ultrastructural description of the pathosystem]. Agronomía Costarricense 46: 9-28.
  • Campos-Esquivel, L.*, Hanson, P.E., Escudero-Leyva, E.*, Chaverri, P. 2022. Virulence of native isolates of entomopathogenic fungi (Hypocreales) against the “sweetpotato whitefly” Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), including the effects of temperature and fungicides. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 192: 07787.
  • Crous PW, Sandoval-Denis M, Costa MM, Groenewald JZ, van Iperen AL, Starink-Willemse M, Hernández-Restrepo M, Kandemir H, Ulaszewski B, de Boer W, Abdel-Azeem AM, Abdollahzadeh J, Akulov A, Bakhshi M, Bezerra JDP, Bhunjun A, Câmara MPS, Chaverri P, […], Thines M. 2022. Fusarium and allied fusarioid taxa (FUSA). 1. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 9: 161–199.
  • Fonseca, P.L.C., Skaltsas, D.*, Ferreira da Silva, F., Bentes Kato, R., Marques de Castro, G., Yupanqui García, G.J., Quintanilha-Peixoto, G., […], Chaverri, P., Vaz, A.B.M., Góes-Neto, A. 2022. An integrative view of phyllosphere mycobiome of native rubber trees in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Fungi 8: 373.
  • Chaverri, P., Chaverri, G. 2022. Fungal communities in feces of the frugivorous bat Ectophylla alba and its highly specialized Ficus colubrinae diet. Animal Microbiome 4: 24
  • Escudero-Leyva, E.*, Alfaro-Vargas, P., Muñoz-Arrieta, R., Charpentier-Alfaro, C., Granados-Montero, M., Alvarado-Picado, E., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, C., Chaverri, P., Mora-Villalobos, A. 2022. Tolerance and biological removal of fungicides by Trichoderma species isolated from the endosphere of wild Rubiaceae plants. Frontiers in Agronomy 3: 772170 (P. Chaverri: corresponding author)
  • Vieto, S., E. Escudero-Leyva*, R. Avendaño, N. Rechnitzer, M.D. Barrantes-Madrigal, G. Conejo-Barboza, O.A. Herrera-Sancho, P. Chaverri, M. Chavarría. 2022. Biodeterioration and cellulolytic activity by fungi isolated from a nineteenth-century painting from the National Theatre of Costa Rica. Fungal Biology 126: 101-112 (P. Chaverri: corresponding author)
  • Adamo, I., E. Ortiz-Malavasi, R. Chazdon, P. Chaverri, H. ter Steege, J. Geml. 2021. Richness and composition of soil fungal communities correlate with site-specific abiotic factors, tree community composition, and forest age in regenerating tropical rainforests. Biology 10(11): 1120. (Special issue: Diversity of Soil Fungal Communities) (cover image and story)
  • Crous, P.W., Lombard, L., Sandoval-Denis, M., Seifert, K.A., Schroers, H.-J., Chaverri, P., et al. 2021. Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell. Studies in Mycology 98: 100116.
  • Barrera, V., Iannone, L., Romero, A. I., Chaverri, P. 2021. Expanding the Trichoderma harzianum species complex: Two new species from Argentinian natural and cultivated ecosystems. Mycologia 113: 1136-1155.
  • Granados-Montero, M., Chaves-Barrantes, N., Chaverri, P., Hernandez-Fonseca, J.C., Escudero-Leyva, E.* 2021. Fungi associated with common bean wilt in Costa Rica. Revista Mexicana de Fitopatología-Mexican Journal of Phytopathology 39(2): 289-301.

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