Francisco Dini-Andreote

Huck Early Career Chair in Microbial Community Ecology, Associate Professor of Plant Science

Francisco Dini-Andreote

Research Summary

Microbiome, plant-microbe interactions, and community ecology. Harnessing the plant microbiome to enhance protection against biotic and abiotic stresses.

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Most Recent Publications

Unveiling the ecological processes driving soil and lichen microbiome assembly along an urbanization gradient

Panji Cahya Mawarda, Rens van der Kaaij, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Deniz Duijker, Michael Stech, Adrianus G.C.L. Speksnijder, 2025, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Functional adaptations of the rhizosphere microbiome for drought-tolerance promotion in common bean

Ana Vitória Reina da Silva, Izadora de Cássia Mesquita Cunha, Thierry Alexandre Pellegrinetti, Eduardo Henrique Marcandalli Boleta, Luis Felipe Guandalin Zagatto, Solange dos Santos Silva Zagatto, Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka, Teresa Maria Lorizolla Mafra, Camila Maistro Patreze, Gordon F. Custer, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Rodrigo Mendes, Siu Mui Tsai, Lucas William Mendes, 2025, Plant Stress

Ecologically expanding the One Health framework to unify the microbiome sciences

Nichole Ginnan, Sharifa G. Crandall, Madangchanok Imchen, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Tim I. Miyashiro, Vishal Singh, Erika Ganda, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2025, mBio

Molecular activity mediates the composition and assembly of dissolved organic matter in lake sediments

Shuailong Wen, Ang Hu, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Lei Han, Shuyu Jiang, Kyoung Soon Jang, Jianjun Wang, 2025, Limnology and Oceanography on p. 1196-1209

Leveraging by-products of the agri-food industry for the application of anaerobic soil disinfestation in organic high tunnel vegetable production

F. Di Gioia, J. Ono-Raphel, K. Arrington, R. Balaguer, F. Dini-Andreote, Jason Philip Kaye, E. Rosskopf, 2025, Acta Horticulturae on p. 63-70

Interplay of ecological processes modulates microbial community reassembly following coalescence

Luana Bresciani, Gordon F. Custer, David Koslicki, Francisco Dini-Andreote, 2025, ISME Journal

Targeted manipulation of food webs in the plant rhizosphere

Lu Luan, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Shungui Zhou, Yuji Jiang, 2025, Trends in Plant Science on p. 457-460

Root-derived low molecular weight organic acids modulate keystone microbial taxa impacting plant phosphorus acquisition

Jie Zheng, Guangping Shi, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Yeyuping Yang, Yuji Jiang, 2025, Journal of Advanced Research

Effects of carbon sources on soil bacterial community dynamics during anaerobic soil disinfestation in an organic tomato production system

Joe G. Ono-Raphel, Gordon F. Custer, Kathleen Arrington, Ben Morrison, Jason Philip Kaye, Erin Rosskopf, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Francisco Dini Andreote, Francesco Di Gioia, 2024, Agro-Ecosystems on p. 109448

Effects of plant tissue permeability on invasion and population bottlenecks of a phytopathogen

Gaofei Jiang, Yuling Zhang, Min Chen, Josep Ramoneda, Liangliang Han, Yu Shi, Rémi Peyraud, Yikui Wang, Xiaojun Shi, Xinping Chen, Wei Ding, Alexandre Jousset, Yasufumi Hikichi, Kouhei Ohnishi, Fang Jie Zhao, Yangchun Xu, Qirong Shen, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Yong Zhang, Zhong Wei, 2024, Nature Communications

Most-Cited Papers

Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

Francisco Dini-Andreote, James C. Stegen, Jan Dirk Van Elsas, Joana Falcão Salles, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E1326-E1332

Effects of plastic mulch film residues on wheat rhizosphere and soil properties

Yueling Qi, Adam Ossowicki, Xiaomei Yang, Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Violette Geissen, Paolina Garbeva, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials on p. 121711

Ecology and evolution of plant microbiomes

Viviane Cordovez, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Víctor J. Carrión, Jos M. Raaijmakers, 2019, Annual Review of Microbiology on p. 69--88

Marine probiotics: increasing coral resistance to bleaching through microbiome manipulation

Phillipe M. Rosado, Deborah C.A. Leite, Gustavo A.S. Duarte, Ricardo M. Chaloub, Guillaume Jospin, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, João P. Saraiva, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Jonathan A. Eisen, David G. Bourne, Raquel S. Peixoto, 2019, ISME Journal on p. 921-936

Community Assembly Processes of the Microbial Rare Biosphere

Xiu Jia, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Joana Falcão Salles, 2018, Trends in Microbiology on p. 738-747

Interspecific plant interaction via root exudates structures the disease suppressiveness of rhizosphere microbiomes

Xingang Zhou, Jingyu Zhang, Muhammad Khashi u Rahman, Danmei Gao, Zhong Wei, Fengzhi Wu, Francisco Dini-Andreote, 2023, Molecular Plant on p. 849-864

Organism body size structures the soil microbial and nematode community assembly at a continental and global scale

Lu Luan, Yuji Jiang, Menghua Cheng, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Yueyu Sui, Qinsong Xu, Stefan Geisen, Bo Sun, 2020, Nature Communications on p. 6406

The impact of failure: Unsuccessful bacterial invasions steer the soil microbial community away from the invader's niche

C. A. Mallon, X. Le Roux, G. S. Van Doorn, F. Dini-Andreote, F. Poly, J. F. Salles, 2018, ISME Journal on p. 728-741

Multifaceted roles of flavonoids mediating plant-microbe interactions

Lanxiang Wang, Moxian Chen, Pui Ying Lam, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Lei Dai, Zhong Wei, 2022, Microbiome

Endophytes: The Second Layer of Plant Defense

Francisco Dini-Andreote, 2020, Trends in Plant Science on p. 319-322

News Articles Featuring Francisco Dini-Andreote

Sep 25, 2024

Plant scientist named Huck Early Career Chair in Microbial Community Ecology

Francisco Dini-Andreote, assistant professor of plant science in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State, has been awarded the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Microbial Community Ecology.

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Sep 24, 2024

$1M USDA grant to perfect weed killing method in organic crop production

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a four-year, $1 million grant to a team led by plant scientists and an economist from Penn State to investigate anaerobic soil disinfestation to support transitioning from conventional to organic production systems.

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Aug 28, 2024

Research teams receive $1.1 million to study microbiomes in agriculture

Two Penn State-led research teams have received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture for projects investigating the ways microbiomes — the microorganisms in a particular environment, such as in soil or a living organism — can affect disease dynamics in agriculture.

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Jul 18, 2024

Microbiome Kickstart Workshop will assist newcomers to the field

The One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State has opened registration for its fifth annual Microbiome Kickstart Workshop. This free, comprehensive, workshop is a cornerstone training event for emerging researchers to launch their microbiome studies and network at Penn State.

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Apr 12, 2024

Probiotic feed additive boosts growth, health in poultry in place of antibiotics

Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat for public health, and the use of antimicrobials in livestock feed has been a major contributing factor in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance to many drugs, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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Feb 16, 2024

Common plant could help reduce food insecurity, researchers find

Fast-growing aquatic fern has the nutritional content to serve as a potentially vital food source after a catastrophe and could be relevant now

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Dec 05, 2023

Microbes essential to plants are disappearing due to global warming

A new study predicts that plant-friendly microbes could be hindered by global warming

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Nov 20, 2023

Researchers predict climate change-driven reduction in beneficial plant microbes

Bacteria that benefit plants are thought to be a critical contributor to crops and other ecosystems, but climate change may reduce their numbers, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. They published their findings in Nature Food.

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Feb 27, 2023

New predictive models developed for bacterial diversity of soils

A new set of quantitative models that incorporates pH into the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) has been developed by an international team that includes Penn State assistant professor of plant science Francisco Dini-Andreote.

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Oct 19, 2021

Grant to fund research on biological approach to manage soil pathogens and pests

In an effort to boost the profitability and sustainability of organic specialty crop productions, a team of scientists is improving and optimizing a method for controlling soilborne pests and pathogens and promoting soil health that prevents oxygen from entering the soil.

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