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  1. Beyond kin killing: Dickeya-derived phage-tail-like bacteriocin P2D1 targets phylogenetically distant Pseudomonas spp.

    Article • October 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  2. Antagonistic Interactions Between Dickeya solani and Bacillus subtilis

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  3. Harnessing Bacteriophages for Sustainable Crop Protection in the Face of Climate Change

    Article • Microbial Biotechnology, February 2025, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  4. Production of P2D1 tailocins byDickeya dadantii3937: a temporal relationship between the stressor onset, gene expression, and the concentration of active particles

    Article • November 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  5. Inner membrane protein OutB is covalently attached to peptidoglycan in the γ-proteobacteriumDickeya dadantii

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  6. Elicitation of potato plants to increase their resistance against Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae bacteria

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  7. Metabolomic analysis revealed the absence of the principal antimicrobial compound of Pseudomonas donghuensis P482, 7-hydroxytropolone, under restricted nutrient conditions

    Article • June 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  8. Looking for Resistance to Soft Rot Disease of Potatoes Facing Environmental Hypoxia

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  9. Genetic Loci of Plant Pathogenic Dickeya solani IPO 2222 Expressed in Contact with Weed-Host Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara L.) Plants

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  10. Soft rot pathogen Dickeya dadantii 3937 produces tailocins resembling the tails of Peduovirus P2

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  11. Soft rot pathogenDickeya dadantii3937 produces tailocins resembling the tails ofEnterobacteriabacteriophage P2

    Article • August 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  12. Microbial Consortia for Plant Protection against Diseases: More than the Sum of Its Parts

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  13. Editorial: Genome-wide analyses of Pectobacterium and Dickeya species, volume II

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, June 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  14. Spontaneous mutations in hlyD and tuf genes result in resistance of Dickeya solani IPO 2222 to phage ϕD5 but cause decreased bacterial fitness and virulence in planta

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  15. Editorial: Insights in microbial symbioses: 2021

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, September 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  16. Complete Genome Sequences of Five Gram-Negative Bacterial Strains Comprising Synthetic Bacterial Consortium “The Great Five” with Antagonistic Activity Against Plant-Pathogenic Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.

    Article • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, August 2022, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  17. Resistance of Dickeya solani strain IPO 2222 to lytic bacteriophage ΦD5 results in fitness tradeoffs for the bacterium during infection

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  18. Editorial: Genome-Wide Analyses of Pectobacterium and Dickeya Species

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, March 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  19. Resistance of Dickeya solani strain IPO 2222 to lytic bacteriophage vB_Dsol_D5 (ΦD5) results in fitness tradeoffs for the bacterium during infection

    Article • February 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  20. Editorial: Bacteriophages Isolation From the Environment and Their Antimicrobial Therapeutic Potential, Volume 2

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  21. The Periplasmic Oxidoreductase DsbA Is Required for Virulence of the Phytopathogen Dickeya solani

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  22. High-Quality Complete Genome Resource of Tomato Rhizosphere StrainPseudomonas donghuensisP482, a Representative of a Species with Biocontrol Activity Against Plant Pathogens

    Article • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, December 2021, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  23. High-Quality Complete Genome Resource of Pathogenic Bacterium Pectobacterium atrosepticum Strain Green1 Isolated from Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in Greenland

    Article • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, November 2021, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  24. High-Quality Complete Genome Resource of Plant-Pathogenic Bacterium Dickeya solani IPO 2019, Isolated from Hyacinthus orientalis

    Article • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, September 2021, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  25. Complete genome sequence and phylogenomic analysis of the first N4-like lytic bacteriophage vB_Ppp_A38 (ϕA38) infecting Pectobacterium parmentieri

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  26. Pectobacterium parmentieri SCC 3193 Mutants with Altered Synthesis of Cell Surface Polysaccharides Are Resistant to N4-Like Lytic Bacteriophage ϕA38 (vB_Ppp_A38) but Express Decreased Virulence in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Plants

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  27. High-quality complete genome resource of tomato rhizosphere strain Pseudomonas donghuensis P482, a representative of a species with biocontrol activity against plant pathogens

    Article • June 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  28. High-quality complete genome resource of plant pathogenic bacteriumPectobacterium atrosepticumstrain Green1 isolated from potato (Solanum tuberosumL.) in Greenland

    Article • June 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  29. Genome-Wide Analyses of the Temperature-Responsive Genetic Loci of the Pectinolytic Plant Pathogenic Pectobacterium atrosepticum

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  30. High-quality complete genome resource of plant pathogenic bacteriumDickeya solanistrain IPO 2019 isolated fromHyacinthus orientalis

    Article • March 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  31. Editorial: Bacteriophages Isolation From the Environment and Their Antimicrobial Therapeutic Potential

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  32. Biosensors Used for Epifluorescence and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopies to Study Dickeya and Pectobacterium Virulence and Biocontrol

    Article • Microorganisms, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  33. Management of Diseases Caused by Pectobacterium and Dickeya Species

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  34. Pectobacterium and Dickeya: Environment to Disease Development

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  35. Pectobacterium and Dickeya: Taxonomy and Evolution

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  36. Fast and reliable procedure developed to generate soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.) Tn5 mutants resistant to bacteriophage infection

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  37. Genome-Wide Identification of Dickeya solani Transcriptional Units Up-Regulated in Response to Plant Tissues From a Crop-Host Solanum tuberosum and a Weed-Host Solanum dulcamara

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, September 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  38. Pectobacterium atrosepticum (van Hall) Gardan et al. as a Causal Agent of Potato Blackleg in Greenland

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  39. The Great Five—an artificial bacterial consortium with antagonistic activity towards Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.: formulation, shelf life, and the ability to prevent soft rot of potato in storage

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  40. Biological Control Based on Microbial Consortia – From Theory to Commercial Products

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  41. Editorial: Environmental Bacteriophages: From Biological Control Applications to Directed Bacterial Evolution

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  42. Fast and reliable screening assay developed to preselect candidate Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae Tn5 mutants showing resistance to bacteriophage infection

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  43. Compatible Mixture of Bacterial Antagonists Developed to Protect Potato Tubers from Soft Rot Caused by Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.

    Article • Plant Disease, June 2019, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  44. May the Phage be With You? Prophage-Like Elements in the Genomes of Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae: Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  45. May the phage be with you? Prophage-like elements in the genomes of Soft RotPectobacteriaceae(Pectobacteriumspp. andDickeyaspp.)

    Article • August 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  46. Oxygen Availability Influences Expression of Dickeya solani Genes Associated With Virulence in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.)

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, March 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  47. Systemic Colonization and Expression of Disease Symptoms on Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) Infected with a GFP-Tagged Dickeya solani IPO2222 (IPO2254)

    Article • Plant Disease, January 2018, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  48. The viability of lytic bacteriophage ΦD5 in potato-associated environments and its effect on Dickeya solani in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants

    Article • PLOS One, August 2017, PLOS

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  49. Isolation and phenotypic and morphological characterization of the first Podoviridae lytic bacteriophages ϕA38 and ϕA41 infecting Pectobacterium parmentieri (former Pectobacterium wasabiae)

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  50. Fast and reliable screening system to preselect candidate Dickeya solani Tn5 mutants in plant tissue-induced genes

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  51. Characterization of Dickeya and Pectobacterium strains obtained from diseased potato plants in different climatic conditions of Norway and Poland

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  52. Temperature-responsive genetic loci in pectinolytic plant pathogenicDickeya solani

    Article • Plant Pathology, October 2016, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  53. A Scalable Architecture for Operational FMV Exploitation

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ilker Ersoy, Professor Robert Czajkowski

  54. Bacteriophages of Soft RotEnterobacteriaceae—a minireview

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, November 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  55. The complete genome, structural proteome, comparative genomics and phylogenetic analysis of a broad host lytic bacteriophage ϕD3 infecting pectinolytic Dickeya spp.

    Article • Standards in Genomic Sciences, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  56. Application of zinc chloride precipitation method for rapid isolation and concentration of infectious Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. lytic bacteriophages from surface water and plant and soil extracts

    Article • Folia Microbiologica, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  57. Genomic, Proteomic and Morphological Characterization of Two Novel Broad Host Lytic Bacteriophages ΦPD10.3 and ΦPD23.1 Infecting Pectinolytic Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.

    Article • PLOS One, March 2015, PLOS

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  58. Salicylic acid can reduce infection symptoms caused by Dickeya solani in tissue culture grown potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ewa Lojkowska, Professor Robert Czajkowski

  59. Detection, identification and differentiation of Pectobacterium and Dickeya species causing potato blackleg and tuber soft rot: a review

    Article • Annals of Applied Biology, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  60. Simultaneous detection of major blackleg and soft rot bacterial pathogens in potato by multiplex polymerase chain reaction

    Article • Annals of Applied Biology, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Ewa Lojkowska, Professor Robert Czajkowski

  61. Complete genome sequence of a broad-host-range lytic Dickeya spp. bacteriophage ϕD5

    Article • Archives of Virology, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  62. Studies on the colonization of axenically grown tomato plants by a GFP-tagged strain of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  63. Isolation and characterization of novel soilborne lytic bacteriophages infectingDickeyaspp. biovar 3 (‘D. solani’)

    Article • Plant Pathology, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Ewa Lojkowska, Professor Robert Czajkowski

  64. Development ofXanthomonas fragariaepopulations and disease progression in strawberry plants after spray-inoculation of leaves

    Article • Plant Pathology, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  65. Chemical disinfectants can reduce potato blackleg caused by ‘Dickeya solani’

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  66. Draft Genome Sequence of the Biocontrol Strain Serratia plymuthica A30, Isolated from Rotting Potato Tuber Tissue

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, December 2012, ASM Journals

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  67. Quantitative and specific detection of the biocontrol agent, Serratia plymuthica, in plant extracts using a real-time TaqMan® assay

    Article • Journal of Applied Genetics, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  68. Virulence of ‘Dickeya solani’ andDickeya dianthicolabiovar-1 and -7 strains on potato (Solanum tuberosum)

    Article • Plant Pathology, August 2012, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  69. Studies on the interaction between the biocontrol agent, Serratia plymuthica A30, and blackleg-causing Dickeya sp. (biovar 3) in potato (Solanum tuberosum)

    Article • Plant Pathology, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  70. Characterization of bacterial isolates from rotting potato tuber tissue showing antagonism to Dickeya sp. biovar 3 in vitro and in planta

    Article • Plant Pathology, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  71. Control of blackleg and tuber soft rot of potato caused by Pectobacterium and Dickeya species: a review

    Article • Plant Pathology, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  72. Inactivation of AHLs by Ochrobactrum sp. A44 depends on the activity of a novel class of AHL acylase

    Article • Environmental Microbiology Reports, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski, Professor Paul Williams, Dr Ewa Lojkowska

  73. Downward Vascular Translocation of a Green Fluorescent Protein-Tagged Strain of Dickeya sp. (Biovar 3) from Stem and Leaf Inoculation Sites on Potato

    Article • Phytopathology, November 2010, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  74. Systemic Colonization of Potato Plants by a Soilborne, Green Fluorescent Protein-Tagged Strain of Dickeya sp. Biovar 3

    Article • Phytopathology, February 2010, Scientific Societies

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  75. Distribution of Dickeya spp. and Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum in naturally infected seed potatoes

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  76. Biochemical and genetical analysis reveal a new clade of biovar 3 Dickeya spp. strains isolated from potato in Europe

    Article • European Journal of Plant Pathology, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  77. Hap2 regulates the pheromone response transcription factorprf1inUstilago maydis

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 2009, Wiley

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  78. Comparative genomics of MAP kinase and calcium–calcineurin signalling components in plant and human pathogenic fungi

    Article • Fungal Genetics and Biology, April 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Robert Czajkowski

  79. Detection and characterization of bacteria from the potato rhizosphere degrading N-acyl-homoserine lactone

    Article • Canadian Journal of Microbiology, October 2006, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Robert Czajkowski