Dr Marcin Piątek
Assistant Professor
Research interests
- Evolution, systematics, species concept, host specificity, co-evolutionary relations with host plants, and biogeography of phytopathogenic fungi (mostly smut fungi) on the worldwide scale.
- Biodiversity and systematics of extremophilic fungi.
- Endophytes and their interactions with early diverging plants.
Recent publications (selected)
Crous P.W., Jurjević Ž., Balashov S., De la Peña-Lastra S., Mateos A., Pinruan U., Rigueiro-Rodríguez A., Osiek E.R., Altés A., Czachura P., Esteve-Raventós F., Gunaseelan S., Kaliyaperumal M., Larsson E., Luangsa-ard J.J., Moreno G., Pancorbo F., Piątek M., Sommai S., Somrithipol S., Asif M., Delgado G., Flakus A., Illescas A., Kezo K., Khamsuntorn P., Kubátová A., Labuda R., Lavoise C., Lebel T., Lueangjaroenkit P., Maciá-Vicente J.G., Paz A., Saba M., Shivas R.G., Tan Y.P., Wingfield M.J., Aas T., Abramczyk B., Ainsworth A.M., Akulov A., Alvarado P., Armada F., Assyov B., Avchar R., Avesani M., Bezerra J.L., Bhat J.D., Bilański P., Bily D.S., Boccardo F., Bozok F., Campos J.C., Chaimongkol S., Chellappan N., Costa M.M., Dalecká M., Darmostuk V., Daskalopoulos V., Dearnaley J., Dentinger B.T.M., De Silva N.I., Dhotre D., Carlavilla J.R., Doungsa-ard C., Dovana F., Erhard A., Ferro L.O., Gallegos S.C., Giles C.E., Gore G., Gorfer M., Guard F.E., Hanson S.-Å., Haridev P., Jankowiak R., Jeffers S.N., Kandemir H., Karich A., Kisło K., Kiss L., Krisai-Greilhuber I., Latha K.P.D., Lorenzini M., Lumyong S., Manimohan P., Manjón J.L., Maula F., Mazur E., Mesquita N.L.S., Młynek K., Mongkolsamrit S., Morán P., Murugadoss R., Nagarajan M., Nalumpang S., Noisripoom W., Nosalj S., Novaes Q.S., Nowak M., Pawłowska J., Peiger M., Pereira O.L., Pinto A., Plaza M., Polemis E., Polhorský A., Ramos D.O., Raza M., Rivas-Ferreiro M., Rodrigues-Flakus P., Ruszkiewicz-Michalska M., Sánchez A., Santos A., Schüller A., Scott P.A., Şen İ., Shelke D., Śliwa L., Solheim H., Sonawane H., Strašiftáková D., Stryjak-Bogacka M., Sudsanguan M., Suwannarach N., Suz L.M., Syme K., Taşkın H., Tennakoon D.S., Tomka P., Vaghefi N., Vasan V., Vauras J., Wiktorowicz D., Villarreal M., Vizzini A., Wrzosek M., Yang X., Yingkunchao W., Zapparoli G., Zervakis G.I., Groenewald J.Z. 2024. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1614–1696. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 13: 183–440. DOI
Jiménez-Mejías P., Manzano S., Gowda V., Krell F.T., Lin M.Y., Martín-Bravo S., Martín-Torrijos L., Nieto Feliner G., Mosyakin S.L., Naczi R.F.C., Acedo C., Álvarez I., Crisci J.V., Luceño Garcés M., Manning J., Moreno Saiz J.C., Muasya A.M., Riina R., Sánchez Meseguer A., Sánchez-Mata D., 1543 additional coauthors [(…) Ronikier A., Ronikier M., (…) Piątek M. (…)] 2024. Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal. BioScience 74: 467–472. DOI
Patejuk K., Czachura P., Baturo-Cieśniewska A., Owczarek-Kościelniak M., Pusz W., Najberek K., Piątek M. 2024. Colletotrichum acericola sp. nov. from seeds of the invasive alien tree species Acer negundo in Poland. Plant Pathology 72: 1716–1725. DOI
Piątek M., Lutz M., Kruse J., Stryjak-Bogacka M. 2024. Identification and characterization of Entyloma eschscholziae, a recently introduced pathogen in Europe, and its segregate Entyloma dendromeconis sp. nov. Plant Pathology 73: 57–68. DOI
Piątek M., Stryjak-Bogacka M., Czachura P. 2024. Arthrocatenales, a new order of extremophilic fungi in the Dothideomycetes. MycoKeys 108: 47–74. DOI
Crous P.W., Osieck E.R., Shivas R.G., Tan Y.P., Bishop-Hurley S.L., Esteve-Raventós F., Larsson E., Luangsa-ard J.J., Pancorbo F., Balashov S., Baseia I.G., Boekhout T., Chandranayaka S., Cowan D.A., Cruz R.H.S.F., Czachura P., De la Peña-Lastra S., Dovana F., Drury B., Fell J., Flakus A., Fotedar R., Jurjević Ž., Kolecka A., Mack J., Maggs-Kölling G., Mahadevakumar S., Mateos A., Mongkolsamrit S., Noisripoom W., Plaza M., Overy D.P., Piątek M., Sandoval-Denis M., Vauras J., Wingfield M.J., Abell S.E., Ahmadpour A., Akulov A., Alavi F., Alavi Z., Altes A., Alvarado P., Anand G., Ashtekar N., Assyov B., Banc-Prandi G., Barbosa K.D., Barreto G.G., Bellanger J.-M., Bezerra J.L., Bhat D.J., Bilanski P., Bose T., Bozok F., Chaves J., Costa-Rezende D.H., Danteswari C., Darmostuk V., Delgado G., Denman S., Eichmeier A., Etayo J., Eyssartier G., Faulwetter S., Ganga K.G.G., Ghosta Y., Goh J., Góis J.S., Gramaje D., Granit L., Groenewald M., Gulden G., Gusmão L.F.P., Hammerbacher A., Heidarian Z., Hywel-Jones N., Jankowiak R., Kaliyaperumal M., Kaygusuz O., Kezo K., Khonsanit A., Kumar S., Kuo C.H., Læssøe T., Latha K.P.D., Loizides M., Luo S.M., Maciá-Vicente J.G., Manimohan P., Marbach P.A.S., Marinho P., Marney T.S., Marques G., Martín M.P., Miller A.N., Mondello F., Moreno G., Mufeeda K.T., Mun H.Y., Nau T., Nkomo T., Okrasińska A., Oliveira J.P.A.F., Oliveira R.L., Ortiz D.A., Pawłowska J., Pérez-De-Gregorio M.À., Podile A.R., Portugal A., Privitera N., Rajeshkumar K.C., Rauf I., Rian B., Rigueiro-Rodríguez A., Rivas-Torres G.F., Rodriguez-Flakus P., Romero-Gordillo M., Saar I., Saba M., Santos C.D., Sarma P.V.S.R.N., Siquier J.L., Sleiman S., Spetik M., Sridhar K.R., Stryjak-Bogacka M., Szczepańska K., Taşkın H., Tennakoon D.S., Thanakitpipattana D., Trovao J., Türkekul İ., van Iperen A.L., van ’t Hof P., Vasquez G., Visagie C.M., Wingfield B.D., Wong P.T.W., Yang W.X., Yarar M., Yarden O., Yilmaz N., Zhang N., Zhu Y.N., Groenewald J.Z. 2023. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1478–1549. Persoonia 50: 158–310. DOI
Worobiec G., Piątek M., Worobiec E. 2023. Szaferomyces pliocenicus nov. gen., nov. sp. from the Upper Pliocene deposits of Mizerna (Poland), a fossil fungus showing close resemblance to modern powdery mildews. Geobios 79: 77–82. DOI
Shivas R., McTaggart A., Begerow D., Denchev C.M., Denchev T.T., Kemler M., Kruse J., Lutz M., Piątek M., Piepenbring M., Thines M. 2022. Obituary for Kálmán Vánky (1930–2021). Mycological Progress 21: 53. DOI
Czachura P., Owczarek-Kościelniak M., Piątek M. 2021. Salinomyces polonicus: A moderately halophilic kin of the most extremely halotolerant fungus Hortaea werneckii. Fungal Biology 125: 459–468. DOI
Piątek M., Lutz M., Wang Y., Wang S.R., Kellner R. 2021. Thecaphora dahuangis, a new species causing leaf smut disease of the traditional medicinal plant "da‐huang" (Rheum palmatum) in China. Plant Pathology 70: 1292–1299. DOI
Yurkov A., Alves A., Bai F.-Y., Boundy-Mills K., Buzzini P., Čadež N., Cardinali G., Casaregola S., Chaturvedi V., Collin V., Fell J.W., Girard V., Groenewald M., Hagen F., Hittinger C.T., Kachalkin A.V., Kostrzewa M., Kouvelis V., Libkind D., Liu X., Maier T., Meyer W., Péter G., Piątek M., Robert V., Rosa C.A., Sampaio J.P., Sipiczki M., Stadler M., Sugita T., Sugiyama J., Takagi H., Takashima M., Turchetti B., Wang Q.-M., Boekhout T. 2021. Nomenclatural issues concerning cultured yeasts and other fungi: why it is important to avoid unneeded name changes. IMA Fungus 12: 18. DOI
Kemler M., Denchev T.T., Denchev C.M., Begerow D., Piątek M., Lutz M. 2020. Host preference and sorus location correlate with parasite phylogeny in the smut fungal genus Microbotryum (Basidiomycota, Microbotryales). Mycological Progress 19: 481–493. DOI
Piątek J., Lenarczyk J., Piątek M. 2020. Assessing morphological congruence in Dinobryon species and their stomatocysts, including a newly established Dinobryon pediforme–stomatocyst connection. Scientific Reports 10: 9779. DOI
Piątek M., Rodriguez-Flakus P., Domic A., Palabral-Aquilera A.N., Gómez M.I., Flakus A. 2020. Phylogenetic placement of Leptosphaeria polylepidis, a pathogen of Andean endemic Polylepis tarapacana, and its newly discovered mycoparasite Sajamaea mycophila gen. et sp. nov. Mycological Progress 19: 1–14. DOI
Smith P.A., Lutz M., Piątek M. 2020. The distribution and host range of Thecaphora melandrii, with first records for Britain. Kew Bulletin 75: 39. DOI
Błaszkowski J., Niezgoda P., Piątek M., Magurno F., Malicka M., Zubek S., Mleczko P., Yorou N.S., Jobim K., Vista X.M., Lima J.L.R., Goto B.T. 2019. Rhizoglomus dalpeae, R. maiae, and R. silesianum, new species. Mycologia 111: 965–980. DOI
Czachura P., Owczarek-Kościelniak M., Piątek M. 2019. Pseudodidymella fagi in Slovakia: first detection, morphology and culture characteristics. Forest Pathology 49: e12479. DOI
Piątek M., Yorou N.S. 2019. Pseudocercospora avicenniicola on black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) in Benin: The first report from Africa. Forest Pathology 49: e12478. DOI
Riess K., Schön M.E., Ziegler R., Lutz M., Shivas R.G., Piątek M., Garnica S. 2019. The origin and diversification of the Entorrhizales: deep evolutionary roots but recent speciation with a phylogenetic and phenotypic split between associates of the Cyperaceae and Juncaceae. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 19: 13–30. DOI
Kruse J., Piątek M., Lutz M., Thines M. 2018. Broad host range species in specialised pathogen groups should be treated with suspicion – a case study on Entyloma infecting Ranunculus. Persoonia 41: 175–201. DOI
Zamora J.C., Svensson M., Kirschner R., Olariaga I., Ryman S., Parra L.A., Geml J., Rosling A., Adamčík S., Ahti T., Aime M.C., Ainsworth A.M., Albert L., Albertó E., Altés García A., Ageev D., Agerer R., Aguirre-Hudson B., Ammirati J., Andersson H., Angelini C., Antonín V., Aoki T., Aptroot A., Argaud D., Arguello Sosa B.I., Aronsen A., Arup U., Asgari B., Assyov B., Atienza V., Bandini D., Baptista-Ferreira J.L., Baral H.O., Baroni T., Barreto R.W., Beker H., Bell A., Bellanger J.M., Bellù F., Bemmann M., Bendiksby M., Bendiksen E., Bendiksen K., Benedek L., Bérešová-Guttová A., Berger F., Berndt R., Bernicchia A., Biketova A.Y., Bizio E., Bjork C., Boekhout T., Boertmann D., Böhning T., Boittin F., Boluda C.G., Boomsluiter M.W., Borovička J., Brandrud T.E., Braun U., Brodo I., Bulyonkova T., Burdsall Jr. H.H., Buyck B., Burgaz A.R., Calatayud V., Callac P., Campo E., Candusso M., Capoen B., Carbó J., Carbone M., Castañeda-Ruiz R.F., Castellano M.A., Chen J., Clerc P., Consiglio G., Corriol G., Courtecuisse R., Crespo A., Cripps C., Crous P.W., da Silva G.A., da Silva M., Dam M., Dam N., Dämmrich F., Das K., Davies L., De Crop E., De Kesel A., De Lange R., De Madrignac Bonzi B., dela Cruz T.E.E., Delgat L., Demoulin V., Desjardin D.E., Diederich P., Dima B., Dios M.M., Divakar P.K., Douanla-Meli C., Douglas B., Drechsler-Santos E.R., Dyer P.S., Eberhardt U., Ertz D., Esteve-Raventós F., Etayo Salazar J.A., Evenson V., Eyssartier G., Farkas E., Favre A., Fedosova A.G., Filippa M., Finy P., Flakus A., Fos S., Fournier J., Fraiture A., Franchi P., Franco Molano A.E., Friebes G., Frisch A., Fryday A., Furci G., Galán Márquez R., Garbelotto M., García-Martín J.M., García Otálora M.A., García Sánchez D., Gardiennet A., Garnica S., Garrido Benavent I., Gates G., Gerlach A.C.L., Ghobad-Nejhad M., Gibertoni T.B., Grebenc T., Greilhuber I., Grishkan B., Groenewald J.Z., Grube M., Gruhn G., Gueidan C., Gulden G., Gusmão L.F.P., Hafellner J., Hairaud M., Halama M., Hallenberg N., Halling R.E., Hansen K., Harder C.B., Heilmann-Clausen J., Helleman S., Henriot A., Hernandez-Restrepo M., Herve R., Hobart C., Hoffmeister M., Høiland K., Holec J., Holien H., Hughes K., Hubka V., Huhtinen S., Ivančevi B., Jagers M., Jaklitsch W., Jansen A.E., Jayawardena R.S., Jeppesen T.S., Jeppson M., Johnston P., Jørgensen P.M., Kärnefelt I., Kalinina L.B., Kantvilas G., Karadelev M., Kasuya T., Kautmanová I., Kerrigan R.W., Kirchmair M., Kiyashko A., Knapp D.G., Knudsen H., Knudsen K., Knutsson T., Kolařík M., Kõljalg U., Košuthová A., Koszka A., Kotiranta H., Kotkova V., Koukol O., Kout J., Kovács G.M., Kříž M., Kruys Å., Kučera V., Kudzma L., Kuhar F., Kukwa M., Kumar T.K.A., Kunca V., Kušan I., Kuyper T.W., Lado C., Læssøe T., Lainé P., Langer E., Larsson E., Larsson K.H., Laursen G., Lechat C., Lee S., Lendemer J.C., Levin L., Lindemann U., Lindström H., Liu X., Llarena Hernandez R.C., Llop E., Locsmándi C., Lodge D.J., Loizides M., Lőkös L., Luangsa-ard J., Lüderitz M., Lumbsch T., Lutz M., Mahoney D., Malysheva E., Malysheva V., Manimohan P., Marin-Felix Y., Marques G., Martínez-Gil R., Marson G., Mata G., Matheny P.B., Mathiassen G.H., Matočec N., Mayrhofer H., Mehrabi M., Melo I., Meši A., Methven A.S., Miettinen O., Millanes Romero A.M., Miller A.N., Mitchell J.K., Moberg R., Moreau P.A., Moreno G., Morozova O., Morte A., Muggia L., Muñoz González G., Myllys L., Nagy I., Nagy L.G., Neves M.A., Niemelä T., Nimis P.L., Niveiro N., Noordeloos M.E., Nordin A., Noumeur S.R., Novozhilov Y., Nuytinck J., Ohenoja E., Oliveira Fiuza P., Orange A., Ordynets A., Ortiz-Santana B., Pacheco L., Pál-Fám F., Palacio M., Palice Z., Papp V., Pärtel K., Pawlowska J., Paz A., Peintner U., Pennycook S., Pereira O.L., Pérez Daniëls P., Pérez-De-Gregorio Capella M.À., Pérez del Amo C.M., Pérez Gorjón S., Pérez-Ortega S., Pérez-Vargas I., Perry B.A., Petersen J.H., Petersen R.H., Pfister D.H., Phukhamsakda C., Piątek M., Piepenbring M., Pino-Bodas R., Pinzón Esquivel J.P., Pirot P., Popov E.S., Popoff O., Prieto Álvaro M., Printzen C., Psurtseva N., Purahong W., Quijada L., Rambold G., Ramírez N.A., Raja H., Raspé O., Raymundo T., Réblová M., Rebriev Y.A., Reyes García J.D., Ribes Ripoll M.A., Richard F., Richardson M.J., Rico V.J., Robledo G.L., Rodrigues Barbosa F., Rodriguez-Caycedo C., Rodriguez-Flakus P., Ronikier A., Rubio Casas L., Rusevska K., Saar G., Saar I., Salcedo I., Salcedo Martínez S.M., Salvador Montoya C.A., Sánchez Ramírez S., Sandoval-Sierra J.V., Santamaria S., Santana Monteiro J., Schroers H.J., Schulz B., Schmidt-Stohn G., Schumacher T., Senn-Irlet B., Ševčíková H., Shchepin O., Shirouzu T., Shiryaev A., Siepe K., Sir E.B., Sohrabi M., Soop K., Spirin V., Spribille T., Stadler M., Stalpers J., Stenroos S., Suija A., Sunhede S., Svantesson S., Svensson S., Svetasheva T.Yu., Świerkosz K., Tamm H., Taskin H., Taudière A., Tedebrand J.-O., Tena Lahoz R., Temina M., Thell A., Thines M., Thor G., Thüs H., Tibell L., Tibell S., Timdal E., Tkalčec Z., Tønsberg T., Trichies G., Triebel D., Tsurykau A., Tulloss R.E., Tuovinen V., Ulloa Sosa M., Urcelay C., Valade F., Valenzuela Garza R., van den Boom P., Van Vooren N., Vasco-Palacios A.M., Vauras J., Velasco Santos J.M., Vellinga E., Verbeken A., Vetlesen P., Vizzini A., Voglmayr H., Volobuev S., von Brackel W., Voronina E., Walther G., Watling R., Weber E., Wedin M., Weholt Ø., Westberg M., Yurchenko E., Zehnálek P., Zhang H., Zhurbenko M.P., Ekman S. 2018. Considerations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa. IMA Fungus 9: 167–175. DOI
Ziegler R., Lutz M., Piątek J., Piątek M. 2018. Dismantling a complex of anther smuts (Microbotryum) on carnivorous plants in the genus Pinguicula. Mycologia 110: 361–374. DOI
Gierczyk B., Rodriguez-Flakus P., Pietras M., Gryc M., Czerniawski W., Piątek M. 2017. Coprinopsis rugosomagnispora: a distinct new coprinoid species from Poland (Central Europe). Plant Systematics and Evolution 303: 915–925. DOI
Karasiński D., Piątek M. 2017. The genus Dentipratulum (Russulales, Auriscalpiaceae): comparative morphology and SEM imaging spore ornamentation split one into three species. Mycological Progress 16: 109–116. DOI
Piątek M., Lutz M., Sousa F.M.P., Santos A.R.O., Félix C.R., Landell M.F., Gomes F.C.O., Rosa C.A. 2017. Pattersoniomyces tillandsiae gen. et comb. nov.: linking sexual and asexual morphs of the only known smut fungus associated with Bromeliaceae. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 17: 531–543. DOI
Rooney-Latham S., Lutz M., Blomquist C.L., Romberg M.K., Scheck H.J., Piątek M. 2017. Entyloma helianthi: identification and characterization of the causal agent of sunflower white leaf smut. Mycologia 109: 520–528. DOI
Smith P.A., Lutz M., Ziegler R., Piątek M. 2017. Anther smuts of Silene acaulis and S. uniflora in the Outer Hebrides, including an assessment of ITS genotypes of Microbotryum silenes-acaulis. IMA Fungus 8: 107–116. DOI
Aghayeva D.N., Lutz M., Piątek M. 2016. Transmission electron microscopy of Tuberculina species (Helicobasidiales) reveals an unique mode of conidiogenesis within Basidiomycota. Fungal Biology 120: 1010–1016. DOI
Lutz M., Piątek M. 2016. Phylogenetic placement, DNA barcoding, morphology and evidence for the spreading of Entyloma cosmi, a species attacking Cosmos bipinnatus in temperate climate gardens. European Journal of Plant Pathology 145: 857–869. DOI
Piątek M., Riess K., Karasiński D., Yorou N.S., Lutz M. 2016. Integrative analysis of the West African Ceraceosorus africanus sp. nov. provides insights into the diversity, biogeography, and evolution of the enigmatic Ceraceosorales (Fungi: Ustilaginomycotina). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 16: 743–760. DOI