Tran Minh Trang

Tran Minh Trang - Postdoctoral fellow
Joined the group in 2024

Trang Tran successfully completed his doctoral program fully-funded by VLIR-UOS at Ghent University in 2021, focusing on investigating the modes of action of Streptomyces strains against fungal phytopathogens and mitigating mycotoxin contamination of maize grains through good agricultural practices (GAPs). Subsequently, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at INRAE in France, where his research aimed to unravel the antifungal and antimycotoxin mechanisms of stilbenoids against Fusarium Head Blight, utilizing multi-omics approaches. Trang Tran then held the position of an FWO postdoctoral researcher at UGent and KULeuven. In this role, he was dedicated to exploring fructan metabolizing microbes and developing sweet immunity-mediated synthetic microbial communities (SWEETiCOM). The combination of fructans as prebiotics and SWEETiCOM has the potential to promote plant growth and enhance plant tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stresses. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at VIB-UGent center for Plant Systems Biology. His role is to discover novel bioactive metabolites via exploiting the chemical warfare during tomato-fungi interactions. He aims to establish an innovative plant-based platform to awaken the vast majority of cryptic biosynthesis gene clusters in fungi, thereby discovering and producing previously unknown fungal bioactive metabolites with potent applications for agriculture and human health. Interests: • Microbe-plant interaction • Biostimulant - Priming - Biocontrol • Transcriptomics • Metabolomics • Phenomics

10. Exploring Synergistic Effects of Levan and Levan‐MetabolizingBacillaceae in Promoting Growth and Enhancing Immunity of Tomato and Wheat

Jiao Jiao, Trang Tran‐Minh, Anam Nasir, Qinggang Guo, Jörg Stülke, Triinu Visnapuu, Noémie De Zutter, Barbara De Coninck, Wim Van den Ende

(2024) - Physiologia Plantarum

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9. Stilbenoids as Promising Natural Product-Based Solutions in a Race against Mycotoxigenic Fungi: A Comprehensive Review

Trang Minh Tran, Vessela Atanasova, Charles Tardif, Florence Richard-Forget

(2023) - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

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8. Impact of ethnic pre-harvest practices on the occurrence of Fusarium verticillioides and fumonisin B1 in maize fields from Vietnam

Tran, M.T., Ameye, M., Thi-Kim Phan, L., Devlieghere, F., De Saeger, S., Eeckhout, M., Audenaert, K.

(2021) - Food Control

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7. Contamination of Fusarium proliferatum and Aspergillus flavus in the Rice Chain Linked to Crop Seasons, Cultivation Regions, and Traditional Agricultural Practices in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Lien Thi Kim Phan, Trang Tran, Kris Audenaert, Liesbeth Jacxsens, Mia Eeckhout

(2021) - Foods

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6. Presence of the weakly pathogenic Fusarium poae in the Fusarium head blight disease complex hampers biocontrol and chemical control of the virulent Fusarium graminearum pathogen

Tan, Jiang, De Zutter, Noémie, Sarah De Saeger, Marthe De Boevre, Trang Tran, van der Lee, Theo, Waalwijk, Cees, Anne Willems, Peter Vandamme, Maarten Ameye, Audenaert, Kris

(2021) - FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE

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5. Post-harvest contamination of maize by Fusarium verticillioides and fumonisins linked to traditional harvest and post-harvest practices : a case study of small-holder farms in Vietnam

Trang Tran, Maarten Ameye, Phan Thi Kim, Lien, Frank Devlieghere, Sarah De Saeger, Eeckhout, Mia, Audenaert, Kris

(2021) - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

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4. Molecular Insights into Defense Responses of Vietnamese Maize Varieties to Fusarium verticillioides Isolates

Trang Tran, Maarten Ameye, Sofie Landschoot, Frank Devlieghere, Sarah De Saeger, Mia Eeckhout, Kris Audenaert

(2021) - Journal of Fungi

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3. Impact of Season, Region, and Traditional Agricultural Practices on Aflatoxins and Fumonisins Contamination in the Rice Chain in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Lien Thi Kim Phan, Trang Tran, Marthe De Boevre, Liesbeth Jacxsens, Mia Eeckhout, Sarah De Saeger

(2021) - Toxins

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2. Identification of strategies to mitigate fumonisins in maize from Vietnamese smallholder farms

Trang Tran

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1. Streptomyces Strains Promote Plant Growth and Induce Resistance Against Fusarium verticillioides via Transient Regulation of Auxin Signaling and Archetypal Defense Pathways in Maize Plants

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(2021) - Frontiers in Plant Science

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Tran Minh Trang

10. Exploring Synergistic Effects of Levan and Levan‐MetabolizingBacillaceae in Promoting Growth and Enhancing Immunity of Tomato and Wheat

9. Stilbenoids as Promising Natural Product-Based Solutions in a Race against Mycotoxigenic Fungi: A Comprehensive Review

8. Impact of ethnic pre-harvest practices on the occurrence of Fusarium verticillioides and fumonisin B1 in maize fields from Vietnam

7. Contamination of Fusarium proliferatum and Aspergillus flavus in the Rice Chain Linked to Crop Seasons, Cultivation Regions, and Traditional Agricultural Practices in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

6. Presence of the weakly pathogenic Fusarium poae in the Fusarium head blight disease complex hampers biocontrol and chemical control of the virulent Fusarium graminearum pathogen

5. Post-harvest contamination of maize by Fusarium verticillioides and fumonisins linked to traditional harvest and post-harvest practices : a case study of small-holder farms in Vietnam

4. Molecular Insights into Defense Responses of Vietnamese Maize Varieties to Fusarium verticillioides Isolates

3. Impact of Season, Region, and Traditional Agricultural Practices on Aflatoxins and Fumonisins Contamination in the Rice Chain in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

2. Identification of strategies to mitigate fumonisins in maize from Vietnamese smallholder farms

1. Streptomyces Strains Promote Plant Growth and Induce Resistance Against Fusarium verticillioides via Transient Regulation of Auxin Signaling and Archetypal Defense Pathways in Maize Plants