07/17/2015

105 Publications (2014-2015)

2014


Affeldt, K.J., J. Carrig, M. Amare, and N.P. Keller. 2014. Global Survey of Canonical Aspergillus flavus G Protein-Coupled Receptors. mBio. 5:e01501–14. doi:10.1128/mBio.01501-14.


Amare, M.G., and N.P. Keller. 2014. Molecular mechanisms of Aspergillus flavus secondary metabolism and development. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 66:11–18. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2014.02.008.


Bakkeren, G., and B. Valent. 2014. Do pathogen effectors play peek-a-boo? Front. Plant Sci. 5:731. doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.00731.


Barcelos, Q.L., J.M.A. Pinto, L.J. Vaillancourt, and E.A. Souza. 2014. Characterization of Glomerella Strains Recovered from Anthracnose Lesions on Common Bean Plants in Brazil. PLoS ONE. 9:e90910. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090910.


Bec, S., T.J. Ward, M. Farman, K. O’Donnell, D.E. Hershman, D.A. Van Sanford, and L. Vaillancourt. 2014. Characterization of Fusarium strains recovered from wheat with symptoms of head blight in Kentucky. Plant Disease. doi:10.1094/PDIS-06-14-0610-RE.


Bok, J.W., P. Wiemann, G.S. Garvey, F.Y. Lim, B. Haas, J. Wortman, and N.P. Keller. 2014. Illumina identification of RsrA, a conserved C2H2 transcription factor coordinating the NapA mediated oxidative stress signaling pathway in Aspergillus. BMC Genomics. 15:1011. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-1011.


Chen, D., Y. Wang, X. Zhou, Y. Wang, and J.-R. Xu. 2014a. The Sch9 Kinase Regulates Conidium Size, Stress Responses, and Pathogenesis in Fusarium graminearum. PLoS ONE. 9:e105811. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105811.


Chen, X.-L., T. Shi, J. Yang, W. Shi, X. Gao, D. Chen, X. Xu, J.-R. Xu, N.J. Talbot, and Y.-L. Peng. 2014b. N-Glycosylation of Effector Proteins by an ?-1,3-Mannosyltransferase Is Required for the Rice Blast Fungus to Evade Host Innate Immunity. Plant Cell. tpc.114.123588. doi:10.1105/tpc.114.123588.


Connell, L.B., R.R. Rodriguez, R.S. Redman, and J.J. Dalluge. 2014. Cold-Adapted Yeasts in Antarctic Deserts. In Cold-adapted Yeasts. P. Buzzini and R. Margesin, editors. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 75–98.


Crouch, J., R. O’Connell, P. Gan, E. Buiate, M.F. Torres, L. Beirn, K. Shirasu, and L. Vaillancourt. 2014. The Genomics of Colletotrichum. In Genomics of Plant-Associated Fungi: Monocot Pathogens. R.A. Dean, A. Lichens-Park, and C. Kole, editors. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 69–102.


Donofrio, N.M., J. Hu, T.K. Mitchell, and R.A. Wilson. 2014. Facilitating the Fungus: Insights from the Genome of the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae. In Genomics of Plant-Associated Fungi: Monocot Pathogens. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 141–160.


Donofrio, N.M., and R.A. Wilson. 2014. Redox and rice blast: new tools for dissecting molecular fungal–plant interactions. New Phytologist. 201:367–369.
Giraldo, M.C., and B. Valent. 2013. Filamentous plant pathogen effectors in action. Nat Rev Micro. 11:800–814. doi:10.1038/nrmicro3119.


Downes, D.J., M. Chonofsky, K. Tan, B.T. Pfannenstiel, S.L. Reck-Peterson, and R.B. Todd. 2014a. Characterization of the Mutagenic Spectrum of 4-Nitroquinoline 1-Oxide (4-NQO) in Aspergillus nidulans by Whole Genome Sequencing. G3. 4:2483–2492. doi:10.1534/g3.114.014712.


Downes, D.J., M.A. Davis, K.H. Wong, S.D. Kreutzberger, M.J. Hynes, and R.B. Todd. 2014b. Dual DNA binding and coactivator functions of Aspergillus nidulans TamA, a Zn(II)2Cys6 transcription factor. Mol. Microbiol. 92:1198–1211. doi:10.1111/mmi.12620.


Du, Z., A. Chen, W. Chen, Q. Liao, H. Zhang, Y. Bao, M.J. Roossinck, and J.P. Carr. 2014. Nuclear-cytoplasmic partitioning of cucumber mosaic virus protein 2b determines the balance between its roles as a virulence determinant and an RNA-silencing suppressor. J. Virol. 88:5228–5241. doi:10.1128/JVI.00284-14.


Fernandez, J., M. Marroquin-Guzman, R. Nandakumar, S. Shijo, K.M. Cornwell, G. Li, and R.A. Wilson. 2014a. Plant defence suppression is mediated by a fungal sirtuin during rice infection by Magnaporthe oryzae. Molecular microbiology. 94:70–88.


Fernandez, J., M. Marroquin-Guzman, and R.A. Wilson. 2014b. Evidence for a transketolase-mediated metabolic checkpoint governing biotrophic growth in rice cells by the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.


Fernandez, J., M. Marroquin-Guzman, and R.A. Wilson. 2014c. Mechanisms of Nutrient Acquisition and Utilization During Fungal Infections of Leaves. Annual review of phytopathology.


Fernandez, J., and R.A. Wilson. 2014a. Cells in cells: morphogenetic and metabolic strategies conditioning rice infection by the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Protoplasma. 251:37–47.


Fernandez, J., and R.A. Wilson. 2014b. Characterizing roles for the glutathione reductase, thioredoxin reductase and thioredoxin peroxidase-encoding genes of Magnaporthe oryzae during rice blast disease. PloS one. 9.


Greene, G.H., K.L. McGary, A. Rokas, and J.C. Slot. 2014. Ecology drives the distribution of specialized tyrosine metabolism modules in fungi. Genome biology and evolution. 6:121–132.


Hammerschmidt, R. 2014. Neutralizing nematodes. Physiological and molecular plant pathology. 86.


Hunter, C.C., K.S. Siebert, D.J. Downes, K.H. Wong, S.D. Kreutzberger, J.A. Fraser, D.F. Clarke, M.J. Hynes, M.A. Davis, and R.B. Todd. 2014. Multiple nuclear localization signals mediate nuclear localization of the GATA transcription factor AreA. Eukaryotic Cell. 13:527–538. doi:10.1128/EC.00040-14.


Hu, S., X. Zhou, X. Gu, S. Cao, C. Wang, and J.-R. Xu. 2014. The cAMP-PKA pathway regulates growth, sexual and asexual differentiation, and pathogenesis in Fusarium graminearum. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 27:557–566. doi:10.1094/MPMI-10-13-0306-R.


Jonkers, W., H. Xayamongkhon, M. Haas, C. Olivain, H.C. Does, K. Broz, M. Rep, C. Alabouvette, C. Steinberg, and H.C. Kistler. 2014. EBR1 genomic expansion and its role in virulence of Fusarium species. Environmental microbiology. 16:1982–2003.


Knox, B.P., Q. Deng, M. Rood, J.C. Eickhoff, N.P. Keller, and A. Huttenlocher. 2014. Distinct innate immune phagocyte responses to Aspergillus fumigatus conidia and hyphae in zebrafish larvae. Eukaryotic Cell. 13:1266–1277. doi:10.1128/EC.00080-14.


LeBlanc, N., L.L. Kinkel, and H.C. Kistler. 2014. Soil fungal communities respond to grassland plant community richness and soil edaphics. Microbial ecology. 1–8.


Liang, J.M., H. Xayamongkhon, K. Broz, Y. Dong, S.P. McCormick, S. Abramova, T.J. Ward, Z.H. Ma, and H.C. Kistler. 2014. Temporal dynamics and population genetic structure of Fusarium graminearum in the upper Midwestern United States. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 73:83–92.


Lim, F.Y., B. Ames, C.T. Walsh, and N.P. Keller. 2014. Co-ordination between BrlA regulation and secretion of the oxidoreductase FmqD directs selective accumulation of fumiquinazoline C to conidial tissues in Aspergillus fumigatus. Cell. Microbiol. 16:1267–1283. doi:10.1111/cmi.12284.


Lim, F.Y., and N.P. Keller. 2014. Spatial and temporal control of fungal natural product synthesis. Nat Prod Rep. 31:1277–1286. doi:10.1039/c4np00083h.


Luo, Y., H. Zhang, L. Qi, S. Zhang, X. Zhou, Y. Zhang, and J.-R. Xu. 2014. FgKin1 kinase localizes to the septal pore and plays a role in hyphal growth, ascospore germination, pathogenesis, and localization of Tub1 beta-tubulins in Fusarium graminearum. New Phytol. 204:943–954. doi:10.1111/nph.12953.


Lu, S., J.D. Faris, R. Sherwood, T.L. Friesen, and M.C. Edwards. 2014. A dimeric PR-1-type pathogenesis-related protein interacts with ToxA and potentially mediates ToxA-induced necrosis in sensitive wheat. Molecular plant pathology. 15:650–663.


Lysøe, E., L.J. Harris, S. Walkowiak, R. Subramaniam, H.H. Divon, E.S. Riiser, C. Llorens, T. Gabaldón, H.C. Kistler, W. Jonkers, and others. 2014. The Genome of the Generalist Plant Pathogen Fusarium avenaceum Is Enriched with Genes Involved in Redox, Signaling and Secondary Metabolism.


Ma, L.-J., T. Shea, S. Young, Q. Zeng, and H.C. Kistler. 2014. Genome sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis strain NRRL 26406, a fungus causing wilt disease on melon. Genome announcements. 2:e00730–14.


Mattupalli, C., J.E. Spraker, E. Berthier, N.P. Keller, A.O. Charkowski, and R.W. Shepherd. 2014. A Microfluidic Assay for Identifying Differential Responses of Plant and Human Fungal Pathogens to Tobacco Phylloplanins. Plant Health Progress. doi:10.1094/PHP-RS-14-0009.


Mergoum, M., S. Simsek, S. Zhong, M. Acevedo, T.L. Friesen, P.K. Singh, T.B. Adhikari, M.S. Alamri, and R.C. Frohberg. 2014. “Velva”Spring Wheat: An Adapted Cultivar to North-Central Plains of the United States with High Agronomic and Quality Performance. Journal of Plant Registrations. 8:32–37.


Miyamoto, K., T. Murakami, P. Kakumyan, N.P. Keller, and K. Matsui. 2014. Formation of 1-octen-3-ol from Aspergillus flavus conidia is accelerated after disruption of cells independently of Ppo oxygenases, and is not a main cause of inhibition of germination. PeerJ. 2:e395. doi:10.7717/peerj.395.


Niu, Z., D.L. Klindworth, G. Yu, T.L. Friesen, S. Chao, Y. Jin, X. Cai, J.-B. Ohm, J.B. Rasmussen, and S.S. Xu. 2014. Development and characterization of wheat lines carrying stem rust resistance gene Sr43 derived from Thinopyrum ponticum. Theoretical and applied genetics. 127:969–980.


Oliver, R., J. Lichtenzveig, K.-C. Tan, O. Waters, K. Rybak, J. Lawrence, T. Friesen, and P. Burgess. 2014. Absence of detectable yield penalty associated with insensitivity to Pleosporales necrotrophic effectors in wheat grown in the West Australian wheat belt. Plant Pathology. 63:1027–1032.


Ostrander, J.C., R.B. Todd, and M.M. Kennelly. 2014. Resistance of Kansas Sclerotinia homoeocarpa Isolates to Thiophanate-Methyl and Determination of Associated ?-Tubulin Mutation. Plant Health Progress. doi:10.1094/PHP-RS-13-0120.


Peyambari, M., M.K. Habibi, K.-B. Fotouhifar, A. Dizadji, and and M.J. Roossinck. 2014. Molecular Characterization of a Novel Putative Partitivirus Infecting Cytospora sacchari, a Plant Pathogenic Fungus. 30:151–158. doi:10.5423/PPJ.OA.01.2014.0005.


Rauf, M., K. Shahzad, R. Ali, M. Ahmad, I. Habib, S. Mansoor, G.A. Berkowitz, and N.A. Saeed. 2014. Cloning and characterization of Na+/H+ antiporter (LfNHX1) gene from a halophyte grass Leptochloa fusca for drought and salt tolerance. Mol Biol Rep. 41:1669–1682. doi:10.1007/s11033-013-3015-3.


Rollins, J.A., C.A. Cuomo, M.B. Dickman, and L.M. Kohn. 2014. Genomics of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. In Genomics of Plant-Associated Fungi and Oomycetes: Dicot Pathogens. R.A. Dean, A. Lichens-Park, and C. Kole, editors. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 1–17.


Safari, M., and M.J. Roossinck. 2014. How does the genome structure and lifestyle of a virus affect its population variation? Current Opinion in Virology. 9:39–44. doi:10.1016/j.coviro.2014.09.004.


Sahu, S.S., T. Weirick, and R. Kaundal. 2014. Predicting genome-scale Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas syringae interactome using domain and interolog-based approaches. BMC bioinformatics. 15:S13.


Shjerve, R.A., J.D. Faris, R.S. Brueggeman, C. Yan, Y. Zhu, V. Koladia, and T.L. Friesen. 2014. Evaluation of a Pyrenophora teres f. teres mapping population reveals multiple independent interactions with a region of barley chromosome 6H. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 70:104–112.


Sikora, E.J., T.W. Allen, K.A. Wise, G. Bergstrom, C.A. Bradley, J. Bond, D. Brown-Rytlewski, M. Chilvers, J. Damicone, E. DeWolf, A. Dorrance, N. Dufault, P. Esker, T.R. Faske, L. Giesler, N. Goldberg, J. Golod, I.R.G. Gómez, C. Grau, A. Grybauskas, G. Franc, R. Hammerschmidt, G.L. Hartman, R.A. Henn, D. Hershman, C. Hollier, T. Isakeit, S. Isard, B. Jacobsen, D. Jardine, R. Kemerait, S. Koenning, M. Langham, D. Malvick, S. Markell, J.J. Marois, S. Monfort, D. Mueller, J. Mueller, R. Mulrooney, M. Newman, L. Osborne, G.B. Padgett, B.E. Ruden, J. Rupe, R. Schneider, H. Schwartz, G. Shaner, S. Singh, E. Stromberg, L. Sweets, A. Tenuta, S. Vaiciunas, X.B. Yang, H. Young-Kelly, and J. Zidek. 2014. A Coordinated Effort to Manage Soybean Rust in North America: A Success Story in Soybean Disease Monitoring. Plant Disease. 98:864–875. doi:10.1094/PDIS-02-14-0121-FE.


Spraker, J.E., K. Jewell, L.V. Roze, J. Scherf, D. Ndagano, R. Beaudry, J.E. Linz, C. Allen, and N.P. Keller. 2014. A volatile relationship: profiling an inter-kingdom dialogue between two plant pathogens, Ralstonia Solanacearum and Aspergillus Flavus. J. Chem. Ecol. 40:502–513. doi:10.1007/s10886-014-0432-2.


Stack, J.P., R.M. Bostock, R. Hammerschmidt, J.B. Jones, and E. Luke. 2014. The National Plant Diagnostic Network: Partnering to Protect Plant Systems. Plant Disease. 98:708–715. doi:10.1094/PDIS-08-13-0876-FE.


Stobbe, A.H., and M.J. Roossinck. 2014. Plant virus metagenomics: what we know and why we need to know more. Front Plant Sci. 5. doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.00150.
Todd, R.B., M. Zhou, R.A. Ohm, H.A. Leeggangers, L. Visser, and R.P. de Vries. 2014. Prevalence of transcription factors in ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi. BMC Genomics. 15:214. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-214.


Torres, M.F., D.F. Cuadros, and L.J. Vaillancourt. 2014. Evidence for a diffusible factor that induces susceptibility in the Colletotrichum–maize disease interaction. Molecular Plant Pathology. 15:80–93. doi:10.1111/mpp.12069.


Varga, E., G. Wiesenberger, C. Hametner, T. Ward, Y. Dong, D. Schofbeck, S. McCormick, K. Broz, R. Stuckler, and H. Kistler. 2014. Discovery and toxicity assessment of a novel type A trichothecene produced by US isolates of Fusarium graminearum. Meeting Abstract.


Weirick, T., S.S. Sahu, R. Mahalingam, and R. Kaundal. 2014. LacSubPred: predicting subtypes of Laccases, an important lignin metabolism-related enzyme class, using in silico approaches. BMC bioinformatics. 15:S15.


Wiemann, P., B.E. Lechner, J.A. Baccile, T.A. Velk, W.-B. Yin, J.W. Bok, S. Pakala, L. Losada, W.C. Nierman, F.C. Schroeder, H. Haas, and N.P. Keller. 2014. Perturbations in small molecule synthesis uncovers an iron-responsive secondary metabolite network in Aspergillus fumigatus. Front Microbiol. 5:530. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00530.


Wiesenberger, G., E. Varga, C. Hametner, R. Stuckler, H. Kistler, T. Ward, D. Schofbeck, R. Krska, R. Schuhmacher, F. Berthiller, and others. 2014. A North American isolate of Fusarium graminearum: toxicity and biosynthesis of a new type A trichothecene. Meeting Abstract.


Yu, F., Q. Gu, Y. Yun, Y. Yin, J.-R. Xu, W.-B. Shim, and Z. Ma. 2014. The TOR signaling pathway regulates vegetative development and virulence in Fusarium graminearum. New Phytol. 203:219–232. doi:10.1111/nph.12776.


Zhang, Q., J.E. Axtman, J.D. Faris, S. Chao, Z. Zhang, T.L. Friesen, S. Zhong, X. Cai, E.M. Elias, and S.S. Xu. 2014a. Identification and molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for Fusarium head blight resistance in emmer and durum wheat using a single nucleotide polymorphism-based linkage map. Molecular Breeding. 34:1677–1687.


Zhang, S., and J.-R. Xu. 2014. Effectors and Effector Delivery in Magnaporthe oryzae. PLoS Pathog. 10:e1003826. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003826.


Zhang, Y., K. Zhang, A. Fang, Y. Han, J. Yang, M. Xue, J. Bao, D. Hu, B. Zhou, X. Sun, S. Li, M. Wen, N. Yao, L.-J. Ma, Y. Liu, M. Zhang, F. Huang, C. Luo, L. Zhou, J. Li, Z. Chen, J. Miao, S. Wang, J. Lai, J.-R. Xu, T. Hsiang, Y.-L. Peng, and W. Sun. 2014b. Specific adaptation of Ustilaginoidea virens in occupying host florets revealed by comparative and functional genomics. Nat Commun. 5. doi:10.1038/ncomms4849.


Zhao, Z., Q. Jin, J.-R. Xu, and H. Liu. 2014a. Identification of a Fungi-Specific Lineage of Protein Kinases Closely Related to Tyrosine Kinases. PLoS ONE. 9:e89813. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089813.


Zhao, Z., H. Liu, Y. Luo, S. Zhou, L. An, C. Wang, Q. Jin, M. Zhou, and J.-R. Xu. 2014b. Molecular evolution and functional divergence of tubulin superfamily in the fungal tree of life. Sci. Rep. 4. doi:10.1038/srep06746.


Zhou, X., X. Zhao, C. Xue, Y. Dai, and J.-R. Xu. 2014. Bypassing both surface attachment and surface recognition requirements for appressorium formation by overactive ras signaling in Magnaporthe oryzae. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 27:996–1004. doi:10.1094/MPMI-02-14-0052-R.



2015



Albright, J.C., M.T. Henke, A.A. Soukup, R.A. McClure, R.J. Thomson, N.P. Keller, and N.L. Kelleher. 2015. Large-Scale Metabolomics Reveals a Complex Response of Aspergillus nidulans to Epigenetic Perturbation. ACS Chem. Biol. 10:1535–1541. doi:10.1021/acschembio.5b00025.


Bok, J.W., R. Ye, K.D. Clevenger, D. Mead, M. Wagner, A. Krerowicz, J.C. Albright, A.W. Goering, P.M. Thomas, N.L. Kelleher, N.P. Keller, and C.C. Wu. 2015. Fungal artificial chromosomes for mining of the fungal secondary metabolome. BMC Genomics. 16:343. doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1561-x.


Cruz, C.D., J. Kiyuna, W.W. Bockus, T.C. Todd, J.P. Stack, and B. Valent. 2015. Magnaporthe oryzae conidia on basal wheat leaves as a potential source of wheat blast inoculum. Plant Pathol. n/a–n/a. doi:10.1111/ppa.12414.


Gao, Y., J.D. Faris, Z. Liu, Y.M. Kim, R.A. Syme, R.P. Oliver, S.S. Xu, and T.L. Friesen. 2015. Identification and Characterization of the SnTox6-Snn6 Interaction in the Parastagonospora nodorum-Wheat Pathosystem. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 28:615–625. doi:10.1094/MPMI-12-14-0396-R.


Gong, X., O. Hurtado, B. Wang, C. Wu, M. Yi, M. Giraldo, B. Valent, M. Goodin, and M. Farman. 2015. pFPL Vectors for High-Throughput Protein Localization in Fungi: Detecting Cytoplasmic Accumulation of Putative Effector Proteins. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 28:107–121. doi:10.1094/MPMI-05-14-0144-TA.


Guo, C., W.-W. Sun, K.S. Bruno, B.R. Oakley, N.P. Keller, and C. Wang. 2015a. Spatial Regulation of a Common Precursor from Two Distinct Genes Generates Metabolite Diversity. Chem. Sci. doi:10.1039/C5SC01058F.


Guo, L., A. Breakspear, G. Zhao, L. Gao, H.C. Kistler, J.-R. Xu, and L.-J. Ma. 2015b. Conservation and divergence of the cyclic adenosine monophosphate-protein kinase A (cAMP-PKA) pathway in two plant-pathogenic fungi: Fusarium graminearum and F.?verticillioides. Mol. Plant Pathol. doi:10.1111/mpp.12272.


Hammerschmidt, R. 2015. Plants inducing plants. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 90:iii.


Hou, R., C. Jiang, Q. Zheng, C. Wang, and J.-R. Xu. 2015. The AreA transcription factor mediates the regulation of deoxynivalenol (DON) synthesis by ammonium and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signalling in Fusarium graminearum. Mol. Plant Pathol. doi:10.1111/mpp.12254.


Jiang, C., S. Zhang, Q. Zhang, Y. Tao, C. Wang, and J.-R. Xu. 2015. FgSKN7 and FgATF1 have overlapping functions in ascosporogenesis, pathogenesis and stress responses in Fusarium graminearum. Environ. Microbiol. 17:1245–1260. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12561.


Kelly, A.C., R.M. Clear, K. O’Donnell, S. McCormick, T.K. Turkington, A. Tekauz, J. Gilbert, H.C. Kistler, M. Busman, and T.J. Ward. 2015. Diversity of Fusarium head blight populations and trichothecene toxin types reveals regional differences in pathogen composition and temporal dynamics. Fungal Genetics and Biology.


Kistler, H.C., and K. Broz. 2015. Cellular compartmentalization of secondary metabolism. Frontiers in microbiology. 6.


Liang, J., L. Lofgren, Z. Ma, T. Ward, and H.C. Kistler. 2015a. Population subdivision of Fusarium graminearum from barley and wheat in the upper Midwestern United States at the turn of the century. Phytopathology.


Liang, X., D. Liberti, M. Li, Y.-T. Kim, A. Hutchens, R. Wilson, and J.A. Rollins. 2015b. Oxaloacetate acetylhydrolase gene mutants of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum do not accumulate oxalic acid, but do produce limited lesions on host plants. Molecular Plant Pathology. 16:559–571. doi:10.1111/mpp.12211.


Liang, X., E.W. Moomaw, and J.A. Rollins. 2015c. Fungal oxalate decarboxylase activity contributes to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum early infection by affecting both compound appressoria development and function. Molecular Plant Pathology. n/a–n/a. doi:10.1111/mpp.12239.


Liu, H., S. Zhang, J. Ma, Y. Dai, C. Li, X. Lyu, C. Wang, and J.-R. Xu. 2015a. Two Cdc2 Kinase Genes with Distinct Functions in Vegetative and Infectious Hyphae in Fusarium graminearum. PLoS Pathog. 11:e1004913. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004913.


Liu, Z., I. El-Basyoni, G. Kariyawasam, G. Zhang, A. Fritz, J.M. Hansen, F. Marais, A.J. Friskop, S. Chao, E. Akhunov, and P.S. Baenziger. 2015b. Evaluation and association mapping of resistance to tan spot and Stagonospora nodorum blotch in adapted winter wheat germplasm. Plant Disease. doi:10.1094/PDIS-11-14-1131-RE.


Liu, Z., D.J. Holmes, J.D. Faris, S. Chao, R.S. Brueggeman, M.C. Edwards, and T.L. Friesen. 2015c. Necrotrophic effector-triggered susceptibility (NETS) underlies the barley–Pyrenophora teres f. teres interaction specific to chromosome 6H. Molecular Plant Pathology. 16:188–200. doi:10.1111/mpp.12172.


Macheleidt, J., K. Scherlach, T. Neuwirth, W. Schmidt-Heck, M. Straßburger, J. Spraker, J.A. Baccile, F.C. Schroeder, N.P. Keller, C. Hertweck, T. Heinekamp, and A.A. Brakhage. 2015. Transcriptome analysis of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase A-regulated genes reveals the production of the novel natural compound fumipyrrole by Aspergillus fumigatus. Mol. Microbiol. 96:148–162. doi:10.1111/mmi.12926.


Marroquin-Guzman, M., and R.A. Wilson. 2015. GATA-Dependent Glutaminolysis Drives Appressorium Formation in Magnaporthe oryzae by Suppressing TOR Inhibition of cAMP/PKA Signaling.


Oliveira-Garcia, E., and B. Valent. 2015. How eukaryotic filamentous pathogens evade plant recognition. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 26:92–101. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2015.06.012.


Pita, J.S., V. Morris, and M.J. Roossinck. 2015. Mutation and recombination frequencies reveal a biological contrast within strains of Cucumber mosaic virus. J. Virol. JVI.00040–15. doi:10.1128/JVI.00040-15.


Qi, L., Y. Kim, C. Jiang, Y. Li, Y. Peng, and J.-R. Xu. 2015. Activation of Mst11 and Feedback Inhibition of Germ Tube Growth in Magnaporthe oryzae. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. MPMI12140391R. doi:10.1094/MPMI-12-14-0391-R.


Qin, J., G. Wang, C. Jiang, J.-R. Xu, and C. Wang. 2015. Fgk3 glycogen synthase kinase is important for development, pathogenesis, and stress responses in Fusarium graminearum. Sci. Rep. 5. doi:10.1038/srep08504.


Roossinck, M.J. 2015a. Metagenomics of plant and fungal viruses reveals an abundance of persistent lifestyles. Front. Microbiol. 5:767. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00767.


Roossinck, M.J. 2015b. Plants, viruses and the environment: Ecology and mutualism. Virology. 479-480:271–277. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2015.03.041.


Roossinck, M.J. 2015c. A new look at plant viruses and their potential beneficial roles in crops. Molecular Plant Pathology. 16:331–333. doi:10.1111/mpp.12241.


Roossinck, M.J. 2015d. Move Over, Bacteria! Viruses Make Their Mark as Mutualistic Microbial Symbionts: FIG 1. Journal of Virology. 89:6532–6535. doi:10.1128/JVI.02974-14.


Roossinck, M.J., and F. García-Arenal. 2015. Ecosystem simplification, biodiversity loss and plant virus emergence. Curr Opin Virol. 10:56–62. doi:10.1016/j.coviro.2015.01.005.


Sarikaya-Bayram, Ö., J.M. Palmer, N. Keller, G.H. Braus, and Ö. Bayram. 2015. One Juliet and four Romeos: VeA and its methyltransferases. Front Microbiol. 6. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00001.


Shahzad, K., M. Rauf, M. Ahmed, Z.A. Malik, I. Habib, Z. Ahmed, K. Mahmood, R. Ali, K. Masmoudi, F. Lemtiri-Chlieh, C. Gehring, G.A. Berkowitz, and N.A. Saeed. 2015. Functional characterisation of an intron retaining K+ transporter of barley reveals intron-mediated alternate splicing. Plant Biol J. 17:840–851. doi:10.1111/plb.12290.


Smith, M.E., T.W. Henkel, and J.A. Rollins. 2015. How many fungi make sclerotia? Fungal Ecology. 13:211–220. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2014.08.010.


Song, Z., D. Schlatter, P. Kennedy, L.L. Kinkel, H.C. Kistler, N. Nguyen, and S.T. Bates. 2015. Effort versus Reward: Preparing Samples for Fungal Community Characterization in High-Throughput Sequencing Surveys of Soils.


Varga, E., G. Wiesenberger, C. Hametner, T.J. Ward, Y. Dong, D. Schöfbeck, S. McCormick, K. Broz, R. Stückler, R. Schuhmacher, and others. 2015. New tricks of an old enemy: isolates of Fusarium graminearum produce a type A trichothecene mycotoxin. Environmental microbiology.


Wang, G., G. Li, S. Zhang, C. Jiang, J. Qin, and J.-R. Xu. 2015a. Activation of the signalling mucin MoMsb2 and its functional relationship with Cbp1 in Magnaporthe oryzae. Environ Microbiol. n/a–n/a. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12847.


Wang, X., F. Wu, L. Liu, X. Liu, Y. Che, N.P. Keller, L. Guo, and W.-B. Yin. 2015b. The bZIP transcription factor PfZipA regulates secondary metabolism and oxidative stress response in the plant endophytic fungus Pestalotiopsis fici. Fungal Genet. Biol. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2015.03.010.


Wylie, S.J., C. Zhang, V. Long, M.J. Roossinck, S.H. Koh, M.G.K. Jones, S. Iqbal, and H. Li. 2015. Differential responses to virus challenge of laboratory and wild accessions of australian species of nicotiana, and comparative analysis of RDR1 gene sequences. PLoS ONE. 10:e0121787. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121787.


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Zhao, Y., Q. Xi, Q. Xu, M. He, J. Ding, Y. Dai, N.P. Keller, and W. Zheng. 2015. Correlation of nitric oxide produced by an inducible nitric oxide synthase-like protein with enhanced expression of the phenylpropanoid pathway in Inonotus obliquus cocultured with Phellinus morii. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 99:4361–4372. doi:10.1007/s00253-014-6367-2.


Zheng, H., J. Kim, M. Liew, J.K. Yan, O. Herrera, J.W. Bok, N.L. Kelleher, N.P. Keller, and Y. Wang. 2015. Redox metabolites signal polymicrobial biofilm development via the NapA oxidative stress cascade in Aspergillus. Curr. Biol. 25:29–37. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.018.

03/03/2017

• Bignell E, Cairns TC, Throckmorton K, Nierman WC, Keller NP (2016) Secondary metabolite arsenal of an opportunistic pathogenic fungus. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 371(1709): (PMC5095546) 


• Rosowski EE, Deng Q, Keller NP, Huttenlocher A (2016) Rac2 Functions in Both Neutrophils and Macrophages To Mediate Motility and Host Defense in Larval Zebrafish. J. Immunol. 197(12):4780-4790 


• Clevenger KD, Bok JW, Ye R, Miley GP, Velk T, Chen C, Yang K, Gao P, Lamprecht M, Thomas PM, Islam MN, Wu CC, Keller NP, Kelleher NL (2016) Large scale discovery and deorphanization of natural products using fungal artificial chromosomes and untargeted metabolomics (FAC-MS). Planta Med. 81(S 01):S1-S381 


• Knox BP, Blachowicz A, Palmer JM, Romsdahl J, Huttenlocher A, Wang CC, Keller NP, Venkateswaran K (2016) Characterization of Aspergillus fumigatus Isolates from Air and Surfaces of the International Space Station. mSphere 1(5): (PMC5082629) 


• Németh Z, Molnár ÁP, Fejes B, Novák L, Karaffa L, Keller NP, Fekete E (2016) Growth-Phase Sterigmatocystin Formation on Lactose Is Mediated via Low Specific Growth Rates in Aspergillus nidulans. Toxins (Basel) 8(12): (PMC5198170) 


• Luo X, Affeldt KJ, Keller NP (2016) Characterization of the Far Transcription Factor Family in Aspergillus flavus. G3 (Bethesda) 6(10):3269-3281 (PMC5068947) 


• Spraker JE, Sanchez LM, Lowe TM, Dorrestein PC, Keller NP (2016) Ralstonia solanacearum lipopeptide induces chlamydospore development in fungi and facilitates bacterial entry into fungal tissues. ISME J 10(9):2317-30 (PMC4989320) 


• Yeh HH, Ahuja M, Chiang YM, Oakley CE, Moore S, Yoon O, Hajovsky H, Bok JW, Keller NP, Wang CC, Oakley BR (2016) Resistance Gene-Guided Genome Mining: Serial Promoter Exchanges in Aspergillus nidulans Reveal the Biosynthetic Pathway for Fellutamide B, a Proteasome Inhibitor. ACS Chem. Biol. 11(8):2275-84 


• Henke MT, Soukup AA, Goering AW, McClure RA, Thomson RJ, Keller NP, Kelleher NL (2016) New Aspercryptins, Lipopeptide Natural Products, Revealed by HDAC Inhibition in Aspergillus nidulans. ACS Chem. Biol. 11(8):2117-23 (PMC5119465) 


• Baccile JA, Spraker JE, Le HH, Brandenburger E, Gomez C, Bok JW, Macheleidt J, Brakhage AA, Hoffmeister D, Keller NP, Schroeder FC (2016) Plant-like biosynthesis of isoquinoline alkaloids in Aspergillus fumigatus. Nat. Chem. Biol. 12(6):419-24 (PMC5049701) 


• Drees KP, Palmer JM, Sebra R, Lorch JM, Chen C, Wu CC, Bok JW, Keller NP, Blehert DS, Cuomo CA, Lindner DL, Foster JT (2016) Use of Multiple Sequencing Technologies To Produce a High-Quality Genome of the Fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causative Agent of Bat White-Nose Syndrome. Genome Announc 4(3): (PMC4929507) 


• Zhao Y, He M, Xi Q, Ding J, Hao B, Keller NP, Zheng W (2016) Reversible S-nitrosylation limits over synthesis of fungal styrylpyrone upon nitric oxide burst. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 100(9):4123-34 


• Wang PM, Choera T, Wiemann P, Pisithkul T, Amador-Noguez D, Keller NP (2016) TrpE feedback mutants reveal roadblocks and conduits toward increasing secondary metabolism in Aspergillus fumigatus. Fungal Genet. Biol. 89:102-13 (PMC4789178) 


• Wu G, Zhou H, Zhang P, Wang X, Li W, Zhang W, Liu X, Liu HW, Keller NP, An Z, Yin WB (2016) Polyketide Production of Pestaloficiols and Macrodiolide Ficiolides Revealed by Manipulations of Epigenetic Regulators in an Endophytic Fungus. Org. Lett. 18(8):1832-5 


• Kerr SC, Fischer GJ, Sinha M, McCabe O, Palmer JM, Choera T, Lim FY, Wimmerova M, Carrington SD, Yuan S, Lowell CA, Oscarson S, Keller NP, Fahy JV (2016) FleA Expression in Aspergillus fumigatus Is Recognized by Fucosylated Structures on Mucins and Macrophages to Prevent Lung Infection. PLoS Pathog. 12(4):e1005555 (PMC4825926) 


• Fischer GJ, Keller NP (2016) Production of cross-kingdom oxylipins by pathogenic fungi: An update on their role in development and pathogenicity. J. Microbiol. 54(3):254-64 (PMC5107414) 


• Soukup AA, Keller NP, Wiemann P (2016) Enhancing Nonribosomal Peptide Biosynthesis in Filamentous Fungi. Methods Mol. Biol. 1401:149-60 (PMC4773910) 


• Barkal LJ, Theberge AB, Guo CJ, Spraker J, Rappert L, Berthier J, Brakke KA, Wang CC, Beebe DJ, Keller NP, Berthier E (2016) Microbial metabolomics in open microscale platforms. Nat Commun 7:10610 (PMC4742997) 


• Song J, Zhai P, Zhang Y, Zhang C, Sang H, Han G, Keller NP, Lu L (2016) The Aspergillus fumigatus Damage Resistance Protein Family Coordinately Regulates Ergosterol Biosynthesis and Azole Susceptibility. MBio 7(1):e01919-15 (PMC4791848) 


• Throckmorton K, Lim FY, Kontoyiannis DP, Zheng W, Keller NP (2016) Redundant synthesis of a conidial polyketide by two distinct secondary metabolite clusters in Aspergillus fumigatus. Environ. Microbiol. 18(1):246-59 (PMC4750049) 


• Keller NP (2015) Translating biosynthetic gene clusters into fungal armor and weaponry. Nat. Chem. Biol. 11(9):671-7 (PMC4682562) 


• Medema MH, Kottmann R, Yilmaz P, Cummings M, Biggins JB, Blin K, de Bruijn I, Chooi YH, Claesen J, Coates RC, Cruz-Morales P, Duddela S, Düsterhus S, Edwards DJ, Fewer DP, Garg N, Geiger C, Gomez-Escribano JP, Greule A, Hadjithomas M, Haines AS, Helfrich EJ, Hillwig ML, Ishida K, Jones AC, Jones CS, Jungmann K, Kegler C, Kim HU, Kötter P, Krug D, Masschelein J, Melnik AV, Mantovani SM, Monroe EA, Moore M, Moss N, Nützmann HW, Pan G, Pati A, Petras D, Reen FJ, Rosconi F, Rui Z, Tian Z, Tobias NJ, Tsunematsu Y, Wiemann P, Wyckoff E, Yan X, Yim G, Yu F, Xie Y, Aigle B, Apel AK, Balibar CJ, Balskus EP, Barona-Gómez F, Bechthold A, Bode HB, Borriss R, Brady SF, Brakhage AA, Caffrey P, Cheng YQ, Clardy J, Cox RJ, De Mot R, Donadio S, Donia MS, van der Donk WA, Dorrestein PC, Doyle S, Driessen AJ, Ehling-Schulz M, Entian KD, Fischbach MA, Gerwick L, Gerwick WH, Gross H, Gust B, Hertweck C, Höfte M, Jensen SE, Ju J, Katz L, Kaysser L, Klassen JL, Keller NP, Kormanec J, Kuipers OP, Kuzuyama T, Kyrpides NC, Kwon HJ, Lautru S, Lavigne R, Lee CY, Linquan B, Liu X, Liu W, Luzhetskyy A, Mahmud T, Mast Y, Méndez C, Metsä-Ketelä M, Micklefield J, Mitchell DA, Moore BS, Moreira LM, Müller R, Neilan BA, Nett M, Nielsen J, O'Gara F, Oikawa H, Osbourn A, Osburne MS, Ostash B, Payne SM, Pernodet JL, Petricek M, Piel J, Ploux O, Raaijmakers JM, Salas JA, Schmitt EK, Scott B, Seipke RF, Shen B, Sherman DH, Sivonen K, Smanski MJ, Sosio M, Stegmann E, Süssmuth RD, Tahlan K, Thomas CM, Tang Y, Truman AW, Viaud M, Walton JD, Walsh CT, Weber T, van Wezel GP, Wilkinson B, Willey JM, Wohlleben W, Wright GD, Ziemert N, Zhang C, Zotchev SB, Breitling R, Takano E, Glöckner FO (2015) Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster. Nat. Chem. Biol. 11(9):625-31 


• Throckmorton K, Wiemann P, Keller NP (2015) Evolution of Chemical Diversity in a Group of Non-Reduced Polyketide Gene Clusters: Using Phylogenetics to Inform the Search for Novel Fungal Natural Products. Toxins (Basel) 7(9):3572-607 (PMC4591646) 


• Wang X, Wu F, Liu L, Liu X, Che Y, Keller NP, Guo L, Yin WB (2015) The bZIP transcription factor PfZipA regulates secondary metabolism and oxidative stress response in the plant endophytic fungus Pestalotiopsis fici. Fungal Genet. Biol. 81:221-8 


• Albright JC, Henke MT, Soukup AA, McClure RA, Thomson RJ, Keller NP, Kelleher NL (2015) Large-scale metabolomics reveals a complex response of Aspergillus nidulans to epigenetic perturbation. ACS Chem. Biol. 10(6):1535-41 (PMC4475433) 


• Zhao Y, Xi Q, Xu Q, He M, Ding J, Dai Y, Keller NP, Zheng W (2015) Correlation of nitric oxide produced by an inducible nitric oxide synthase-like protein with enhanced expression of the phenylpropanoid pathway in Inonotus obliquus cocultured with Phellinus morii. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 99(10):4361-72 


• Macheleidt J, Scherlach K, Neuwirth T, Schmidt-Heck W, Straßburger M, Spraker J, Baccile JA, Schroeder FC, Keller NP, Hertweck C, Heinekamp T, Brakhage AA (2015) Transcriptome analysis of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase A-regulated genes reveals the production of the novel natural compound fumipyrrole by Aspergillus fumigatus. Mol. Microbiol. 96(1):148-62 (PMC4425693) 


• Bok JW, Ye R, Clevenger KD, Mead D, Wagner M, Krerowicz A, Albright JC, Goering AW, Thomas PM, Kelleher NL, Keller NP, Wu CC (2015) Fungal artificial chromosomes for mining of the fungal secondary metabolome. BMC Genomics 16:343 (PMC4413528) 


• Zheng H, Kim J, Liew M, Yan JK, Herrera O, Bok JW, Kelleher NL, Keller NP, Wang Y (2015) Redox metabolites signal polymicrobial biofilm development via the NapA oxidative stress cascade in Aspergillus. Curr. Biol. 25(1):29-37 (PMC4286458)


• Tyler BM, Kale SD, Wang Q, Tao K, Clark HR, Drews K, Antignani V, Rumore A, Hayes T, Plett JM, Fudal I, Gu B, Chen Q, Affeldt KJ, Berthier E, Fischer GJ, Dou D, Shan W, Keller NP, Martin F, Rouxel T, Lawrence CB (2015) Microbe-Independent Entry of Oomycete RxLR Effectors and Fungal RxLR-Like Effectors Into Plant and Animal Cells Is Specific and Reproducible. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 2015(1):51-56 


• Thapa, V., G.G. Turner, S. Hafenstein, B.E. Overton, K.J. Vanderwolf, M.J. Roossinck. 2016. Using a novel partitivirus in Pseudogymnoascus destructansto understand the epidemiology of white-nose syndrome. PLOS Pathogens 12:e1006076.


• Liu, Zhaohui; Holmes, Danielle J; Faris, Justin D; Chao, Shiaoman; Brueggeman, Robert S; Edwards, Michael C; Friesen, Timothy L. 2015. Necrotrophic effector‐triggered susceptibility (NETS) underlies the barley–Pyrenophora teres f. teres interaction specific to chromosome 6H. Molecular Plant Pathology. 16:188-200/


• Campbell, A.S., R.C. Ploetz, and J.A. Rollins. 2016. Comparing Avocado, Swamp Bay, and Camphortree as Hosts of Raffaelea lauricola Using a Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)-Labeled Strain of the Pathogen. Phytopathology. 107:70–74.


• Doughan, B., and J.A. Rollins. 2016. Characterization of MAT gene functions in the life cycle of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum reveals a lineage-specific MAT gene functioning in apothecium morphogenesis. Fungal Biology. 120:1105–1117.


• Fan, H., G. Yu, Y. Liu, X. Zhang, J. Liu, Y. Zhang, J.A. Rollins, F. Sun, and H. Pan. 2016. An atypical forkhead containing transcription factor SsFKH1 is involved in sclerotial formation and is essential for pathogenicity in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Molecular Plant Pathology.


• Klosterman, S.J., J.A. Rollins, M.R. Sudarshana, and B.A. Vinatzer. 2016. Disease Management in the Genomics Era—Summaries of Focus Issue Papers. Phytopathology. 106:1068–1070.


• Liang, X., E.W. Moomaw, and J.A. Rollins. 2015. Fungal oxalate decarboxylase activity contributes to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum early infection by affecting both compound appressoria development and function. Molecular Plant Pathology. 16:825–836.


• Smith, M.E., T.W. Henkel, and J.A. Rollins. 2015. How many fungi make sclerotia? Fungal Ecology. 13:211–220.


• Wang, C., J. Yao, X. Du, Y. Zhang, Y. Sun, J.A. Rollins, and Z. Mou. 2015. The Arabidopsis Mediator Complex Subunit16 Is a Key Component of Basal Resistance against the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum1[OPEN]. Plant Physiol. 169:856–872.


• Wang, N.-Y., K. Zhang, J.C. Huguet-Tapia, J.A. Rollins, and M.M. Dewdney. 2016. Mating Type and Simple Sequence Repeat Markers Indicate a Clonal Population of Phyllosticta citricarpa in Florida. Phytopathology. 106:1300–1310.


• Firrincieli, A., R. Otillar, A. Salamov, J. Schmutz, Z. Khan, R.S. Redman, N.D. Fleck, E. Lindquist, I.V. Grigoriev, and S.L. Doty. 2015. Genome sequence of the plant growth promoting endophytic yeast Rhodotorula graminis WP1. Front Microbiol. 6:978. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00978.


• Yuan, Z., I.S. Druzhinina, J. Labbé, R. Redman, Y. Qin, R. Rodriguez, C. Zhang, G.A. Tuskan, and F. Lin. 2016. Specialized Microbiome of a Halophyte and its Role in Helping Non-Host Plants to Withstand Salinity. Sci Rep. 6:32467. doi:10.1038/srep32467.


• Kabbage, M., Kessens, R., Dickman, MB. (2016) A plant Bcl-2-associated athanogene is proteolytically activated to confer fungal resistance. Microbial Cell. 3(5): 224 - 226


• Li, Y., Kabbage, M., Liu, W., and Dickman, MB. (2016) Aspartyl Protease-Mediated Cleavage of BAG6 Is Necessary for Autophagy and Fungal Resistance in Plants. The Plant Cell. 28(1): 233-247


• Piotrowski JS, Okada H, Lu F, Li S, Hinchman L, Ranjan A, Smith DL, Higbee AJ, Ulbrich A, Coon J, Deshpande R, Bukhman Y, McIlwain S, Ong I, Landick R, Boone C, Ralph J, Myers CL, Kabbage M, Ohya Y. (2015). The plant derived, antifungal agent poacic acid targets β-1,3-glucan. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.112(12):E1490-7


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• Shew, A.M., L.L. Nalley, D.M. Danforth, B.L. Dixon, R.M. Nayga, Jr., A.-C. Delwaide and Valent. 2015. Are all GMO’s the same? Consumer acceptance of cisgenic rice in India. Plant Biotechnology Journal, In Press.


• Cruz, C. D., J. Kiyuna, W.W. Bockus, T.C. Todd, J.P. Stack and Valent. 2015. Magnaportheoryzae conidia on basal wheat leaves as a potential source of wheat blast inoculum. Plant Pathology, doi: 10.1111/ppa.12414.


• Gong X., O. Hurtado, B. Wang, C. Wu, M. Yi, M.C. Giraldo, Valent, M. Goodin and M. Farman. 2015. pFPL vectors for high-throughput protein localization in fungi: detecting cytoplasmic accumulation of putative effector proteins. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 28: 107-121


• Benoit, I., M. Zhou, A.V. Duarte, D.J. Downes, R.B. Todd, W. Kloezen, H. Post, A.J. Heck, A.M. Altelaar, and R.P. De Vries. 2015. Spatial differentiation of gene expression in Aspergillus niger colony grown for sugar beet pulp utilization. Scientific reports. 5:13592.


• Williams, B., I. Njaci, L. Moghaddam, H. Long, M.B. Dickman, X. Zhang, and S. Mundree. 2015. Trehalose Accumulation Triggers Autophagy during Plant Desiccation. PLoS Genet. 11:e1005705. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005705.


• Figueroa, M., V.A. Manning, I. Pandelova, and L.M. Ciuffetti. 2015. Persistence of the Host-Selective Toxin Ptr ToxB in the Apoplast. Plant Microbe Interact. 28:1082–1090. doi:10.1094/MPMI-05-15-0097-R.


• Hou, R., C. Jiang, Q. Zheng, C. Wang, and J.-R. Xu. 2015. The AreA transcription factor mediates the regulation of deoxynivalenol (DON) synthesis by ammonium and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) signalling in Fusarium graminearum. Plant Pathol. 16:987–999. doi:10.1111/mpp.12254.


• Katz, M.E., R. Buckland, C.C. Hunter, and R.B. Todd. 2015. Distinct roles for the p53-like transcription factor XprG and autophagy genes in the response to starvation. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 83:10–18.


• Kelly, A., H. Kistler, R. Proctor, and T. Ward. 2015. The origin, distribution, and evolution of Type A trichothecenes in the Fusarium graminearum species complex. In Meeting Abstract.


• Zhao, Z., H. Liu, Y. Luo, S. Zhou, L. An, C. Wang, Q. Jin, M. Zhou, and J.-R. Xu. 2014. Molecular evolution and functional divergence of tubulin superfamily in the fungal tree of life. Sci Rep. 4:6746. doi:10.1038/srep06746.


• Al Souhail, Q., Y. Hiromasa, M. Rahnamaeian, M.C. Giraldo, D. Takahashi, B. Valent, A. Vilcinskas, and M.R. Kanost. 2016. Characterization and regulation of expression of an antifungal peptide from hemolymph of an insect, Manduca sexta. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 61:258–268.


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• Cruz, C.D., G.L. Peterson, W.W. Bockus, P. Kankanala, J. Dubcovsky, K.W. Jordan, E. Akhunov, F. Chumley, F.D. Baldelomar, and B. Valent. 2016b. The 2NS Translocation from Confers Resistance to the Pathotype of. Crop science. 56:990–1000.


• David, R.F., M. Reinisch, F. Trail, L.C. Marr, and D.G. Schmale. 2016. Compression tests of Fusarium graminearum ascocarps provide insights into the strength of the perithecial wall and the quantity of ascospores. Fungal Genet. Biol. 96:25–32. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2016.09.003.


• Essarioui, A., H.C. Kistler, and L.L. Kinkel. 2016. Nutrient use preferences among soil Streptomyces suggest greater resource competition in monoculture than polyculture plant communities. Plant and Soil. 409:329–343.


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• Gao, X., Q. Jin, C. Jiang, Y. Li, C. Li, H. Liu, Z. Kang, and J.-R. Xu. 2016. FgPrp4 Kinase Is Important for Spliceosome B-Complex Activation and Splicing Efficiency in Fusarium graminearum. PLoS Genet. 12:e1005973. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005973.


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• Ipcho, S., T. Sundelin, G. Erbs, H.C. Kistler, M.-A. Newman, and S. Olsson. 2016. Fungal Innate Immunity Induced by Bacterial Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns (MAMPs). G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics. 6:1585–1595.


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• Kelly, A.C., R.M. Clear, K. O’Donnell, S. McCormick, T.K. Turkington, A. Tekauz, J. Gilbert, H.C. Kistler, M. Busman, and T.J. Ward. 2015. Diversity of Fusarium head blight populations and trichothecene toxin types reveals regional differences in pathogen composition and temporal dynamics. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 82:22–31.


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