NCCC307: Biochemistry and Genetics of Plant-Fungal Interactions

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11/07/2023

Publications 2022-2023 (Names of NCCC 307 members are underlined)


 



  1. Aboukhadour R, Mohamed H, McDonald M, Moffat CS, Navathe S, Friesen TL, Strelkov SE, Oliver RP, Tan KC, Liu Z, Moolhuijzen PM, Phan H, See PT (2023) A revised nomenclature for ToxA haplotypes across multiple fungal species. Phytopathology 113: 1180-1184.


 



  1. Alhashel AF, Fiedler JD, Nandety RS, Skiba RM, Bruggeman RS, Baldwin T, Friesen TL, Yang S (2023) Genetic and physical localization of a major susceptibility gene to Pyrenophora teres maculata in barley. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 136:118.


 



  1. Belisário R, Robertson AE, Vaillancourt LJ (2022) Maize anthracnose stalk rot in the genomic era.  Plant Disease106: 2281-2298.


 



  1. Belisário R, Torres MF, Buiate EA, Xavier KV, Nuckles EM, Vaillancourt LJ (2023) Detached maize sheaths for live-cell imaging of infection by fungal foliar maize pathogens. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), 199: e65755.


 



  1. Brabham HJ, De La Cruz DG, Were V, Shimizu M, Saitoh M, Hernández-Pinzón I, Green P, Lorang J, Fujisaki K, Sato K, Molnar I, Simkova H, Dolezel J, Russell J, Taylor J, Smoker M, Gupta YK, Wolpert T, Talbot NJ, Terauchi R, Moscou M (2023) Barley MLA3 recognizes the host-specificity effector Pwl2 from Marnaporthe oryzae. Plant Cell


 



  1. Brown DW, Kim HS, McGovern A, Probyn C, Proctor RH (2022) Genus-wide analysis of Fusarium polyketide synthases reveals broad chemical potential. Fungal Genetics and Biology 160: 103696.


 



  1. Cardoza RE, McCormick SP, Izquierdo-Bueno I, Martinez-Reyes N, Lindo L, Brown DW, Collado IG, Proctor RH, Gutierrez S (2022) Identification of polyketide synthase genes required for aspinolide biosynthesis in Trichoderma arundinaceum. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 106: 7153-7171.


 



  1. Del Ponte EM, Moreira GM, Ward TJ, O’Donnell K, Nicolli CP, Machado FJ, Duffeck MR, Alves KS, Tessmann DJ, Waalwijk C, van der Lee T, Zhang H, Chulze SN, Stenglein SA, Pan D, Vero S, Vaillancourt LJ, Schmale III DG, Esker PD, Moretti A, Logrieco AF, Kistler HC, Bergstrom GC, Viljoen A, Rose LJ, van Coller GJ, Lee T (2022)   Fusarium graminearum species complex: a bibliographic analysis and web-accessible database for global mapping of species and trichothecene toxin chemotypes.  Phytopathology 112: 741-751.


 



  1. Drott MT, Park SC, Wang YW, Harrow L, Keller NP, Pringle A (2023) Pangenomics of the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides, and of Agaricales, reveals dynamic evolution of toxin genes in an invasive range. ISME J 17: 1236-1246.


 



  1. Green AJ, Mergoum M, Frohberg R, Underdahl J, Walz A, Selland T, Miranda A, Simsek S, Otteson B, Heilman-Morales AM, Murillo D, Friskop A, Rickertsen J, Ostlie M, Schatz B, Hanson B, Eriksmoen E, Martin G, Fiedler J, Rasmussen J, Zhong S, Liu Z, Friesen TL, Rouse M, Dill-Mackay R, Curland R, Gill U, Jin Y (2023) Registration of ND Frohberg Hard Red Spring Wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 17: 385–396.


 



  1. Kariyawasam GK, Nelson AC, Williams SJ, Solomon PS, Faris JD, Friesen TL (2023) The necrotrophic pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum is a master manipulator of wheat defense. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-05-23-0067-IRW.


 



  1. Li G, Dulal N, Gong Z, Wilson RA (2023) Unconventional secretion of Magnaporthe oryzae effectors in rice cells is regulated by tRNA modification and codon usage control. Nature Microbiology 8: 1706-1716.


 



  1. Li G, Gong Z, Dulal N, Marroquin-Guzman M, Rocha RO, Richter M, Wilson RA (2023) A protein kinase coordinates cycles of autophagy and glutaminolysis in invasive hyphae of the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae within rice cells. Nature Communications 14: 4146.


 



  1. Lohmar JM, Rhoades NA, Hammond TM, Brown DW (2022) Gene drive by Fusarium SKC1 is dependent on its competing allele. Fungal Genetics and Biology 163: 103749.


 



  1. Lohmar JM, Rhoades NA, Patel TN, Proctor RH, Hammond TM, Brown DW (2022) A-to-I mRNA editing controls spore death induced by a fungal meiotic drive gene in homologous and heterologous expression systems. Genetics. 221.


 


 



  1. Machado FJ, de Barros AV, McMaster N, Schmale III DG, Vaillancourt LJ, Del Ponte EM (2022) Aggressiveness and mycotoxin production by Fusarium meridionalecompared with  graminearum on maize ears and stalks in the field.  Phytopathology 112: 271-277.


 



  1. Machado FJ, de Barros AV, McMaster N, Schmale DG, Del Ponte EM,Vaillancourt LJ (2023) A multivariate analysis of phenotypic traits of strains of Fusarium graminearum and  meridionale supports structure by species. Plant Pathology, 72: 1111–1121.


 



  1. Mei J, Li Z, Zhou S, Chen XL, Wilson RA, Liu W (2023) Effector secretion and stability in the maize anthracnose pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola requires N-linked protein glycosylation and the ER chaperone pathway. New Phytologist 240: 1449-1466.


 



  1. Nelson AC, Kariyawasam G, Wyatt NA, Li J, Haueisen J, Stukenbrock EH, Borowicz P, Liu Z, Friesen TL (2023) Unleashing the secrets of plant-fungal interactions using a transformation-free confocal staining technique that supports AI-assisted quantitative analysis. BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.04.560942


 



  1. Nickles GR, Oestereicher B, Keller NP, Drott MT (2023) Mining for a new class of fungal natural products: the evolution, diversity, and distribution of isocyanide synthase biosynthetic gene clusters. Nucleic Acids Research 51: 7220-7235.


 



  1. Pereira D, Potgieter L, Bolton MD, Friesen TL, Stephan W, Dutheil JY Stukenbrock EH Large-scale analyses reveal the contribution of adaptive evolution in pathogenic and non-pathogenic fungal species. BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.28.555124


 



  1. Peters-Haugrud A, Shi G, Seneviratne S, Running KLD, Zhang Z, Singh G, Szabo-Hever A, Acharya K, Friesen TL, Liu Z, Faris JD (2023) Genome-wide association mapping of resistance to the foliar diseases septoria nodorum blotch and tan spot in a global winter wheat collection. Molecular Breeding 43:54.


 



  1. Poddar S, Tanaka J, Running KLD, Kariyawasam GK, Faris JD, Friesen TL, Cho M-J, Cate JHD, Staskawicz B (2023) Optimization of highly efficient exogenous-DNA-free Cas9-ribonucleoprotein mediated gene editing in disease susceptibility loci in wheat (Triticum aestivum ). Frontiers in Plant Science 13:1084700.


 



  1. Pokhrel A, Coleman JJ (2023) Inventory of the secondary metabolite biosynthetic potential of members within the terminal clade of the Fusarium solani species complex.  Journal of Fungi 9: 799.


 



  1. Szabo-Hever A, Singh G, Peters-Haugrud AR, Running KLD, Seneviratne S, Zhang Z, Shi G, Bassi FM, Maccaferri M, Cattivelli L, Tuberosa R, Friesen TL, Liu Z, Xu SS, Faris JD (2023) Association mapping of resistance to tan spot in the Global Durum Panel. Phytopathology Online ahead of print doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-02-23-0043-R


 



  1. Taliadoros D, Feurtey A, Wyatt N, Gladieux P, Friesen T, Stukenbrock E. (2023) Emergence and spread of the barley net blotch pathogen coincided with crop domestication and cultivation history. bioRxiv 2023.07.28.550921; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.28.550921


 



  1. Tannous J, Cosetta CM, Drott MT, Rush TA, Abraham PE, Giannone RJ, Keller NP, Wolfe BE. (2023) LaeA-regulated fungal traits mediate bacterial community assembly. mBio 14: e0076923.


 



  1. Wang Q, Song R, Fan S, Coleman JJ, Xu X, Hu X (2023) Diversity of Fusarium community assembly shapes mycotoxin accumulation of diseased wheat heads.  Molecular Ecology 32: 2504-2518.


 



  1. Wang Q, Qin M, Coleman JJ, Shang W, Hu X (2023) Rapid and sensitive detection of Verticillium dahliae from complex samples using CRISPR/Cas12a technology combined with RPA.  Plant Disease 107: 1664-1669.


 



  1. White NH,Neves DL, Nuckles EM, Vaillancourt LJ, Zhang J, Zhang G, Bradley CA (2023)   Identification of quinone outside inhibitor fungicide-resistant isolates of Parastagonospora nodorum from Illinois and Kentucky.  Plant Disease 107: 38-45.


 



  1. Yuzon JD, Wyatt NA, Vasighzadeh A, Clare S, Navratil E, Friesen TL, Stukenbrock EH (2023) Hybrid inferiority and genetic incompatibilities drive divergence of fungal pathogens infecting the same host. Genetics 224: iyad037

05/14/2024


  1. Aboukhaddour R, Hafez M, McDonald M, Moffat CS, Navathe S, Friesen TL, Strelkov SE, Oliver RP, Tan K-C, Liu ZH, Moolhuijzen PM, Phan H, See P-T, Solomon PS (2023) A revised nomenclature for ToxA haplotypes across multiple fungal species. Phytopathology 113:1180-1184.

  2. Bian ZY, Wang ZY, Wang DW, Xu JR (2024) Sexual stage-specific A-to-I mRNA editing is mediated by tRNA editing enzymes in fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA  121: e2319235121. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319235121.

  3. Brabham HJ, De La Cruz DG, Were V, Shimizu M, Saitoh H, Hernandez-Pinzon I, Green P, Lorang J, Fujisaki K, Sato K, Molnar I, Simkova H, Dolezel J, Russell J, Taylor J, Smoker M, Gupta YK, Wolpert T, Talbot NJ, Terauchi R, Moscou MJ (2024) Barley MLA3 recognizes the host-specificity effector Pwl2 from Magnaporthe oryzae. Plant Cell 36: 447-470. org/10.1093/plcell/koad266.

  4. Ding MY, Cao SL, Xu D, Xia A, Wang Z, Wang W, Duan K, Wu C, Wang Q, Liang J, Wang D, Liu H, Xu JR, Jiang C (2023) A non-pheromone GPCR specifically regulates meiosis and ascosporogenesis via a conserved MAP kinase pathway in Fusarium graminearum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA  120 (42): e2313034120. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313034120.

  5. Huang PP, Yu X, Liu H, Ding MY, Wang ZY, Xu JR, Jiang C (2024) Regulation of TRI5 expression and DON biosynthesis involves a lncRNA in Fusarium graminearum. Nature Communications 15: 1216. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45502-w.

  6. Li J, Wyatt NA, Skiba RM, Kariyawasam GK, Richards JK, Effertz K, Rehman S, Brueggeman RS, Friesen TL (2023) Pathogen genetics identifies avirulence/virulence loci associated with barley chromosome 6H resistance in the Pyrenophora teres teres – barley interaction. BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.10.527674

  7. Manan F, Shi G, Gong H, Hou H, Khan H, Leng Y, Castell-Miller C, Ali S, Faris JD, Zhong S, Steffenson B, Liu ZH (2023) Prevalence and importance of the necrotrophic effector gene ToxA in Bipolaris sorokiniana populations collected from spring wheat and barley. Plant Disease 107: 2424-2430.

  8. Otero M, Pokhrel A, Seo S, Wendell L, Luangkhot AS, Lawrence KS, Coleman JJ (2024) Evaluation of genetic diversity, haplotype, and virulence of Fusarium oxysporumsp. vasinfectum field isolates from Alabama. Phytopathology. doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-23-0438-R.

  9. Nelson AC, Kariyawasam G, Wyatt NA, Li J, Haueisen J, Stukenbrock EH, Borowicz P, Liu Z, Friesen TL (2023) Unleashing the secrets of plant-fungal interactions using a transformation-free confocal staining technique that supports AI-assisted quantitative analysis. BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.04.560942.

  10. Qi Z, Lu P, Long X, Cao X, Wu M, Xin K, Xue T, Gao X, Huang Y, Wang Q, Jiang C, Xu JR, Liu H. (2024) Adaptive advantages of restorative RNA editing in fungi for resolving survival-reproduction tradeoffs. Science Advances 10 (1): eadk6130. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk6130.

  11. Richards JK, Li J, Koladia V, Wyatt NA, Rehman S, Brueggeman RS, Friesen TL (2024) A Moroccan population of Pyrenophora teres teres defeats the barley chromosome 6H broad-spectrum resistance. Phytopathology 114:193-199.

  12. Rodriguez-Herrera KD, Vargas A, Amie J, Price PP, Salgado LD, Doyle VP, Richards JK, Moseley D, Rojas A, Thomas-Sharma S (2024) Development of a greenhouse assay to screen soybean varieties for resistance to aerial blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA. Phytopathology org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-23-0390-KC

  13. Searight J, Famoso AN, Zhou X, Doyle VP, Richards JK (2023) A high-quality genome assembly for Cercospora janseana, causal agent of narrow brown leaf spot of rice. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 36(10):666-669

  14. Wang YY, Li R, Wang DW, Qian B, Bian Z, Wei J, Wei XL, Xu JR (2023) Regulation of symbiotic interactions and primitive lichen differentiation by UMP1 MAP kinase in Umbilicaria muhlenbergii. Nature Communications. 14: article number 6972. www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42675-8.

  15. Xin KY, Zhang Y, Fan L, Qi ZM, Feng CJ, Xu JR, Liu HQ (2023) Experimental evidence for the functional importance and adaptive advantage of A-to-I RNA editing in fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120 (12): e2219029120. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.221902912.

11/14/2025


  1. Eagan JE, Digman ER, den Boon M, Regalado R, Rawa MSA, Hull CM, Keller NP. (2025) Patulin inhibition of specific apple microbiome members uncovers Hanseniasporauvarum as a potential biocontrol agent. Phytopathology  115: 117-127.  doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-06-24-0189-R

  2. Guo J, Shi G, Islam MM, Kariyawasam G, Moolhuijzen P, See P-T, Zhong S, Aboukhaddour R, Faris JD, Friesen T, Liu Z. (2025) Identification of a novel genetic locus conferring virulence in the wheat tan spot pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. Fungal Genetics and Biology  179: 104002.  doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2025.104002

  3. Hatmaker EA, Barber AE, Drott MT,Sauters TJC, Gumilang A, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Garcia-Hermoso D, Eagan JL, Keller NP, Kontoyiannis DP, Kurzai O, Rokas A. (2025) Population structure in a fungal human pathogen is potentially linked to pathogenicity. Nature Communications  16: 7594.  doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-62777-9

  4. Klindworth DL, Fiedler JD, Jin Y, Friesen TL, Anderson KM, Lhamo D, Xu SS, Peters Haugrud AR. (2025) Genetic characterization and confirmation of stem rust resistance (Sr) genes in Rusty-derived durum monogenic lines. Crop Science 65:e70134.

  5. Klindworth DL, Sharma JS, Faris JD, Friesen TL, Peters Haugrud AR, Xu SS. (2025) Identification of stem rust resistance genes in monogenic lines derived from wheat cultivar Waldron. Crop Science 65:e70010.

  6. Li J, Wyatt NA, Skiba RM, Kariyawasam GK, Richards JK, Effertz K, Rehman S, Liu Z, Brueggeman RS, Friesen TL. (2024) Variability in chromosome 1 of select Moroccan Pyrenophora teres teres isolates overcomes a highly effective barley chromosome 6H source of resistance. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions   37:676-687.

  7. Lhamo D, Sun Q, Friesen TL, Li X, Fiedler JD, Faris JD, Xia G, Gu Y-Q, Liu Z, Xu SS. (2024) Association mapping of tan spot and septoria nodorum blotch resistance in cultivated emmer wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 137:193.

  8. Nelson AC, Kariyawasam G, Wyatt NA, Li J, Haueisen J, Stukenbrock EH, Borowicz P, Liu Z, Friesen TL. (2024) Assembly and evaluation of a confocal microscopy image analysis pipeline useful in revealing the secrets of plant-fungal interactions. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions  37:804-813.

  9. Otoo B, Calise DG, Park SC, Bok JW, Keller NP, Rawa MSA. (2025) ZfpA-dependent quorum sensing shifts in morphology and secondary metabolism in Aspergillus flavus. Environmental Microbiology 27: e70100.  doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.70100

  10. Pokhrel A, Coleman JJ (2024) Transcriptional enhancement of pathogenicity genes in the PEP cluster of Fusarium vanettenii is influenced by a pisatin-responsive gene (PRG1) and contributes to virulence on garden pea. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology  134: 102411.  org/10.1016/j.pmpp.2024.102411

  11. Pruthi R, Chaudhary C, Sharma J, Rana P, Kondi RKR, Richards JK, Nguyen HT, Subudhi PK. (2025) A comparative transcriptomic analysis provides insights into molecular mechanisms driving salt tolerance in soybean. Scientific Reports 15: 31869. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-17329-y

  12. Rabot C, Grau MF, Entwistle R, Chiang Y-M, Zamora de Roberts Y, Ahuja M, Oakley CE, Wang CCC, Todd RB,Oakley BR. (2024) Transcription factor engineering in Aspergillus nidulans leads to the discovery of an orsellinaldehyde derivative produced via an unlinked polyketide synthase gene. Journal of Natural Products  87: 2384-2392.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.4c00483

  13. Rodriguez-Herrera KD, Vargas A, Amie J, Price PP, Salgado LD, Doyle VP, Richards JK, Moseley D, Rojas A, Thomas-Sharma S. 2024. Development of a greenhouse assay to screen soybean varieties for resistance to aerial blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group 1-IA. Phytopathology 114: 1039-1049. DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-10-23-0390-KC

  14. Running KLD, Acharya K, Roth TM, Singh G, Szabo-Hever A, Peters Haugrud AR, Fiedler JD, Friesen TL, Faris JD. (2025) Development of diagnostic markers for the disease susceptibility gene Tsn1 in wheat reveals novel resistance alleles and a new locus required for ToxA sensitivity. Theoretical and Applied Genetics  138:164.

  15. Searight J, Doyle VP, Famoso AN, Zhou X, Richards JK. (2025) A population genomics approach to understand the diversity, migration, and reproduction of the rice pathogen Cercospora janseana. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions In press. DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-03-25-0031-R

  16. Seneviratne S, Shi G, Szabo-Hever A, Zhang Z, Peters Haugrud AR, Running KLD, Singh G, Nandety RS, Fiedler J, McClean PE, Xu SS, Friesen TL, Faris JD. 2024 Evolution, diversity, function, and marker-assisted elimination of the disease susceptibility gene Snn1 in wheat. Plant Journal  119:1720-1736.

  17. Szabo-Hever A, Running KLD, Seneviratne S, Singh G, Zhang Z, Peters Haugrud AR, Bassi FM, Maccaferri M, Cattivelli L, Tuberosa R, Friesen TL, Xu SS, Faris JD. (2025) Evaluation of durum and hard red spring wheat panels for sensitivity to necrotrophic effectors produced by Parastagonospora nodorum. Plant Disease 109:851-861.

  18. Szabo-Hever A, Sharma JS, Faris JD, Zhong S, Friesen TL, Green AJ, Bai G, Xu SS. (2025) Identification and mapping of quantitative trait loci for Fusarium head blight resistance in a synthetic hexaploid × hard red spring wheat population. The Plant Genome 18:e70073. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.70073

  19. Wang G, Wu W, Keller NP, Guo X, Li E, Ma J, Xing F (2024) Metarhizium encode an ochratoxin cluster and a high efficiency ochratoxin-degrading amidohydrolase revealed by genomic analysis. Journal of Advanced Research 72: 85-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2024.07.023

  20. Wyatt NA, Skiba RM, Peters Haugrud AR, Zhang Q, Szabo-Hever A, Xu SS, Faris JD, Friesen TL. (2025) Pyrenophora teres maculata, causal agent of spot form net blotch of barley, is an emerging pathogen of durum wheat. Phytopathology 115: 850-858.   https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-01-25-0002-R

  21. Zhang C, Xu Y, Li L, Wu M, Fang Z, Tan J, Rollins JA, Lin H, Huang X, Mansfield SD, Li X, Zhang Y. (2025) A GDP-mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase as a potential HIGS target against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. PLoS Pathogens 21: e1013129. 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013129

  22. Zhang Z, Running KLD, Seneviratne S, Peters Haugrud AR, Szabo-Hever A, Singh G, Holušová K, Molnár I, Doležel J, Friesen TL, Faris JD (2025)  Protein kinase-major sperm protein (PK-MSP) genes mediate recognition of the fungal necrotrophic effector SnTox3 to cause septoria nodorum blotch in wheat. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions  38:315-327.

  23. Zhu G, Zuo Q, Liu S, Zheng P, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Rollins JA, Liu J, Pan H. (2025) A FOX transcription factor phosphorylated for regulation of autophagy facilitates fruiting body development in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. New Phytologist 246: 2683–2701. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70151

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