Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

NCCC-307 Meeting Minutes - March 16, 2017, Asilomar, CA

7:30 pm– 7:45 pm – Cocktails and light appetizer 

7:45 pm– 7:55 pm – Welcome and synopsis of NCCC-307 by Chair, Jeff Rollins

7:55 pm– 8:00 pm – Status and future workshop plans by Secretary, Regina Redman

8:00pm– 8:50 pm – Emile Gluck-Thaler (OSU): “The ecology of catabolic gene clustering in fungi”; Ohio State University

9:00pm– 9:50 pm – Cristina deMiguel-Rojas (MSU): “Evolution of Plant Penetration by Fungal Pathogens”; Michigan State University

9:50pm– 10:00 pm – Open panel discussion, questions, and closing remarks

Members of the NCCC307 committee had many and diverse accomplishments pertaining to the genetics and biochemistry of plant-fungal interactions during the past year. These include (1) The identification and characterization of pathogenicity determinants from a number of phytopathogenic fungi through comparative and function genomic analyses. (2) An increase in the knowledge of primary regulators of fungal development required for epidemiological important and infection-related processes. (3) Elucidation of gene flow dynamics among fungal populations underpinning host specificity and virulence traits. (4) Increases in knowledge of gene cluster evolutionary dynamics and roles clusters play in fungal secondary metabolism diversity. (5) Crop germplasm evaluation and disease resistance mapping. (6) Identification of newly emerging and endemic pathogens, characterization of pathogen population diversity, fungal community interactions, and symbiotic interactions among fungi, plants, bacteria and viruses. These efforts have produced more than 78 peer-reviewed journal publications in the 2016-2017 reporting period.

Ameen, G., G. Kariyawasam, G. Shi, T.L. Friesen, J.D. Faris, S. Ali, J.B. Rasmussen, and Z. Liu. 2017. Molecular manipulation of the mating-type system and development of a new approach for characterizing pathogen virulence in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 109:16–25. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2017.10.004.

Barkal LJ, Berthier E, Theberge AB, Keller NP, Beebe DJ. 2017. Multikingdom microscale models. PLoS Pathog. 13(8):e1006424 (PMC5570211)

Barkal LJ, Procknow CL, Álvarez-García YR, Niu M, Jiménez-Torres JA, Brockman-Schneider RA, Gern JE, Denlinger LC, Theberge AB, Keller NP, Berthier E, Beebe DJ. 2017. Microbial volatile communication in human organotypic lung models. Nat Commun 8(1):1770 (PMC5701243)

Bignell E, Cairns TC, Throckmorton K, Nierman WC, Keller NP. 2017. Secondary metabolite arsenal of an opportunistic pathogenic fungus. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 371(1709): (PMC5095546)

Boenisch, M.J., K.L. Broz, S.O. Purvine, W.B. Chrisler, C.D. Nicora, L.R. Connolly, M. Freitag, S.E. Baker, and H.C. Kistler. 2017. Structural reorganization of the fungal endoplasmic reticulum upon induction of mycotoxin biosynthesis. Sci Rep. 7. doi:10.1038/srep44296.

Buiate, E.A.S., K.V. Xavier, N. Moore, M.F. Torres, M.L. Farman, C.L. Schardl, and L.J. Vaillancourt. 2017. A comparative genomic analysis of putative pathogenicity genes in the host-specific sibling species Colletotrichum graminicola and Colletotrichum sublineola. BMC Genomics. 18:67. doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3457-9.

Campbell, A.S., R.C. Ploetz, and J.A. Rollins. 2017. 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. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-02-16-0072-R.

Cao, S., Y. He, C. Hao, Y. Xu, H. Zhang, C. Wang, H. Liu, and J.-R. Xu. 2017. RNA editing of the AMD1 gene is important for ascus maturation and ascospore discharge in Fusarium graminearum. Scientific Reports. 7:4617. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04960-7.

Carlsen, S.A., A. Neupane, N.A. Wyatt, J.K. Richards, J.D. Faris, S.S. Xu, R.S. Brueggeman, and T.L. Friesen. 2017. Characterizing the Pyrenophora teres f. maculata–Barley Interaction Using Pathogen Genetics. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 7:2615–2626. doi:10.1534/g3.117.043265.

Carstens, E., C.C. Linde, R. Slabbert, A.K. Miles, N.J. Donovan, H. Li, K. Zhang, M.M. Dewdney, J.A. Rollins, C. Glienke, G.C. Schutte, P.H. Fourie, and A. McLeod. 2017. A Global Perspective on the Population Structure and Reproductive System of Phyllosticta citricarpa. Phytopathology. 107:758–768. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-08-16-0292-R.

Clevenger KD, Bok JW, Ye R, Miley GP, Verdan MH, Velk T, Chen C, Yang K, Robey MT, Gao P, Lamprecht M, Thomas PM, Islam MN, Palmer JM, Wu CC, Keller NP, Kelleher NL. 2017. A scalable platform to identify fungal secondary metabolites and their gene clusters. Nat. Chem. Biol. 13(8):895-901 (PMC5577364)

Cruz, C.D., and B. Valent. 2017. Wheat blast disease: danger on the move. Trop. plant pathol. 42:210–222. doi:10.1007/s40858-017-0159-z.

de Vries, R.P., R. Riley, A. Wiebenga, G. Aguilar-Osorio, S. Amillis, C.A. Uchima, G. Anderluh, M. Asadollahi, M. Askin, K. Barry, E. Battaglia, Ö. Bayram, T. Benocci, S.A. Braus-Stromeyer, C. Caldana, D. Cánovas, G.C. Cerqueira, F. Chen, W. Chen, C. Choi, A. Clum, R.A.C. dos Santos, A.R. de L. Damásio, G. Diallinas, T. Emri, E. Fekete, M. Flipphi, S. Freyberg, A. Gallo, C. Gournas, R. Habgood, M. Hainaut, M.L. Harispe, B. Henrissat, K.S. Hildén, R. Hope, A. Hossain, E. Karabika, L. Karaffa, Z. Karányi, N. Kraševec, A. Kuo, H. Kusch, K. LaButti, E.L. Lagendijk, A. Lapidus, A. Levasseur, E. Lindquist, A. Lipzen, A.F. Logrieco, A. MacCabe, M.R. Mäkelä, I. Malavazi, P. Melin, V. Meyer, N. Mielnichuk, M. Miskei, Á.P. Molnár, G. Mulé, C.Y. Ngan, M. Orejas, E. Orosz, J.P. Ouedraogo, K.M. Overkamp, H.-S. Park, G. Perrone, F. Piumi, P.J. Punt, A.F.J. Ram, A. Ramón, S. Rauscher, E. Record, D.M. Riaño-Pachón, V. Robert, J. Röhrig, R. Ruller, A. Salamov, N.S. Salih, R.A. Samson, E. Sándor, M. Sanguinetti, T. Schütze, K. Sepčić, E. Shelest, G. Sherlock, V. Sophianopoulou, F.M. Squina, H. Sun, A. Susca, R.B. Todd, A. Tsang, S.E. Unkles, N. van de Wiele, D. van Rossen-Uffink, J.V. de C. Oliveira, T.C. Vesth, J. Visser, J.-H. Yu, et al. 2017. Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus. Genome Biology. 18:28. doi:10.1186/s13059-017-1151-0.

Derbyshire, M., M. Denton-Giles, D. Hegedus, S. Seifbarghy, J. Rollins, J. van Kan, M.F. Seidl, L. Faino, M. Mbengue, O. Navaud, S. Raffaele, K. Hammond-Kosack, S. Heard, and R. Oliver. 2017. The Complete Genome Sequence of the Phytopathogenic Fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Reveals Insights into the Genome Architecture of Broad Host Range Pathogens. Genome Biol Evol. 9:593–618. doi:10.1093/gbe/evx030.

Dickman, M., B. Williams, Y. Li, P. de Figueiredo, and T. Wolpert. 2017. Reassessing apoptosis in plants. Nature Plants. 3:773. doi:10.1038/s41477-017-0020-x.

Essarioui, A., N. LeBlanc, H.C. Kistler, and L.L. Kinkel. 2017. Plant Community Richness Mediates Inhibitory Interactions and Resource Competition between Streptomyces and Fusarium Populations in the Rhizosphere. Microb Ecol. 74:157–167. doi:10.1007/s00248-016-0907-5.

Farman, M., G. Peterson, L. Chen, J. Starnes, B. Valent, P. Bachi, L. Murdock, D. Hershman, K. Pedley, J.M. Fernandes, and J. Bavaresco. 2016. The Lolium Pathotype of Magnaporthe oryzae Recovered from a Single Blasted Wheat Plant in the United States. Plant Disease. 101:684–692. doi:10.1094/PDIS-05-16-0700-RE.

Fischer GJ, Bacon W, Yang J, Palmer JM, Dagenais T, Hammock BD, Keller NP. 2017. Lipoxygenase Activity Accelerates Programmed Spore Germination in Aspergillus fumigatus. Front Microbiol 8:831 (PMC5422543)

Friesen, T.L. 2017. Nicotiana benthamiana as a nonhost of Zymoseptoria tritici. New Phytologist. 213:7–9. doi:10.1111/nph.14299.

Gladieux, P., B. Condon, S. Ravel, D. Soanes, J.L.N. Maciel, A. Nhani, R. Terauchi, M.-H. Lebrun, D. Tharreau, T. Mitchell, K.F. Pedley, B. Valent, N. Talbot, M. Farman, and E. Fournier. 2017. Gene flow between divergent cereal- and grass-specific lineages of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. bioRxiv. 161513. doi:10.1101/161513.

Imboden, L., D. Afton, and F. Trail. 2017. Surface interactions of Fusarium graminearum on barley. Mol. Plant Pathol. doi:10.1111/mpp.12616.

Inoue, Y., T.T.P. Vy, K. Yoshida, H. Asano, C. Mitsuoka, S. Asuke, V.L. Anh, C.J.R. Cumagun, I. Chuma, R. Terauchi, K. Kato, T. Mitchell, B. Valent, M. Farman, and Y. Tosa. 2017. Evolution of the wheat blast fungus through functional losses in a host specificity determinant. Science. 357:80–83. doi:10.1126/science.aam9654.

Islamovic, E., P. Bregitzer, and T.L. Friesen. 2017. Barley 4H QTL confers NFNB resistance to a global set of P. teres f. teres isolates. Mol Breeding. 37:29. doi:10.1007/s11032-017-0621-0.

Jelinski, N.A., K. Broz, W. Jonkers, L.-J. Ma, and H.C. Kistler. 2017. Effector Gene Suites in Some Soil Isolates of Fusarium oxysporum Are Not Sufficient Predictors of Vascular Wilt in Tomato. Phytopathology. 107:842–851. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-12-16-0437-R.

Keller NP. 2017. Heterogeneity Confounds Establishment of "a" Model Microbial Strain. MBio 8(1): (PMC5358909)

Khalid S, Baccile JA, Spraker JE, Tannous J, Imran M, Schroeder FC, Keller NP. 2017. NRPS-Derived Isoquinolines and Lipopetides Mediate Antagonism between Plant Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria. ACS Chem. Biol. :

Kielian, M., T. Mettenleiter, and M. Roossinck. 2017. Advances in Virus Research. 97. Academic Press.

Kim, M., and M.J. Roossinck. 2017. Small Linear Satellite RNAs. In Viroids and Satellites. Elsevier. 649–658.

Ali, A., and M.J. Roossinck. 2017. Analysis of quasispecies variation in single and mixed viral infection. Virus evolution. 3:vex037.

Knox BP, Huttenlocher A, Keller NP. 2017. Real-time visualization of immune cell clearance of Aspergillus fumigatus spores and hyphae. Fungal Genet. Biol. 105:52-54 (PMC5589445)

Koladia, V.M., J.D. Faris, J.K. Richards, R.S. Brueggeman, S. Chao, and T.L. Friesen. 2017a. Genetic analysis of net form net blotch resistance in barley lines CIho 5791 and Tifang against a global collection of P. teres f. teres isolates. Theor Appl Genet. 130:163–173. doi:10.1007/s00122-016-2801-4.

Koladia, V.M., J.K. Richards, N.A. Wyatt, J.D. Faris, R.S. Brueggeman, and T.L. Friesen. 2017b. Genetic analysis of virulence in the Pyrenophora teres f. teres population BB25×FGOH04Ptt-21. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 107:12–19. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2017.07.003.

Kumar D, Barad S, Sionov E, Keller NP, Prusky DB. 2017. Does the Host Contribute to Modulation of Mycotoxin Production by Fruit Pathogens? Toxins (Basel) 9(9): (PMC5618213)

LeBlanc, N., L. Kinkel, and H.C. Kistler. 2017. Plant diversity and plant identity influence Fusarium communities in soil. Mycologia. 109:128–139. doi:10.1080/00275514.2017.1281697.

Li, G., X. Zhang, H. Tian, Y.-E. Choi, W.A. Tao, and J.-R. Xu. 2017a. MST50 is involved in multiple MAP kinase signaling pathways in Magnaporthe oryzae. Environ Microbiol. 19:1959–1974. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13710.

Li, Y., B. Williams, and M. Dickman. 2017b. Arabidopsis B-cell lymphoma2 (Bcl-2)-associated athanogene 7 (BAG7)-mediated heat tolerance requires translocation, sumoylation and binding to WRKY29. New Phytol. 214:695–705. doi:10.1111/nph.14388.

Li, Y., X. Zhang, S. Hu, H. Liu, and J.-R. Xu. 2017c. PKA activity is essential for relieving the suppression of hyphal growth and appressorium formation by MoSfl1 in Magnaporthe oryzae. PLOS Genetics. 13:e1006954. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006954.

Lind AL, Wisecaver JH, Lameiras C, Wiemann P, Palmer JM, Keller NP, Rodrigues F, Goldman GH, Rokas A. 2017. Drivers of genetic diversity in secondary metabolic gene clusters within a fungal species. PLoS Biol. 15(11):e2003583 (PMC5711037)

Liu, H., Y. Li, D. Chen, Z. Qi, Q. Wang, J. Wang, C. Jiang, and J.-R. Xu. 2017a. A-to-I RNA editing is developmentally regulated and generally adaptive for sexual reproduction in Neurospora crassa. PNAS. 114:E7756–E7765. doi:10.1073/pnas.1702591114.

Liu, Z., J.D. Zurn, G. Kariyawasam, J.D. Faris, G. Shi, J. Hansen, J.B. Rasmussen, and M. Acevedo. 2017b. Inverse gene-for-gene interactions contribute additively to tan spot susceptibility in wheat. Theor Appl Genet. 130:1267–1276. doi:10.1007/s00122-017-2886-4.

Lofgren, L., J. Riddle, Y. Dong, P.R. Kuhnem, J.A. Cummings, E.M.D. Ponte, G.C. Bergstrom, and H.C. Kistler. 2017. A high proportion of NX-2 genotype strains are found among Fusarium graminearum isolates from northeastern New York State. Eur J Plant Pathol. 1–6. doi:10.1007/s10658-017-1314-6.

Lofgren, L.A., N.R. LeBlanc, A.K. Certano, J. Nachtigall, K.M. LaBine, J. Riddle, K. Broz, Y. Dong, B. Bethan, C.W. Kafer, and H.C. Kistler. 2018. Fusarium graminearum: pathogen or endophyte of North American grasses? New Phytol. 217:1203–1212. doi:10.1111/nph.14894.

Marroquin-Guzman, M., G. Sun, and R.A. Wilson. 2017. Glucose-ABL1-TOR Signaling Modulates Cell Cycle Tuning to Control Terminal Appressorial Cell Differentiation. PLOS Genetics. 13:e1006557. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006557.

Nagy, L.G., R. Tóth, E. Kiss, J. Slot, A. Gácser, and G.M. Kovács. 2017. Six Key Traits of Fungi: Their Evolutionary Origins and Genetic Bases. Microbiol Spectr. 5. doi:10.1128/microbiolspec.FUNK-0036-2016.

Pfannenstiel BT, Zhao X, Wortman J, Wiemann P, Throckmorton K, Spraker JE, Soukup AA, Luo X, Lindner DL, Lim FY, Knox BP, Haas B, Fischer GJ, Choera T, Butchko RAE, Bok JW, Affeldt KJ, Keller NP, Palmer JM. 2017. Revitalization of a Forward Genetic Screen Identifies Three New Regulators of Fungal Secondary Metabolism in the Genus Aspergillus. MBio 8(5): (PMC5587912)

Pieck, M.L., A. Ruck, M.L. Farman, G.L. Peterson, J.P. Stack, B. Valent, and K.F. Pedley. 2016. Genomics-Based Marker Discovery and Diagnostic Assay Development for Wheat Blast. Plant Disease. 101:103–109. doi:10.1094/PDIS-04-16-0500-RE.

Ploetz, R.C., P.E. Kendra, R.A. Choudhury, J.A. Rollins, A. Campbell, K. Garrett, M. Hughes, and T. Dreaden. 2017. Laurel Wilt in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems: Understanding the Drivers and Scales of Complex Pathosystems. Forests. 8:48. doi:10.3390/f8020048.

Ponte, E.M., B. Valent, and G.C. Bergstrom. 2017. A special issue on Fusarium head blight and wheat blast. Tropical Plant Pathology. 42:143–145.

Rank LA, Walsh NM, Liu R, Lim FY, Bok JW, Huang M, Keller NP, Gellman SH, Hull CM. 2017. A Cationic Polymer That Shows High Antifungal Activity against Diverse Human Pathogens. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 61(10): (PMC5610528)

Redman, R.S., and R.J. Rodriguez. 2017. The Symbiogenic Tango: Achieving Climate-Resilient Crops Via Mutualistic Plant-Fungal Relationships. In Functional Importance of the Plant Microbiome. Springer, Cham. 71–87.

Reynolds, H.T., J.C. Slot, H.H. Divon, E. Lysøe, R.H. Proctor, and D.W. Brown. 2017. Differential Retention of Gene Functions in a Secondary Metabolite Cluster. Mol Biol Evol. 34:2002–2015. doi:10.1093/molbev/msx145.

Richards, J.K., N.A. Wyatt, Z. Liu, J.D. Faris, and T.L. Friesen. 2017b. Reference Quality Genome Assemblies of Three Parastagonospora nodorum Isolates Differing in Virulence on Wheat. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. g3.300462.2017. doi:10.1534/g3.117.300462.

Richards, J.K., T.L. Friesen, and R.S. Brueggeman. 2017a. Association mapping utilizing diverse barley lines reveals net form net blotch seedling resistance/susceptibility loci. Theor Appl Genet. 130:915–927. doi:10.1007/s00122-017-2860-1.

Roossinck, M.J., and E.R. Bazán. 2017. Symbiosis: viruses as intimate partners. Annual review of virology. 4.

Ruud, A.K., S. Windju, T. Belova, T.L. Friesen, and M. Lillemo. 2017. Mapping of SnTox3– Snn3   as a major determinant of field susceptibility to Septoria nodorum leaf blotch in the SHA3/CBRD × Naxos population. Theor Appl Genet. 130:1361–1374. doi:10.1007/s00122-017-2893-5.

Sandhu, D., M.V. Pudussery, R. Kaundal, D.L. Suarez, A. Kaundal, and R.S. Sekhon. 2017. Molecular characterization and expression analysis of the Na+/H+ exchanger gene family in Medicago truncatula. Funct Integr Genomics. 1–13. doi:10.1007/s10142-017-0581-9.

Sapkota, S., Q. Zhang, K. Chittem, M. Mergoum, S.S. Xu, and Z. Liu. Evaluation of triticale accessions for resistance to wheat bacterial leaf streak caused by Xanthomonas translucens pv. undulosa. Plant Pathol. n/a-n/a. doi:10.1111/ppa.12768.

Segal, L.M., and R.A. Wilson. 2018. Reactive oxygen species metabolism and plant-fungal interactions. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 110:1–9. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2017.12.003.

Sharpee, W., Oh, Y., Yi, M., Franck, W., Eyre, A., Okagaki, L. H., Valent, B. and Dean, R. A. 2017. Identification and characterization of suppressors of plant cell death (SPD) effectors from Magnaporthe oryzae. Molecular Plant Pathology, 18: 850–863. doi:10.1111/mpp.12449

Simmonds, P., M.J. Adams, M. Benk\Ho, M. Breitbart, J.R. Brister, E.B. Carstens, A.J. Davison, E. Delwart, A.E. Gorbalenya, and B. Harrach. 2017. Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 15:161–168.

Sipos, G., A.N. Prasanna, M.C. Walter, E. O’Connor, B. Bálint, K. Krizsán, B. Kiss, J. Hess, T. Varga, J. Slot, R. Riley, B. Bóka, D. Rigling, K. Barry, J. Lee, S. Mihaltcheva, K. LaButti, A. Lipzen, R. Waldron, N.M. Moloney, C. Sperisen, L. Kredics, C. Vágvölgyi, A. Patrignani, D. Fitzpatrick, I. Nagy, S. Doyle, J.B. Anderson, I.V. Grigoriev, U. Güldener, M. Münsterkötter, and L.G. Nagy. 2017. Genome expansion and lineage-specific genetic innovations in the forest pathogenic fungi Armillaria. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1:1931. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0347-8.

Slot, J.C. 2017. Chapter Four - Fungal Gene Cluster Diversity and Evolution. In Advances in Genetics. J.P. Townsend and Z. Wang, editors. Academic Press. 141–178.

Soukup AA, Fischer GJ, Luo J, Keller NP. 2017. The Aspergillus nidulans Pbp1 homolog is required for normal sexual development and secondary metabolism. Fungal Genet. Biol. 100:13-21 (PMC5337145)

Tannous J, Keller NP, Atoui A, El Khoury A, Lteif R, Oswald IP, Puel O. 2017. Secondary metabolism in Penicillium expansum: Emphasis on recent advances in patulin research. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr :1-17

Trail, F., Z. Wang, K. Stefanko, C. Cubba, and J.P. Townsend. 2017. The ancestral levels of transcription and the evolution of sexual phenotypes in filamentous fungi. PLoS Genet. 13:e1006867. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006867.

Tran, N.T., A.K. Miles, R.G. Dietzgen, M.M. Dewdney, K. Zhang, J.A. Rollins, and A. Drenth. 2017. Sexual Reproduction in the Citrus Black Spot Pathogen, Phyllosticta citricarpa. Phytopathology. 107:732–739. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-11-16-0419-R.

Vainio, E.J., S. Chiba, S.A. Ghabrial, E. Maiss, M. Roossinck, S. Sabanadzovic, N. Suzuki, J. Xie, and M. Nibert. 2017. ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Partitiviridae. Journal of General Virology.

Vargas-Muñiz JM, Renshaw H, Waitt G, Soderblom EJ, Moseley MA, Palmer JM, Juvvadi PR, Keller NP, Steinbach WJ. 2017. Caspofungin exposure alters the core septin AspB interactome of Aspergillus fumigatus. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 485(2):221-226 (PMC5384791)

Wang, G.-L., and B. Valent. 2017. Durable resistance to rice blast. Science. 355:906–907. doi:10.1126/science.aam9517.

Wang, X., Y. Jia, Y. Wamishe, M.H. Jia, and B. Valent. 2017a. Dynamic Changes in the Rice Blast Population in the United States Over Six Decades. MPMI. 30:803–812. doi:10.1094/MPMI-04-17-0101-R.

Wang, Z., J. Wang, N. Li, J. Li, F. Trail, J.C. Dunlap, and J.P. Townsend. 2017b. Light sensing by opsins and fungal ecology: NOP-1 modulates entry into sexual reproduction in response to environmental cues. Mol. Ecol. doi:10.1111/mec.14425.

Wiemann P, Perevitsky A, Lim FY, Shadkchan Y, Knox BP, Landero Figueora JA, Choera T, Niu M, Steinberger AJ, Wüthrich M, Idol RA, Klein BS, Dinauer MC, Huttenlocher A, Osherov N, Keller NP. 2017. Aspergillus fumigatus Copper Export Machinery and Reactive Oxygen Intermediate Defense Counter Host Copper-Mediated Oxidative Antimicrobial Offense. Cell Rep 19(10):2174-2176

Xavier, K.V., T. Pfeiffer, D.F. Parreira, S. Chopra, and L. Vaillancourt. 2017. Aggressiveness of Colletotrichum sublineola Strains from Sorghum bicolor and S. halepense to Sweet Sorghum Variety Sugar Drip, and Their Impact on Yield. Plant Disease. 101:1578–1587. doi:10.1094/PDIS-09-16-1238-RE.

Yin, T., Q. Zhang, J. Wang, H. Liu, C. Wang, J.-R. Xu, and C. Jiang. 2017. The cyclase-associated protein FgCap1 has both protein kinase A-dependent and -independent functions during deoxynivalenol production and plant infection in Fusarium graminearum. Molecular Plant Pathology. n/a-n/a. doi:10.1111/mpp.12540.

Zhang P, Wang X, Fan A, Zheng Y, Liu X, Wang S, Zou H, Oakley BR, Keller NP, Yin WB. 2017. A cryptic pigment biosynthetic pathway uncovered by heterologous expression is essential for conidial development in Pestalotiopsis fici. Mol. Microbiol. 105(3):469-483

Zhang, X., W. Liu, Y. Li, G. Li, and J.-R. Xu. 2017a. Expression of HopAI interferes with MAP kinase signalling in Magnaporthe oryzae. Environmental Microbiology. 19:4190–4204. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13884.

Zhang, Y., X. Gao, M. Sun, H. Liu, and J.-R. Xu. 2017b. The FgSRP1 SR-protein gene is important for plant infection and pre-mRNA processing in Fusarium graminearum. Environ Microbiol. 19:4065–4079. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13844.

Zhao X, Spraker JE, Bok JW, Velk T, He ZM, Keller NP. 2017. A Cellular Fusion Cascade Regulated by LaeA Is Required for Sclerotial Development in Aspergillus flavus. Front Microbiol 8:1925 (PMC5633613)