LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (PAST FIVE YEARS) REGIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT NE-140

• Anagnostakis S.L. 2001. American chestnut sprout survival with biological control of the chestnut-blight fungus population. Forest Ecology and Management 152:225-233.
• Anagnostakis S.L. 2001. The effect of multiple importations of pests and pathogens on a native tree. Biological Invasions 3:245-254.
• Anagnostakis S.L. 1999. Nutrients in Chestnuts. Annual Report of the Northern Nut Growers Association 90:36-40.
• Anagnostakis S.L., Chen B., Geletka G.M . and Nuss D.L. 1998. Hypovirus transmission to ascospore progeny by field released transgenic hypovirulent strains of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. Phytopathology, 86:301-310.
• Anagnostakis S.L. 1998. Introduction of new genotypes into ascospore progeny of Cryphonectria parasitica in the field. Mycological Research. 102(Part 6):685-686.
• Baidyaroy D., Huber D.H., Fulbright D.W., and Bertrand H. 2000. Transmissible mitochondrial hypovirulence in a natural population of Cryphonectria parasitica. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 13(1):88-95.
• Balbalian C.J., MacDonald W.L., Huber D.H. and Fulbright D.W. 1998. Effects of Cryphonectria parasitica in vegetative compatibility genes on the transmission of hypoviruses between strains on chestnut trees. Phytopathology 88: 5128 (abstr.).
• Biella S., Smith M.L., Aist J.R. , Cortesi P., and Milgroom M.G. 2002. Programmed cell death correlates with virus transmission in a filamentous fungus. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269:2269-2276.
• Campbell F.T. and Schlarbaum S.E. 2002. Fading Forests II. Trading Away our Natural Heritage. Healing Stones Foundation, paper and compact disc. 128 p.
• Carraway D.T., and Merkle S.A. 1997. Plantlet regeneration from somatic embryos of American chestnut. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27:1805-1812.
• Chaloux P.H. 2000. Virulence of Cryphonectria parasitica hypoviruses from previous release sites. M.S. Thesis, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 94 pp.
• Chaloux P.H., Liu Y.C., Milgroom M.G. and MacDonald W.L. 1998. The effects of dsRNAˇ¦s on growth and sporulation of Cryphonectria parasitica isolates recovered from previous hypovirus introduction sites. Phytopathology 88: 5129 (abstr.).
• Chen B., Geletka L.M. and Nuss D.L. 2000. Engineering hypoviruses to fine-tune fungal-host pathogenic interactions. Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2. P. J. G. M. deWit, T. Bisseling and W. J. Stiekema, eds., International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, St. Paul, Minnesota, pp. 390-395.
• Chen B., Geletka L.M. and Nuss D.L. 2000. Using chimeric hypoviruses to fine-tune the interaction between a pathogenic fungus and its plant host. J. Virol. 74:7562-7567.
• Chen B. and Nuss D. L. 1999. Infectious cDNA clone of hypovirus CHV1-Euro7: a comparitive virology approach to investigate virus-mediated hypovirulence of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, J. Virol. 73:985-992.
• Connors B.J., Miller M., Maynard C.A. and Powell W.A. 2002. Cloning and characterization of promoters from American chestnut capable of directing reporter gene expression in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Plant Science. 163(4):771-781.
• Connors B.J., Laun N.P., Maynard C.A. and Powell W.A. 2002. Molecular characterization of a gene encoding a cystatin expressed in the stems of American chestnut (Castanea dentata). Planta. 215(3):510-514.
• Connors B.J., Maynard C.A. and Powell W.A. 2001. Expressed sequence tags from stem tissue of the American chestnut, Castanea dentata. Biotechnology Letters. 23(17):1407-1411.
• Cortesi P., McCulloch C.E., Song H.Y., Lin H.Q. and Milgroom M.G. 2001. Genetic control of horizontal virus transmission in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. Genetics. 159(1):107-118.
• Cortesi P. and Milgroom M.G. 1998. Genetics of vegetative incompatibility in Cryphonectria parasitica. Applied & Environmental Microbiology. 64(8):2988-2994.
• Dane F., and Huag H. 2002. Short note: Variability and inheritance of diaphorases in American and Chinese Castanea species. Silvae Genetica. 51(2-3):128-130.
• Dane F., Hawkins L.K. and Huang H.W. 1999. Genetic variation and population structure of Castanea pumila var. ozarkensis. J. of the Am. Soc. for Hort. Science. 124(6):666-670.
• Dawe A.L. and Nuss D.L. 2001. Hypoviruses and chestnut blight: exploiting viruses to understand and modulate fungal pathogenesis. Annual Review of Genetics 35:1-29.
• Double M.L. and MacDonald, W.L. 2002. Hypovirus deployment, establishment and spread: results after six years of canker treatment. Phytopathology 92:s94.
• Double M.L., MacDonald W.L. and Nuss D.L. 1998. Rates of sexual recombination by transgenic hypovirulent strains of Cryphonectria parasitica in a forest setting. The Second International Chestnut Symposium, October, 1998. Bordeaux, France, G. Salesses, ed.
• Fulbright D.W. 1999. Chestnut blight and hypovirulence. In: Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol.4, G. Stacey and N. T. Keen, eds. Pages 57-79. APS Press.
• Fulbright D.W. 1999. Hypovirulence to control fungal pathogenesis. In: Handbook of Biological Control. T. W. Fisher, T. S. Bellows, editors. Pages 691-698. Academic Press, San Diego
• Fulbright D.W. and Mandujano M. 1999. Evaluation of the chestnut cultivar 'Colossal' in Michigan. Annu. Rpt. Northern Nut Growers Assn. 90: 48-55.
• Gao S. and Nuss D.L. 1998. Mutagenesis of putative acylation sites alters function, localization and accumulation of a Gia subunit of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interactions. 11:1130-1135.
• Gold M.A. and Hunt K. 2002. Establishment of a chestnut industry to enhance the viability of small farms in Missouri. IN: P. L. Byers, ed., Proc. 2002 Missouri Small Fruit and Vegetable Conference, 18-20 February 2002, Springfield, MO, p 11-26.
• Griffin G.J. 2000. Blight control and restoration of the American chestnut. Journal of Forestry. 98(2):22-27.
• Griffin G.J. 1999. Frequencies and spatial patterns of white hypovirulent and pigmented strains of Cryphonectria parasitica within blight-controlled cankers on grafted American chestnut trees 15-16 years after inoculation. European Journal of Forest Pathology. 29(6):377-390.
• Groome P.C., Tattar, T.A., and Mount, M.S. 2001a. Bacillus megaterium: a potential biocontrol agent against chestnut blight. J. American Chestnut Foundation 15:45-49
• Groome P.C., Tattar T.A. and Mount, M.S. 2001b. Bacteria found on American chestnut bark and their potential in biocontrol of chestnut blight. Arboriculture Journal 25:221-234.
• Huang H.W., Dane F. and Kubisiak T.L. 1998. Allozyme and rapd analysis of the genetic diversity and geographic variation in wild populations of the American chestnut (Fagaceae). American Journal of Botany. 85(7):1013-1021.
• Hausner G., Monteiro-Vitorello C.B., Searles D.B., Maland M., Fulbright D.W. and Bertrand H. 1999. A long open reading frame in the mitochondrial LSU rRNA group-I intron of Cryphonectria parasitica encodes a putative S5 ribosomal protein fused to a maturase. Current Genetics. 35(2):109-117.
• Havir E.A. and Anagnostakis S.L. 1998. Seasonal variation of peroxidase activity in chestnut trees. Phytochemistry. 48(1):41-47.
• Hillman B.I. and Nuss D.L. Phytoreoviruses In Encyclopedia of Virology, (R.G. Webster and A. Granoff, Eds.), W.B. Saunders, Co., London (In Press).
• Hillman B.I., Foglia R. and Yuan W. 2000. Satellite and defective RNAs of Cryphonectria hypovirus 3-Grand Haven 2, a virus species in the family Hypoviridae with a single open reading frame. Virology. 276(1):181-189.
• Hogan E.P. and Griffin G.J. 2002. Incomplete movement of Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 within a vegetative compatibility type of Cryphonectria parasitica in natural cankers on grafted American chestnut trees. Forest Pathology 32: 331-344.
• Hogan E.P. and Griffin G.J. 2002. Spread of Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 into 45 vegetative compatibility types of Cryphonectria parasitica on grafted American chestnut trees. Forest Pathology. 32(2):73-85.
• Holliday C.P. and Merkle S.A. 2000. Preservation of American chestnut germplasm by cryostorage of embryogenic cultures. Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation 14(1):46-52.
• Hunt K, Gold M. and Reid W. 2002. Growing Chinese Chestnuts in Missouri. Bulletin, University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry, Agroforestry in Action #4-2002, 12 pp.
• Jarosz A.M. Dahir S.E. and Double M.L. 2002. Spatial patterns of blight and hypovirus spread with the West Salem chestnut stand. Phytopathology 92:s94.
• Kamoun S., Hraber P., Sobral B., Nuss D.L. and Govers, F. 1999. Initial assessment of gene diversity for the Oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans based on expressed sequences. Fungal Genetics and Biology 28:94-106.
• Kasahara S., Wang P. and Nuss D.L. 2000. Identification of bdm-1, a novel gene implicated in G-protein b subunit function and a subunit accumulation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:412-417.
• Kasahara S. and Nuss D.L. 1997. Targeted disruption of a fungal G-protein b subunit gene results in increased growth but reduced virulence. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interactions 10: 984-993.
• Kilic O. and Griffin G.J. 1998. Effect of dsrna-containing and dsrna-free hypovirulent isolates of fusarium oxysporum on severity of Fusarium seedling disease of soybean in naturally infested soil. Plant & Soil. 201(1):125-135.
• Linder-Basso D., Foglia R., Zhu P., and Hillman B.I. 2001. Crypt1, an active Ac-like transposon from the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 265(4):730-738
• Liu Y.C., Durrett R. and Milgroom M.G. 2000. A spatially-structured stochastic model to simulate heterogenous transmission of viruses in fungal populations. Ecological Modelling. 127(2-3):291-308.
• Liu Y-C., Double M.L., MacDonald W.L. and Milgroom M.G. 2002. Persistence of Cryphonectria hypoviruses after their release for biological control of chestnut blight in West Virginia forests. Journal of Forest Pathology 32: 345-356.
• MacDonald W.L. 2002 (contributing author). Predicting invasions of non-indigenous plants and plant pests. National Academy of Science Press, Washington, D.C. 194 pp.
• MacDonald W.L. and Double M.L. 1998. Variation in growth and sporulation of Cryphonectria parasitica isolates as influenced by hypovirus infection. The Second International Chestnut Symposium, October, 1998. Bordeaux, France, G. Salesses, ed.
• Mandujano M., Nash W. and Fulbright, D.W. 1998. Ethephon treatment of chestnut for harvest management. Annu. Rpt. Northern Nut Growers Assn. 89: 36-41.
• Marra R,E. and Milgroom M.G. 2001. The mating system of the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica: selfing and self-incompatibility. Heredity. 86(Part 2):134-143.
• Marra R.E. and Milgroom M.G. 1999. PCR amplification of the mating-type idiomorphs in Cryphonectria parasitica. Molecular Ecology. 8(11):1947-1950.
• McGuire I.C., Marra R.E., Turgeon B.G. and Milgroom M.G. 2001. Analysis of mating-type genes in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. Fungal Genetics & Biology. 34(2):131-144.
• Milgroom M.G. and Cortesi P. 1999. Analysis of population structure of the chestnut blight fungus based on vegetative incompatibility genotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96(18):10518-10523.
• Monteiro-Vitorello C.B., Baidyaroy D., Bell .JA., Hausner G., Fulbright D.W. and Bertrand H. 2000. A circular mitochondrial plasmid incites hypovirulence in some strains of Cryphonectria parasitica. Current Genetics. 37(4):242-256.
• Nuss D.L., Chen B., Geletka L.M., Parsley T.B. and Suzuki N. 2001. Engineering hypoviruses for fundamental and practical applications. In dsRNA Genetic Elements: Concepts and Applications in Agriculture, Forestry and Medicine, (S. Tavantis, Ed.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp.145-163.
• Nuss D. L. 2000. Hypovirulence and chestnut blight: from the field to the laboratory and back. In Fungal Pathology, ( J. W. Kronstad, Ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 149-170.
• Nuss D.L. 1999. Virus-based modulation of signal transduction underlying fungal-plant pathogenic interactions, Proceeding of Symposium for 10th anniversary Nobel Foundation Plant Biology Division, ( R. A. Dixon, M. J. Harrison and M. J. Roossinck, Eds.) The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, USA, pp. 133-140.
• Nuss D.L. 1999. Hypoviruses (Hypoviridae) In Encyclopedia of Virology, (R.G. Webster and A. Granoff, Eds.), W.B. Saunders, Co., London pp. 804-807.
• Nuss D. L. 1998. Hypovirus cysteine proteases p29 and p48. In Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, (A. J. Barrett, N. D. Rawlings and J. F. Woessner, Eds.) Academic Press, London, pp. 679-680.
• Parsley T.B., Chen B., Geletka L.M. and Nuss, D.L. 2002. Differential modulation of cellular signaling pathways by mild and severe hypovirus strains. Eukaryotic Cell 1:401-413.
• Peever T.L., Liu Y.C., Cortesi P. and Milgroom M.G. 2000. Variation in tolerance and virulence in the chestnut blight fungus-hypovirus interaction. Applied & Environmental Microbiology. 66(11):4863.
• Peever T.L., Liu Y.C., Wang K.R., Hillman B.I., Foglia R. and Milgroom M.G. 1998. Incidence and diversity of double-stranded rnas occurring in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, in China and Japan. Phytopathology. 88(8):811-817.
• Powell W.A., Catranis C.M. and Maynard C.A. 2000. Design of self-processing antimicrobial peptides for plant protection. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 31(2):163-168.
• Rhoades C.C. 2001. Pre-blight abundance of American chestnut in Kentucky. J. of the American Chestnut Foundation 15:36-44.
• Robbins N. and Griffin G.J. 1999. Spread of white hypovirulent strains of Cryphonectria parasitica on grafted American chestnut trees exhibiting a high level of blight control. European Journal of Forest Pathology. 29(1):51-64.
• Sasaki A., Onoue M., Kanematsu S., Suzaki K., Miyanishi M., Suzuki N., Nuss, D.L. and Yoshida, K. 2002. Extending chestnut blight hypovirus host range within Diaporthales by biolistic delivery of viral cDNA. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 15:780-789.
• Segers G.C. and Nuss D.L. Constitutively activated Ga Negatively regulates virulence, reproduction and hydrophobin gene expression in the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. In Press, Fungal Genetics and Biology.
• Sirvent T.M., McLane H., Tsang C., Krasnoff S., Gibson D.M. and Churchill, A.C.L. 2002. Chemical and genetic analyses of pigment biosynthesis in the chestnut blight fungus. Phytopathology 92:S76.
• Smart C.D., Yuan W., Foglia R., Nuss D.L., Fulbright D.W. and Hillman B.I. 1999. Cryphonectria hypovirus 3, a virus species in the family hypoviridae with a single open reading frame. Virology. 265(1):66-73.
• Suzuki N., Geletka L.M. and Nuss D.L. 2000. Essential and dispensable virus-encoded replication elements revealed by efforts to develop hypoviruses as gene expression vectors. J. Virol. 74:7568-7577.
• Suzuki N. and Nuss D.L. 2002. The contribution of protein p40 to hypovirus-mediated modulation of fungal host phenotype and viral RNA accumulation. Journal of Virology 76:7747-7759.
• Suzuki N., Chen, B. and Nuss, D.L. 1999. Mapping of a hypovirus p29 protease symptom determinant domain with sequence similarity to potyvirus HC-Pro protease. J. Virol. 73:9478-9484.
• Taylor D. R. 2002. The evolution of hypovirulence in the chestnut blight system: implications for management options. Pp286-296 IN: Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management. U. Dieckmann, J. A. J. Metz, M. W. Sabelis, and K. Sigmund, eds. Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics.
• Taylor D.R., Jarosz A.M., Lenski R.E. and Fulbright D.W. 1998. The acquisition of hypovirulence in host-pathogen systems with three trophic levels. American Naturalist. 151(4):343-355.
• van Heerden S W., Geletka L.M., Preisig, O., Nuss, D.L., Wingfield, B.D. and Wingfield, M. J. 2001. Characterization of South African Cryphonectria cubensis isolates infected with a C. parasitica hypovirus. Phytopathology 91:628-632.
• Wang P. and Nuss D.L. 1998. Identification of a Cryphonectria parasitica laccase gene promoter element involved in cycloheximide-inducible, hypovirus-repressible transcriptional activation. Gene 210:79-84.
• Wang P., Larson, T.G., Chen C-H., Pawlyk D.M., Clark J A. and Nuss D.L. 1998. Cloning and characterization of a general amino acid control transcriptional activator from the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. Fungal Genetics and Biology 23:81-94.
• Van Heerden S.W., Geletka L.M., Preisig O. Nuss D.L., Wingfield B.D. and Wingfield, M.J. 2001. Characterization of South African Cryphonectria cubensis isolates infected with a C. parasitica hypovirus. Phytopathology 91:628-632.
• Vettraino A.M., Anselmi N., Fulbright D.W. and Vannini A. 2000. Epidemiology and aetiology of "ink disease" in Italy and United States. EPPP Congress (European Congress of Plant Pathology).
• Vettraino A.M., Vannini A,. Anselmi N., and Fulbright D.W. 1999. Survey of Phytophthora species from soils surrounding diseased chestnut species in North America. In: Phytophthora diseases of Forest Trees. Hansen, E. M. And W. Sutton, eds. IUFRO
• Yuan W. and Hillman B.I. 2001. In vitro translational analysis of genomic, defective, and satellite RNAs of Cryphonectria hypovirus 3-GH2. Virology 28(1):117-123.