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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
31
Citations
7026
World Ranking
6072
National Ranking
345

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

    Brian J Haas;Sophien Kamoun;Sophien Kamoun;Michael C Zody;Michael C Zody;Rays H Y Jiang;Rays H Y Jiang

  • A translocation signal for delivery of oomycete effector proteins into host plant cells

    Stephen C. Whisson;Petra C. Boevink;Lucy Moleleki;Anna O. Avrova

  • An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

    Miles R. Armstrong;Stephen C. Whisson;Leighton Pritchard;Leighton Pritchard;Jorunn I. B. Bos

  • A potato gene encoding a WRKY-like transcription factor is induced in interactions with Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica and Phytophthora infestans and is coregulated with class I endochitinase expression.

    Alia Dellagi;Jacqueline Heilbronn;Anna O. Avrova;Marcos Montesano

  • Secreted pectin monooxygenases drive plant infection by pathogenic oomycetes

    Federico Sabbadin;Saioa Urresti;Bernard Henrissat;Bernard Henrissat;Bernard Henrissat;Anna O. Avrova

  • Cellulose Synthesis in Phytophthora infestans Is Required for Normal Appressorium Formation and Successful Infection of Potato

    Laura J. Grenville-Briggs;Victoria L. Anderson;Johanna Fugelstad;Anna O. Avrova

  • Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants

    Eleanor M. Gilroy;Susan Breen;Susan Breen;Stephen C. Whisson;Julie Squires

  • Characterization of susceptibility and resistance responses to potato cyst nematode (Globodera spp.) infection of tomato lines in the absence and presence of the broad-spectrum nematode resistance Hero gene.

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  • Mandipropamid targets the cellulose synthase-like PiCesA3 to inhibit cell wall biosynthesis in the oomycete plant pathogen, Phytophthora infestans.

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  • Patterns of Diversifying Selection in the Phytotoxin-like scr74 Gene Family of Phytophthora infestans

    Zhenyu Liu;Jorunn I. B. Bos;Miles Armstrong;Stephen C. Whisson

  • A method for double‐stranded RNA‐mediated transient gene silencing in Phytophthora infestans

    Stephen C. Whisson;Anna O. Avrova;Pieter Van West;John T. Jones

  • Isolation of Potato Genes That Are Induced During an Early Stage of the Hypersensitive Response to Phytophthora infestans

    Paul R. J. Birch;Anna O. Avrova;James M. Duncan;Gary D. Lyon

  • Rapid Identification and Differentiation of the Soft Rot Erwinias by 16S-23S Intergenic Transcribed Spacer-PCR and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analyses

    I. K. Toth;A. O. Avrova;L. J. Hyman

  • Elevated amino acid biosynthesis in Phytophthora infestans during appressorium formation and potato infection.

    Laura J. Grenville-Briggs;Anna O. Avrova;Catherine R. Bruce;Alison Williams

  • A novel Phytophthora infestans haustorium‐specific membrane protein is required for infection of potato

    Anna O. Avrova;Petra C. Boevink;Vanessa Young;Laura J. Grenville-Briggs

  • Profiling and quantifying differential gene transcription in Phytophthora infestans prior to and during the early stages of potato infection.

    Anna O Avrova;Eduard Venter;Paul R.J Birch;Stephen C Whisson

  • Plasmodium falciparum and Hyaloperonospora parasitica effector translocation motifs are functional in Phytophthora infestans.

    Severine Grouffaud;Severine Grouffaud;Pieter van West;Anna O. Avrova;Paul R. J. Birch

  • Control of foliar diseases in barley: towards an integrated approach

    Dale R. Walters;Anna Avrova;Ian J. Bingham;Fiona J. Burnett

  • Gene expression profiling during asexual development of the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans reveals a highly dynamic transcriptome.

    Howard S Judelson;Audrey M V Ah-Fong;George Aux;Anna O Avrova

  • Application of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprinting for Taxonomy and Identification of the Soft Rot Bacteria Erwinia carotovora and Erwinia chrysanthemi

    Anna O. Avrova;Lizbeth J. Hyman;Rachel L. Toth;Ian K. Toth

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