Barbara Valent

Research.com Recognitions

• 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2007 - Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society
• 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Direct interaction of resistance gene and avirulence gene products confers rice blast resistance

  Yulin Jia;Sean A. McAdams;Gregory T. Bryan;Howard P. Hershey

  1583
  Citations

• A Single Amino Acid Difference Distinguishes Resistant and Susceptible Alleles of the Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi-ta

  Gregory T. Bryan;Kun-Sheng Wu;Leonard Farrall;Yulin Jia

  1003
  Citations

• BREAKING AND ENTERING: Host Penetration by the Fungal Rice Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe grisea

  Richard J. Howard;Barbara Valent

  777
  Citations

• A telomeric avirulence gene determines efficacy for the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta.

  Marc J. Orbach;Leonard Farrall;James A. Sweigard;Forrest G. Chumley

  702
  Citations

• Roles for Rice Membrane Dynamics and Plasmodesmata during Biotrophic Invasion by the Blast Fungus

  Prasanna Kankanala;Kirk Czymmek;Barbara Valent

  656
  Citations

• The Magnaporthe oryzae Effector AvrPiz-t Targets the RING E3 Ubiquitin Ligase APIP6 to Suppress Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern–Triggered Immunity in Rice

  Chan Ho Park;Songbiao Chen;Gautam Shirsekar;Bo Zhou

  620
  Citations

• A mechanism for surface attachment in spores of a plant pathogenic fungus.

  John E. Hamer;Richard J. Howard;Forrest G. Chumley;Barbara Valent

  588
  Citations

• Host-Pathogen Interactions: X. Fractionation and Biological Activity of an Elicitor Isolated from the Mycelial Walls of Phytophthora megasperma var. sojae.

  Arthur R. Ayers;Jürgen Ebel;Barbara Valent;Peter Albersheim

  558
  Citations

• Magnaporthe grisea genes for pathogenicity and virulence identified through a series of backcrosses.

  B Valent;L Farrall;F G Chumley

  518
  Citations

• Identification, cloning, and characterization of PWL2, a gene for host species specificity in the rice blast fungus.

  James A. Sweigard;Anne M. Carroll;Seogchan Kang;Leonard Farrall

  509
  Citations

• Molecular genetic analysis of the rice blast fungus, magnaporthe grisea.

  Barbara Valent;Forrest G. Chumley

  505
  Citations

• Translocation of Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors into Rice Cells and Their Subsequent Cell-to-Cell Movement

  Chang Hyun Khang;Romain Berruyer;Martha C. Giraldo;Prasanna Kankanala

  505
  Citations

• Magnaporthe grisea Pth11p Is a Novel Plasma Membrane Protein That Mediates Appressorium Differentiation in Response to Inductive Substrate Cues

  Todd M. DeZwaan;Anne M. Carroll;Barbara Valent;James A. Sweigard

  499
  Citations

• Filamentous plant pathogen effectors in action

  Martha C. Giraldo;Barbara Valent

  484
  Citations

• Genetic analysis of melanin-deficient, nonpathogenic mutants of Magnaporthe grisea.

  F. G. Chumley;B. Valent

  463
  Citations

• Improved Vectors for Selecting Resistance to Hygromycin

  Anne M. Carroll;James A. Sweigard;Barbara Valent

  459
  Citations

• Interaction Transcriptome Analysis Identifies Magnaporthe oryzae BAS1-4 as Biotrophy-Associated Secreted Proteins in Rice Blast Disease

  Gloria Mosquera;Martha Cecilia Giraldo;Chang Hyun Khang;Sean Coughlan

  432
  Citations

• Purification and partial characterization of a beta-glucan fragment that elicits phytoalexin accumulation in soybean.

  J K Sharp;B Valent;P Albersheim

  430
  Citations

• Mutations affecting Ty-mediated expression of the HIS4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

  Fred Winston;Deborah T. Chaleff;Barbara Valent;Gerald R. Fink

  423
  Citations

• Host species-specific conservation of a family of repeated DNA sequences in the genome of a fungal plant pathogen

  John E. Hamer;Leonard Farrall;Marc J. Orbach;Barbara Valent

  420
  Citations