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Bruce A. McDonald

Bruce A. McDonald

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Genetics

D-Index
91
Citations
25481
World Ranking
1052
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bruce A. McDonald is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work involves subfields such as plant science, genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

McDonald's research covers several main topics including wheat and barley genetics and pathology, plant disease resistance and genetics, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, evolution and genetic dynamics, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, mycotoxins in agriculture and food, and plant-microbe interactions and immunity.

The scientist has published numerous papers, with some recent works including:

  • "A 19-isolate reference-quality global pangenome for the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici" (2020, BMC Biology)
  • "A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "A population-level invasion by transposable elements triggers genome expansion in a fungal pathogen" (2021, eLife)
  • "Global genomic analyses of wheat powdery mildew reveal association of pathogen spread with historical human migration and trade" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Chromatin Dynamics Contribute to the Spatiotemporal Expression Pattern of Virulence Genes in a Fungal Plant Pathogen" (2020, mBio)

Frequent collaborators of McDonald include:

  • Daniel Croll
  • Cécile Lorrain
  • Julien Alassimone
  • Jessica Stapley
  • Alexey Mikaberidze

The primary venues where McDonald has published are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 27 publications
  • Plant Pathology with 6 publications
  • New Phytologist with 3 publications
  • Phytopathology with 3 publications
  • Nature Communications with 2 publications

Bruce A. McDonald was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • PATHOGEN POPULATION GENETICS, EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL, AND DURABLE RESISTANCE

    Bruce A. McDonald;Celeste C. Linde

  • Emergence of a new disease as a result of interspecific virulence gene transfer.

    Timothy L Friesen;Eva H Stukenbrock;Zhaohui Liu;Steven Meinhardt

  • Gene Flow in Plant Pathosystems

    J. M. Mcdermott;B. A. Mcdonald

  • The Origins of Plant Pathogens in Agro-Ecosystems

    Eva H. Stukenbrock;Bruce A. McDonald

  • The population genetics of plant pathogens and breeding strategies for durable resistance

    Bruce A. McDonald;Celeste Linde

  • The population genetics of fungi: tools and techniques.

    Bruce A. McDonald

  • Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae.

    M. Tofazzal Islam;Daniel Croll;Pierre Gladieux;Darren M. Soanes

  • The global genetic structure of the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola is characterized by high nuclear diversity, low mitochondrial diversity, regular recombination, and gene flow

    Jiasui Zhan;Ronald E. Pettway;Bruce A. McDonald

  • Rapid emergence of pathogens in agro-ecosystems: global threats to agricultural sustainability and food security.

    Bruce A. McDonald;Eva H. Stukenbrock

  • Population Structure of Mycosphaerella graminicola: From Lesions to Continents.

    C. C. Linde;J. Zhan;B. A. McDonald

  • Origin and Domestication of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola via Sympatric Speciation

    Eva H. Stukenbrock;Søren Banke;Mohammad Javan-Nikkhah;Bruce A. McDonald

  • Population Genetics of Plant Pathogenic FungiElectrophoretic markers give unprecedented precision to analyses of genetic structure of populations

    Bruce A. McDonald;Joseph M. McDermott

  • Dothideomycete-Plant Interactions Illuminated by Genome Sequencing and EST Analysis of the Wheat Pathogen Stagonospora nodorum

    James K. Hane;Rohan G.T. Lowe;Peter S. Solomon;Kar-Chun Tan

  • An Analysis of the Durability of Resistance to Plant Viruses

    Fernando García-Arenal;Bruce A. McDonald

  • The cysteine rich necrotrophic effector SnTox1 produced by Stagonospora nodorum triggers susceptibility of wheat lines harboring Snn1.

    Zhaohui Liu;Zengcui Zhang;Justin D. Faris;Richard P. Oliver

  • Sexual Reproduction Plays a Major Role in the Genetic Structure of Populations of the Fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola

    Ruey-Shyang Chen;Bruce A. McDonald

  • QoI resistance emerged independently at least 4 times in European populations of Mycosphaerella graminicola

    Stefano F. F. Torriani;Patrick C. Brunner;Bruce A. Mcdonald;Helge Sierotzki

  • Population Genetics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi

    Bruce A. McDonald;Joseph M. McDermott

  • DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms among Mycosphaerella graminicola (anamorph Septoria tritici) isolates collected from a single wheat field.

    B. A. McDonald;J. P. Martinez

  • Population structure of Mycosphaerella graminicola: from lesions to continents.

    C. Linde;J. Zhan;B. A. McDonald;L. Tvarůžek

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Croll
Daniel Croll University of Neuchâtel
Celeste C. Linde
Celeste C. Linde Australian National University
Richard P. Oliver
Richard P. Oliver Curtin University
Timothy L. Friesen
Timothy L. Friesen United States Department of Agriculture
Christopher C. Mundt
Christopher C. Mundt Oregon State University
Peter S. Solomon
Peter S. Solomon Australian National University
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Justin D. Faris
Justin D. Faris Agricultural Research Service
James K. Hane
James K. Hane Curtin University
Kar-Chun Tan
Kar-Chun Tan Curtin University

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