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Bruce A. McDonald

Bruce A. McDonald

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
92
Citations
25748
World Ranking
253
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Switzerland Leader Award

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

  • The accessory genome as a cradle for adaptive evolution in pathogens.

    Daniel Croll;Bruce A. McDonald

  • 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

  • A small secreted protein in Zymoseptoria tritici is responsible for avirulence on wheat cultivars carrying the Stb6 resistance gene.

    Ziming Zhong;Thierry C. Marcel;Fanny E. Hartmann;Xin Ma

  • 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

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