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Overview

David J. Studholme is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The subfields they focus on include Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Cell Biology, and Endocrinology. These areas relate closely to their main topics of work, which cover Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Plant Virus Research Studies, and Banana Cultivation and Research.

Notable recent publications by Studholme include:

  • Common bacterial blight of bean: a model of seed transmission and pathological convergence (2021, Molecular Plant Pathology)
  • Guidelines for the reliable use of high throughput sequencing technologies to detect plant pathogens and pests (2022, Peer Community Journal)
  • Endophytic Bacterial Isolates From Halophytes Demonstrate Phytopathogen Biocontrol and Plant Growth Promotion Under High Salinity (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Facilitating the adoption of high-throughput sequencing technologies as a plant pest diagnostic test in laboratories: A step-by-step description (2022, EPPO Bulletin)
  • Two-speed genome evolution drives pathogenicity in fungal pathogens of animals (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Studholme include Murray Grant, Theresa Wacker, Mahmut Tör, Jamie Harrison, and Rhys A. Farrer.

The venues where Studholme publishes often include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Plant Pathology, Access Microbiology, Scientific Reports, and Plant Disease.

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

  • Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England.

    Erik Volz;Swapnil Mishra;Meera Chand;Jeffrey C. Barrett

  • SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection.

    Steven A. Kemp;Dami A. Collier;Dami A. Collier;Rawlings P. Datir;Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira

  • InterPro, progress and status in 2005

    Nicola J. Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 to mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies.

    Dami A. Collier;Dami A. Collier;Anna De Marco;Isabella A. T. M. Ferreira;Bo Meng

  • miRNAs control gene expression in the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Attila Molnár;Frank Schwach;Frank Schwach;David J. Studholme;Eva C. Thuenemann

  • The bacterial enhancer-dependent sigma(54) (sigma(N)) transcription factor.

    Martin Buck;María-Trinidad Gallegos;David J. Studholme;Yuli Guo

  • Assessing the performance of the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION.

    T Laver;J Harrison;PA O'Neill;K Moore

  • Signatures of adaptation to obligate biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis genome

    Laura Baxter;Sucheta Tripathy;Naveed Ishaque;Nico Boot

  • Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study.

    Katherine A Twohig;Tommy Nyberg;Asad Zaidi;Simon Thelwall

  • Application of 'next-generation' sequencing technologies to microbial genetics.

    Daniel MacLean;Jonathan D. G. Jones;David J. Studholme

  • Genome evolution following host jumps in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage

    Sylvain Raffaele;Rhys A. Farrer;Liliana M. Cano;David J. Studholme

  • Recurrent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 spike deletion H69/V70 and its role in the Alpha variant B.1.1.7.

    Bo Meng;Steven A Kemp;Steven A Kemp;Guido Papa;Rawlings Datir

  • Domain architectures of σ54-dependent transcriptional activators

    David J. Studholme;Ray Dixon

  • Uniparental expression of PolIV-dependent siRNAs in developing endosperm of Arabidopsis

    Rebecca A. Mosher;Charles W. Melnyk;Krystyna A. Kelly;Ruth M. Dunn

  • Genome Sequence of Azotobacter vinelandii, an Obligate Aerobe Specialized To Support Diverse Anaerobic Metabolic Processes

    João C. Setubal;Patricia dos Santos;Barry S. Goldman;Helga Ertesvåg

  • PolIVb influences RNA-directed DNA methylation independently of its role in siRNA biogenesis.

    Rebecca A. Mosher;Frank Schwach;Frank Schwach;David J. Studholme;David C. Baulcombe;David C. Baulcombe

  • A toolkit for analysing large-scale plant small RNA datasets

    Simon Moxon;Frank Schwach;Tamas Dalmay;Dan MacLean

  • Assessing the performance of the Oxford Nanopore Technologies

    T. Laver;J. Harrison;P. A. O'Neill;K. Moore

  • UniparentalexpressionofPolIV-dependentsiRNAsin developing endosperm of Arabidopsis

    Rebecca A. Mosher;Charles W. Melnyk;Krystyna A. Kelly;Ruth M. Dunn

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Grant
Murray Grant University of Warwick
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia
Richard W. Titball
Richard W. Titball University of Exeter
Martin Buck
Martin Buck Imperial College London
David C. Baulcombe
David C. Baulcombe University of Cambridge
Marco Thines
Marco Thines Goethe University Frankfurt
Nicholas J. Talbot
Nicholas J. Talbot University of East Anglia
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun University of East Anglia
Mahmut Tör
Mahmut Tör University of Worcester
Eric B. Holub
Eric B. Holub University of Warwick

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