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Diane G. O. Saunders

Diane G. O. Saunders

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
34
Citations
5462
World Ranking
5310
National Ranking
319

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Effector biology of plant-associated organisms:concepts and perspectives

    J Win;A Chaparro-Garcia;K Belhaj;D G O Saunders

  • Using hierarchical clustering of secreted protein families to classify and rank candidate effectors of rust fungi.

    Diane G. O. Saunders;Joe Win;Liliana M. Cano;Les J. Szabo

  • Field pathogenomics reveals the emergence of a diverse wheat yellow rust population

    Amelia Hubbard;Clare M Lewis;Kentaro Yoshida;Ricardo H Ramirez-Gonzalez

  • Genome analyses of the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici reveal polymorphic and haustorial expressed secreted proteins as candidate effectors

    Dario Cantu;Vanesa Segovia;Daniel MacLean;Rosemary Bayles

  • A global surveillance system for crop diseases

    Mónica Carvajal-Yepes;K. Cardwell;A. Nelson;K. A. Garrett

  • Host specialization of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is associated with dynamic gain and loss of genes linked to transposable elements

    Kentaro Yoshida;Kentaro Yoshida;Diane G. O. Saunders;Chikako Mitsuoka;Satoshi Natsume

  • Candidate Effector Proteins of the Rust Pathogen Melampsora larici-populina Target Diverse Plant Cell Compartments

    Benjamin Petre;Diane G. O. Saunders;Jan Sklenar;Cécile Lorrain

  • Cell cycle-mediated regulation of plant infection by the rice blast fungus.

    Diane G.O. Saunders;Stephen J. Aves;Nicholas J. Talbot

  • Host Protein BSL1 Associates with Phytophthora infestans RXLR Effector AVR2 and the Solanum demissum Immune Receptor R2 to Mediate Disease Resistance

    Diane G.O. Saunders;Susan Breen;Joe Win;Sebastian Schornack

  • The genome sequence and effector complement of the flax rust pathogen Melampsora lini.

    Adnane Nemri;Diane G. O. Saunders;Claire Anderson;Narayana M. Upadhyaya

  • Potential for re-emergence of wheat stem rust in the United Kingdom.

    Clare M. Lewis;Antoine Persoons;Daniel P. Bebber;Rose N. Kigathi;Rose N. Kigathi

  • The host-pathogen interaction between wheat and yellow rust induces temporally coordinated waves of gene expression

    Albor Dobon;Daniel C. E. Bunting;Luis Enrique Cabrera-Quio;Cristobal Uauy

  • Spatial Uncoupling of Mitosis and Cytokinesis during Appressorium-Mediated Plant Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

    Diane G.O. Saunders;Yasin F. Dagdas;Nicholas J. Talbot

  • The ash dieback invasion of Europe was founded by two genetically divergent individuals

    Mark McMullan;Maryam Rafiqi;Gemy Kaithakottil;Bernardo J Clavijo

  • Expecting the unexpected: factors influencing the emergence of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens.

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  • MARPLE, a point-of-care, strain-level disease diagnostics and surveillance tool for complex fungal pathogens

    Guru V. Radhakrishnan;Nicola M. Cook;Vanessa Bueno-Sancho;Clare M. Lewis

  • Rust fungal effectors mimic host transit peptides to translocate into chloroplasts

    Benjamin Petre;Benjamin Petre;Benjamin Petre;Cécile Lorrain;Cécile Lorrain;Cécile Lorrain;Diane G.O. Saunders;Joe Win

  • Heterologous Expression Screens in Nicotiana benthamiana Identify a Candidate Effector of the Wheat Yellow Rust Pathogen that Associates with Processing Bodies.

    Benjamin Petre;Diane G. O. Saunders;Jan Sklenar;Cécile Lorrain;Cécile Lorrain;Cécile Lorrain

  • Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus

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