Diane G. O. Saunders

Diane G. O. Saunders publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Diane G. O. Saunders D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diane G. O. Saunders sits on this spectrum.

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

  478
  Citations

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

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

  423
  Citations

• 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

  273
  Citations

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

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

  257
  Citations

• 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

  235
  Citations

• A global surveillance system for crop diseases

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

  227
  Citations

• 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

  221
  Citations

• 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

  196
  Citations

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

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

  189
  Citations

• 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

  159
  Citations

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

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

  157
  Citations

• 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

  147
  Citations

• 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

  130
  Citations

• 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

  129
  Citations

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

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

  122
  Citations

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

  Unknown

  114
  Citations

• 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

  112
  Citations

• 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

  104
  Citations

• 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

  98
  Citations

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

  Unknown

  97
  Citations