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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
35
Citations
4402
World Ranking
5164
National Ranking
213

Best Publications

  • T-DNA integration: a mode of illegitimate recombination in plants.

    R Mayerhofer;Z Koncz-Kalman;C Nawrath;G Bakkeren

  • Host-induced gene silencing of wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina pathogenicity genes mediated by the Barley stripe mosaic virus

    Vinay Panwar;Brent McCallum;Guus Bakkeren

  • Genome Comparison of Barley and Maize Smut Fungi Reveals Targeted Loss of RNA Silencing Components and Species-Specific Presence of Transposable Elements

    John D. Laurie;Shawkat Ali;Rob Linning;Gertrud Mannhaupt

  • Linkage of mating-type loci distinguishes bipolar from tetrapolar mating in basidiomycetous smut fungi.

    Guus Bakkeren;James W. Kronstad

  • Endogenous silencing of Puccinia triticina pathogenicity genes through in planta-expressed sequences leads to the suppression of rust diseases on wheat.

    Vinay Panwar;Brent McCallum;Guus Bakkeren

  • Comparative Analysis Highlights Variable Genome Content of Wheat Rusts and Divergence of the Mating Loci.

    Christina A. Cuomo;Guus Bakkeren;Hala Badr Khalil;Vinay Panwar

  • Sex in smut fungi: Structure, function and evolution of mating-type complexes.

    Unknown

  • Comparison of AFLP fingerprints and ITS sequences as phylogenetic markers in Ustilaginomycetes

    G. Bakkeren;J. W. Kronstad;C. A. Lévesque

  • RNAi is a critical determinant of centromere evolution in closely related fungi.

    Vikas Yadav;Sheng Sun;R Blake Billmyre;Bhagya C Thimmappa

  • The mating-type and pathogenicity locus of the fungus Ustilago hordei spans a 500-kb region

    Nancy Lee;Guus Bakkeren;Katherine Wong;John E. Sherwood

  • A review of wheat leaf rust research and the development of resistant cultivars in Canada

    Brent D. McCallum;Colin W. Hiebert;Sylvie Cloutier;Guus Bakkeren

  • Conservation of the b mating-type gene complex among bipolar and tetrapolar smut fungi.

    Guus Bakkeren;James W. Kronstad

  • Hallmarks of RNA silencing are found in the smut fungus Ustilago hordei but not in its close relative Ustilago maydis.

    Unknown

  • Host-induced silencing of essential genes in Puccinia triticina through transgenic expression of RNAi sequences reduces severity of leaf rust infection in wheat.

    Vinay Panwar;Mark Jordan;Brent McCallum;Guus Bakkeren

  • Mating factor linkage and genome evolution in basidiomycetous pathogens of cereals

    Guus Bakkeren;Guoqiao Jiang;René L. Warren;Yaron Butterfield

  • Comparison of AFLP Fingerprints and ITS Sequences as Phylogenetic Markers in Ustilaginomycetes

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  • The Transition from a Phytopathogenic Smut Ancestor to an Anamorphic Biocontrol Agent Deciphered by Comparative Whole-Genome Analysis

    François Lefebvre;David L. Joly;Caroline Labbé;Beate Teichmann

  • Recovery of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA molecules from whole plants early after transfer

    Guus Bakkeren;Zdena Koukoliková-Nicola;Nigel Grimsley;Barbara Hohn

  • Using transcription of six Puccinia triticina races to identify the effective secretome during infection of wheat.

    Myron Bruce;Kerri A. Neugebauer;David L. Joly;Pierre Migeon

  • Generation of a wheat leaf rust, Puccinia triticina, EST database from stage-specific cDNA libraries

    Guanggan Hu;Rob Linning;Brent Mccallum;Travis Banks

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