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Jan A. L. van Kan is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with specific emphases on plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, cell biology, molecular biology, and food science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Fungal Plant Pathogen Control
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • Distinct immune sensor systems for fungal endopolygalacturonases in closely related Brassicaceae, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Bitter and sweet make tomato hard to (b)eat, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Botrytis cinerea infection accelerates ripening and cell wall disassembly to promote disease in tomato fruit, 2022, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Dynamics in Secondary Metabolite Gene Clusters in Otherwise Highly Syntenic and Stable Genomes in the Fungal GenusBotrytis, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Red light imaging for programmed cell death visualization and quantification in plant-pathogen interactions, 2021, Molecular Plant Pathology

Frequent co-authors contributing to their publications include:

  • Si Qin
  • Yaohua You
  • Xiaoqian Shi-Kunne
  • Michele C. Malvestiti
  • Henriek G. Beenen

Publication venues where Jan A. L. van Kan most frequently publishes their work are:

  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Journal of Fungi

Their research encompasses diverse interdisciplinary fields with a notable focus on plant-pathogen interactions and mechanisms underlying plant immunity and disease resistance. The body of work contributes to understanding how fungal pathogens affect crop species and how plants respond at molecular and cellular levels.

Best Publications

  • The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology

    Ralph A. Dean;Jan A. L. van Kan;Zacharias A. Pretorius;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack

  • Botrytis cinerea: the cause of grey mould disease

    Brian Williamson;Bettina Tudzynski;Paul Tudzynski;Jan A. L. Van Kan

  • Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea

    Joelle Amselem;Christina A. Cuomo;Jan A. L. van Kan;Muriel Viaud

  • Licensed to kill: the lifestyle of a necrotrophic plant pathogen

    Jan A.L. van Kan

  • The Endopolygalacturonase Gene Bcpg1 Is Required for Full Virulence of Botrytis cinerea

    A. ten Have;W. Mulder;J. Visser;J.A.L. van Kan

  • Molecular Phylogeny of the Plant Pathogenic Genus Botrytis and the Evolution of Host Specificity

    Martijn Staats;Peter van Baarlen;Jan A. L. van Kan

  • Cloning and characterization of cDNA of avirulence gene avr9 of the fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum, causal agent of tomato leaf mold.

    J.A.L. van Kan;A.F.J.M. van den Ackerveken;P.J.G.M. de Wit

  • One stop shop: backbones trees for important phytopathogenic genera: I (2014)

    Kevin D. Hyde;R. Henrik Nilsson;S. Aisyah Alias;Hiran A. Ariyawansa

  • The Role of Ethylene and Wound Signaling in Resistance of Tomato to Botrytis cinerea

    José Díaz;Arjen ten Have;Jan A.L. van Kan

  • Transgenic Expression of Pear PGIP in Tomato Limits Fungal Colonization

    A. L. T. Powell;J. van Kan;A. ten Have;J. Visser

  • Necrotizing activity of five Botrytis cinerea endopolygalacturonases produced in Pichia pastoris

    Ilona Kars;Geja H. Krooshof;Lia Wagemakers;Rob Joosten

  • Molecular analysis of the avirulence gene avr9 of the fungal tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum fully supports the gene-for-gene hypothesis.

    Guido F.J.M. Van den Ackerveken;Jan A.L. Van Kan;Pierre J.G.M. De Wit

  • Grey mould of strawberry, a devastating disease caused by the ubiquitous necrotrophic fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea

    Stefan Petrasch;Steven J. Knapp;Jan A. L. van Kan;Barbara Blanco‐Ulate

  • Fungal Endopolygalacturonases Are Recognized as Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns by the Arabidopsis Receptor-Like Protein RESPONSIVENESS TO BOTRYTIS POLYGALACTURONASES1

    Lisha Zhang;Ilona Kars;Bert Essenstam;Thomas W.H. Liebrand

  • NADPH oxidases are involved in differentiation and pathogenicity in Botrytis cinerea.

    Nadja Segmüller;Leonie Kokkelink;Sabine Giesbert;Daniela Odinius

  • A gapless genome sequence of the fungus Botrytis cinerea

    Jan A. L. Van Kan;Joost H. M. Stassen;Andreas Mosbach;Theo A. J. Van Der Lee

  • Many Shades of Grey in Botrytis-Host Plant Interactions.

    Javier Veloso;Javier Veloso;Jan A.L. van Kan

  • Resveratrol acts as a natural profungicide and induces self-intoxication by a specific laccase

    Alexander Schouten;Lia Wagemakers;Francesca L. Stefanato;Rachel M. van der Kaaij

  • Histochemical and genetic analysis of host and non-host interactions of Arabidopsis with three Botrytis species: an important role for cell death control.

    Peter Van Baarlen;Ernst J. Woltering;Martijn Staats;Jan A. L. Van Kan

  • Infection Strategies of Botrytis cinerea and Related Necrotrophic Pathogens

    T. W. Prins;P. Tudzynski;A. von Tiedemann;B. Tudzynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Tudzynski
Paul Tudzynski University of Münster
Gary D. Foster
Gary D. Foster University of Bristol
Pim Lindhout
Pim Lindhout Wageningen University & Research
John Kay
John Kay Cardiff University
Matthias Hahn
Matthias Hahn Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Thorsten Nürnberger
Thorsten Nürnberger University of Tübingen
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Guido Van den Ackerveken
Guido Van den Ackerveken Utrecht University
Kim E. Hammond-Kosack
Kim E. Hammond-Kosack Rothamsted Research
Pierre J. G. M. de Wit
Pierre J. G. M. de Wit Wageningen University & Research

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