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  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jan E. Leach is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States and has a substantial body of research focused on agricultural and biological sciences. Their work primarily centers on plant science, with additional contributions to molecular biology, cell biology, insect science, and genetics.

Their research spans several main topics including:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

Jan E. Leach has published extensively in well-known scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Phytopathology
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annual Review of Phytopathology

Some recent papers authored include:

  • Plant-microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health (2020), published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward (2023), published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Enabling sustainable agriculture through understanding and enhancement of microbiomes (2021), published in New Phytologist
  • High temperature-induced plant disease susceptibility: more than the sum of its parts (2020), published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • Genome assembly and characterization of a complex zfBED-NLR gene-containing disease resistance locus in Carolina Gold Select rice with Nanopore sequencing (2020), published in PLoS Genetics

Frequent coauthors with whom Jan E. Leach has worked include:

  • Jillian M. Lang
  • Pankaj Trivedi
  • Álvaro L. Pérez-Quintero
  • Federico Martin
  • Adam J. Bogdanove

Jan E. Leach's research contributes to a range of subfields, particularly in plant science and molecular biology, with a focus also on cell biology, insect science, and genetics.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2002.

Best Publications

  • Plant–microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health

    Pankaj Trivedi;Jan E. Leach;Susannah G. Tringe;Tongmin Sa

  • Gene amplification confers glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus palmeri

    Todd A. Gaines;Wenli Zhang;Dafu Wang;Bekir Bukun

  • Research priorities for harnessing plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture.

    Posy E. Busby;Chinmay Soman;Maggie R. Wagner;Maren L. Friesen

  • Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice

    Kenneth L. McNally;Kevin L. Childs;Regina Bohnert;Rebecca M. Davidson

  • Novel insights into rice innate immunity against bacterial and fungal pathogens.

    Wende Liu;Jinling Liu;Lindsay Triplett;Jan E. Leach

  • Chemical- and irradiation-induced mutants of indica rice IR64 for forward and reverse genetics.

    Jian-Li Wu;Chanjian Wu;Cailin Lei;Marietta Baraoidan

  • Pathogen fitness penalty as a predictor of durability of disease resistance genes.

    Jan E. Leach;Casiana M. Vera Cruz;Jianfa Bai;Hei Leung

  • Blast testing of ultra-high performance fibre and FRP-retrofitted concrete slabs

    C. Wu;D.J. Oehlers;M. Rebentrost;J. Leach

  • Genome sequence and rapid evolution of the rice pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae PXO99A

    Steven L Salzberg;Daniel D Sommer;Michael C Schatz;Adam M Phillippy

  • Diversity in Nucleotide Binding Site–Leucine-Rich Repeat Genes in Cereals

    Jianfa Bai;Lourdes A. Pennill;Jianchang Ning;Se Weon Lee

  • Identification of a family of avirulence genes from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae.

    C M Hopkins;F F White;S H Choi;A Guo

  • Plant–pathogen interactions: disease resistance in modern agriculture

    Lesley A. Boyd;Christopher Ridout;Donal M. O'Sullivan;Jan E. Leach

  • Focus on bacterial blight of rice.

    T. W. Mew;A. M. Alvarez;J. E. Leach;J. Swings

  • BACTERIAL AVIRULENCE GENES

    Jan E. Leach;Frank F. White

  • A maize resistance gene functions against bacterial streak disease in rice

    Bingyu Zhao;Xinghua Lin;Jesse Poland;Harold Trick

  • Population structure of plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria

    H. Leung;R.J. Nelson;J.E. Leach

  • Predicting durability of a disease resistance gene based on an assessment of the fitness loss and epidemiological consequences of avirulence gene mutation

    Casiana M. Vera Cruz;Jianfa Bai;Isabelita Oña;Hei Leung

  • A Germin-Like Protein Gene Family Functions as a Complex Quantitative Trait Locus Conferring Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance in Rice

    Patricia M. Manosalva;Rebecca M. Davidson;Bin Liu;Xiaoyuan Zhu

  • Crop genome sequencing: lessons and rationales

    Catherine Feuillet;Jan E. Leach;Jane Rogers;Patrick S. Schnable

  • Communication in the Phytobiome.

    Jan E. Leach;Lindsay R. Triplett;Cristiana T. Argueso;Pankaj Trivedi

Frequent Co-Authors

Valérie Verdier
Valérie Verdier Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Hei Leung
Hei Leung International Rice Research Institute
Ralf Koebnik
Ralf Koebnik University of Montpellier
Frank F. White
Frank F. White University of Florida
Boris Szurek
Boris Szurek Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Rebecca J. Nelson
Rebecca J. Nelson Cornell University
Adam J. Bogdanove
Adam J. Bogdanove Cornell University
Scot H. Hulbert
Scot H. Hulbert Washington State University
Claude Bragard
Claude Bragard Université Catholique de Louvain
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University

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