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John P. Rathjen is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research encompasses fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The work focuses on subfields such as Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Pharmacology, and Biotechnology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies

Frequent coauthors contributing to their work are Benjamin Schwessinger, Yiheng Hu, Rita Tam, Xiaoxiao Zhang, and Peter N. Dodds.

Regular publication venues for their research include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
  • Current Biology

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by John P. Rathjen include:

  • Distinct Life Histories Impact Dikaryotic Genome Evolution in the Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis Causing Stripe Rust in Wheat (2020), Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Plant NLR immune receptor Tm-22 activation requires NB-ARC domain-mediated self-association of CC domain (2020), PLoS Pathogens
  • Physical separation of haplotypes in dikaryons allows benchmarking of phasing accuracy in Nanopore and HiFi assemblies with Hi-C data (2022), Genome biology
  • Direct recognition of pathogen effectors by plant NLR immune receptors and downstream signalling (2022), Essays in Biochemistry
  • A Chromosome Scale Assembly of an Australian Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Isolate of the PstS1 Lineage (2022), Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Best Publications

  • Plant immunity: towards an integrated view of plant―pathogen interactions

    Peter N. Dodds;John P. Rathjen

  • The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is a central regulator of innate immunity in plants

    Antje Heese;Dagmar R. Hann;Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Alexandra M. E. Jones

  • Molecular basis of gene-for-gene specificity in bacterial speck disease of tomato

    Steven R. Scofield;Christian M. Tobias;John P. Rathjen;Jeff H. Chang

  • High throughput virus‐induced gene silencing implicates heat shock protein 90 in plant disease resistance

    Rui Lu;Isabelle Malcuit;Peter Moffett;Maria T. Ruiz

  • AvrPtoB targets the LysM receptor kinase CERK1 to promote bacterial virulence on plants.

    Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Dagmar R. Hann;Vardis Ntoukakis;Elena Petutschnig

  • NAD+ cleavage activity by animal and plant TIR domains in cell death pathways

    Shane Horsefield;Hayden Burdett;Xiaoxiao Zhang;Xiaoxiao Zhang;Mohammad K. Manik

  • Brassinosteroids inhibit pathogen-associated molecular pattern–triggered immune signaling independent of the receptor kinase BAK1

    Catherine Albrecht;Freddy Boutrot;Cécile Segonzac;Benjamin Schwessinger

  • The Tomato NBARC-LRR Protein Prf Interacts with Pto Kinase in Vivo to Regulate Specific Plant Immunity

    Tatiana S. Mucyn;Alfonso Clemente;Vasilios M.E. Andriotis;Alexi L. Balmuth

  • Early events in the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas syringae on Nicotiana benthamiana.

    Dagmar R. Hann;John P. Rathjen

  • The Bacterial Effector HopX1 Targets JAZ Transcriptional Repressors to Activate Jasmonate Signaling and Promote Infection in Arabidopsis

    Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Marta Boter;Gemma Fernández-Barbero;Andrea Chini

  • Direct transcriptional control of the Arabidopsis immune receptor FLS2 by the ethylene-dependent transcription factors EIN3 and EIL1

    Freddy Boutrot;Cécile Segonzac;Katherine N. Chang;Hong Qiao

  • The Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase CPK28 Buffers Plant Immunity and Regulates BIK1 Turnover

    Jacqueline Monaghan;Susanne Matschi;Oluwaseyi Shorinola;Hanna Rovenich

  • Hierarchy and Roles of Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern-Induced Responses in Nicotiana benthamiana

    Cécile Segonzac;Doreen Feike;Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Dagmar R. Hann

  • The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is required for basal resistance against the late blight pathogen phytophthora infestans in Nicotiana benthamiana.

    Angela Chaparro-Garcia;Rachael C. Wilkinson;Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Kim Findlay

  • Constitutively active Pto induces a Prf-dependent hypersensitive response in the absence of avrPto.

    John P. Rathjen;Jeff H. Chang;Brian J. Staskawicz;Richard W. Michelmore

  • ASPARTATE OXIDASE Plays an Important Role in Arabidopsis Stomatal Immunity

    Alberto P. Macho;Freddy Boutrot;John P. Rathjen;Cyril Zipfel

  • Host inhibition of a bacterial virulence effector triggers immunity to infection.

    Vardis Ntoukakis;Tatiana S. Mucyn;Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Helen C. Chapman

  • Identification of novel proteins and phosphorylation sites in a tonoplast enriched membrane fraction of Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Sally-Anne Whiteman;Liliya Serazetdinova;Alexandra M. E. Jones;Dale Sanders

  • Effector Proteins of the Bacterial Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae Alter the Extracellular Proteome of the Host Plant, Arabidopsis thaliana

    Florian A.R. Kaffarnik;Alexandra M.E. Jones;John P. Rathjen;Scott C. Peck

  • The LysM receptor kinase CERK1 mediates bacterial perception in Arabidopsis.

    Selena Gimenez-Ibanez;Vardis Ntoukakis;John P. Rathjen

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Schwessinger
Benjamin Schwessinger Australian National University
Peter N. Dodds
Peter N. Dodds Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Brian J. Staskawicz
Brian J. Staskawicz University of California, Berkeley
Bostjan Kobe
Bostjan Kobe University of Queensland
Michael P. Coleman
Michael P. Coleman University of Cambridge
Ian B. Dry
Ian B. Dry Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Cyril Zipfel
Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich
Alexandra M. E. Jones
Alexandra M. E. Jones University of Warwick
Jana Sperschneider
Jana Sperschneider Australian National University
Jeff H. Chang
Jeff H. Chang Oregon State University

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