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Kim E. Hammond-Kosack

Kim E. Hammond-Kosack

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D-Index
72
Citations
30938
World Ranking
2091
National Ranking
259

Overview

Kim E. Hammond-Kosack is affiliated with Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom. Their research has made significant contributions across several areas within agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on plant science and molecular biology.

The primary fields of study for Hammond-Kosack include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans subfields such as Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecology.

The scientific topics frequently covered in Hammond-Kosack's publications include:

  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Their recent papers reflect an engagement with genome resources, pathogen-host interactions, and plant pathogen effector biology. Selected publications include:

  • "Ensembl Genomes 2022: an expanding genome resource for non-vertebrates," 2021, published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex," 2020, published in Phytopathology
  • "PHI-base in 2022: a multi-species phenotype database for Pathogen-Host Interactions," 2021, published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Proteinaceous effector discovery and characterization in filamentous plant pathogens," 2020, published in Molecular Plant Pathology
  • "Take-All Disease: New Insights into an Important Wheat Root Pathogen," 2021, published in Trends in Plant Science

Frequent coauthors contributing to Hammond-Kosack's body of work include Martin Urban, Gail Canning, Alayne Cuzick, James Seager, and Javier Palma-Guerrero.

Hammond-Kosack's publications often appear in key journals and platforms such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acids Research, Molecular Plant Pathology, Trends in Plant Science, and the Journal of Experimental Botany.

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

  • Resistance gene-dependent plant defense responses.

    Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

    Li Jun Ma;H. Charlotte Van Der Does;Katherine A. Borkovich;Jeffrey J. Coleman

  • Plant Disease Resistance Genes

    Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Isolation of the tomato Cf-9 gene for resistance to Cladosporium fulvum by transposon tagging

    David A. Jones;Colwyn M. Thomas;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Peter J. Balint-Kurti

  • The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specialization

    Christina A. Cuomo;Ulrich Güldener;Jin Rong Xu;Frances Trail

  • Deciphering plant–pathogen communication: fresh perspectives for molecular resistance breeding

    Kim E Hammond-Kosack;Jane E Parker

  • A review of wheat diseases-a field perspective.

    Melania Figueroa;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Peter S. Solomon

  • Novel Disease Resistance Specificities Result From Sequence Exchange Between Tandemly Repeated Genes at the Cf-4/9 Locus of Tomato

    Martin Parniske;Kim E Hammond-Kosack;Catherine Golstein;Colwyn M Thomas

  • Finished Genome of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola Reveals Dispensome Structure, Chromosome Plasticity, and Stealth Pathogenesis

    Stephen B. Goodwin;Sarrah Ben M'Barek;Braham Dhillon;Alexander H J Wittenberg

  • cDNA-AFLP Reveals a Striking Overlap in Race-Specific Resistance and Wound Response Gene Expression Profiles

    Wendy E. Durrant;Owen Rowland;Pedro Piedras;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack

  • Six Arabidopsis thaliana homologues of the human respiratory burst oxidase (gp91phox)

    Miguel Angel Torres;Hitoshi Onouchi;Susuma Hamada;Chiyoko Machida

  • Ensembl Genomes 2020-enabling non-vertebrate genomic research.

    Kevin L. Howe;Bruno Contreras-Moreira;Nishadi De Silva;Gareth Maslen

  • Ensembl Genomes 2018: an integrated omics infrastructure for non-vertebrate species.

    Paul Julian Kersey;James E Allen;Alexis Allot;Matthieu Barba

  • rbohA, a rice homologue of the mammalian gp91phox respiratory burst oxidase gene.

    Quentin J. Groom;Miguel Angel Torres;Anthony P. Fordham-Skelton;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack

  • Transcriptome and metabolite profiling of the infection cycle of Zymoseptoria tritici on wheat reveals a biphasic interaction with plant immunity involving differential pathogen chromosomal contributions and a variation on the hemibiotrophic lifestyle definition.

    Jason J. Rudd;Kostya Kanyuka;Keywan Hassani-Pak;Mark Derbyshire

  • PHI-base: a new database for pathogen host interactions

    Rainer Winnenburg;Thomas K. Baldwin;Martin Urban;Christopher J. Rawlings

  • Responses to plant pathogens

    K. E. Hammond-Kosack;J. D. G. Jones

  • One Fungus, One Name: Defining the Genus Fusarium in a Scientifically Robust Way That Preserves Longstanding Use

    David M. Geiser;Takayuki Aoki;Charles W. Bacon;Scott E. Baker

  • Involvement of Reactive Oxygen Species, Glutathione Metabolism, and Lipid Peroxidation in the Cf-Gene-Dependent Defense Response of Tomato Cotyledons Induced by Race-Specific Elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum

    M. J. May;K. E. Hammond-Kosack;J. D. G. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Urban
Martin Urban Rothamsted Research
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia
Chris Bass
Chris Bass University of Exeter
Andrew L. Phillips
Andrew L. Phillips Rothamsted Research
David A. Jones
David A. Jones Australian National University
Stephen J. Powers
Stephen J. Powers Rothamsted Research
John A. Lucas
John A. Lucas Rothamsted Research
Antonio Di Pietro
Antonio Di Pietro University of Córdoba
Adrian C. Newton
Adrian C. Newton James Hutton Institute
Paul Kersey
Paul Kersey European Bioinformatics Institute

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