Les J. Szabo

Les J. Szabo publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Les J. Szabo D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Best Publications

• Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic analysis of rust fungi

  Sébastien Duplessis;Christina A. Cuomo;Yao-Cheng Lin;Andrea Aerts

  818
  Citations

• Detection of virulence to resistance gene Sr24 within race TTKS of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici.

  Yue Jin;Les J Szabo;Z. A. Pretorius;R. P. Singh

  587
  Citations

• Emergence and Spread of New Races of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus: Continued Threat to Food Security and Prospects of Genetic Control

  Ravi P. Singh;David P. Hodson;Yue Jin;Evans S. Lagudah

  545
  Citations

• Stem rust of small grains and grasses caused by Puccinia graminis

  Unknown

  442
  Citations

• Century-old mystery of Puccinia striiformis life history solved with the identification of Berberis as an alternate host.

  Yue Jin;Les J. Szabo;Martin Carson

  440
  Citations

• Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics.

  Sanu Arora;Burkhard Steuernagel;Kumar Gaurav;Sutha Chandramohan

  386
  Citations

• Detection of Virulence to Resistance Gene Sr36 Within the TTKS Race Lineage of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici

  Y. Jin;L. J. Szabo;M. N. Rouse;T. Fetch

  295
  Citations

• Using hierarchical clustering of secreted protein families to classify and rank candidate effectors of rust fungi.

  Diane G. O. Saunders;Joe Win;Liliana M. Cano;Les J. Szabo

  273
  Citations

• An overview of the higher level classification of Pucciniomycotina based on combined analyses of nuclear large and small subunit rDNA sequences

  M. Catherine Aime;P. Brandon Matheny;Daniel A. Henk;Elizabeth M. Frieders

  257
  Citations

• Variation in the AvrSr35 gene determines Sr35 resistance against wheat stem rust race Ug99

  Andres Salcedo;William Rutter;Shichen Wang;Alina Akhunova

  229
  Citations

• Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Race TKTTF of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici that Caused a Wheat Stem Rust Epidemic in Southern Ethiopia in 2013–14

  Pablo Olivera;Maria Newcomb;Les J. Szabo;Matthew Rouse

  215
  Citations

• Phylogenetic relationships of selected cereal and grass rusts based on rDNA sequence analysis

  Unknown

  192
  Citations

• Hidden robbers: The role of fungal haustoria in parasitism of plants

  Unknown

  158
  Citations

• 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

  155
  Citations

• Phylogenetic relationships among some cercosporoid anamorphs of Mycosphaerella based on rDNA sequence analysis

  Elwin L. Stewart;Zhaowei Liu;Pedro W. Crous;Les J. Szabo

  132
  Citations

• Detection and identification of four common rust pathogens of cereals and grasses using real-time polymerase chain reaction.

  Unknown

  123
  Citations

• The tomato Cab-4 and Cab-5 genes encode a second type of CAB polypeptides localized in Photosystem II.

  Eran Pichersky;Neil E. Hoffman;Vedpal S. Malik;R. Bernatzky

  118
  Citations

• Genomic variants affecting homoeologous gene expression dosage contribute to agronomic trait variation in allopolyploid wheat

  Unknown

  116
  Citations

• Characterization of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici isolates derived from an unusual wheat stem rust outbreak in Germany in 2013

  P. D. Olivera Firpo;M. Newcomb;K. Flath;N. Sommerfeldt-Impe

  114
  Citations

• Development of simple sequence repeat markers for the plant pathogenic rust fungus Puccinia triticina

  Les J. Szabo;James A. Kolmer

  110
  Citations