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Martijn Rep is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research portfolio spans several subfields including plant science, cell biology, molecular biology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. Their main topics of interest center on plant pathogens and fungal diseases, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant disease resistance and genetics, mycotoxins in agriculture and food, plant pathogenic bacteria studies, and plant pathogens and resistance.

Martijn Rep has contributed to numerous publications in reputable venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Communications Biology
  • New Phytologist

The scientist's notable recent papers include:

  • "The genome of opportunistic fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum carries a unique set of lineage-specific chromosomes" (2020), published in Communications Biology
  • "No to Neocosmospora: Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium" (2020), published in mSphere
  • "Host-specificity factors in plant pathogenic fungi" (2020), published in Fungal Genetics and Biology
  • "The root-invading pathogen Fusarium oxysporum targets pattern-triggered immunity using both cytoplasmic and apoplastic effectors" (2020), published in New Phytologist
  • "Partial pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium oxysporum are sufficient to cause disease and can be horizontally transferred" (2020), published in Environmental Microbiology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Martijn Rep's work. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Like Fokkens
  • Frank L. W. Takken
  • Jiming Li
  • Mara de Sain
  • Maryam Rafiqi

Best Publications

  • Significance of Inducible Defense-related Proteins in Infected Plants

    L. C. Van Loon;Martijn Rep;Corne M.J. Pieterse

  • Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

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

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

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

  • Pathogen profile update: Fusarium oxysporum

    Caroline B. Michielse;Martijn Rep

  • The transcriptional response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to osmotic shock. Hot1p and Msn2p/Msn4p are required for the induction of subsets of high osmolarity glycerol pathway-dependent genes.

    Martijn Rep;Marcus Krantz;Johan M. Thevelein;Stefan Hohmann

  • The genome of Nectria haematococca: contribution of supernumerary chromosomes to gene expansion.

    Jeffrey J. Coleman;Jeffrey J. Coleman;Steve D. Rounsley;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Alan Kuo

  • A small, cysteine-rich protein secreted by Fusarium oxysporum during colonization of xylem vessels is required for I-3-mediated resistance in tomato

    Martijn Rep;H. Charlotte Van Der Does;Michiel Meijer;Ringo Van Wijk

  • Suppression of plant resistance gene-based immunity by a fungal effector.

    Petra M. Houterman;Ben J. C. Cornelissen;Martijn Rep

  • The mixed xylem sap proteome of Fusarium oxysporum-infected tomato plants.

    Petra M. Houterman;Dave Speijer;Henk L. Dekker;Chris G. De Koster

  • Osmotic Stress-Induced Gene Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Requires Msn1p and the Novel Nuclear Factor Hot1p

    Martijn Rep;Vladimír Reiser;Ulrike Gartner;Johan M. Thevelein

  • The effector protein Avr2 of the xylem-colonizing fungus Fusarium oxysporum activates the tomato resistance protein I-2 intracellularly

    Petra M. Houterman;Lisong Ma;Gerben Van Ooijen;Marianne J. De Vroomen

  • ATP-dependent proteases that also chaperone protein biogenesis

    CK Suzuki;M Rep;van Jan Maarten Dijl;K Suda

  • The arms race between tomato and Fusarium oxysporum.

    Frank Takken;Martijn Rep

  • Mass spectrometric identification of isoforms of PR proteins in xylem sap of fungus-infected tomato

    Martijn Rep;Henk L. Dekker;Jack H. Vossen;Albert D. de Boer

  • Small proteins of plant-pathogenic fungi secreted during host colonization.

    Martijn Rep

  • Recent developments in the molecular discrimination of formae speciales of Fusarium oxysporum

    Bart Lievens;Martijn Rep;Bart P H J Thomma

  • Effector gene screening allows unambiguous identification of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici races and discrimination from other formae speciales

    Bart Lievens;Petra M. Houterman;Martijn Rep

  • The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sko1p transcription factor mediates HOG pathway-dependent osmotic regulation of a set of genes encoding enzymes implicated in protection from oxidative damage.

    Martijn Rep;Markus Proft;Fabienne Remize;Markus Tamas;Markus Tamas

  • MITEs in the promoters of effector genes allow prediction of novel virulence genes in Fusarium oxysporum

    Sarah M. Schmidt;Petra M. Houterman;Ines Schreiver;Ines Schreiver;Lisong Ma

  • The genomic organization of plant pathogenicity in Fusarium species.

    Martijn Rep;H Corby Kistler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben J. C. Cornelissen
Ben J. C. Cornelissen University of Amsterdam
Frank L. W. Takken
Frank L. W. Takken University of Amsterdam
Leslie A. Grivell
Leslie A. Grivell University of Amsterdam
H. Corby Kistler
H. Corby Kistler University of Minnesota
Stefan Hohmann
Stefan Hohmann Chalmers University of Technology
Henk L. Dekker
Henk L. Dekker University of Amsterdam
Bart Lievens
Bart Lievens KU Leuven
Antonio Di Pietro
Antonio Di Pietro University of Córdoba
Sjef Boeren
Sjef Boeren Wageningen University & Research

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