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  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Martin B. Dickman was affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Plant Science within these broader fields.

Their work addressed multiple topics related to plant health and pathology including:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by Dickman include:

  • Multiple ER-to-nucleus stress signaling pathways are activated during Plantago asiatica mosaic virus and Turnip mosaic virus infection in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2020, published in The Plant Journal
  • Attenuation of phytofungal pathogenicity of Ascomycota by autophagy modulators, 2024, published in Nature Communications
  • A broadly conserved fungal chorismate mutase targets the plant shikimate pathway to regulate salicylic acid production and other secondary metabolites, 2025, published in mBio

Frequent collaborators included researchers such as Mathieu Gayral, Omar Arias-Gaguancela, Evelyn Vasquez, Venura Herath, and Francisco Flores. Dickman published in venues including The Plant Journal, Nature Communications, and mBio.

Their research spanned subfields such as Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding plant-pathogen interactions and molecular mechanisms underlying plant immunity and disease resistance.

Martin B. Dickman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

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

  • Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea

    Joelle Amselem;Christina A. Cuomo;Jan A. L. van Kan;Muriel Viaud

  • Lifestyle transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses

    Richard J. O'Connell;Michael R. Thon;Stéphane Hacquard;Stefan G. Amyotte

  • Oxalic Acid, a Pathogenicity Factor for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum , Suppresses the Oxidative Burst of the Host Plant

    Stephen G. Cessna;Valerie E. Sears;Martin B. Dickman;Philip S. Low

  • Use of mutants to demonstrate the role of oxalic acid in pathogenicity of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on Phaseolus vulgaris.

    G. Godoy;J.R. Steadman;M.B. Dickman;R. Dam

  • Proline suppresses apoptosis in the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum trifolii.

    Changbin Chen;Martin B. Dickman

  • Arabidopsis Argonaute10 Specifically Sequesters miR166/165 to Regulate Shoot Apical Meristem Development

    Hongliang Zhu;Fuqu Hu;Ronghui Wang;Xin Zhou;Xin Zhou

  • Pseudomonas type III effector AvrPtoB induces plant disease susceptibility by inhibition of host programmed cell death

    Robert B. Abramovitch;Young Jin Kim;Shaorong Chen;Martin B. Dickman

  • Tipping the balance: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum secreted oxalic acid suppresses host defenses by manipulating the host redox environment.

    Brett Williams;Mehdi Kabbage;Hyo Jin Kim;Robert Britt

  • Abrogation of disease development in plants expressing animal antiapoptotic genes.

    M. B. Dickman;Y. K. Park;T. Oltersdorf;W. Li

  • Oxalic acid is an elicitor of plant programmed cell death during Sclerotinia sclerotiorum disease development.

    Kyoung Su Kim;Ji-Young Min;Martin B. Dickman

  • Green Fluorescent Protein Is Lighting Up Fungal Biology

    J. M. Lorang;R. P. Tuori;J. P. Martinez;T. L. Sawyer

  • Proline modulates the intracellular redox environment and protects mammalian cells against oxidative stress

    Navasona Krishnan;Martin B. Dickman;Donald F. Becker

  • The BAG proteins: a ubiquitous family of chaperone regulators

    M. Kabbage;M. B. Dickman

  • Identification of Pseudomonas syringae type III effectors that can suppress programmed cell death in plants and yeast

    Yashitola Jamir;Ming Guo;Hye Sook Oh;Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja

  • pH signaling in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum : Identification of a pacC/RIM1 homolog

    Jeffrey A. Rollins;Martin B. Dickman

  • Cell death control: the interplay of apoptosis and autophagy in the pathogenicity of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

    Mehdi Kabbage;Brett Williams;Martin B. Dickman

  • Identification and functional characterization of the BAG protein family in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Elena V. Doukhanina;Shaorong Chen;Esther van der Zalm;Adam Godzik

  • Evolutionarily conserved cytoprotection provided by Bax Inhibitor-1 homologs from animals, plants, and yeast.

    Han-Jung Chae;Ning Ke;Hyung-Ryong Kim;Shaorong Chen

  • Pathogenic attributes of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: switching from a biotrophic to necrotrophic lifestyle.

    Mehdi Kabbage;Oded Yarden;Martin B. Dickman

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett Williams
Brett Williams Monash University
Oded Yarden
Oded Yarden Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jeanmarie Verchot
Jeanmarie Verchot Texas A&M University
Jeffrey A. Rollins
Jeffrey A. Rollins University of Florida
James L. Dale
James L. Dale Queensland University of Technology
Clinton Jones
Clinton Jones Oklahoma State University
John F. Leslie
John F. Leslie Kansas State University
Mark E. Payton
Mark E. Payton Oklahoma State University
Robert M. Harding
Robert M. Harding Queensland University of Technology
Jin-Rong Xu
Jin-Rong Xu Purdue University West Lafayette

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