Melania Figueroa

Melania Figueroa publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melania Figueroa sits on this spectrum.

Melania Figueroa D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melania Figueroa sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• A review of wheat diseases-a field perspective.

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

  701
  Citations

• Host‐selective toxins, Ptr ToxA and Ptr ToxB, as necrotrophic effectors in the Pyrenophora tritici‐repentis–wheat interaction

  Unknown

  253
  Citations

• Loss of AvrSr50 by somatic exchange in stem rust leads to virulence for Sr50 resistance in wheat

  Jiapeng Chen;Jiapeng Chen;Narayana M. Upadhyaya;Diana Ortiz;Jana Sperschneider

  243
  Citations

• Comparative genomics of a plant-pathogenic fungus, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, reveals transduplication and the impact of repeat elements on pathogenicity and population divergence.

  Viola A. Manning;Iovanna Pandelova;Braham Dhillon;Larry J. Wilhelm;Larry J. Wilhelm

  221
  Citations

• Localizing gene regulation reveals a staggered wood decay mechanism for the brown rot fungus Postia placenta.

  Unknown

  203
  Citations

• Emergence of the Ug99 lineage of the wheat stem rust pathogen through somatic hybridisation

  Feng Li;Narayana M. Upadhyaya;Jana Sperschneider;Oadi Matny

  179
  Citations

• Genomics accelerated isolation of a new stem rust avirulence gene-wheat resistance gene pair.

  Narayana M Upadhyaya;Rohit Mago;Vinay Panwar;Tim Hewitt

  152
  Citations

• A Near-Complete Haplotype-Phased Genome of the Dikaryotic Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Reveals High Interhaplotype Diversity

  Benjamin Schwessinger;Jana Sperschneider;William S. Cuddy;William S. Cuddy;Diana P. Garnica

  138
  Citations

• Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: a threat to global oat production

  Eric S. Nazareno;Feng Li;Madeleine Smith;Robert F. Park

  130
  Citations

• An overview of genetic rust resistance: From broad to specific mechanisms.

  Sambasivam Periyannan;Ricky J. Milne;Melania Figueroa;Evans S. Lagudah

  118
  Citations

• Development of a high throughput transformation system for insertional mutagenesis in Magnaporthe oryzae

  Melania F. Betts;Sara L. Tucker;Natalia Galadima;Yan Meng

  97
  Citations

• Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity.

  Unknown

  86
  Citations

• Genome diversity in Brachypodium distachyon: deep sequencing of highly diverse inbred lines

  Sean P. Gordon;Henry Priest;David L. Des Marais;Wendy Schackwitz

  85
  Citations

• Evolution of virulence in rust fungi - multiple solutions to one problem.

  Melania Figueroa;Peter N Dodds;Eva C Henningsen

  83
  Citations

• Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi.

  Unknown

  76
  Citations

• Host Adaptation and Virulence in Heteroecious Rust Fungi

  Sebastien Duplessis;Cecile Lorrain;Benjamin Petre;Melania Figueroa

  74
  Citations

• Infection of Brachypodium distachyon by Formae Speciales of Puccinia graminis: Early Infection Events and Host-Pathogen Incompatibility

  Melania Figueroa;Stephen Alderman;David F. Garvin;William F. Pfender;William F. Pfender

  74
  Citations

• Analysis of transcriptome changes induced by Ptr ToxA in wheat provides insights into the mechanisms of plant susceptibility

  Iovanna Pandelova;Melania F. Betts;Viola A. Manning;Larry J. Wilhelm

  74
  Citations

• Increased virulence of Puccinia coronata f. sp.avenae populations through allele frequency changes at multiple putative Avr loci.

  Marisa E. Miller;Eric S. Nazareno;Susan M. Rottschaefer;Jakob Riddle

  72
  Citations

• De novo assembly and phasing of dikaryotic genomes from two isolates of Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae, the causal agent of oat crown rust

  Marisa E. Miller;Ying Zhang;Vahid Omidvar;Jana Sperschneider

  70
  Citations