Melania Figueroa

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

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  253
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• 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.

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  203
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• 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
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• Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae: a threat to global oat production

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

  130
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• An overview of genetic rust resistance: From broad to specific mechanisms.

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

  118
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• 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.

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  86
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• Genome diversity in Brachypodium distachyon: deep sequencing of highly diverse inbred lines

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

  85
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• 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.

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  76
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• 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