Michael Ayliffe

Michael Ayliffe publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Michael Ayliffe D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Best Publications

• Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: Organelle Genomes Forge Eukaryotic Chromosomes

  Jeremy N. Timmis;Michael A. Ayliffe;Chun Y. Huang;William Martin

  1779
  Citations

• Direct protein interaction underlies gene-for-gene specificity and coevolution of the flax resistance genes and flax rust avirulence genes

  Peter N. Dodds;Gregory J. Lawrence;Ann-Maree Catanzariti;Trazel Teh

  944
  Citations

• A recently evolved hexose transporter variant confers resistance to multiple pathogens in wheat.

  John W Moore;Sybil Herrera-Foessel;Caixia Lan;Wendelin Schnippenkoetter

  799
  Citations

• The L6 gene for flax rust resistance is related to the Arabidopsis bacterial resistance gene RPS2 and the tobacco viral resistance gene N.

  G J Lawrence;E J Finnegan;M A Ayliffe;J G Ellis

  693
  Citations

• Haustorially Expressed Secreted Proteins from Flax Rust Are Highly Enriched for Avirulence Elicitors

  Ann-Maree Catanzariti;Ann-Maree Catanzariti;Peter N. Dodds;Gregory J. Lawrence;Michael A. Ayliffe

  552
  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

• The Melampsora lini AvrL567 avirulence genes are expressed in haustoria and their products are recognized inside plant cells

  Peter N. Dodds;Gregory J. Lawrence;Ann-Maree Catanzariti;Michael A. Ayliffe

  484
  Citations

• Inactivation of the flax rust resistance gene M associated with loss of a repeated unit within the leucine-rich repeat coding region.

  P A Anderson;G J Lawrence;B C Morrish;M A Ayliffe

  462
  Citations

• The Gene Sr33, an Ortholog of Barley Mla Genes, Encodes Resistance to Wheat Stem Rust Race Ug99

  Sambasivam Periyannan;John Moore;Michael Ayliffe;Urmil Bansal

  438
  Citations

• Direct measurement of the transfer rate of chloroplast DNA into the nucleus

  Chun Y. Huang;Michael A. Ayliffe;Jeremy N. Timmis

  390
  Citations

• Molecular Characterization of the Maize Rp1-D Rust Resistance Haplotype and Its Mutants

  Nicholas Collins;Jeff Drake;Michael Ayliffe;Qing Sun

  373
  Citations

• Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.)

  John Jacobsen;Ingrid Venables;Ming-Bo Wang;Peter Matthews

  290
  Citations

• The wheat Sr50 gene reveals rich diversity at a cereal disease resistance locus.

  Rohit Mago;Peng Zhang;Sonia Vautrin;Hana Šimková

  244
  Citations

• Autoactive alleles of the flax L6 rust resistance gene induce non-race-specific rust resistance associated with the hypersensitive response.

  Paul Howles;Greg Lawrence;Jean Finnegan;Helen McFadden

  173
  Citations

• Recombination between paralogues at the Rp1 rust resistance locus in maize.

  Qing Sun;Nicholas C. Collins;Michael Ayliffe;Shavannor M. Smith

  163
  Citations

• Nonhost Resistance of Rice to Rust Pathogens

  Michael Ayliffe;Rosangela Devilla;Rohit Mago;Rosemary White

  158
  Citations

• A five-transgene cassette confers broad-spectrum resistance to a fungal rust pathogen in wheat

  Ming Luo;Liqiong Xie;Soma Chakraborty;Aihua Wang

  157
  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

• Durable resistance to wheat stem rust needed.

  Michael Ayliffe;Ravi Singh;Evans Lagudah

  145
  Citations

• Heteroduplex molecules formed between allelic sequences cause nonparental RAPD bands

  Michael A. Ayliffe;Greg J. Lawrence;Jeff G. Ellis;Anthony J. Pryor

  134
  Citations