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Overview

Peter N. Dodds is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their scholarly work covers several subfields, notably Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, and Insect Science.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Peter N. Dodds has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • "A five-transgene cassette confers broad-spectrum resistance to a fungal rust pathogen in wheat," 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Genomics accelerated isolation of a new stem rust avirulence gene-wheat resistance gene pair," 2021, Nature Plants
  • "Induced proximity of a TIR signaling domain on a plant-mammalian NLR chimera activates defense in plants," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Evolution of virulence in rust fungi - multiple solutions to one problem," 2020, Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • "Pathogen perception and signaling in plant immunity," 2024, The Plant Cell

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter N. Dodds include:

  • Melania Figueroa
  • Jana Sperschneider
  • Eva C. Henningsen
  • Rohit Mago
  • Jian Chen

Their work is often published in specific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
  • Nature Plants
  • New Phytologist
  • Plant Disease

Best Publications

  • Plant immunity: towards an integrated view of plant―pathogen interactions

    Peter N. Dodds;John P. Rathjen

  • 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

  • Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic analysis of rust fungi

    Sébastien Duplessis;Christina A. Cuomo;Yao-Cheng Lin;Andrea Aerts

  • Structure, function and evolution of plant disease resistance genes.

    Jeff Ellis;Peter Dodds;Tony Pryor

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

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

  • Identification of regions in alleles of the flax rust resistance gene L that determine differences in gene-for-gene specificity

    Jeffrey G. Ellis;Gregory J. Lawrence;Joanne E. Luck;Peter N. Dodds

  • 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

  • The past, present and future of breeding rust resistant wheat.

    Jeffrey G. Ellis;Evans S. Lagudah;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Peter N. Dodds

  • 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

  • NAD+ cleavage activity by animal and plant TIR domains in cell death pathways

    Shane Horsefield;Hayden Burdett;Xiaoxiao Zhang;Xiaoxiao Zhang;Mohammad K. Manik

  • A novel conserved mechanism for plant NLR protein pairs: the "integrated decoy" hypothesis.

    Stella Cesari;Stella Cesari;Maud Bernoux;Philippe Moncuquet;Thomas Kroj

  • 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

  • EffectorP: predicting fungal effector proteins from secretomes using machine learning.

    Jana Sperschneider;Donald M. Gardiner;Peter N. Dodds;Francesco Tini;Francesco Tini

  • LOCALIZER: subcellular localization prediction of both plant and effector proteins in the plant cell

    Jana Sperschneider;Ann Maree Catanzariti;Kathleen Deboer;Benjamin Petre

  • Structural Basis for Assembly and Function of a Heterodimeric Plant Immune Receptor

    Simon J. Williams;Kee Hoon Sohn;Kee Hoon Sohn;Li Wan;Maud Bernoux

  • Structural and Functional Analysis of a Plant Resistance Protein TIR Domain Reveals Interfaces for Self-Association, Signaling, and Autoregulation.

    Maud Bernoux;Thomas Ve;Simon Williams;Christopher Warren

  • The NB-LRR proteins RGA4 and RGA5 interact functionally and physically to confer disease resistance

    Stella Césari;Stella Césari;Hiroyuki Kanzaki;Tadashi Fujiwara;Maud Bernoux

  • Improved prediction of fungal effector proteins from secretomes with EffectorP 2.0.

    Jana Sperschneider;Peter N. Dodds;Donald M. Gardiner;Karam B. Singh;Karam B. Singh

  • Six Amino Acid Changes Confined to the Leucine-Rich Repeat β-Strand/β-Turn Motif Determine the Difference between the P and P2 Rust Resistance Specificities in Flax

    Peter N. Dodds;Gregory J. Lawrence;Jeffrey G. Ellis

  • The role of effectors of biotrophic and hemibiotrophic fungi in infection.

    Markus Koeck;Adrienne R. Hardham;Peter N. Dodds

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey G. Ellis
Jeffrey G. Ellis Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
John Southworth
John Southworth Keele University
Bostjan Kobe
Bostjan Kobe University of Queensland
Grzegorz Pietrzyński
Grzegorz Pietrzyński Polish Academy of Sciences
Iain A. Steele
Iain A. Steele Liverpool John Moores University
Keith Horne
Keith Horne University of St Andrews
Jana Sperschneider
Jana Sperschneider Australian National University
Fumio Abe
Fumio Abe Nagoya University
M. Kubiak
M. Kubiak University of Warsaw
Igor Soszyński
Igor Soszyński University of Warsaw

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