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Overview

Richard Kormelink is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans several areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Plant Science.

The main subjects of their work include:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Kormelink has published extensively in several scientific journals, including:

  • Viruses
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Nature Plants
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Coauthors who frequently collaborate with Kormelink include Xiaorong Tao, Yuling Bai, Mingfeng Feng, Richard G. F. Visser, and Min Xu.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "The Bunyavirales: The Plant-Infecting Counterparts" (2021) published in Viruses
  • "The NLR Protein Encoded by the Resistance Gene Ty-2 Is Triggered by the Replication-Associated Protein Rep/C1 of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus" (2020) published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Defenses against Virus and Vector: A Phloem-Biological Perspective on RTM- and SLI1-Mediated Resistance to Potyviruses and Aphids" (2020) published in Viruses
  • "DNA primase large subunit is an essential plant gene for geminiviruses, putatively priming viral ss-DNA replication" (2023) published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Prospects for viruses infecting eukaryotic microalgae in biotechnology" (2021) published in Biotechnology Advances

Best Publications

  • The Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus resistance genes Ty-1 and Ty-3 are allelic and code for DFDGD-class RNA-dependent RNA polymerases.

    Maarten G. Verlaan;Samuel F. Hutton;Ragy M. Ibrahem;Richard Kormelink

  • Multiplication of tomato spotted wilt virus in its insect vector, Frankliniella occidentalis.

    I. Wijkamp;J.W.M. van Lent;R. Kormelink;R.W. Goldbach

  • Tomato spotted wilt virus L RNA encodes a putative RNA polymerase.

    P de Haan;R Kormelink;R de Oliveira Resende;F van Poelwijk

  • The nucleotide sequence of the M RNA segment of tomato spotted wilt virus, a bunyavirus with two ambisense RNA segments

    R. Kormelink;P. de Haan;C. Meurs;D. Peters

  • Expression and subcellular location of the NSm protein of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), a putative viral movement protein.

    R. Kormelink;M. Storms;J. van Lent;D. Peters

  • The nonstructural NSm protein of tomato spotted wilt virus induces tubular structures in plant and insect cells.

    M. M. H. Storms;R. Kormelink;D. Peters;J. W. M. Van Lent

  • Dominant resistance against plant viruses.

    Dryas de Ronde;Patrick Butterbach;Richard Kormelink

  • Classification of tospoviruses based on phylogeny of nucleoprotein gene sequences

    A. C. de ávila;P. de Haan;R. Kormelink;R. de O. Resende

  • Molecular and serological characterization of iris yellow spot virus, a new and distinct tospovirus species.

    I. Cortês;I. C. Livieratos;A. Derks;D. Peters

  • Functional entry of baculovirus into insect and mammalian cells is dependent on clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

    Gang Long;Gang Long;Xiaoyu Pan;Richard Kormelink;Just M. Vlak

  • Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018

    Piet Maes;Sergey V. Alkhovsky;Yīmíng Bào;Martin Beer

  • Negative-strand RNA viruses: The plant-infecting counterparts

    Richard Kormelink;Maria Laura Garcia;Michael Goodin;Takahide Sasaya

  • Tomato yellow leaf curl virus resistance by Ty-1 involves increased cytosine methylation of viral genomes and is compromised by cucumber mosaic virus infection

    Patrick Butterbach;Maarten G. Verlaan;Annette Dullemans;Dick Lohuis

  • Characterization of a Tospovirus Isolate of Iris Yellow Spot Virus Associated with a Disease in Onion Fields in Brazil.

    L. Pozzer;I. C. Bezerra;R. Kormelink;M. Prins

  • The nonstructural protein (NSs) encoded by the ambisense S RNA segment of tomato spotted wilt virus is associated with fibrous structures in infected plant cells.

    R. Kormelink;E.W. Kitajima;P. de Haan;D. Zuidema

  • Diverging Affinity of Tospovirus RNA Silencing Suppressor Proteins, NSs, for Various RNA Duplex Molecules

    Esther Schnettler;Hans Hemmes;Rik Huismann;Rob Goldbach

  • Increase of tospoviral diversity in Brazil with the identification of two new tospovirus species, one from Chrysanthemum and one from Zucchini

    I. C. Bezerra;R. de O. Resende;L. Pozzer;T. Nagata

  • Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Particle Morphogenesis in Plant Cells

    M. Kikkert;J.W.M. van Lent;M. Storms;P. Bodegom

  • Taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales: second update 2018

    Piet Maes;Scott Adkins;Sergey V. Alkhovsky;Tatjana Avšič-Županc

  • Generation of envelope and defective interfering RNA mutants of tomato spotted wilt virus by mechanical passage.

    R. de Oliveira Resende;P. de Haan;A. C. de Ávila;E. W. Kitajima

  • Virus Latency and the Impact on Plants

    Hideki Takahashi;Toshiyuki Fukuhara;Haruki Kitazawa;Richard Kormelink

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Goldbach
Rob Goldbach Wageningen University & Research
Richard G. F. Visser
Richard G. F. Visser Wageningen University & Research
Jan Willem Borst
Jan Willem Borst Wageningen University & Research
Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes
Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes Instituto Evandro Chagas
Yuling Bai
Yuling Bai Wageningen University & Research
Elliot W. Kitajima
Elliot W. Kitajima Universidade de São Paulo
Hideki Takahashi
Hideki Takahashi Tohoku University
Hideki Ebihara
Hideki Ebihara Mayo Clinic
Alexander Plyusnin
Alexander Plyusnin University of Helsinki
Anja Kipar
Anja Kipar University of Zurich

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