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  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society

Overview

Said A. Ghabrial was affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research spanned several fields within the biological sciences, with a focus on agriculture and molecular biology as well as environmental science.

The main fields of study for this scientist included:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

Their subfields of study reflected a focus on the biology and ecology of plants and related organisms:

  • Plant Science
  • Endocrinology
  • Ecology

Main research topics covered by Said A. Ghabrial included:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Plant Disease Management Techniques
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Collaborations formed an important part of their academic activity. Frequent coauthors were:

  • José R. Castón
  • Ioly Kotta-Loizou
  • R. H. A. Coutts
  • Hiromitsu Moriyama
  • Nobuhiro Suzuki

Said A. Ghabrial was recognized by the American Phytopathological Society, having been named a Fellow in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses

    R. I. B. Francki;C. M. Fauquet;D. L. Knudson;F. Brown

  • Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2015).

    M J Adams;E J Lefkowitz;A M Q King;D H Bamford

  • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

    Frederick A. Murphy;Claude M. Fauquet;David H. L. Bishop;Said A. Ghabrial

  • 50-plus years of fungal viruses.

    Said A. Ghabrial;José R. Castón;Daohong Jiang;Max L. Nibert

  • Viruses of plant pathogenic fungi.

    Said A. Ghabrial;Nobuhiro Suzuki

  • A geminivirus-related DNA mycovirus that confers hypovirulence to a plant pathogenic fungus

    Xiao Yu;Bo Li;Yanping Fu;Daohong Jiang

  • Extracellular transmission of a DNA mycovirus and its use as a natural fungicide

    Xiao Yu;Bo Li;Yanping Fu;Jiatao Xie

  • ORIGIN, ADAPTATION AND EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS OF FUNGAL VIRUSES

    Said A. Ghabrial

  • Taxonomic reorganization of family Partitiviridae and other recent progress in partitivirus research

    Max L. Nibert;Said A. Ghabrial;Edgar Maiss;Till Lesker

  • Development of Bean pod mottle virus-based vectors for stable protein expression and sequence-specific virus-induced gene silencing in soybean.

    Chunquan Zhang;Said A. Ghabrial

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Partitiviridae.

    Eeva J. Vainio;Sotaro Chiba;Said A. Ghabrial;Edgar Maiss

  • Cooperative functioning between phenylalanine ammonia lyase and isochorismate synthase activities contributes to salicylic acid biosynthesis in soybean.

    M. B. Shine;Jung-Wook Yang;Mohamed El-Habbak;Padmaja Nagyabhyru

  • Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Double-Stranded RNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Nuclear Genomes

    Huiquan Liu;Yanping Fu;Daohong Jiang;Guoqing Li

  • Characterization of debilitation-associated mycovirus infecting the plant-pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

    Jun Xie;Dongmei Wei;Daohong Jiang;Yanping Fu

  • Production of transgenic soybean lines expressing the bean pod mottle virus coat protein precursor gene.

    Rong Di;Virginia Purcell;Glenn B. Collins;Said A. Ghabrial

  • Genome characterization of a debilitation-associated mitovirus infecting the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea

    Mingde Wu;Lei Zhang;Guoqing Li;Daohong Jiang

  • A Novel Partitivirus That Confers Hypovirulence on Plant Pathogenic Fungi

    Xueqiong Xiao;Jiasen Cheng;Jinghua Tang;Yanping Fu

  • Genomoviridae: a new family of widespread single-stranded DNA viruses.

    Mart Krupovic;Said A. Ghabrial;Daohong Jiang;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani

  • Molecular characterization of Penicillium chrysogenum virus: reconsideration of the taxonomy of the genus Chrysovirus

    Daohong Jiang;Said A. Ghabrial

  • An oleic acid-mediated pathway induces constitutive defense signaling and enhanced resistance to multiple pathogens in soybean.

    Aardra Kachroo;Da-Qi Fu;Wendy Havens;DuRoy Navarre

  • Organization and expression of the double-stranded RNA genome of Helminthosporium victoriae 190S virus, a totivirus infecting a plant pathogenic filamentous fungus.

    Shaohua Huang;Said A. Ghabrial

Frequent Co-Authors

Daohong Jiang
Daohong Jiang Huazhong Agricultural University
Max L. Nibert
Max L. Nibert Harvard University
Timothy S. Baker
Timothy S. Baker University of California, San Diego
Nobuhiro Suzuki
Nobuhiro Suzuki Okayama University
Huiquan Liu
Huiquan Liu Northwest A&F University
Benes L. Trus
Benes L. Trus National Institutes of Health
You-Liang Peng
You-Liang Peng Xi'an University of Technology
José L. Carrascosa
José L. Carrascosa Spanish National Research Council
Aardra Kachroo
Aardra Kachroo University of Kentucky
Glen L. Hartman
Glen L. Hartman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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