Stephen C. Whisson

Best Publications

• Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

  Brian J Haas;Sophien Kamoun;Sophien Kamoun;Michael C Zody;Michael C Zody;Rays H Y Jiang;Rays H Y Jiang

  1728
  Citations

• A translocation signal for delivery of oomycete effector proteins into host plant cells

  Stephen C. Whisson;Petra C. Boevink;Lucy Moleleki;Anna O. Avrova

  978
  Citations

• An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

  Miles R. Armstrong;Stephen C. Whisson;Leighton Pritchard;Leighton Pritchard;Jorunn I. B. Bos

  573
  Citations

• Phytophthora infestans effector AVR3a is essential for virulence and manipulates plant immunity by stabilizing host E3 ligase CMPG1.

  Jorunn I. B. Bos;Miles R. Armstrong;Eleanor M. Gilroy;Petra C. Boevink

  534
  Citations

• Differential Recognition of Highly Divergent Downy Mildew Avirulence Gene Alleles by RPP1 Resistance Genes from Two Arabidopsis Lines

  Anne P. Rehmany;Anna Gordon;Laura E. Rose;Rebecca L. Allen

  516
  Citations

• An RxLR Effector from Phytophthora infestans Prevents Re-localisation of Two Plant NAC Transcription Factors from the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Nucleus

  Hazel McLellan;Petra C. Boevink;Miles R. Armstrong;Leighton Pritchard;Leighton Pritchard

  282
  Citations

• Oomycete RXLR effectors: delivery, functional redundancy and durable disease resistance

  Paul Rj J. Birch;Petra C. Boevink;Eleanor M. Gilroy;Ingo Hein

  222
  Citations

• The Phytophthora infestans avirulence gene Avr4 encodes an RXLR-dEER effector.

  Pieter M. J. A. van Poppel;Jun Guo;Peter J. I. van de Vondervoort;Maartje W. M. Jung

  211
  Citations

• Secreted pectin monooxygenases drive plant infection by pathogenic oomycetes

  Federico Sabbadin;Saioa Urresti;Bernard Henrissat;Bernard Henrissat;Bernard Henrissat;Anna O. Avrova

  201
  Citations

• Cellulose Synthesis in Phytophthora infestans Is Required for Normal Appressorium Formation and Successful Infection of Potato

  Laura J. Grenville-Briggs;Victoria L. Anderson;Johanna Fugelstad;Anna O. Avrova

  174
  Citations

• Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants

  Eleanor M. Gilroy;Susan Breen;Susan Breen;Stephen C. Whisson;Julie Squires

  173
  Citations

• Delivery of cytoplasmic and apoplastic effectors from Phytophthora infestans haustoria by distinct secretion pathways.

  Shumei Wang;Petra C. Boevink;Lydia Welsh;Ruofang Zhang

  170
  Citations

• Ancient origin of elicitin gene clusters in Phytophthora genomes

  Rays H. Y. Jiang;Brett M. Tyler;Stephen C. Whisson;Adrienne R. Hardham

  165
  Citations

• Mandipropamid targets the cellulose synthase-like PiCesA3 to inhibit cell wall biosynthesis in the oomycete plant pathogen, Phytophthora infestans.

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  161
  Citations

• Patterns of Diversifying Selection in the Phytotoxin-like scr74 Gene Family of Phytophthora infestans

  Zhenyu Liu;Jorunn I. B. Bos;Miles Armstrong;Stephen C. Whisson

  158
  Citations

• The cell biology of late blight disease

  Stephen C Whisson;Petra C Boevink;Shumei Wang;Paul Rj Birch

  152
  Citations

• A method for double‐stranded RNA‐mediated transient gene silencing in Phytophthora infestans

  Stephen C. Whisson;Anna O. Avrova;Pieter Van West;John T. Jones

  150
  Citations

• Elevated amino acid biosynthesis in Phytophthora infestans during appressorium formation and potato infection.

  Laura J. Grenville-Briggs;Anna O. Avrova;Catherine R. Bruce;Alison Williams

  140
  Citations

• Towards understanding the virulence functions of RXLR effectors of the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans

  Paul R. J. Birch;Paul R. J. Birch;Miles Armstrong;Jorunn Bos;Petra Boevink

  129
  Citations

• A novel Phytophthora infestans haustorium‐specific membrane protein is required for infection of potato

  Anna O. Avrova;Petra C. Boevink;Vanessa Young;Laura J. Grenville-Briggs

  126
  Citations