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3378
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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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Secreted pectin monooxygenases drive plant infection by pathogenic oomycetes

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Ancient origin of elicitin gene clusters in Phytophthora genomes

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

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

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  • 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

  • The cell biology of late blight disease

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. J. Birch
Paul R. J. Birch James Hutton Institute
Anna O. Avrova
Anna O. Avrova James Hutton Institute
Petra C. Boevink
Petra C. Boevink James Hutton Institute
Pieter van West
Pieter van West University of Aberdeen
Francine Govers
Francine Govers Wageningen University & Research
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun University of East Anglia
Ingo Hein
Ingo Hein James Hutton Institute
Christina Dixelius
Christina Dixelius Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Michael C. Zody
Michael C. Zody New York Genome Center
Howard S. Judelson
Howard S. Judelson University of California, Riverside

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