Verna J. Higgins

Best Publications

• H2O2 plays different roles in determining penetration failure in three diverse plant-fungal interactions.

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• The Role of the Jasmonate Response in Plant Susceptibility to Diverse Pathogens with a Range of Lifestyles

  Jennifer S. Thaler;Blythe Owen;Verna J. Higgins

  447
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• Electrolyte Leakage, Lipoxygenase, and Lipid Peroxidation Induced in Tomato Leaf Tissue by Specific and Nonspecific Elicitors from Cladosporium fulvum

  Tobin L. Peever;Verna J. Higgins

  324
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• Plant Defense Response to Fungal Pathogens (Activation of Host-Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase by Elicitor-Induced Enzyme Dephosphorylation)

  R. Vera-Estrella;B. J. Barkla;V. J. Higgins;E. Blumwald

  258
  Citations

• Activation of plant plasma membrane Ca2+-permeable channels by race-specific fungal elicitors

  Angela C Gelli;Verna J. Higgins;Eduardo Blumwald

  248
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• Climate change and plant diseases in Ontario

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  237
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• Race-specific elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum promote translocation of cytosolic components of NADPH oxidase to the plasma membrane of tomato cells.

  Ti Xing;Verna J. Higgins;Eduardo Blumwald

  237
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• Effect of Specific Elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum on Tomato Suspension Cells : Evidence for the Involvement of Active Oxygen Species.

  Rosario Vera-Estrella;Eduardo Blumwald;Verna J. Higgins

  234
  Citations

• Regulation of Plant Defense Response to Fungal Pathogens: Two Types of Protein Kinases in the Reversible Phosphorylation of the Host Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase.

  Ti Xing;Verna J. Higgins;Eduardo Blumwald

  206
  Citations

• Plant Defense Response to Fungal Pathogens (II. G-Protein-Mediated Changes in Host Plasma Membrane Redox Reactions)

  R. Vera-Estrella;V. J. Higgins;E. Blumwald

  134
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• Mitochondrial alternative oxidase is not a critical component of plant viral resistance but may play a role in the hypersensitive response.

  Sandi H. Ordog;Verna J. Higgins;Greg C. Vanlerberghe

  131
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• Hydrogen peroxide plays a critical role in the defence response of tomato to Cladosporium fulvum

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  127
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• Nitric oxide has a regulatory effect in the germination of conidia of Colletotrichum coccodes.

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  125
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• Ultrastructure of susceptible, resistant, and immune reactions of tomato to races of Cladosporium fulvum

  George Lazarovits;Verna J. Higgins

  109
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• The effect of hydrogen peroxide on the viability of tomato cells and of the fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum

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  105
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• Histological comparison of Cladosporium fulvum race 1 on immune, resistant, and susceptible tomato varieties

  George Lazarovits;Verna J. Higgins

  104
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• Nature of the phytoalexin produced by alfalfa in response to fungal infection

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  78
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• Rôle of the phytoalexin medicarpin in three leaf spot diseases of alfalfa

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  75
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• The effect of glyphosate on resistance of tomato to <i>Fusarium</i> crown and root rot disease and on the formation of host structural defensive barriers

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  73
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• Regulation of Plant Defense Response to Fungal Pathogens: Two Types of Protein Kinases in the Reversible Phosphorylation of the Host Plasma Membrane H + -ATPase

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  70
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