BCP: Wheat Pathogenomics

Title	BCP: Wheat Pathogenomics
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Transient reprogramming of crop plants for agronomic performance

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Torti, S., Schlesier, R., Tummler, A., Bartels, D., Romer, P., Koch, B., Werner, S., Panwar, V., Kanyuka, K., Von Wiren, N., Jones, J. D. G., Hause, G., Giritch, A. and Gleba, Y. 2021. Transient reprogramming of crop plants for agronomic performance . Nature Plants. 7, pp. 159-171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00851-y

Ensembl Genomes 2020-enabling non-vertebrate genomic research

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Cuzick, A., Howe, K. L., Contreras-Moreira, B., Silva, N. D., Maslen, G., Akanni, W., Allen, J., Alvarez-Jarreta, J., Barba, M., Bolser, D. M., Cambell, L., Carbajo, M., Chakiachvili, M., Christensen, M., Cummins, C., Cuzick, A., Davis, P., Fexova, S., Gall, A., George, N., Gil, L., Gupta, P., Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Haskell, E., Hunt, S. E., Jaiswal, P., Janacek, S. H., Kersey, P. J., Langridge, N., Maheswari, U., Maurel, T., McDowall, M. D., Moore, B., Muffato, M., Naamati, G., Naithani, S., Olson, A., Papatheodorou, I., Patricio, M., Paulini, M., Pedro, H., Perry, E., Preece, J., Rosello, M., Russell, M., Sitnik, V., Staines, D. M., Stein, J., Tello-Ruiz, M. K., Trevanion, S. J., Urban, M., Wei, S., Ware, D., Williams, G., Yates, A. D. and Flicek, P. 2020. Ensembl Genomes 2020-enabling non-vertebrate genomic research. Nucleic Acids Research. 48 (D1), pp. D689-D695. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz890

The Monarch Initiative in 2019: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species.

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Shefchek, K. A., Harris, N. L., Gargano, M., Matentzoglu, N., Unni, D., Brush, M., Keith, D., Conlin, T., Vasilevsky, N., Zhang, X. A., Balhoff, J. P., Babb, L., Bello, S. M., Blau, H., Bradford, Y., Carbon, S., Carmody, L., Chan, L. E., Cipriani, V., Cuzick, A., Rocca, M. D., Dunn, N., Essaid, S., Fey, P., Grove, C., Gourdine, J., Hamosh, A., Harris, M., Helbig, I., Hoatlin, M., Joachimiak, M., Jupp, S., Lett, K. B., Lewis, S. E., McNamara, C., Pendlington, Z. M., Pilgrim, C., Putman, T., Ravanmehr, V., Reese, J., Riggs, E., Robb, S., Roncaglia, P., Seager, J., Segerdell, E., Similuk, M., Storm, A. L., Thaxon, C., Thessen, A., Jacobsen, J. O. B., McMurry, J. A., Groza, T., Köhler, S., Smedley, D., Robinson, P. N., Mungall, C. J., Haendel, M. A., Munoz-Torres, M. C. and Osumi-Sutherland, D. 2020. The Monarch Initiative in 2019: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species. Nucleic Acids Research. 48 (D1), p. D704–D715. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz997

Functional evaluation of a homologue of plant rapid alkalinisation factor (RALF) peptides in Fusarium graminearum

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Machado, A., Walker, C., Lee, W., Urban, M. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2020. Functional evaluation of a homologue of plant rapid alkalinisation factor (RALF) peptides in Fusarium graminearum . Fungal Biology. 124 (9), pp. 753-765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2020.05.001

Genome Sequence of Fusarium graminearum strain CML3066 isolated from a wheat spike in Southern Brazil

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Wood, A. K. M., King, R., Urban, M., Nicolli, C. P., Del Ponte, E. M. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2020. Genome Sequence of Fusarium graminearum strain CML3066 isolated from a wheat spike in Southern Brazil. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9 (19), pp. e00157-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00157-20

Virus-mediated transient expression techniques enable gene function studies in black-grass

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Mellado-Sanchez, M., Mcdiarmid, F., Cardoso, V., Kanyuka, K. and Macgregor, D. 2020. Virus-mediated transient expression techniques enable gene function studies in black-grass . Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.20.00205

Proteinaceous effector discovery and characterisation in filamentous plant pathogens

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Kanja, C. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2020. Proteinaceous effector discovery and characterisation in filamentous plant pathogens. Molecular Plant Pathology. 21 (10), pp. 1353-1376. https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12980

A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Adamski, N. M., Borril, P., Brinton, J., Harrington, S. A., Marchal, C., Bentley, A. R., Bovill, W. D., Cattivelli, L., Cockram, J., Contreras-Moreira, B., Ford, B., Ghosh, S., Harwood, W., Hassani-Pak, K., Hayta, S., Hickey, L. T., Kanyuka, K., King, J., Maccaferri, M., Naamati, G., Pozniak, C. J., Ramirez-Gonzalez, R. H., Sansaloni, C., Trevaskis, B., Wingen, L. U., Wulff, B. B. H. and Uauy, C. 2020. A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat. eLife. 9, p. e55646. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55646

Virus-mediated transient expression techniques enable genetic modification of Alopecurus myosuroides

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Mellado-Sanchez, M., Mcdiarmid, F., Cardoso, V., Kanyuka, K. and Macgregor, D. 2020. Virus-mediated transient expression techniques enable genetic modification of Alopecurus myosuroides. Plant Physiology. 183, pp. 455-459. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.20.00205

PHI-base - the Pathogen–Host Interactions database

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Urban, M., Cuzick, A., Seager, J., Wood, V., Rutherford, K., De Silva, N., Venkatesh, S. Y, Martinez, M. C., Pedro, H., Yates, A. D., Hassani-Pak, K. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2020. PHI-base - the Pathogen–Host Interactions database . Nucleic Acids Research. 48 (Database issue D1), pp. D613-D620. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz904

A Cytological Analysis of Wheat Meiosis Targeted by Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS)

B - Book chapters etc edited externally

Desjardins, S., Kanyuka, K. and Higgins, J. D. 2020. A Cytological Analysis of Wheat Meiosis Targeted by Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS). in: Pradillo, M. and Heckmann, S. (ed.) Plant Meiosis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2061. New York, NY Humana Press Inc. pp. 319-330

Systematic Y2H Screening Reveals Extensive Effector-Complex Formation

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Alcantara, A., Bosch, J., Nazari, F., Hoffmann, G., Gallei, M., Uhse, S., Darino, M.A., Olukayode, T., Reumann, D., Baggaley, L. and Djamei, A. 2019. Systematic Y2H Screening Reveals Extensive Effector-Complex Formation. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10 (1437). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01437

A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Adamski, N. M., Borril, P., Brinton, J., Harrington, S. A., Marchal, C., Bentley, A. R., Bovill, W. D., Cattivelli, L., Cockram, J., Contreras-Moreira, B., Ford, B., Ghosh, S., Harwood, W., Hassani-Pak, K., Hayta, S., Hickey, L. T., Kanyuka, K., King, J., Maccaferri, M., Naamati, G., Pozniak, C. J., Ramirez-Gonzalez, R. H., Sansaloni, C., Trevaskis, B., Wingen, L. U., Wulff, B. B. H. and Uauy, C. 2019. A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat. PeerJ. 7, p. e26877v2. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26877v2

PHI-Nets: A Network Resource for Ascomycete Fungal Pathogens to Annotate and Identify Putative Virulence Interacting Proteins and siRNA Targets

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Janowska-Seja, E. I., Lysenko, A., Urban, M., Rawlings, C. J., Toska, S. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2019. PHI-Nets: A Network Resource for Ascomycete Fungal Pathogens to Annotate and Identify Putative Virulence Interacting Proteins and siRNA Targets. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10 (2721). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02721

MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Kautsar, S. A., Blin, K., Shaw, S., Navarro-Muñoz, J. C., Terlouw, B. R., van der Hooft, J. J. J., van Santen, J. A., Tracanna, V., Duran, H. G. S., Andreu, V. P., Selem-Mojica, N., Alanjary, M., Robinson, S. L., Lund, G., Epstein, S. C., Sisto, A. C., Charkoudian, L. K., Collemare, J., Linington, R. G., Weber, T. and Medema, M. H. 2019. MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function. Nucleic Acids Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz882

Improving disease resistance in mungbean - A combined genetic and biotechnological approach

Conference poster

Bansal, A., Nekrasov, V., Rout, G. R., Rudd, J. J., Slavov, G., Chand, R. and Kanyuka, K. 2019. Improving disease resistance in mungbean - A combined genetic and biotechnological approach. BSPP 2019: Arms race: Evolution of plant pathogens and their hosts. Exhibition and Conference Centre, University of West England, Bristol, UK 02 Sep 2019

sRNA profiling combined with gene function analysis reveals a lack of evidence for cross-kingdom RNAi in the wheat – Zymoseptoria tritici pathosystem

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Kettles, G. J., Hofinger, B. J., Hu, P., Bayon, C., Rudd, J. J., Balmer, D., Courbot, M., Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Scalliet, G. and Kanyuka, K. 2019. sRNA profiling combined with gene function analysis reveals a lack of evidence for cross-kingdom RNAi in the wheat – Zymoseptoria tritici pathosystem. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10 (892). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00892

Non-canonical fungal G-protein coupled receptors promote Fusarium head blight on wheat

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Dilks, T., Halsey, K., De Vos, R., Hammond-Kosack, K. E. and Brown, N. A. 2019. Non-canonical fungal G-protein coupled receptors promote Fusarium head blight on wheat. PLOS Pathogens. 15 (4), p. e1007666. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007666

WGIN Stakeholders' Newsletter [April 2019]

G - Articles in popular magazines and other technical publications

Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Riche, A. B., Mcmillan, V. E., Aradottir, G. I., Hammond-Kosack, M., Lister, C. and Griffiths, S. 2019. WGIN Stakeholders' Newsletter [April 2019]. WGIN Stakeholders' Newsletter.

Saving Plants From Disease

G - Articles in popular magazines and other technical publications

Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2019. Saving Plants From Disease. FuturumCareers. pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.33424/FUTURUM12

Analysis of small RNAs in the Zymoseptoria tritici – wheat interaction

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences

Kettles, G. J., Hofinger, B. J., Hu, P., Bayon, C., Rudd, J. J., Balmer, D., Courbot, M., Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Scalliet, G. and Kanyuka, K. 2019. Analysis of small RNAs in the Zymoseptoria tritici – wheat interaction. 30th Fungal Genetics Conference. Pacific Grove, California, USA 12 Mar 2019

GCR1 and GPA1 coupling regulates nitrate, cell wall, immunity and light responses in Arabidopsis

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Chakraborty, N., Kanyuka, K., Kumar Jaiswal, D., Kumar, A., Arora, V., Malik, A., Gupta, N., Hooley, R. and Raghuram, N. 2019. GCR1 and GPA1 coupling regulates nitrate, cell wall, immunity and light responses in Arabidopsis. Scientific Reports. 9, p. 5838. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42084-2

The Arabidopsis RRM domain protein EDM3 mediates race-specific disease resistance by controlling H3K9me2-dependent alternative polyadenylation of RPP7 immune receptor transcripts.

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Lai, Y., Cuzick, A., Lu, X., Wang, J., Katiyar, N., Tsuchiya, T., Le Roch, K., McDowell, J., Holub, E. and Eulgem, T. 2019. The Arabidopsis RRM domain protein EDM3 mediates race-specific disease resistance by controlling H3K9me2-dependent alternative polyadenylation of RPP7 immune receptor transcripts. The Plant Journal. 97 (4), pp. 646-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14148

Using virulence mutants to identify Avr genes in the wheat stem rust fungus, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences

Dodds, P., Upadhyaya, N., Ortiz, D., Li, F., Chen, J., Miller, M., Luo, M., Mago, R., Ellis, J., Sperschneider, J., Nguyen-Phuc, H., Bouton, C., Steffenson, B., Hirsch, C., Silverstein, K., Park, R., Kanyuka, K. and Figueroa, M. 2019. Using virulence mutants to identify Avr genes in the wheat stem rust fungus, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. 30th Fungal Genetics Conference. Pacific Grove, California, USA 12 Mar 2019

Dramatic recent changes in the population genetic diversity of avirulence gene AvrStb6 in the pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici

Conference paper

Stephens, C., Blyth, H., Olmez, F., Turgay, E. B., Chen, H., McDonald, M., Solomon, P., Milgate, A., Fraaije, B. A., Rudd, J. J. and Kanyuka, K. 2019. Dramatic recent changes in the population genetic diversity of avirulence gene AvrStb6 in the pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici. Molecular Biology of Plant Pathogens (MBPP) Conference. John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK 18 Mar 2019

Characterisation of major genes mediating resistance to Septoria tritici blotch disease in wheat.

Conference poster

Tidd, H., Bryant, R and Kanyuka, K. 2019. Characterisation of major genes mediating resistance to Septoria tritici blotch disease in wheat. International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights 2019. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 22 May 2019

Cell surface immune receptors: the guardians of the plant’s extracellular spaces

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Kanyuka, K. and Rudd, J. J. 2019. Cell surface immune receptors: the guardians of the plant’s extracellular spaces. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 50, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2019.02.005

The role of photoprotection in disease resistance to Septoria tritici blotch in wheat

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences

Angelopoulou, D., Kanyuka, K., Murchie, E. and Ray, R. 2019. The role of photoprotection in disease resistance to Septoria tritici blotch in wheat. International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights 2019. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 22 May 2019

Knocking down wheat meiotic genes through Virus-induced gene-silencing (VIGS)

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences

Desjardins, S., Kanyuka, K. and Higgins, J. D. 2019. Knocking down wheat meiotic genes through Virus-induced gene-silencing (VIGS). The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG). San Diego, CA, USA 12 Jan 2019

MSH2 is required for obligate crossover formation in wheat

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences

Ogle, D., Desjardins, S., Gutterman, I., Simmonds, J., Uauy, C., Kanyuka, K. and Higgins, J. D. 2019. MSH2 is required for obligate crossover formation in wheat. The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG). San Diego, CA, USA 12 Jan 2019

The future of Sustainable Crop Protection Relies on increased diversity of cropping systems and landscapes

B - Book chapters etc edited externally

Storkey, J., Bruce, T., Mcmillan, V. E. and Neve, P. 2018. The future of Sustainable Crop Protection Relies on increased diversity of cropping systems and landscapes. in: Lemaire, G., Cesar de Faccio Carvlho, P., Recous, S. and Kronberg, S. (ed.) Agroecosystem Diversity :Impact on Food Security and Environmental Quality Elsevier. pp. 199-209

An Exploration of the Function of Specific Components of the Predicted Secretome of Fusarium graminearum During Wheat Infection

F - Theses

Machado, A. 2018. An Exploration of the Function of Specific Components of the Predicted Secretome of Fusarium graminearum During Wheat Infection. F - Theses Rothamsted Research

Abstracts of Presentations at ICPP2018: Analysis of Fusarium graminearum pangenome

C1 - Edited contributions to conferences/learned societies

Machado, A., King, R., Urban, M., Del Ponte, E. M., Tessmann, D. J., Kanyuka, K. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2018. Abstracts of Presentations at ICPP2018: Analysis of Fusarium graminearum pangenome. International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP) 2018. Boston, USA 29 Jul 2018 American Phytopathological Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-108-10-S1.1

Using virulence mutants to Identify Avr genes in the wheat stem rust fungus, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences

Upadhyaya, N. M., Ortiz, D., Chen, J., Ellis, J., Li, F., Mago, R., Kanyuka, K., Figueroa, M., Park, R. F. and Dodds, P. 2018. Using virulence mutants to Identify Avr genes in the wheat stem rust fungus, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP) 2018. Boston, USA 29 Jul 2018 American Phytopathological Society (APS). https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-108-10-S1.1

Analysis of small RNA silencing in Zymoseptoria tritici – wheat interactions

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Kettles, G. J., Hofinger, B. J., Hu, P., Bayon, C., Rudd, J. J., Balmer, D., Courbot, M., Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Scalliet, G. and Kanyuka, K. 2018. Analysis of small RNA silencing in Zymoseptoria tritici – wheat interactions. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/501650

Dramatic changes in genetic diversity of the avirulence effector AvrStb6 in global populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

Conference poster

Stephens, C., Blyth, H., Olmez, F., McDonald, M., Solomon, P., Milgate, A., Chen, H., Fraaije, B. A., Rudd, J. J. and Kanyuka, K. 2018. Dramatic changes in genetic diversity of the avirulence effector AvrStb6 in global populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. British Society of Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting, Warwick 2018. Warwick University 10 Dec 2018 https://doi.org/N/A

Rothamsted Long-term experiments : guide to the classical and other long-term experiments, datasets and sample archive

E - Books edited/written by staff member, alone/with others

Macdonald, A. J., Poulton, P. R., Clark, I. M., Scott, T., Glendining, M. J., Perryman, S. A. M., Storkey, J., Bell, J. R., Shield, I. F., Mcmillan, V. E. and Hawkins, J. M. B. Macdonald, A. J. (ed.) 2018. Rothamsted Long-term experiments : guide to the classical and other long-term experiments, datasets and sample archive. Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

Ensembl Genomes 2018: an integrated omics infrastructure for non-vertebrate species

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Kersey, P. J., Allen, J. E., Allot, A., Barba, M., Boddu, S., Bolt, B. J., Carvalho-Silva, D., Christensen, M., Davis, P., Grabmueller, C., Kumar, N., Liu, Z., Maurel, T., Moore, B., Mcdowall, M. D., Maheswari, U., Naamati, G., Newman, V., Ong, C. K., Paulini, M., Pedro, H., Perry, E., Russell, M., Sparrow, H., Tapanari, E., Taylor, K., Vullo, A., Williams, G., Zadissia, A., Olson, A., Stein, J., Wei, S., Tello-Ruiz, M., Ware, D., Luciani, A., Potter, S., Finn, R. D., Urban, M., Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Bolser, D. M., De Silva, N., Howe, K. L., Langridge, N., Maslen, G., Staines, D. M. and Yates, A. 2018. Ensembl Genomes 2018: an integrated omics infrastructure for non-vertebrate species. Nucleic Acids Research. 46 (D1), pp. D802-D808. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx1011

Characterization of an antimicrobial and phytotoxic ribonuclease secreted by the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Kettles, G. J., Bayon, C., Sparks, C. A., Canning, G., Kanyuka, K. and Rudd, J. J. 2018. Characterization of an antimicrobial and phytotoxic ribonuclease secreted by the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. New Phytologist. 217 (1), pp. 320-331. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14786

Phosphopantetheinyl transferase (Ppt)-mediated biosynthesis of lysine, but not siderophore or DHN melanin, is required for virulence of Zymoseptoria tritici on wheat

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals

Derbyshire, M. C., Gohari, A. M., Mehrabi, R., Kilaru, S., Steinberg, G., Ali, S., Bailey, A., Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Kema, G. H. J. and Rudd, J. J. 2018. Phosphopantetheinyl transferase (Ppt)-mediated biosynthesis of lysine, but not siderophore or DHN melanin, is required for virulence of Zymoseptoria tritici on wheat. Scientific Reports. 8 (17069). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35223-8