Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize

Mutagenesis Breeding for Increased 3-Deoxyanthocyanidin Accumulation in Leaves of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench: A Source of Natural Food Pigment

(2014) Carloalberto Petti et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

The Dermal Layer of Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) Stalk, a Byproduct of Biofuel Production and Source of Unique 3-Deoxyanthocyanidins, Has More Antiproliferative and Proapoptotic Activity than the Pith in p53 Variants of HCT116 and Colon Cancer Stem Cells

(2014) Aaron R. Massey et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Biosynthesis, elicitation and roles of monocot terpenoid phytoalexins

(2014) Eric A. Schmelz et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A secreted Ustilago maydis effector promotes virulence by targeting anthocyanin biosynthesis in maize

(2014) Shigeyuki Tanaka et al.   eLife

Antioxidant properties of 3-deoxyanthocyanidins and polyphenolic extracts from Côte d’Ivoire’s red and white sorghums assessed by ORAC and in vitro LDL oxidisability tests

(2013) Marie-Annette Carbonneau et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

Transcriptional profiling of Zea mays roots reveals roles for jasmonic acid and terpenoids in resistance against Phytophthora cinnamomi

(2013) Jane Alisa Allardyce et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

Modulation of Phytoalexin Biosynthesis in Engineered Plants for Disease Resistance

(2013) Philippe Jeandet et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Sorghum, a Healthy and Gluten-free Food for Celiac Patients As Demonstrated by Genome, Biochemical, and Immunochemical Analyses

(2013) Paola Pontieri et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

TALENs: Customizable Molecular DNA Scissors for Genome Engineering of Plants

(2013) Kunling Chen et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

The antiproliferative activity of 3-deoxyanthocyanins extracted from red sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) bran through P53-dependent and Bcl-2 gene expression in breast cancer cell line

(2013) P. Suganyadevi et al.   LIFE SCIENCES

Demonstration of CRISPR/Cas9/sgRNA-mediated targeted gene modification in Arabidopsis, tobacco, sorghum and rice

(2013) Wenzhi Jiang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Natural Variation in Maize Aphid Resistance Is Associated with 2,4-Dihydroxy-7-Methoxy-1,4-Benzoxazin-3-One Glucoside Methyltransferase Activity

(2013) L. N. Meihls et al.   PLANT CELL

Infection Structure-Specific Expression of  -1,3-Glucan Synthase Is Essential for Pathogenicity of Colletotrichum graminicola and Evasion of  -Glucan-Triggered Immunity in Maize

(2013) E. Oliveira-Garcia et al.   PLANT CELL

Plant genome editing made easy: targeted mutagenesis in model and crop plants using the CRISPR/Cas system

(2013) Khaoula Belhaj et al.   Plant Methods

Simultaneous Transcriptome Analysis of Sorghum and Bipolaris sorghicola by Using RNA-seq in Combination with De Novo Transcriptome Assembly

(2013) Takayuki Yazawa et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptional and Metabolic Changes Associated to the Infection by Fusarium verticillioides in Maize Inbreds with Contrasting Ear Rot Resistance

(2013) Valeria A. Campos-Bermudez et al.   PLoS One

Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050

(2013) Deepak K. Ray et al.   PLoS One

European Corn Borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) Induced Responses Enhance Susceptibility in Maize

(2013) Nicole J. Dafoe et al.   PLoS One

ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas-based methods for genome engineering

(2013) Thomas Gaj et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Global transcriptome analysis reveals distinct expression among duplicated genes during sorghum-Bipolaris sorghicola interaction

(2012) Hiroshi Mizuno et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Host Specificity ofSporisorium reilianumIs Tightly Linked to Generation of the Phytoalexin Luteolinidin bySorghum bicolor

(2012) Katja Zuther et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Lifestyle transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses

(2012) Richard J O'Connell et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genome Comparison of Barley and Maize Smut Fungi Reveals Targeted Loss of RNA Silencing Components and Species-Specific Presence of Transposable Elements

(2012) J. D. Laurie et al.   PLANT CELL

Reactive oxygen species and their role in plant defence and cell wall metabolism

(2012) Jose A. O’Brien et al.   PLANTA

A highly conserved NB-LRR encoding gene cluster effective against Setosphaeria turcica in sorghum

(2011) Tom Martin et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Rapidly Induced Chemical Defenses in Maize Stems and Their Effects on Short-term Growth of Ostrinia nubilalis

(2011) Nicole J. Dafoe et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Anti-carcinogenic Effects of the Flavonoid Luteolin

(2011) Günter Seelinger et al.   MOLECULES

Induction of DIMBOA accumulation and systemic defense responses as a mechanism of enhanced resistance of mycorrhizal corn (Zea mays L.) to sheath blight

(2011) Yuan Yuan Song et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Synergies and trade-offs between insect and pathogen resistance in maize leaves and roots

(2011) MATTHIAS ERB et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Induction and detoxification of maize 1,4-benzoxazin-3-ones by insect herbivores

(2011) Gaétan Glauser et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Novel Acidic Sesquiterpenoids Constitute a Dominant Class of Pathogen-Induced Phytoalexins in Maize

(2011) A. Huffaker et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Sporisorium reilianum Infection Changes Inflorescence and Branching Architectures of Maize

(2011) H. Ghareeb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Identity, regulation, and activity of inducible diterpenoid phytoalexins in maize

(2011) E. A. Schmelz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phytoalexins in defense against pathogens

(2011) Ishita Ahuja et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Flavonoid Phytoalexin-Dependent Resistance to Anthracnose Leaf Blight Requires a Functional yellow seed1 in Sorghum bicolor

(2010) F. Ibraheem et al.   GENETICS

Molecular Dissection of the Pathogen-Inducible 3-Deoxyanthocyanidin Biosynthesis Pathway in Sorghum

(2010) Hongjia Liu et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Innate Immune Responses Activated in Arabidopsis Roots by Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns

(2010) Y. A. Millet et al.   PLANT CELL

Substrate specificity and inhibition of brassinin hydrolases, detoxifying enzymes from the plant pathogens Leptosphaeria maculans and Alternaria brassicicola

(2009) M. Soledade C. Pedras et al.   FEBS Journal

Sorghum 3-Deoxyanthocyanins Possess Strong Phase II Enzyme Inducer Activity and Cancer Cell Growth Inhibition Properties

(2009) Liyi Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Infection biology and defence responses in sorghum againstColletotrichum sublineolum

(2009) P. Basavaraju et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Identification of flavone phytoalexins and a pathogen-inducible flavone synthase II gene (SbFNSII) in sorghum

(2009) Yegang Du et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

(2009) Andrew H. Paterson et al.   NATURE

Benzoxazinoid biosynthesis, a model for evolution of secondary metabolic pathways in plants

(2009) Monika Frey et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

(2009) P. S. Schnable et al.   SCIENCE

Luteolin, a Flavonoid with Potential for Cancer Prevention and Therapy

(2008) Yong Lin et al.   CURRENT CANCER DRUG TARGETS

Chemical composition and methane yield of maize hybrids with contrasting maturity

(2008) Siegfried Schittenhelm   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Brassinin oxidase, a fungal detoxifying enzyme to overcome a plant defense - purification, characterization and inhibition

(2008) M. S. C. Pedras et al.   FEBS Journal

Protonation of a Neutral (S)-β-Bisabolene Intermediate Is Involved in (S)-β-Macrocarpene Formation by the Maize Sesquiterpene Synthases TPS6 and TPS11

(2008) Tobias G. Köllner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Reprogramming a maize plant: transcriptional and metabolic changes induced by the fungal biotroph Ustilago maydis

(2008) Gunther Doehlemann et al.   PLANT JOURNAL