The Parasitic Plant Genome Project: New Tools for Understanding the Biology of Orobanche and Striga

Herbicide Applied to Imidazolinone Resistant-Maize Seed as a Striga Control Option for Small-Scale African Farmers

(2012) Joel Ransom et al.   WEED SCIENCE

The impact of next-generation sequencing on genomics

(2011) Jun Zhang et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Identification of shared single copy nuclear genes in Arabidopsis, Populus, Vitis and Oryza and their phylogenetic utility across various taxonomic levels

(2010) Jill M Duarte et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Host plant resistance to parasitic weeds; recent progress and bottlenecks

(2010) John I Yoder et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Development of a Host-Induced RNAi System in the Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

(2010) Chuntao Yin et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Compatibility interactions at the cellular level provide the basis for host specificity in the parasitic plant Orobanche

(2010) C. J. Thorogood et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Characterization of the horseweed (Conyza canadensis) transcriptome using GS-FLX 454 pyrosequencing and its application for expression analysis of candidate non-target herbicide resistance genes

(2010) Yanhui Peng et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Characterization of de novo transcriptome for waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) using GS-FLX 454 pyrosequencing and its application for studies of herbicide target-site genes

(2010) Chance W Riggins et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Strigolactones and root infestation by plant-parasitic Striga, Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.

(2010) Catarina Cardoso et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Signatures of Adaptation to Obligate Biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis Genome

(2010) L. Baxter et al.   SCIENCE

Pathogenicity Determinants in Smut Fungi Revealed by Genome Comparison

(2010) J. Schirawski et al.   SCIENCE

Genome Evolution Following Host Jumps in the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Lineage

(2010) S. Raffaele et al.   SCIENCE

Genome Expansion and Gene Loss in Powdery Mildew Fungi Reveal Tradeoffs in Extreme Parasitism

(2010) P. D. Spanu et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of parasitism in plants

(2010) James H. Westwood et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Host-specific races in the holoparasitic angiosperm Orobanche minor: implications for speciation in parasitic plants

(2009) C. J. Thorogood et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Comparison of next generation sequencing technologies for transcriptome characterization

(2009) P Kerr Wall et al.   BMC GENOMICS

De novo sequencing of plant genomes using second-generation technologies

(2009) M. Imelfort et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

RNA-seq: from technology to biology

(2009) Samuel Marguerat et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Recent progress in discovery and functional analysis of effector proteins of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens

(2009) Jeffrey G Ellis et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Insecticidal activity of Bacillus thuringiensis crystal proteins

(2009) Kees van Frankenhuyzen   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Candidate effector gene identification in the ascomycete fungal phytopathogenVenturia inaequalisby expressed sequence tag analysis

(2009) JOANNA K. BOWEN et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Roadmap for future research on plant pathogen effectors

(2009) JAMES R. ALFANO   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

(2009) Andrew H. Paterson et al.   NATURE

Breeding approaches for crenate broomrape (Orobanche crenataForsk.) management in pea (Pisum sativumL.)

(2009) Diego Rubiales et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Control-theStrigaconundrum

(2009) Sarah J Hearne   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Observations on the current status ofOrobancheandStrigaproblems worldwide

(2009) Chris Parker   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Gene silencing of mannose 6-phosphate reductase in the parasitic weedOrobanche aegyptiacathrough the production of homologous dsRNA sequences in the host plant

(2009) Radi Aly et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

A composite transcriptional signature differentiates responses towards closely related herbicides in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus

(2009) Malay Das et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Gene-for-Gene Resistance in Striga-Cowpea Associations

(2009) J. Li et al.   SCIENCE

The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

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

Gene expression profiling ofMedicago truncatularoots in response to the parasitic plantOrobanche crenata

(2009) M A DITA et al.   WEED RESEARCH

Host plant resistance against broomrapes (Orobanche spp.): defence reactions and mechanisms of resistance

(2008) A. Pérez-de-Luque et al.   ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY

Entering and breaking: virulence effector proteins of oomycete plant pathogens

(2008) Brett M. Tyler   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Plant pathogenic bacterial type III effectors subdue host responses

(2008) Jian-Min Zhou et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Striga infestation of cereal crops – an unsolved problem in resource limited agriculture

(2008) Julie D Scholes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Phytopathogen type III effector weaponry and their plant targets

(2008) Anna Block et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Parasitism proteins in nematode–plant interactions

(2008) Eric L Davis et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Molecular responses of Lotus japonicus to parasitism by the compatible species Orobanche aegyptiaca and the incompatible species Striga hermonthica

(2008) Y. Hiraoka et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Host-driven divergence in the parasitic plantOrobanche minorSm. (Orobanchaceae)

(2008) C. J. THOROGOOD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic diversity and genomic distribution of homologs encoding NBS-LRR disease resistance proteins in sunflower

(2008) Osman Radwan et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Global patterns of gene expression in rice cultivars undergoing a susceptible or resistant interaction with the parasitic plantStriga hermonthica

(2008) P. J. Swarbrick et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Strigolactones, host recognition signals for root parasitic plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, from Fabaceae plants

(2008) Kaori Yoneyama et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Trans-specific gene silencing between host and parasitic plants

(2008) Alexey A. Tomilov et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Molecular Responses of Sorghum to Purple Witchweed (Striga hermonthica) Parasitism

(2008) Yukihiro Hiraoka et al.   WEED SCIENCE