Genome‐enabled discovery of candidate virulence loci in Striga hermonthica , a devastating parasite of African cereal crops

Peptide Effectors in Phytonematode Parasitism and Beyond

(2022) Melissa G. Mitchum et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Deeply Altered Genome Architecture in the Endoparasitic Flowering Plant Sapria himalayana Griff. (Rafflesiaceae)

(2021) Liming Cai et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Pathogen Effectors: Exploiting the Promiscuity of Plant Signaling Hubs

(2021) Evi Ceulemans et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Molecular Dialog Between Parasitic Plants and Their Hosts

(2019) Christopher R. Clarke et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Tissue culture protocols for the obligate parasitic plant Striga hermonthica and implications for host-parasite co-cultivation

(2019) Duncan Njora Waweru et al.   PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE

Genome Sequence of Striga asiatica Provides Insight into the Evolution of Plant Parasitism

(2019) Satoko Yoshida et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2019) Kostya Kanyuka et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

SHR4z, a novel decoy effector from the haustorium of the parasitic weed Striga gesnerioides, suppresses host plant immunity

(2019) Chun Su et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Induced cell fate transitions at multiple cell layers configure haustorium development in parasitic plants

(2018) Takanori Wakatake et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Plant cell wall-mediated immunity: cell wall changes trigger disease resistance responses

(2018) Laura Bacete et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Receptor networks underpin plant immunity

(2018) Chih-Hang Wu et al.   SCIENCE

Footprints of parasitism in the genome of the parasitic flowering plant Cuscuta campestris

(2018) Alexander Vogel et al.   Nature Communications

Large-scale gene losses underlie the genome evolution of parasitic plant Cuscuta australis

(2018) Guiling Sun et al.   Nature Communications

MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs

(2018) Saima Shahid et al.   NATURE

OrthoDB v10: sampling the diversity of animal, plant, fungal, protist, bacterial and viral genomes for evolutionary and functional annotations of orthologs

(2018) Evgenia V Kriventseva et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

BUSCO Applications from Quality Assessments to Gene Prediction and Phylogenomics

(2017) Robert M Waterhouse et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome scans on experimentally evolved populations reveal candidate regions for adaptation to plant resistance in the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida

(2017) D. Eoche-Bosy et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Subtilisin-like proteases in plant defence: the past, the present and beyond

(2017) Joana Figueiredo et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Genetic variation and host-parasite specificity of Striga resistance and tolerance in rice: the need for predictive breeding

(2017) Jonne Rodenburg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Activity of xyloglucan endotransglucosylases/hydrolases suggests a role during host invasion by the parasitic plant Cuscuta reflexa

(2017) Stian Olsen et al.   PLoS One

Parasitic weed incidence and related economic losses in rice in Africa

(2016) Jonne Rodenburg et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

The Haustorium, a Specialized Invasive Organ in Parasitic Plants

(2016) Satoko Yoshida et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Genome-Wide Analysis of Small Secreted Cysteine-Rich Proteins Identifies Candidate Effector Proteins Potentially Involved in Fusarium graminearum−Wheat Interactions

(2016) Shunwen Lu et al.   PHYTOPATHOLOGY

Local Auxin Biosynthesis Mediated by a YUCCA Flavin Monooxygenase Regulates Haustorium Development in the Parasitic Plant Phtheirospermum japonicum

(2016) Juliane K. Ishida et al.   PLANT CELL

Two Trichome Birefringence-Like Proteins Mediate Xylan Acetylation, Which Is Essential for Leaf Blight Resistance in Rice

(2016) Yaping Gao et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Suitability of Different Mapping Algorithms for Genome-wide Polymorphism Scans with Pool-Seq Data

(2016) R. Kofler et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

BRAKER1: Unsupervised RNA-Seq-Based Genome Annotation with GeneMark-ET and AUGUSTUS: Table 1.

(2015) Katharina J. Hoff et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Do NERICA rice cultivars express resistance to Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth. and Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze under field conditions?

(2015) Jonne Rodenburg et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Cell wall composition profiling of parasitic giant dodder (Cuscuta reflexa ) and its hosts: a priori differences and induced changes

(2015) Hanne R. Johnsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Haustorial hairs are specialized root hairs that support parasitism in the facultative parasitic plant, Phtheirospermum japonicum

(2015) Songkui Cui et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Structure-function analysis identifies highly sensitive strigolactone receptors in Striga

(2015) S. Toh et al.   SCIENCE

Diversity of laccase-coding genes in Fusarium oxysporum genomes

(2015) Natalia Kwiatos et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Apoplastic interactions between plants and plant root intruders

(2015) Kanako Mitsumasu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads

(2014) Rei Kajitani et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Comparative Transcriptome Analyses Reveal Core Parasitism Genes and Suggest Gene Duplication and Repurposing as Sources of Structural Novelty

(2014) Zhenzhen Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Developing smarter host mixtures to control plant disease

(2014) A. Mikaberidze et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Functional genomics of a generalist parasitic plant: Laser microdissection of host-parasite interface reveals host-specific patterns of parasite gene expression

(2013) Loren A Honaas et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Big Roles of Small Kinases: The Complex Functions of Receptor-Like Cytoplasmic Kinases in Plant Immunity and Development

(2013) Wenwei Lin et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Estimating Gene Gain and Loss Rates in the Presence of Error in Genome Assembly and Annotation Using CAFE 3

(2013) Mira V. Han et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The genusStriga: a witch profile

(2013) Thomas Spallek et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Genomic signatures of selection at linked sites: unifying the disparity among species

(2013) Asher D. Cutter et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Compatibility in the Ustilago maydis–Maize Interaction Requires Inhibition of Host Cysteine Proteases by the Fungal Effector Pit2

(2013) André N. Mueller et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Application of qRT-PCR and RNA-Seq analysis for the identification of housekeeping genes useful for normalization of gene expression values during Striga hermonthica development

(2012) M. Fernández-Aparicio et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Using Hierarchical Clustering of Secreted Protein Families to Classify and Rank Candidate Effectors of Rust Fungi

(2012) Diane G. O. Saunders et al.   PLoS One

Host Resistance and Parasite Virulence in Striga–Host Plant Interactions: A Shifting Balance of Power

(2012) Michael P. Timko et al.   WEED SCIENCE

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

(2012) James H. Westwood et al.   WEED SCIENCE

Genomic Characterization for Parasitic Weeds of the Genus by Sample Sequence Analysis

(2012) Matt C. Estep et al.   Plant Genome

A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Next-Generation Population Genomics

(2011) Z. Gompert et al.   GENETICS

Variation for host range within and among populations of the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica

(2011) K Huang et al.   HEREDITY

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

New Rice for Africa (NERICA) cultivars exhibit different levels of post-attachment resistance against the parasitic weeds Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica

(2011) Mamadou Cissoko et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

PoPoolation: A Toolbox for Population Genetic Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data from Pooled Individuals

(2011) Robert Kofler et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of parasitism in plants

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

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

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

Automated eukaryotic gene structure annotation using EVidenceModeler and the Program to Assemble Spliced Alignments

(2008) Brian J Haas et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY