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Overexpression of OsOSM1 Enhances Resistance to Rice Sheath Blight

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(2014) Alberto Muñoz et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A Time for More Booms and Fewer Busts? Unraveling Cereal–Rust Interactions

(2014) Scot Hulbert et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

The Ins and Outs of Rust Haustoria

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Using transcription of six Puccinia triticina races to identify the effective secretome during infection of wheat

(2014) Myron Bruce et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Physiologic Specialization of Puccinia triticina on Wheat in the United States in 2011

(2013) J. A. Kolmer et al.   PLANT DISEASE

Structural and Functional Studies of a Phosphatidic Acid-Binding Antifungal Plant Defensin MtDef4: Identification of an RGFRRR Motif Governing Fungal Cell Entry

(2013) Uma Shankar Sagaram et al.   PLoS One

Leaf Rust of Wheat: Pathogen Biology, Variation and Host Resistance

(2013) James Kolmer   Forests

Subcellular targeting of an evolutionarily conserved plant defensin MtDef4.2 determines the outcome of plant-pathogen interaction in transgenic Arabidopsis

(2012) Jagdeep Kaur et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Comparative microscopic and molecular analysis of Thatcher near-isogenic lines with wheat leaf rust resistance genesLr2a,Lr3,LrBorLr9upon challenge with differentPuccinia triticinaraces

(2012) X. Wang et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Plant defensins: Common fold, multiple functions

(2012) Nicole L. van der Weerden et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Modes of antifungal action and in planta functions of plant defensins and defensin-like peptides

(2012) Barbara De Coninck et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Global status of wheat leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina

(2011) J. Huerta-Espino et al.   EUPHYTICA

Borlaug Global Rust Initiative provides momentum for wheat rust research

(2011) R. A. McIntosh et al.   EUPHYTICA

Structure-Activity Determinants in Antifungal Plant Defensins MsDef1 and MtDef4 with Different Modes of Action against Fusarium graminearum

(2011) Uma Shankar Sagaram et al.   PLoS One

Can plant defensins be used to engineer durable commercially useful fungal resistance in crop plants?

(2011) Jagdeep Kaur et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Durable resistance to the wheat rusts: integrating systems biology and traditional phenotype-based research methods to guide the deployment of resistance genes

(2010) Iago Lowe et al.   EUPHYTICA

Race non-specific resistance to rust diseases in CIMMYT spring wheats

(2010) R. P. Singh et al.   EUPHYTICA

Identification and validation of reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR normalization in wheat

(2009) Anna R Paolacci et al.   BMC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Plant defensins—Prospects for the biological functions and biotechnological properties

(2009) André de Oliveira Carvalho et al.   PEPTIDES

Durable resistance to wheat stem rust needed

(2008) Michael Ayliffe et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY