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Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology

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Present	Professor and Chair of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University
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Plant Pathology

Articles (84)

A new esophageal gland transcriptome reveals signatures of large scale ...

BMC Genomics (2020)

Paulo Vieira, Jonathan Shao, Paramasivan Vijayapalani, Thomas R. Maier, et al.

Background: The root lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans is a migratory plant-parasitic nematode responsible for economically important losses in a wide ...

Low ribosomal RNA genes copy number provoke genomic instability and ...

Ariadna Picart-Picolo, Stefan Grob, Nathalie Picault, Michal Franek, et al.

Among the hundreds of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene copies organized as tandem repeats in the nucleolus organizer regions (NORs), only ...

Large tandem duplications affect gene expression, 3D organization, and plant ...

Genome Research (2020)

Ariadna Picart-Picolo, Stefan Grob, Nathalie Picault, Michal Franek, et al.

Rapid plant genome evolution is crucial to adapt to environmental changes. Chromosomal rearrangements and gene copy number variation (CNV) are ...

Phytonematode Peptide Effectors Exploit a Host Post‐Translational Trafficking Mechanism ...

New Phytologist (2020)

Jianying Wang, Andi Dhroso, Xunliang Liu, Thomas J. Baum, et al.

Summary Cyst nematodes induce a multicellular feeding site within roots called a syncytium. It remains unknown how root cells are ...

Screening soybean cyst nematode effectors for their ability to suppress ...

Molecular Plant Pathology (2020)

Gennady Pogorelko, Jianying Wang, Parijat S. Juvale, Melissa G. Mitchum, et al.

The soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines , is one of the most destructive pathogens of soybeans. SCN is an ...

Targeted suppression of soybean BAG6‐induced cell death in yeast ...

Molecular Plant Pathology (2020)

Jianying Wang, Greg Yeckel, Pramod K. Kandoth, Lakmini Wasala, et al.

While numerous effectors that suppress plant immunity have been identified from bacteria, fungi, and oomycete pathogens, relatively little is known ...

The roles of Arabidopsis Growth-Regulating Factors 1 and 3 in ...

Journal of Experimental Botany (2019)

Sarbottam Piya, Jinyi Liu, Tessa Burch-Smith, Thomas J. Baum, et al.

Growth-Regulating Factors (GRFs) belong to a small family of transcription factors that are highly conserved in plants. GRFs regulate many ...

Re‐targeting of a plant defense protease by a cyst ...

The Plant Journal (2019)

Gennady V. Pogorelko, Parijat S. Juvale, William B. Rutter, Marion Hütten, et al.

Plants mount defense responses during pathogen attacks, and robust host defense suppression by pathogen effector proteins is essential for infection ...

Heterodera glycines utilizes promiscuous spliced leaders and demonstrates a unique ...

Scientific Reports (2019)

Stacey N. Barnes, Rick E. Masonbrink, Tom R. Maier, Arun S. Seetharam, et al.

Spliced leader trans-splicing (SLTS) plays a part in the maturation of pre-mRNAs in select species across multiple phyla but is ...

Homeostasis in the soybean miRNA396–GRF network is essential for ...

Journal of Experimental Botany (2019)

Jason B. Noon, Tarek Hewezi and Thomas J. Baum

Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode, penetrates soybean roots and migrates to the vascular cylinder where it forms a feeding ...

The genome of the soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) reveals ...

BMC Genomics (2019)

Rick E. Masonbrink, Tom R. Maier, Usha Muppirala, Arun S. Seetharam, et al.

Background: Heterodera glycines, commonly referred to as the soybean cyst nematode (SCN), is an obligatory and sedentary plant parasite that ...

An Effector from the Cyst Nematode Heterodera schachtii Derepresses Host ...

The Plant Cell (2018)

Paramasivan Vijayapalani, Tarek Hewezi, Frederic Pontvianne and Thomas J. Baum

Cyst nematodes are plant-pathogenic animals that secrete effector proteins into plant root cells to alter host gene expression and reprogram ...

The plant‐parasitic cyst nematode effector GLAND4 is a DNA ...

Molecular Plant Pathology (2018)

Stacey N. Barnes, Catherine L. Wram, Melissa G. Mitchum and Thomas J. Baum

Cyst nematodes are plant pathogens that infect a wide range of economically important crops. One parasitic mechanism employed by cyst ...

Identification of candidate effector genes of Pratylenchus penetrans

Molecular Plant Pathology (2018)

Paulo Vieira, Thomas R. Maier, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Dana K. Howe, et al.

Pratylenchus penetrans is one of the most important species of root lesion nematodes (RLNs) because of its detrimental and economic ...

The novel cyst nematode effector protein 30D08 targets host nuclear ...

New Phytologist (2018)

Anju Verma, Chris Lee, Stephanie Morriss, Fiona Odu, et al.

• Cyst nematodes deliver effector proteins into host cells to manipulate cellular processes and establish a metabolically hyperactive feeding site. ...

Novel global effector mining from the transcriptome of early life ...

Scientific Reports (2018)

Michael Gardner, Andi Dhroso, Nathan Johnson, Eric L. Davis, et al.

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) Heterodera glycines is an obligate parasite that relies on the secretion of effector proteins to manipulate ...

“Cyst-ained” research into Heterodera parasitism

PLoS Pathogens (2018)

Parijat S. Juvale and Thomas J. Baum

Nematodes are roundworms that constitute the phylum Nematoda. Only a small fraction of nematode genera contains plant-parasitic or animal-parasitic species, ...

STATAWAARS: a promoter motif associated with spatial expression in the ...

BMC Genomics (2018)

Margarida Espada, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Tom Maier, Paramasivan Vijayapalani, et al.

Background: Plant-parasitic nematodes cause severe damage to a wide range of crop and forest species worldwide. The migratory endoparasitic nematode, ...

Suppression or Activation of Immune Responses by Predicted Secreted Proteins ...

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (2018)

Mingsheng Qi, James P. Grayczyk, Janina M. Seitz, Youngsill Lee, et al.

Rust fungi, such as the soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi, are major threats to crop production. They form specialized haustoria ...

Cooperative Regulatory Functions of miR858 and MYB83 during Cyst Nematode ...

Plant Physiology (2017)

Sarbottam Piya, Christina Kihm, J. Hollis Rice, Thomas J. Baum, et al.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) recently have been established as key regulators of transcriptome reprogramming that define cell function and identity. Nevertheless, the ...

A Plasmodium‐like virulence effector of the soybean cyst nematode ...

New Phytologist (2016)

Jason B. Noon, Mingsheng Qi, Danielle N. Sill, Usha Muppirala, et al.

• Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode, delivers effector proteins into soybean roots to initiate and maintain an obligate parasitic ...

Arabidopsis miR827 mediates post‐transcriptional gene silencing of its ubiquitin ...

The Plant Journal (2016)

Tarek Hewezi, Sarbottam Piya, Mingsheng Qi, Muthukumar Balasubramaniam, et al.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a major class of small non-coding RNAs with emerging functions in biotic and abiotic interactions. Here, we ...

A Small Cysteine-Rich Protein from the Asian Soybean Rust Fungus ...

PLoS Pathogens (2016)

Mingsheng Qi, Tobias I. Link, Manuel Müller, Daniela Hirschburger, et al.

The Asian soybean rust fungus, Phakopsora pachyrhizi, is an obligate biotrophic pathogen causing severe soybean disease epidemics. Molecular mechanisms by ...

A cyst nematode effector binds to diverse plant proteins, increases ...

Molecular Plant Pathology (2016)

Gennady Pogorelko, Parijat S. Juvale, William B. Rutter, Tarek Hewezi, et al.

Cyst nematodes are plant-parasitic roundworms that are of significance in many cropping systems around the world. Cyst nematode infection is ...

Horizontal gene transfer of acetyltransferases, invertases and chorismate mutases from ...

BMC Evolutionary Biology (2016)

Jason B. Noon and Thomas J. Baum

Background: Hoplolaimina plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are a lineage of animals with many documented cases of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). In ...