Category Archives: Recent Publications

Identification of positive selection in disease response genes within members of the Poaceae.

Rech GE, Vargas WA, Sukno SA, Thon MR Plant Signaling & Behavior 2012, 7:1–9.

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

Richard J O’Connell, Michael R Thon et al. 2012. Nature Genetics, doi:10.1038/ng.2372

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Plant Defense Mechanisms Are Activated during Biotrophic and Necrotrophic Development of Colletotricum graminicola in Maize

Walter A. Vargas, José M. Sanz Martín, Gabriel E. Rech, Lina P. Rivera, Ernesto P. Benito, José M. Díaz-Mínguez, Michael R. Thon, and Serenella A. Sukno. 2012, Plant Physiology. 158: 1342–1358

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PoGO: Prediction of Gene Ontology terms for fungal proteins

Jung J, Yi G, Sukno S.A. and Thon M.R. PoGO: BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11(1):215.

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Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of different methods used by two laboratories for the detection of Phytophthora ramorum on multiple natural hosts

Vettraino, A., Sukno, S.,  Vannini, A. and Garbelotto, M. 2010.  Plant Pathology 59:289-300.

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Dimerization controls the activity of fungal elicitors that trigger systemic resistance in plants

Vargas, W.A.,  Djonović, S., Sukno, S.A., and Kenerley, C.M. 2008. JBC (Journal of Biological Chemestry). 283:19804-19815

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Root infection and systemic colonization of maize by Colletotrichum graminicola

Sukno S.A, Garcia V.M, Shaw B.D. and Thon M.R. 2008. AEM 74: 823-832. COVER IMAGE

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A systematic analysis of T-DNA insertion events in Magnaporthe oryzae.

Farman, M., Men, Y., Patel, G., Heist, M., Betts, M., Tucker, S., Donofrio, N., Mitchell, T., Brown, D., Xu, J.R., Thon, M., Orbach, M. and Dean, R. 2007. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 44:1050-1064.

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Identifying clusters of functionally related genes in genomes

Yi, G., Sze, S.H., Thon, M.R. 2007. Bioinformatics. 23: 1053-1060.

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Automatic annotation of protein functional class from sparse and imbalanced data sets

Jung, J, and Thon, MR. 2006. Data Mining and Bioinformatics (Lecture Notes In Computer Science) 4316: 65-77.

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