Publications

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Learning from fungicide resistance: Evolutionary insights to guide RNAi-based control of fungal crop pathogens

Date: 29 September 2025

Contributors: Joris A. Alkemade, Nichola J. Hawkins, Elena Baraldi, Alan G. Buddie, Helen M. Cockerton, Isabel Corkley, Bart A. Fraaije, Ester Gaya, Danna R. Gifford, Florian Hartig, Kostya Kanyuka, Aline Koch, Jonatan Niño Sánchez, Gail M. Preston, Michael F. Seidl, Pietro D. Spanu, Bernhard T. Werner, Joy Lyu, Timothy G. Barraclough

Journal: Fungal Biology Reviews

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Combining ultralow-altitude drone phenotyping with deep learning analytics to assess resistance and disease dynamics of Fusarium head blight in wheat

Date: 18 August 2025

Contributors: Shuchen Liu, Jie Dai, Jinlong Huang, Zhenjie Wen, Wenli Zhang, Liyan Shen, Robert Jackson, Xiu’e Wang, Greg Deakin, Jin Xiao, Ji Zhou

Journal: The Crop Journal

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OrchardQuant‐3D: combining drone and LiDAR to perform scalable 3D phenotyping for characterising key canopy and floral traits in fruit orchards

Date: 23 July 2025

Contributors: Yunpeng Xia, Hanghang Li, Fanhang Zhang2, Gang Sun, Kaijie Qi, Robert Jackson, Felipe Pinheiro, Xiaoman Liu, Yue Mu, Shaoling Zhang, Greg Deakin, E Charles Whitfield, Shutian Tao, Ji Zhou

Journal: Plant Biotechnology Journal

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Quantifying tree-level peach flowering dynamics using UAV imagery and an optimized instance segmentation model

Date: 15 July 2025

Contributors: Qing Gu, Jiayu Cheng, Minghao Zhang, Xiongwei Li, Robert Jackson, Lei Ju, Weidong Lou, Miaojin Chen, Ji Zhou, Xiaobin Zhang

Journal: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

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Getting to the Route: The Evolution of Nitrogen-Fixing Nodules

Date: 6 June 2025

Contributors: Anindya Kundu, Thiago Alexandre Moraes, R. Jordan Price, Richard J. Harrison and Giles E.D. Oldroyd

Journal: Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

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A wheat tandem kinase activates an NLR to trigger immunity

Date: 27 March 2025

Contributors: Renjie Chen, Jian Chen, Oliver R. Powell, Megan A. Outram, Taj Arndell, Karthick Gajendiran, Yan L. Wang, Jibril Lubega, Yang Xu, Michael A. Ayliffe, Cheryl Blundell, Melania Figueroa, Jana Sperschneider, Thomas Vanhercke, Kostya Kanyuka, Dingzhong Tang, Guitao Zhong, Catherine Gardener, Guotai Yu, Spyridon Gourdoupis, Łukasz Jaremko, Oadi Matny, Brian J. Steffenson, Willem H. P. Boshoff, Wilku B. Meyer, Stefan T. Arold, Peter N. Dodds, Brande B. H. Wulff

Journal: Science

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The SUbventral-Gland Regulator (SUGR-1) of nematode virulence

Date: 10 March 2025

Contributors: Clement Pellegrin, Anika Damm, Alexis L. Sperling, Beth Molloy, Dio S. Shin, Jonathan Long, Paul Brett, Tochukwu Chisom Iguh, Olaf P. Kranse, Andrea Díaz-Tendero Bravo, Sarah Jane Lynch, Beatrice Senatori, Paulo Vieira, Joffrey Mejias, Anil Kumar, Rick E. Masonbrink, Tom R. Maier, Thomas J. Baum, and Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: PNAS

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GSP-AI: an ai-powered platform for identifying key growth stages and the vegetative-to-reproductive transition in wheat using trilateral drone imagery and meteorological data

Date: 9 October 2024

Contributors: Liyan Shen, Guohui Ding, Robert Jackson, Mujahid Ali, Shuchen Liu, Arthur Mitchell, Yeyin Shi, Xuqi Lu, Jie Dai, Greg Deakin, Katherine Frels, Haiyan Cen, Yu-Feng Ge, Ji Zhou

Journal: Plant Phenomics

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The origin, deployment, and evolution of a plant-parasitic nematode effectorome

Date: 29 July 2024

Contributors: Beth Molloy, Dio S. Shin, Jonathan Long, Clement Pellegrin, Beatrice Senatori, Paulo Vieira, Peter Thorpe, Anika Damm, Mariam Ahmad, Kerry Vermeulen, Lida Derevnina, Siyuan Wei, Alexis Sperling, Estefany Reyes Estévez, Samuel Bruty, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Olaf Prosper Kranse, Tom Maier, Thomas Baum, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: Plos Pathogens

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Identification of significant genome-wide associations and QTL underlying variation in seed protein composition in pea (Pisum sativum, L.).

Date: 8 July 2024

Contributors: Warsame, A. O., Balk, J., & Domoney, C

Journal: bioRxiv

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Independent regulation of strigolactones and blumenols during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

Date: 31 May 2024

Contributors: Emily K. Servanté, Rayko Halitschke, Catarina Rocha, Ian T. Baldwin, Uta Paszkowski

Journal: The plant journal

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Comparative analysis of the avirulence effectors poduced by the fungal stem rust pathogen of wheat

Date: 27 May 2024

Contributors: Lubega J, Figueroa M, Dodds PN, Kanyuka K

Journal: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

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Efficiently recording and processing data from arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization assays using AMScorer and AMReader

Date: 17 May 2024

Contributors: Edwin Jarratt-Barnham, Giles ED Oldroyd, Jeongmin Choi

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science

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Focus on the effectors at the interface of plant-microbe Interactions

Date: 4 April 2024

Contributors: Figueroa M, Coaker G, Kanyuka K

Journal: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

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An array of Zymoseptoria tritici effectors suppress plant immune responses

Date: 13 March 2024

Contributors: Thynne E, Ali H, Seong K, Abukhalaf M, Guerreiro MA, Flores-Nunez VM, Hansen R, Salman M, Rudd JJ, Kanyuka K, Krasileva KV, Kettles GJ, Stukenbrock EH

Journal: BioRxiv

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A new winter wheat genetic resource harbors untapped diversity from synthetic hexaploid wheat

Date: 7 March 2024

Contributors: Tally I. C. Wright, Richard Horsnell, Bethany Love, Amanda J. Burridge, Keith A. Gardner, Robert Jackson, Fiona J. Leigh, Aleksander Ligeza, Sigrid Heuer, Alison R. Bentley & Philip Howell Tally I. C. Wright, Richard Horsnell, Bethany Love, Amanda J. Burridge, Keith A. Gardner, Robert Jackson, Fiona J. Leigh, Aleksander Ligeza, Sigrid Heuer, Alison R. Bentley & Philip Howell

Journal: Theoretical and Applied Genetics

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Illuminating stomatal responses to red light: establishing the role of Ci-dependent vs Ci-independent mechanisms

Date: 5 March 2024

Contributors: Taylor G, Walter J, Kromdijk J

Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany

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The SUbventral-Gland master Regulator (SUGR) of nematode virulence

Date: 12 February 2024

Contributors: Clement Pellegrin, Anika Damm, Alexis L. Sperling, Beth Molloy, Dio S. Shin, Jonathan Long, Paul Brett, Andrea Díaz-Tendero Bravo, Sarah Jane Lynch, Beatrice Senatori, Paulo Vieira, Joffrey Mejias, Anil Kumar, Rick E. Masonbrink, Tom R. Maier, Thomas J. Baum, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: Biorxiv