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2012

Kamoun, S., and Ward, E. 2012. Next-generation disease resistance breeding: Crop plants with DNA deletions are not GMOs. Biofortified. [Blog post]

Kamoun, S. 2012. Genomics of emerging plant pathogens: too little, too late. Microbiology Today, 39:140.

Saitoh, H., Fujisawa, S., Mitsuoka, C., Ito, A., Hirabuchi, A., Ikeda, K., Irieda, H., Yoshino, K., Yoshida, K., Matsumura, H., Tosa, Y., Win, J., Kamoun, S., Takano, Y., and Terauchi, R. 2012. Large-scale gene disruption in Magnaporthe oryzae identifies MC69, a secreted protein required for infection by monocot and dicot fungal pathogens. PLoS Pathogens, 8:e1002711.

Raffaele, S., and Kamoun, S. 2012. Genome evolution in filamentous plant pathogens: why bigger can be better. Nature Reviews Microbiology, in press.

Bozkurt, T.O., Schornack, S., Banfield, M.J., and Kamoun, S. 2012. Oomycetes, effectors, and all that jazz. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, in press. Supplementary Material.

Rietman, H., Bijsterbosch, G., Cano, L.M., Lee, H.-R., Vossen, J.H., Jacobsen, E., Visser, R.G.F., Kamoun, S., and Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A. 2012. Qualitative and quantitative late blight resistance in the potato cultivar Sarpo Mira is determined by the perception of five distinct RXLR effectors. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, in press.

Abe, A., Kosugi, S., Yoshida, K., Natsume, S., Takagi, H., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Yoshida, K., Mitsuoka, C., Tamiru, M., Innan, H., Cano, L., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2012. Genome sequencing reveals agronomically important loci in rice using MutMap. Nature Biotechnology, 30:174-178.

Win, J., Krasileva, K.V., Kamoun, S., Shirasu, K., Staskawicz, B.J., and Banfield, M.J. 2012. Sequence divergent RXLR effectors share a structural fold conserved across plant pathogenic oomycete species. PLoS Pathogens, 8:e1002400.

Lu, Y.-J., Schornack, S., Spallek, T., Geldner, N., Chory, J., Schellmann, S., Schumacher, K., Kamoun, S., and Robatzek, S. 2012. Patterns of plant subcellular responses to successful oomycete infections reveal differences in host cell reprogramming and endocytic trafficking. Cellular Microbiology, in press. Supplementary Material.

MacLean, D., and Kamoun, S. 2012. Big data in small places. Nature Biotechnology, 30:33-34.

Saunders, D.G.O., Win, J., Cano, L.M., Szabo, L.J., Kamoun, S., and Raffaele, S. 2012. Using hierarchical clustering of secreted protein families to classify and rank candidate effectors of rust fungi. PLoS One, 6:e16608. Faculty of 1000 Evaluation.

2011

Bozkurt, T.O., Schornack, S., Win, J., Shindo, T., Ilyas, M., Oliva, R., Cano, L.M., Jones, A.M.E., Huitema, E., van der Hoorn, R.A.L., and Kamoun, S. 2011. Phytophthora infestans effector AVRblb2 prevents secretion of a plant immune protease at the haustorial interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108:20832-20837.

Yaeno, T., Li, H., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Schornack, S., Koshiba, S., Watanabe, S., Kigawa, T., Kamoun, S., and Shirasu, K. 2011. Phosphatidylinositol monophosphate-binding interface in the oomycete RXLR effector AVR3a is required for its stability in host cells to modulate plant immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108:14682-14687. Commentary.

Boutemy, L.S., King, S.R.F., Win, J., Hughes, R.K., Clarke, T.A., Blumenschein, T.M.A., Kamoun, S., and Banfield, M.J. 2011. Structures of Phytophthora RXLR effector proteins: a conserved but adaptable fold underpins functional diversity. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 41:35834-35842. Supplementary Material.

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Raffaele, R., Vossen, J., Champouret, N., Oliva, R., Segretin, M.E., Rietman, H., Cano, L.M., Lokossou, A., Kessel, G., Pel, M.A., and Kamoun, S. 2011. Understanding and exploiting late blight resistance in the age of effectors. Annual Reviews of Phytopathology, 49:507-531.

Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Jones, A.M. 2011. Purification of effector-target protein complexes via transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana. In " Methods in Molecular Biology vol. 712, The Plant Immune Response", J. McDowell, ed.

Gilroy, E.M., Breen, S., Whisson, S.C., Squires, J., Hein, I., Kaczmarek, M., Turnbull, D., Boevink, P.C., Lokossou, A., Cano, L.M., Morales, J., Avrova, A.O., Pritchard, L., Randall, E., Lees, A., Govers, F., van West, P., Kamoun, S., Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Cooke, D.E.L. and Birch, P.R.J. 2011. Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants. New Phytologist, 191:763-776. Supplementary Material

Chaparro-Garcia, A., Wilkinson, R.C., Gimenez-Ibanez, S., Findlay, K., Coffey, M.D., Zipfel, C., Rathjen, J.P., Kamoun, S., and Schornack, S. 2011. The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is required for basal resistance against the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans in Nicotiana benthamiana. PLoS One, 6:e16608.

Tian, M., Win, J., Savory, E., Burkhardt, A., Held, M., Brandizzi, F., Day, B. 2011. 454 genome sequencing of Pseudoperonospora cubensis reveals effector proteins with a putative QXLR translocation motif. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 24:543-553. [Lab member publication]

2010

Raffaele, S., Farrer, R.A., Cano, L.M., Studholme, D.J., MacLean, D., Thines, M., Jiang, R.H.Y., Zody, M.C., Kunjeti, S.G., Donofrio, N.M., Meyers, B.C., Nusbaum, C., and Kamoun, S. 2010. Genome evolution following host jumps in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage. Science, 330:1540-1543. Supplementary Material. SNP list. Faculty of 1000 Evaluation.

Baxter, L., Tripathy, S., Ishaque, N., Boot, N., Cabral, A., Kemen, E., Thines, M., Ah-Fong, A., Anderson, R., Badejoko, W., Bittner-Eddy, P., Boore, J.L., Chibucos, M.C., Coates, M., Dehal, P., Delehaunty, K., Dong, S., Downton, P., Dumas, B., Fabro, G., Fronick, C., Fuerstenberg, S.I., Fulton, L., Gaulin, E., Govers, F., Hughes, L., Humphray, S., Jiang, R.H.Y., Judelson, H., Kamoun, S., Kyung, K., Meijer, H., Minx, P., Morris, P., Nelson, J., Phuntumart, V., Qutob, D., Rehmany, A., Rougon-Cardoso, A., Ryden, P., Torto-Alalibo, T., Studholme, D., Wang, Y., Win, J., Wood, J., Clifton, S.W., Rogers, J., Van den Ackerveken, G., Jones, J.D.G., McDowell, J.M., Beynon, J., and Tyler, B.M. 2010. Signatures of adaptation to obligate biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis genome. Science, 330:1549-1551. Supplementary Material.

Raffaele, S., Win, J., Cano, L.M., Kamoun, S. 2010. Analyses of genome architecture and gene expression reveal novel candidate virulence factors in the secretome of Phytophthora infestans. BMC Genomics, 11:637.

Bos, J.I.B., Prince, D., Pitino, M., Maffei, M.E., Win, J., and Hogenhout, S.A. 2010. A functional genomics approach identifies candidate effectors from the aphid species Myzus persicae (green peach aphid). PLoS Genetics, 6:e1001216. [Lab member publication]

Kaschani, F., Shabab, M., Bozkurt, T., Shindo, T., Schornack, S., Gu, C., Ilyas, M., Win, J., Kamoun, S., van der Hoorn, R.A. 2010. An effector-targeted protease contributes to defense against Phytophthora infestans and is under diversifying selection in natural hosts. Plant Physiology, 154:1794-1804. Supplementary Material

Schornack, S., van Damme, M., Bozkurt, T.O., Cano, L.M., Smoker, M., Thines, M., Gaulin, E., Kamoun S., and Huitema, E. 2010. Ancient class of translocated oomycete effectors targets the host nucleus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107:17421-17426. Supplementary Material

Oh, S.-K., Kamoun S., and Choi, D. 2010. Oomycete RXLR effectors function as both activator and suppressor of plant immunity. Plant Pathology Journal, 26:209-215.

Romer, P., Recht, S., Strauss, T., Elsaesser, J., Schornack, S., Boch, J., Wang, S., Lahaye, T. 2010. Promoter elements of rice susceptibility genes are bound and activated by specific TAL effectors from the bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. New Phytologist, 187:1048-1057. [Lab member publication]

Levesque, C.A., Brouwer, H., Cano, L., Hamilton, J.P., Holt, C., Huitema, E., Raffaele, S., Robideau, G.P., Thines, M., Win, J., Zerillo, M.M., Beakes, G.W., Boore, J.L., Busam, D., Dumas, B., Ferriera, S., Fuerstenberg, S.I., Gachon, C.M., Gaulin, E., Govers, F., Grenville-Briggs, L., Horner, N., Hostetler, J., Jiang, R.H., Johnson, J., Krajaejun, T., Lin, H., Meijer, H.J., Moore, B., Morris, P., Phuntmart, V., Puiu, D., Shetty, J., Stajich, J.E., Tripathy, S., Wawra, S., van West, P., Whitty, B.R., Coutinho, P.M., Henrissat, B., Martin, F., Thomas, P.D., Tyler, B.M., De Vries, R.P., Kamoun, S., Yandell, M., Tisserat, N., Buell, C.R. 2010. Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen, Pythium ultimum, reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire. Genome Biology, 11:R73.

Studholme, D.J., Kemen, E., MacLean, D., Schornack, S., Aritua, V., Thwaites, R., Grant, M., Smith, J., Jones, J.D. 2010. Genome-wide sequencing data reveals virulence factors implicated in banana Xanthomonas wilt. FEMS Microbiol Letters, 310:182-192. [Lab member publication]

Bogdanove, A.J., Schornack, S., Lahaye, T. 2010. TAL effectors: finding plant genes for disease and defense. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 13:394-401. [Lab member publication]

Bos, J.I.B., Armstrong, M.R., Gilroy, E.M., Boevink, P.C., Hein, I., Taylor, R.M., Zhendong, T., Engelhardt, S., Vetukuri, R.R., Harrower, B., Dixelius, C., Bryan, G., Sadanandom, A., Whisson, S.C., Kamoun, S., and Birch, P.R.J. 2010. Phytophthora infestans effector AVR3a is essential for virulence and manipulates plant immunity by stabilizing host E3 ligase CMPG1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107:9909-14. Supplementary Material

Thines, M., and Kamoun, S. 2010. Oomycete-plant coevolution: recent advances and future prospects. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 13:427-433.

Oliva, R., Win, J., Raffaele, S., Boutemy, L., Bozkurt, T.O., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Segretin, M.E., Stam, R., Schornack, S., Cano, L.M., van Damme, M., Huitema, E., Thines, M., Banfield, M.J., and Kamoun, S. 2010. Recent developments in effector biology of filamentous plant pathogens. Cellular Microbiology, 12:705-715. Corrigendum

Green, S., Studholme, D.J., Laue, B.E., Dorati, F., Lovell, H., Arnold, D., Cottrell, J.E., Bridgett, S., Blaxter, M., Huitema, E., Thwaites, R., Sharp, P.M., Jackson, R.W., and Kamoun, S. 2010. Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum. PLoS ONE, 5:e10224. Supplementary Material

Lebrun, M.H. and Kamoun, S. 2010. Effectors, effectors et toujours des effectors. New Phytologist, 186:290-292.

2009

Schornack, S., Huitema, E., Cano, L.M., Bozkurt, T.O., Oliva, R., van Damme, M., Schwizer, S., Raffaele, S., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Farrer, R., Segretin, M.E., Bos, J., Haas, B.J., Zody, M.C., Nusbaum, C., Win, J., Thines, M., and Kamoun, S. 2009. Ten things to know about oomycete effectors. Molecular Plant Pathology, 10:795-803.

Oh, S.-K., Young, C., Lee, M., Oliva, R., Bozkurt, T., Cano, L.M., Win, J., Bos, J.I.B., Liu, H.,-Y., van Damme, M., Morgan, W., Choi, D., van der Vossen, E.A.G., Vleeshouwers, V., and Kamoun, S. 2009. In planta expression screens of Phytophthora infestans RXLR effectors reveal diverse phenotypes, including activation of the Solanum bulbocastanum disease resistance protein Rpi-blb2. Plant Cell, 21:2028-2947. Supplementary Material

Haas, B.J., Kamoun, S., Zody, M.C., Jiang, R.H.Y., Handsaker, R.E., Cano, L.M., Grabherr, M., Kodira, C.D., Raffaele, S., Torto-Alalibo, T., Bozkurt, T.O., Ah-Fong, A.M.V., Alvarado, L., Anderson, V.L., Armstrong, M.R., Avrova, A., Baxter, L., Beynon, J., Boevink, P.C., Bollmann, S.R., Bos, J.I.B., Bulone, V., Cai, G., Cakir, C., Carrington, J.C., Chawner, M., Conti, L., Costanzo, S., Ewan, R., Fahlgren, N., Fischbach, M.A., Fugelstad, J., Gilroy, E.M., Gnerre, S., Green, P.J., Grenville-Briggs, L.J., Griffith, J., Grunwald, N.J., Horn, K., Horner, N.R., Hu, C.-H., Huitema, E., Jeong, D.-H., Jones, A.M.E., Jones, J.D.G., Jones, R.W., Karlsson, E.K., Kunjeti, S.G., Lamour, K., Liu, Z., Ma, L., MacLean, D., Chibucos, M.C., McDonald, H., McWalters, J., Meijer, H.J.G., Morgan, W., Morris, P.F., Munro, C.A., O'Neill, K., Ospina-Giraldo, M., Pinzon, A., Pritchard, L., Ramsahoye, B., Ren, Q., Restrepo, S., Roy, S., Sadanandom, A., Savidor, A., Schornack, S., Schwartz, D.C., Schumann, U.D., Schwessinger, B., Seyer, L., Sharpe, T., Silvar, C., Song, J., Studholme, D.J., Sykes, S., Thines, M., van de Vondervoort, P.J.I., Phuntumart, V., Wawra, S., Weide, R., Win, J., Young, C., Zhou, S., Fry, W., Meyers, B.C., van West, P., Ristaino, J., Govers, F., Birch, P.R.J., Whisson, S.C., Judelson, H.S., and Nusbaum, C. 2009. Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Nature 461:393-398. Supplementary Material. Faculty of 1000 Evaluation.

Schornack, S., Fuchs, R., Huitema, E., Rothbauer, U., Lipka, V., and Kamoun, S. 2009. Protein mislocalization in plant cells using a GFP-binding chromobody. Plant Journal, 60:744-754. Supplementary Material

Jagdale, G.B., Kamoun, S., and Grewal, P.S. 2009. Entomopathogenic nematodes induce components of systemic resistance in plants: Biochemical and molecular evidence. Biological Control, 51:102-109.

Yoshida, K., Saitoh, H., Fujisawa, S., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Yoshida, K., Tosa, Y., Chuma, I., Takano, Y., Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2009. Association genetics reveals three novel avirulence genes from the rice blast fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae. Plant Cell, 21:1573-1591. Supplementary Material

Kawamura, Y., Hase, S., Takenaka, S., Kanayama, Y., Yoshioka, H., Kamoun, S., Takahashi, H. 2009. INF1 elicitin activates jasmonic acid- and ethylene-mediated signalling pathways and induces resistance to bacterial wilt disease in tomato. Journal of Phytopathology, 157:287-297.

Kamoun, S. 2009. The secretome of plant-associated fungi and oomycetes. In 'Plant Relationships, 2nd Edition, The Mycota V' H. Deising (Ed.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Birch, P.R.J., Armstrong, M., Bos, J., Boevink, P., Gilroy, E.M., Taylor, R.M., Wawra, S., Pritchard, L., Conti, L., Ewan, R., Whisson, S.C., van West, P., Sadanandom, A., and Kamoun, S. 2009. Towards understanding the virulence functions of RXLR effectors of the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Journal of Experimental Botany, 60:1133-1140.

Bos, J..I.B., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Quesada-Ocampo, L.M., McSpadden-Gardener, B.B., and Kamoun, S. 2009. Distinct amino acids of the Phytophthora infestans effector AVR3a condition activation of R3a hypersensitivity and suppression of cell death. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22:269-281. Supplementary Material

Song, J., Win, J., Tian, M., Schornack, S., Kaschani, F., Ilyas, M., van der Hoorn, R.A.L., and Kamoun, S. 2009. Two effectors secreted by unrelated eukaryotic plant pathogens target the tomato defense protease Rcr3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106:1654-1659. Supplementary Material

Hogenhout, S.A., Van der Hoorn, R.A.L., Terauchi, R., and Kamoun, S. 2009. Emerging concepts in effector biology of plant-associated organisms. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22:115-122. Fast Breaking Paper.

Bai, X., Correa, V.R., Toruno, T.Y., Ammar, E.-D., Kamoun, S., and Hogenhout, S.A. 2009. AY-WB phytoplasma secretes a protein that targets plant cell nuclei. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22:18-30. Supplementary Material

2008

Cheung, F., Win, J., Lang, J.M., Hamilton, J., Vuong, H., Leach, J.E., Kamoun, S., Levesque, C.A., Tisserat, N., and Buell, C.R. 2008. Analysis of the Pythium ultimum transcriptome using Sanger and Pyrosequencing approaches. BMC Genomics, 9:542.

van der Hoorn, R.A.L. and Kamoun, S. 2008. From guard to decoy: a new model for perception of plant pathogen effectors. Plant Cell, 20:2009-2017.

Kanzaki, H., Saitoh, H., Takahashi, Y., Berberich, T., Ito, A., Kamoun, S., Terauchi, R. 2008. NbLRK1, a lectin-like receptor kinase protein of Nicotiana benthamiana, interacts with Phytophthora infestans INF1 elicitin and mediates INF1-induced cell death. Planta, 228:977-987.

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Rietman, H., Krenek, P., Champouret, N., Young, C., Oh, S.-K., Wang, M., Bouwmeester, K., Vosman, B., Visser, R.G.F., Jacobsen, E., Gover, F., Kamoun, S., and van der Vossen, E.A.G. 2008. Effector genomics accelerates discovery and functional profiling of potato disease resistance and Phytophthora infestans avirulence genes. PLoS ONE, 3:e2875. Supplementary Material

Grant, M., and Kamoun, S. 2008. Common threads amid diversity. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 11:357-359.

Shabab, M., Shindo, T., Gu, C., Kaschani, F., Pansuriya, T., Chintha, R., Harzen, A., Colby, T., Kamoun, S., and van der Hoorn, R.A.L. 2008. Fungal effector protein AVR2 targets diversifying defense-related Cys proteases of tomato. Plant Cell, 20:1169-1183. Supplementary Material

Damasceno, C.M.B., Bishop, J.G., Ripoll, R.D., Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Rose, J.K.C. 2008. Structure of the glucanase inhibitor protein (GIP) family from Phytophthora species suggests coevolution with plant endo-beta-1,3-glucanases. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 21:820-830. Supplementary Material.

Judelson, H.S., Ah-Fong, A.M., Aux, G., Avrova, A.O., Bruce, C., Cakir, C., da Cunha, L., Grenville-Briggs, L., Latijnhouwers, M., Ligterink, W., Meijer, H.J., Roberts, S., Thurber, C.S., Whisson, S.C., Birch, P.R., Govers, F., Kamoun, S., van West, P., Windass, J. 2008. Gene expression profiling during asexual development of the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans reveals a highly dynamic transcriptome. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 21:433-447.

Oh, S.-K., Baek, K.-H., Park, J.M., Yi, S.Y., Yu, S.H., Kamoun, S., and Choi, D. 2008. Capsicum annuum WRKY protein CaWRKY1 is a negative regulator of pathogen defense. New Phytologist, 177:977-989.

Morgan, W., Bos, J., Bruce, C., Lee, M., Liu, H.-Y., Oh, S.-K., Song, J., Win, J., Young, C., and Kamoun, S. 2008. Structure and function of RXLR effectors of plant pathogenic oomycetes. In "Genomics of Disease", J.P. Gustafson, ed. Springer.

2007

Coemans, B., Takahashi, Y., Berberich, T., Ito, A., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Saitoh, H., Tsuda, S., Kamoun, K., Sagi, L., Swennen, R., and Terauchi, R. 2007. High-throughput in planta expression screening identifies an ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF1) that is involved in non-host resistance and R gene mediated resistance. Molecular Plant Pathology, 9:25-36.

Morgan, W., and Kamoun, S. 2007. RXLR effectors of plant pathogenic oomycetes. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 10:332-338.

Win, J, Morgan, W., Bos, J., Krasileva, K.V., Cano, L.M., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Ammar, R., Staskawicz, B.J., and Kamoun, S. 2007. Adaptive evolution has targeted the C-terminal domain of the RXLR effectors of plant pathogenic oomycetes. Plant Cell, 19:2349-2369. Supplementary Material. Addendum.

Kamoun, S. 2007. Groovy times: filamentous pathogen effectors revealed. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 10:358-365. Supplementary Material. iTunes iMix companion playlist.

Lamour, K, Win, J., and Kamoun, S. 2007. Oomycete genomics: new insights and future directions. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 274:1-8.

Kamoun, S, and Goodwin, S.B.. 2007. Fungal and oomycete genes galore. New Phytologist, 173:713-717.

Alfano, G., Lewis Ivey, M.L., Cakir, C., Bos, J.I.B., Miller, S.A., Madden, L.V., Kamoun, S., and Hoitink, H.A.J. 2007. Systemic modulation of gene expression in tomato by Trichoderma hamatum 382. Phytopathology, 97:429-437.

Kanneganti, T. -D., Bai, X., Tsai, C.-W., Win, J., Meulia, T., Goodin, M., Kamoun, S., and Hogenhout, S.A. 2007. A functional genetic assay for nuclear trafficking in plants. Plant Journal, 50:149-158.

Takahashi, Y., Bin Nasir, K. H., Ito, A., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Saitoh, H., Fujisawa, S., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2007. A high-throughput screen of cell-death-inducing factors in Nicotiana benthamiana identifies a novel MAPKK that mediates INF1-induced cell death signaling and nonhost resistance to Pseudomonas cichorii. Plant Journal, 49:1030-1040. Addendum.

Tian, M., Win, J., Song, J., van der Hoorn, R., van der Knaap, E., and Kamoun, S. 2007. A Phytophthora infestans cystatin-like protein targets a novel tomato papain-like apoplastic protease. Plant Physiology, 143:364-377. Supplementary Material.

Kanneganti, T.-D., Huitema, E., and Kamoun, S. 2007. In planta expression of fungal and oomycete effectors. In 'Plant-Pathogen Interactions' P. Ronald, ed. Humana Press, 35-43

2006

Haldar, K., Kamoun, S., Hiller, L. N., Bhattacharjee, S., and and van Ooij, C. 2006. Common infection strategies of pathogenic eukaryotes. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 4:922-931.

Tyler, B.M., Tripathy, S., Zhang, X., Dehal, P., Jiang, R.H., Aerts, A., Arredondo, F.D., Baxter, L., Bensasson, D., Beynon, J.L., Chapman, J., Damasceno, C.M., Dorrance, A.E., Dou, D., Dickerman, A.W., Dubchak, I.L., Garbelotto, M., Gijzen, M., Gordon, S.G., Govers, F., Grunwald, N.J., Huang, W., Ivors, K.L., Jones, R.W., Kamoun, S., Krampis, K., Lamour, K.H., Lee, M.K., McDonald, W.H., Medina, M., Meijer, H.J., Nordberg, E.K., Maclean, D.J., Ospina-Giraldo, M.D., Morris, P.F., Phuntumart, V., Putnam, N.H., Rash, S., Rose, J.K., Sakihama, Y., Salamov, A.A., Savidor, A., Scheuring, C.F., Smith, B.M., Sobral, B.W., Terry, A., Torto-Alalibo, T.A., Win, J., Xu, Z., Zhang, H., Grigoriev, I.V., Rokhsar, D.S., Boore, J.L. 2006. Phytophthora genome sequences uncover evolutionary origins and mechanisms of pathogenesis. Science, 313:1261-1266. Supplementary Material.

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Driesprong, J.-D., Kamphuis, L.G., Torto-Alalibo, T., van't Slot, K.A.E., Govers, F., Visser, R.G.F., Jacobsen, E., and Kamoun, S. 2006. Agroinfection-based high throughput screening reveals specific recognition of INF elicitins in Solanum. Molecular Plant Pathology, 7:499-510.

Bos, J..I.B., Kanneganti, T. -D., Young, C., Cakir, C., Huitema, E., Win, J., Armstrong, M., Birch, P.R.J., and Kamoun, S. 2006. The C-terminal half of Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR3a is sufficient to trigger R3a-mediated hypersensitivity and suppress INF1-induced cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Journal, 48:165-176. Supplementary Material.

Pons, J., Barraclough, T. G., Gomez-Zurita, J., Cardoso, A., Duran, D. P., Hazell, S., Kamoun, S., Sumlin, W. D., Vogler, A. P. 2006. Sequence-based species delimitation for the DNA taxonomy of undescribed insects. Systematic Biology, 55:595-609.

Kanneganti, T. -D., Huitema, E., Cakir, C., and Kamoun, S. 2006. Synergistic interactions of the plant cell death pathways induced by Phytophthora infestans Nep1-like protein PiNPP1.1 and INF1 elicitin. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 19:854-863. Supplementary Material.

Gaulin, E., Drame, N., Lafitte, C., Torto-Alalibo, T., Martinez, Y., Ameline-Torregrosa, C., Khatib, M., Mazarguil, H., Villalba-Mateos, F., Kamoun, S., Mazars, C., Dumas, B., Bottin, A., Esquerre-Tugaye, M.T., and Rickauer, M. 2006. Cellulose-binding domains of a Phytophthora cell wall protein are novel pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Plant Cell, 18:1766-1777.

Bhattacharjee, S., Hiller, L. N., Liolios, K., Win, J., Kanneganti, T. -D., Young, C., Kamoun, S., and Haldar, K. 2006. The malarial host-targeting signal is conserved in the Irish potato famine pathogen. PLoS Pathogens, 2:e50. Faculty of 1000 Evaluation.

Kamoun, S. 2006. A catalogue of the effector secretome of plant pathogenic oomycetes. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 44: 41-60.

Birch, P. R. J., Rehmany, A. P., Pritchard, L., Kamoun, S., and Beynon, J. L. 2006. Trafficking arms: oomycete effectors enter host plant cells. Trends in Microbiology, 14:8-11.

Win, J., Kanneganti, T. -D., Torto-Alalibo, T., and Kamoun, S. 2006. Computational and comparative analyses of 150 full-length cDNA sequences from the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 43:20-33. GenBank accessions.

Gajendran K, Gonzales MD, Farmer A, Archuleta E, Win J, Waugh ME, Kamoun S. 2006. Phytophthora functional genomics database (PFGD): functional genomics of Phytophthora-plant interactions. Nucleic Acids Research, 34:D465-470.

2005

Tian, M. and Kamoun, S. 2005. A two disulfide bridge Kazal domain from Phytophthora exhibits stable inhibitory activity against serine proteases of the subtilisin family. BMC Biochemistry, 6:15.

Torto-Alalibo, T., Tian, M., Gajendran, K., Waugh, M. E., van West, P., and Kamoun, S. 2005. Expressed sequence tags from the oomycete fish pathogen Saprolegnia parasitica reveal putative virulence factors. BMC Microbiology, 5:46.

Bin Nasir, K. H., Takahashi, Y., Ito, A., Saitoh, H., Matsumura, H., Kanzaki, H., Shimizu, T., Ito, M., Fujisawa, S., Sharma, P. C., Ohme-Takagi, M., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2005. High-throughput in planta expression screening identifies a class II ethylene responsive element binding factor-like protein that regulates plant cell death and nonhost resistance. Plant Journal, 43:491-505.

Tian, M., Benedetti, B., and Kamoun, S. 2005. A second Kazal-like protease inhibitor from Phytophthora infestans inhibits and interacts with the apoplastic pathogenesis-related protease P69B of tomato. Plant Physiology, 138:1785-93.

Kim, K. J. , Eom, S. H., Lee, S. P., Jung, H. S., Kamoun, S., Lee, Y. S. 2005. A genetic marker associated with the A1 mating type locus in Phytophthora infestans. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 15:502-509.

Armstrong, M.R., Whisson, S.C., Pritchard, L., Bos, J.I.B., Venter, E., Avrova, A.O., Rehmany, A.P., Bohme, U., Brooks, K., Cherevach, I., Hamlin, N., White, B., Fraser, A., Lord, A., Quail, M.A., Churcher, C., Hall, N., Berriman, M., Huang, S., Kamoun, S., Beynon, J.L., and Birch, P.R.J. 2005. An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102:7766-7771. Supplementary Material.

Rehmany, A. P., Gordon, A., Rose, L.E., Allen, R.L., Armstrong, M.R., Whisson, S.C., Kamoun, S., Tyler, B.M., Birch, P.R.J., and Beynon, J.L. 2005. Differential recognition of highly divergent downy mildew avirulence gene alleles by RPP1 genes from two Arabidopsis lines. Plant Cell, 17:1839-1850.

Kamoun, S., and Smart, C.D. 2005. Late blight of potato and tomato in the genomics era. Plant Disease, 89:692-699.

Saint-Jean, S., Testa, A., Kamoun, S., and Madden, L.V. 2005. Use of a green fluorescent protein marker for studying splash dispersal of sporangia of Phytophthora infestans. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 112:391-394.

Huitema, E., Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Cakir, C., Kamoun, S., and Govers, F. 2005. Differences in intensity and specificity of hypersensitive response induction in Nicotiana spp. by INF1, INF2A and INF2B of Phytophthora infestans. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 18:183-193.

Randall, T.A., Dwyer, R.A., Huitema, E., Beyer, K., Cvitanich, C., Kelkar, H., Ah Fong, A.M.V., Gates, K., Roberts, S., Yatzkan, E., Gaffney, T., Law, M., Testa, A., Torto-Alalibo, T., Zhang, M., Zheng, L., Mueller, E., Windass, J., Binder, A., Birch, P.R.J., Gisi, U., Govers, F., Gow, N.A., Mauch, F., van West, P., Waugh, M.E., Yu, J., Boller, T., Kamoun, S., Lam, S.T., and Judelson, H.S. 2005. Large-scale gene discovery in the oomycete Phytophthora infestans reveals likely components of phytopathogenicity shared with true fungi. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 18:229-243.

Liu, Z., Bos, J.I.B., Armstrong, M., Whisson, S.C., da Cunha, L., Torto-Alalibo, T., Win, J., Avrova, A.O., Wright, F., Birch P.R.J., and Kamoun, S. 2005. Patterns of diversifying selection in the phytotoxin-like scr74 gene family of Phytophthora infestans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22:659-672. Supplementary Material. GenBank accessions.

2004

Kamoun, S. 2004. Foreword. In 'Fungal Disease Resistance in Plants: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Genetic Engineering' Z.K. Punja, ed. Haworth Press, xvii-xviii.

Yang, W., Bai, X., Kabelka, E., Eaton, C., Kamoun, S., van der Knaap, E., and Francis, D. 2004. Discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms in Lycopersicon esculentum by computer aided analysis of expressed sequence tags. Molecular Breeding, 14:21-34.

Tian, M., Huitema, E., da Cunha, L., Torto-Alalibo, T., and Kamoun, S. 2004. A Kazal-like extracellular serine protease inhibitor from Phytophthora infestans targets the tomato pathogenesis-related protease P69B. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279:26370-26377. GenBank accessions.

Huitema, E., Bos, J.I.B., Tian, M., Win, J., Waugh, M.E., and Kamoun, S. 2004. Linking sequence to phenotype in Phytophthora-plant interactions. Trends in Microbiology, 12:193-200.

Kamoun, S. 2004. Pet breeding has a long and colourful history. Nature, 427:485.

2003

Matsumura, H., Reich, S., Ito, A., Saitoh, H., Kamoun, S., Winter, P., Kahl, G., Reuter, M., Kruger, D. H., and Terauchi, R. 2003. Gene expression analysis of plant host-pathogen interactions by SuperSAGE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100:15718-15723.

Huitema, E., Vleeshouwers, V. G. A. A., Francis, D. M., and Kamoun, S. 2003. Active defence responses associated with non-host resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana to the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Molecular Plant Pathology, 4:487-500.

Kanzaki, H., Saitoh, H., Ito, A., Fujisawa, S., Kamoun, S., Katou, S., Yoshioka, Y., and Terauchi, R. 2003. Cytosolic HSP90 and HSP70 are essential components of INF1-mediated hypersensitive response and non-host resistance to Pseudomonas cichorii in Nicotiana benthamiana. Molecular Plant Pathology, 4:383-391.

Sharma, P. C., Ito, A., Shimizu, T., Terauchi, R., Kamoun, S., and Saitoh, H. 2003. Virus-induced silencing of WIPK and SIPK genes in Nicotiana benthamiana cause reduced resistance against an incompatible bacterial pathogen but no effect on HR triggered by INF1. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 269:583-591.

Torto, T., Li, S., Styer, A., Huitema, E., Testa, A., Gow, N.A.R., van West, P., and Kamoun, S. 2003. EST mining and functional expression assays identify extracellular effector proteins from the plant pathogen Phytophthora. Genome Research, 13:1675-1685. Supplementary Information. GenBank accessions.

Huitema, E., Torto, T.A., Styer, A., and Kamoun, S. 2003. Combined ESTs from plant-microbe interactions: Using GC counting to determine the species of origin. In "Plant Functional Genomics: Methods and Protocols" E. Grotewold, ed. Humana Press, 79-83. Supplementary Information

Bos, J. I. B., Armstrong, M., Whisson, S. C., Torto, T., Ochwo, M., Birch, P. R. J., and Kamoun, S. 2003. Intraspecific comparative genomics to identify avirulence genes from Phytophthora. New Phytologist, 159:63-72.

Lee, S.A., Wormsley, S., Kamoun, S., Joiner, K., and Wong, B. 2003. An analysis of the Candida albicans genome database for soluble secreted proteins using computer-based prediction algorithms. Yeast, 20:595-610. Supplementary Information

Kamoun, S. 2003. Molecular genetics of pathogenic oomycetes. Eukaryotic Cell, 2:191-199.

Qutob, D., Huitema, E., Gijzen, M., and Kamoun, S. 2003. Variation in structure and activity among elicitins from Phytophthora sojae. Molecular Plant Pathology, 4:119-124. GenBank accessions.

Kamoun, S., Hamada, W., and Huitema, E. 2003. Agrosuppression: A bioassay for the hypersensitive response suited to high-throughput screening. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 16:7-13.

2002

Ochwo, M.K.N., Kamoun, S., Adipala, E. , Rubaihayo, P.R., Lamour, K., Olanya, M. 2002. Genetic Diversity of Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary in the Eastern and Western Highlands of Uganda. Journal of Phytopathology, 150:541-542.

Qutob, D., Kamoun, S., and Gijzen, M. 2002. Expression of a Phytophthora sojae necrosis inducing protein occurs during transition from biotrophy to necrotrophy. Plant Journal, 32:361-373. GenBank accessions.

Kamoun, S. 2002. Basic biology: What makes Phytophthora infestans a pathogen?. In "Late Blight: Managing the Global Threat. Proceedings of the Global Initiative on late Blight Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 11-13 July 2002" C. Lizarraga, ed. The International Potato Center, Lima, Peru, pp. 11-12.

Kamoun, S., Dong, S., Hamada, W., Huitema, E., Kinney, D., Morgan, W.R., Styer, A., Testa, A., and Torto, T. 2002. From sequence to phenotype: Functional genomics of Phytophthora. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 24:6-9.

Torto, T.A., Rauser, L., Kamoun, S. 2002. The pipg1 gene of the oomycete Phytophthora infestans encodes a fungal-like endopolygalacturonase. Current Genetics, 40:385-390. GenBank accessions. The original publication is available on LINK.

2001

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Martens, A., van Dooijeweert, Colon, L.T., Govers, F., Kamoun, S. 2001. Ancient diversification of the Pto kinase family preceded speciation in Solanum. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 14:996-1005.

Kamoun, S. 2001. Nonhost resistance to Phytophthora: novel prospects for a classical problem. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 4:295-300.

Kamoun, S., Hogenhout, S.A. 2001. Agricultural Microbes Genome 2. First glimpses into the genomes of plant-associated microbes. Plant Cell, 13:451-458.

2000

Birch, P, and Kamoun, S. 2000. Studying interaction transcriptomes: coordinated analyses of gene expression during plant-microorganism interactions. In: New Technologies for Life Sciences: A Trends Guide (supplement to Elsevier Trends Journals, Dec. 2000), pp. 77-82.

Sasabe, M., Takeuchi, K., Kamoun, S., Ichinose, Y., Govers, F., Kazuhiro, T., Shiraishi, T., Yamada, T. 2000. Independent pathways leading to apoptotic cell death, oxidative burst and defense gene expression in response to elicitin in tobacco cell suspension culture. European Journal of Biochemistry, 267:5005-5013.

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., van Dooijeweert, Govers, F., Kamoun, S., Colon, L.T. 2000. Does basal PR gene expression in Solanum species contribute to nonspecific resistance to Phytophthora infestans? Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 57:35-42.

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., van Dooijeweert, Govers, F., Kamoun, S., Colon, L.T. 2000. The hypersensitive response is associated with host and nonhost resistance to Phytophthora infestans. Planta, 210:853-864.

Kamoun, S. 2000. Phytophthora in "Fungal Pathology", J. Kronstad, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

1999

Kamoun, S., Dong, S., Huitema, E., Torto, G.A., van West, P., Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A. and Govers, F. 2000. Dissection of nonhost resistance of Nicotiana to Phytophthora infestans. In: Proceedings the 9th International Congress for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, de Wit, P.J.G.M., Bisseling, T., Stiekema, W. eds, Amsterdam, 180-185.

Kamoun, S., Hraber, P., Sobral, B., Nuss, D., Govers, F. 1999. Initial assessement of gene diversity for the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans based on expressed sequences. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 28:94-106.

van West, P., Kamoun, S., van’t Klooster, J.W., Govers, F. 1999. Ric1, a Phytophthora infestans gene with homology to stress-induced genes. Current Genetics, 36:310-315.

van West, P., Reid, B., Campbell, T., Sandrock, R., Fry, W.E., Kamoun, S., Gow, N.A.R.G. 1999. Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) as a reporter gene for the plant pathogenic oomycete Phytophthora palmivora. FEMS Letters, 178:71-80.

Kamoun, S., Huitema, E., Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A. 1999. Resistance to oomycetes: A general role for the hypersensitive response? Trends in Plant Sciences, 4:196-200.

Kamoun, S., Honee, G., Weide, R., Lauge, R., Kooman-Gersmann, M., de Groot, K., Govers, F., de Wit, P.J.G.M. 1999. The fungal gene Avr9 and the oomycete gene inf1 confer avirulence to potato virus X on tobacco. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 12: 459-462.

van West, P., Kamoun, S., van’t Klooster, J.W., Govers, F. 1999. Internuclear gene silencing in Phytophthora. Molecular Cell, 3: 339-348.

1998

Kamoun, S., T. van der Lee, G. van den Berg-Velthuis, K. de Groot, and F. Govers. 1998. Loss of Production of the Elicitor Protein INF1 in the Clonal Lineage US-1 of Phytophthora infestans. Phytopathology. 88: 1315-1323.

Kamoun, S., P. van West, and F. Govers. 1998. Quantification of late blight resistance of potato using transgenic Phytophthora infestans expressing beta-glucuronidase. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 104:521-525.

Kamoun, S., P. van West, V.G.A.A. Vleeshouwers, K. de Groot, and F. Govers. 1998. Resistance of Nicotiana benthamiana to Phytophthora infestans is Mediated by the Recognition of the Elicitor Protein INF1. Plant Cell. 10:1413-1425.

1997

Kamoun, S., H. Lindqvist, and F. Govers. 1997. A novel class of elicitin-like genes from Phytophthora infestans. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 10:1028-1030.

Kamoun, S. and F. Govers. 1997. Phytophthora Diseases Worldwide (Book Review). European Journal of Plant Pathology. 103: 491-492.

Kamoun, S., P. van West, A.J. de Jong, V.G.A.A. Vleeshouwers, and F. Govers. 1997. A gene encoding a protein elicitor of Phytophthora infestans is down-regulated during infection of potato. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 10:13-20. Supplementary Information

1994

Kamoun, S., M. Young, H. Forster, M.D. Coffey, and B.M. Tyler. 1994. Potential role of elicitins in the interaction between Phytophthora species and tobacco. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 60:1593- 1598.

1993

Kamoun, S., K.M. Klucher, M.D. Coffey, and B.M. Tyler. 1993. A Gene encoding a host-specific elicitor protein of Phytophthora parasitica Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 6:573-581.

Kamoun, S., M. Young, C.B. Glascock, and B.M. Tyler. 1993. Extracellular protein elicitors from Phytophthora: Host-specificity and induction of resistance to bacterial and fungal pathogens. Molecular Plant- Microbe Interactions. 6:15-25.

Kamoun, S., and C.I. Kado. 1993. Genetic Engineering for Plant Disease Resistance. p. 120. In: Advanced Engineered Pesticides, L. Kim, ed. Marcel Dekker Inc.

1992

Kamoun, S., E. Tola, H.V. Kamdar, and C.I. Kado. 1992. Rapid generation of directed and unmarked chromosomal deletions in Xanthomonas. Molecular Microbiology. 6:809-816.

Kamoun, S., H.V. Kamdar, E. Tola, and C.I. Kado. 1992. Incompatible interactions between crucifers and Xanthomonas campestris involve a vascular-hypersensitive response: Role of the hrpX locus. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 5:22-33.

1990

Kamoun, S., and C.I. Kado. 1990. Phenotypic switching in Xanthomonas campestris affecting chemotaxis, xanthan production, and virulence. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 56:3855-3860.

Kamoun, S., and C.I. Kado. 1990. A plant-inducible gene of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris encodes an exocellular component required for growth in the host and hypersensitivity on nonhosts. Journal of Bacteriology. 172:5165-5172.