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The role of secreted proteins in diseases of plants caused by rust, powdery mildew and smut fungiJeffrey G Ellis
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Curr Opin Microbiol 10:326-31. 2007..High amplitude defence gene expression has a dual dependence on transcriptional de-repression induced by specific R-Avr protein recognition and additionally, activation signals initiated by host perception of general pathogen molecules...
Flax rust resistance gene specificity is based on direct resistance-avirulence protein interactionsJeffrey G Ellis
CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Annu Rev Phytopathol 45:289-306. 2007....
Recent progress in discovery and functional analysis of effector proteins of fungal and oomycete plant pathogensJeffrey G Ellis
CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Curr Opin Plant Biol 12:399-405. 2009..Advances are being made in the identification and in understanding the evolution of effectors and of host uptake signals used by eukaryotic effectors to enter host cells...
Insights into nonhost disease resistance: can they assist disease control in agriculture?Jeff Ellis
Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Plant Cell 18:523-8. 2006
The problem of how fungal and oomycete avirulence proteins enter plant cellsJeff Ellis
CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Trends Plant Sci 11:61-3. 2006..This signal is surprisingly similar to the host targeting signal used by the malaria pathogen Plasmodium fulciparum to target virulence proteins to the mammalian host cell...
Plant pathology: monitoring a pathogen-targeted host proteinJeff Ellis
CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO BOX 1600 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Curr Biol 13:R400-2. 2003..A plant protein RIN4 is targeted and modified by bacterial pathogens as part of the disease process. At least two host resistance proteins monitor this pathogen interference and trigger the plant's defence responses...
Autoactive alleles of the flax L6 rust resistance gene induce non-race-specific rust resistance associated with the hypersensitive responsePaul Howles
CSIRO, Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:570-82. 2005....
The Melampsora lini AvrL567 avirulence genes are expressed in haustoria and their products are recognized inside plant cellsPeter N Dodds
Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Plant Cell 16:755-68. 2004..Differences in the three AvrL567 protein sequences result from diversifying selection, which is consistent with a coevolutionary arms race...
Avirulence proteins from haustoria-forming pathogensAnn Maree Catanzariti
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia
FEMS Microbiol Lett 269:181-8. 2007..Elucidating how these pathogen proteins gain entry into plant cells and their biological function will be key questions for future research...
Tobacco transgenic for the flax rust resistance gene L expresses allele-specific activation of defense responsesDonna Frost
CSIRO Plant Industry, Cnr Clunies Ross Street and Barry Drive, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 17:224-32. 2004..Together, these results suggest that defense signaling properties of resistance genes can be expressed in an allele-specific and pathogen-independent manner when transferred between plant genera...
Relationships between rust resistance genes at the M locus in flaxGregory J Lawrence
CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Mol Plant Pathol 11:19-32. 2010....
Transformation of the flax rust fungus, Melampsora lini: selection via silencing of an avirulence geneGregory J Lawrence
CSIRO Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Plant J 61:364-9. 2010..This directly confirms that the cloned AvrL567 gene is responsible for flax rust virulence phenotypes, and demonstrates the utility of this system to probe rust gene function...
Effectors of biotrophic fungi and oomycetes: pathogenicity factors and triggers of host resistancePeter N Dodds
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
New Phytol 183:993-1000. 2009....
A plant gene up-regulated at rust infection sitesMichael A Ayliffe
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Plant Industry, Box 1600, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
Plant Physiol 129:169-80. 2002..The promoters of these genes have potential roles for the engineering of synthetic rust resistance genes by targeting transgene expression to the sites of rust infection...
Direct protein interaction underlies gene-for-gene specificity and coevolution of the flax resistance genes and flax rust avirulence genesPeter N Dodds
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Plant Industry, GPO Box 1600, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:8888-93. 2006....
In the trenches of plant pathogen recognition: Role of NB-LRR proteinsMaryam Rafiqi
Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Semin Cell Dev Biol 20:1017-24. 2009..This review addresses recent advances in the molecular role of NB-LRR proteins in pathogen recognition and activation of plant defence responses...
Haustorially expressed secreted proteins from flax rust are highly enriched for avirulence elicitorsAnn-Maree Catanzariti
Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra ACT, Australia
Plant Cell 18:243-56. 2006..Addition of an endoplasmic reticulum retention signal inhibited AvrM-induced necrosis, suggesting that both AvrM and AvrP4 can reenter the plant cell after secretion in the absence of the pathogen...
Internalization of flax rust avirulence proteins into flax and tobacco cells can occur in the absence of the pathogenMaryam Rafiqi
Division of Plant Science, Research School of Biology, College of Medicine, Biology, and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
Plant Cell 22:2017-32. 2010..Uptake of these proteins is dependent on signals in their N-terminal regions, but the primary sequence features of these uptake regions are not conserved between different rust effectors...
Purification of the M flax-rust resistance protein expressed in Pichia pastorisSimon A Schmidt
The School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, G P O Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
Plant J 50:1107-17. 2007..The successful expression and purification of soluble M protein opens the way for biochemical and structural analysis of this class of important plant proteins...
Crystal structures of flax rust avirulence proteins AvrL567-A and -D reveal details of the structural basis for flax disease resistance specificityChing I A Wang
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Plant Cell 19:2898-912. 2007....
The use of Co2+ for crystallization and structure determination, using a conventional monochromatic X-ray source, of flax rust avirulence proteinGregor Guncar
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 63:209-13. 2007..This approach using cobalt ions may be applicable to all cobalt-binding proteins and may be advantageous when synchrotron radiation is not readily available...

