The cysteine rich necrotrophic effector SnTox1 produced by Stagonospora nodorum triggers susceptibility of wheat lines harboring Snn1 Z Liu, Z Zhang, JD Faris, RP Oliver, R Syme, MC McDonald, ... PLoS Pathogens 8 (1), e1002467, 2012 | 269 | 2012 |
SnTox3 acts in effector triggered susceptibility to induce disease on wheat carrying the Snn3 gene Z Liu, JD Faris, RP Oliver, KC Tan, PS Solomon, MC McDonald, ... PLoS pathogens 5 (9), e1000581, 2009 | 226 | 2009 |
Comparative pathogenomics reveals horizontally acquired novel virulence genes in fungi infecting cereal hosts DM Gardiner, MC McDonald, L Covarelli, PS Solomon, AG Rusu, ... PLoS pathogens 8 (9), e1002952, 2012 | 187 | 2012 |
The discovery of the virulence gene ToxA in the wheat and barley pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana MC McDonald, D Ahren, S Simpfendorfer, A Milgate, PS Solomon Molecular plant pathology 19 (2), 432-439, 2018 | 160 | 2018 |
Is Zymoseptoria tritici a hemibiotroph? A Sánchez-Vallet, MC McDonald, PS Solomon, BA McDonald Fungal Genetics and Biology 79, 29-32, 2015 | 121 | 2015 |
Fungal phytopathogens encode functional homologues of plant rapid alkalinisation factor (RALF) peptides E Thynne, IML Saur, J Simbaqueba, HA Ogilvie, Y Gonzalez‐Cendales, ... Molecular Plant Pathology, 2016 | 104 | 2016 |
Global diversity and distribution of three necrotrophic effectors in Phaeosphaeria nodorum and related species MC McDonald, RP Oliver, TL Friesen, PC Brunner, BA McDonald New Phytologist 199 (1), 241-251, 2013 | 98 | 2013 |
Transposon-Mediated Horizontal Transfer of the Host-Specific Virulence Protein ToxA between Three Fungal Wheat Pathogens PSS Megan C. McDonald, Adam P. Taranto, Erin Hill, Benjamin Schwessinger ... mBio 10 (5), e01515-19, 2019 | 83* | 2019 |
Just the surface: advances in the discovery and characterization of necrotrophic wheat effectors. MC McDonald, PS Solomon Current opinion in microbiology 46, 14-18, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
Rapid parallel evolution of azole fungicide resistance in Australian populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici MC McDonald, M Renkin, M Spackman, B Orchard, D Croll, PS Solomon, ... Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 85 (4), e01908-18, 2019 | 62 | 2019 |
Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses of Phaeosphaeria nodorum and its close relatives indicate cryptic species and an origin in the Fertile Crescent MC McDonald, M Razavi, TL Friesen, PC Brunner, BA McDonald Fungal Genetics and Biology 49 (11), 882-895, 2012 | 59 | 2012 |
Genetic mapping of Stb19, a new resistance gene to Zymoseptoria tritici in wheat N Yang, MC McDonald, PS Solomon, AW Milgate Theoretical and Applied Genetics 131, 2765-2773, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
Victorin, the host-selective cyclic peptide toxin from the oat pathogen Cochliobolus victoriae, is ribosomally encoded SC Kessler, X Zhang, MC McDonald, CLM Gilchrist, Z Lin, A Rightmyer, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (39), 24243-24250, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
Recent advances in the Zymoseptoria tritici–wheat interaction: insights from pathogenomics MC McDonald, BA McDonald, PS Solomon Frontiers in plant science 6, 102, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen A Feurtey, C Lorrain, MC McDonald, A Milgate, PS Solomon, R Warren, ... Nature Communications 14 (1), 1059, 2023 | 37 | 2023 |
Phytopathogen emergence in the genomics era E Thynne, MC McDonald, P Solomon Trends in Plant Science, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
Remarkable recent changes in the genetic diversity of the avirulence gene AvrStb6 in global populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici C Stephens, F Ölmez, H Blyth, M McDonald, A Bansal, EB Turgay, F Hahn, ... Molecular Plant Pathology 22 (9), 1121-1133, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
The pangenome of the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis reveals novel transposons associated with necrotrophic effectors ToxA and ToxB R Gourlie, M McDonald, M Hafez, R Ortega-Polo, KE Low, DW Abbott, ... BMC biology 20 (1), 1-21, 2022 | 29 | 2022 |
Utilizing gene tree variation to identify candidate effector genes in Zymoseptoria tritici MC McDonald, L McGinness, JK Hane, AH Williams, A Milgate, ... G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 6 (4), 779-791, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
The complex genomic basis of rapid convergent adaptation to pesticides across continents in a fungal plant pathogen FE Hartmann, T Vonlanthen, NK Singh, MC McDonald, A Milgate, D Croll Molecular Ecology 30 (21), 5390-5405, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |