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Paul R J Birch

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1 Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Nature 2009 6.44
2 A translocation signal for delivery of oomycete effector proteins into host plant cells. Nature 2007 5.60
3 GenomeDiagram: a python package for the visualization of large-scale genomic data. Bioinformatics 2005 3.72
4 An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 3.06
5 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 J 2006 2.61
6 Differential recognition of highly divergent downy mildew avirulence gene alleles by RPP1 resistance genes from two Arabidopsis lines. Plant Cell 2005 2.53
7 Phytophthora infestans effector AVR3a is essential for virulence and manipulates plant immunity by stabilizing host E3 ligase CMPG1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 2.07
8 Genome analyses of an aggressive and invasive lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen. PLoS Pathog 2012 1.75
9 Soft rot erwiniae: from genes to genomes. Mol Plant Pathol 2003 1.71
10 Quorum sensing coordinates brute force and stealth modes of infection in the plant pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum. PLoS Pathog 2008 1.66
11 The Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology. Mol Plant Pathol 2014 1.56
12 The Phytophthora infestans avirulence gene Avr4 encodes an RXLR-dEER effector. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2008 1.48
13 Involvement of cathepsin B in the plant disease resistance hypersensitive response. Plant J 2007 1.44
14 Comparative genomics reveals what makes an enterobacterial plant pathogen. Annu Rev Phytopathol 2006 1.42
15 Genome sequence of Pantoea ananatis LMG20103, the causative agent of Eucalyptus blight and dieback. J Bacteriol 2010 1.40
16 Large-scale gene discovery in the oomycete Phytophthora infestans reveals likely components of phytopathogenicity shared with true fungi. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2005 1.38
17 Exploiting knowledge of R/Avr genes to rapidly clone a new LZ-NBS-LRR family of late blight resistance genes from potato linkage group IV. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2009 1.36
18 Patterns of diversifying selection in the phytotoxin-like scr74 gene family of Phytophthora infestans. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.33
19 Plasmodium falciparum and Hyaloperonospora parasitica effector translocation motifs are functional in Phytophthora infestans. Microbiology 2008 1.27
20 CMPG1-dependent cell death follows perception of diverse pathogen elicitors at the host plasma membrane and is suppressed by Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR3a. New Phytol 2011 1.26
21 Elevated amino acid biosynthesis in Phytophthora infestans during appressorium formation and potato infection. Fungal Genet Biol 2005 1.25
22 Genome sequence of the plant-pathogenic bacterium Dickeya dadantii 3937. J Bacteriol 2011 1.18
23 The zig-zag-zig in oomycete-plant interactions. Mol Plant Pathol 2009 1.16
24 Cellulose synthesis in Phytophthora infestans is required for normal appressorium formation and successful infection of potato. Plant Cell 2008 1.16
25 An RxLR effector from Phytophthora infestans prevents re-localisation of two plant NAC transcription factors from the endoplasmic reticulum to the nucleus. PLoS Pathog 2013 1.15
26 Rotting softly and stealthily. Curr Opin Plant Biol 2005 1.14
27 Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants. New Phytol 2011 1.13
28 Analysis of the Pantoea ananatis pan-genome reveals factors underlying its ability to colonize and interact with plant, insect and vertebrate hosts. BMC Genomics 2014 1.13
29 Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector PexRD2 interacts with host MAPKKK ε to suppress plant immune signaling. Plant Cell 2014 1.12
30 Host-targeting protein 1 (SpHtp1) from the oomycete Saprolegnia parasitica translocates specifically into fish cells in a tyrosine-O-sulphate-dependent manner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 1.09
31 Host protein BSL1 associates with Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR2 and the Solanum demissum Immune receptor R2 to mediate disease resistance. Plant Cell 2012 1.08
32 Gene expression profiling during asexual development of the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans reveals a highly dynamic transcriptome. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2008 1.06
33 A novel Phytophthora infestans haustorium-specific membrane protein is required for infection of potato. Cell Microbiol 2008 1.04
34 Profiling and quantifying differential gene transcription in Phytophthora infestans prior to and during the early stages of potato infection. Fungal Genet Biol 2003 1.02
35 Use of a pooled transposon mutation grid to demonstrate roles in disease development for Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica putative type III secreted effector (DspE/A) and helper (HrpN) proteins. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2004 1.00
36 Sample sequencing of a selected region of the genome of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica reveals candidate phytopathogenicity genes and allows comparison with Escherichia coli. Microbiology 2002 1.00
37 Functional redundancy in the Arabidopsis Cathepsin B gene family contributes to basal defence, the hypersensitive response and senescence. New Phytol 2009 0.97
38 Potato oxysterol binding protein and cathepsin B are rapidly up-regulated in independent defence pathways that distinguish R gene-mediated and field resistances to Phytophthora infestans. Mol Plant Pathol 2004 0.95
39 Tolerance in banana to Fusarium wilt is associated with early up-regulation of cell wall-strengthening genes in the roots. Mol Plant Pathol 2007 0.94
40 Relocalization of late blight resistance protein R3a to endosomal compartments is associated with effector recognition and required for the immune response. Plant Cell 2012 0.93
41 A novel non-protein-coding infection-specific gene family is clustered throughout the genome of Phytophthora infestans. Microbiology 2007 0.92
42 A genetic interval and physical contig spanning the Peronospora parasitica (At) avirulence gene locus ATR1Nd. Fungal Genet Biol 2003 0.91
43 Efflux pump gene expression in Erwinia chrysanthemi is induced by exposure to phenolic acids. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2007 0.90
44 Avirulence protein 3a (AVR3a) from the potato pathogen Phytophthora infestans forms homodimers through its predicted translocation region and does not specifically bind phospholipids. J Biol Chem 2012 0.90
45 Activation tagging in plants: a tool for gene discovery. Funct Integr Genomics 2004 0.88
46 High-throughput screening of suppression subtractive hybridization cDNA libraries using DNA microarray analysis. Biotechniques 2004 0.88
47 ADS1 encodes a MATE-transporter that negatively regulates plant disease resistance. New Phytol 2011 0.88
48 Characterisation of early transcriptional changes involving multiple signalling pathways in the Mla13 barley interaction with powdery mildew ( Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei). Planta 2003 0.84
49 Microarray comparative genomic hybridisation analysis incorporating genomic organisation, and application to enterobacterial plant pathogens. PLoS Comput Biol 2009 0.83
50 A putative DEAD-box RNA-helicase is required for normal zoospore development in the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Fungal Genet Biol 2008 0.81
51 The zigzag model of plant-microbe interactions: is it time to move on? Mol Plant Pathol 2014 0.81
52 Sequence diversity in the large subunit of RNA polymerase I contributes to Mefenoxam insensitivity in Phytophthora infestans. Mol Plant Pathol 2014 0.80
53 Reverse engineering gene regulatory networks related to quorum sensing in the plant pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum. Methods Mol Biol 2010 0.79
54 Imaging fluorescently tagged Phytophthora effector proteins inside infected plant tissue. Methods Mol Biol 2011 0.76