2024
Li, G., Newman, M., Yu, H., Rashidzade, M., Martínez-Soto, D., Caceido, A., Allen, K.S., Ma, L-J. (2024). Fungal effectors: past, present, and future. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 81:102526 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2024.102526
Ayhan D, Abbodante S, Martinez-Soto D, Cochavi S, Rickelton K, Kotera S, Arie T, Marshall M E, Rocha M, Haridas S, Grigoriev I V, Schlezinger N, Pearlman E, Ma, L-J. (2024). The differential virulence of Fusarium strains causing corneal infections and plant diseases is associated with accessory chromosome composition. biorxiv [Preprint]. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.23.595639v1
Zhang, Y., Liu, S., Mostert, D. et al. (2024). Virulence of banana wilt-causing fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum tropical race 4 is mediated by nitric oxide biosynthesis and accessory genes. Nat Microbiol, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01779-7
a. Evolutionary origin of the tropical race 4 banana pathogen and mechanisms of its virulence. Nat Microbiol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01783-x
b. Banana apocalypse, part 2 – a genomicist explains the tricky genetics of the fungus devastating bananas worldwide The Conversation (2024) https://theconversation.com/banana-apocalypse-part-2-a-genomicist-explains-the-tricky-genetics-of-the-fungus-devastating-bananas-worldwide-236770
c. BBC Science in Action (2024) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5vd5
Li, G., McWilliams, M., Rodrigues, M., Mearkle, B., Jaafar, N., Golla, V., Yu, H., Yang, H., Ayhan, D. H., Allen, K., Martínez-Soto, D., Springer, A., & Ma, L.-J. (2024). CUR(E)ating a New Approach to Study Fungal Effectors and Enhance Undergraduate Education through Authentic Research. BMB Education, http://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21783
2023
Yu, H., Yang, H., Haridas, S., Hayes, R. D., Lynch, H., Andersen, S., Li, G., Martínez-Soto, D., Milo-Cochavi, S., Hazal Ayhan, D., Zhang, Y., Grigoriev, I. V., & Ma, L.-J. (2023). Conservation and Expansion of Transcriptional Factor Repertoire in the Fusarium oxysporum Species Complex J. Fungi 2023, 9(3), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/jof9030359
Martínez-Soto D, Yu H, Allen KS, Ma L-J. 2023, Differential colonization of the plant vasculature between endophytic versus pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum strains. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 36(1), 4–13, https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-08-22-0166-SC
Petreš, M., Hrustić, J., Vučinić, N., Ma, L.-J., Ayhan, D. H., & Grahovac, M. (2023). Genome Sequence Resource of Fusarium graminearum TaB10 and Fusarium avenaceum KA13, Causal Agents of Stored Apple Rot. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 36(1), 64–67. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-03-22-0069-A
2022
Khoulassa S, Elmoualij B, Benlyas M, Meziani R, Bouhlali EDT, Houria B, Alaoui YEH, Haridas S, Guo J, Lipzen A, Hurtado CV, Tejomurthula S, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Coleman JJ, Ayhan DH, Ma LJ, Essarioui A. High-Quality Draft Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. albedinis strain 9, the Causal Agent of Bayoud Disease on Date Palm. Plant Dis. 2022 Jul;106(7):1974-1976. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-01-22-0245-A
Yu H-L, Ayhan DH, Martínez-Soto D, Milo Cochavi S, Ma L-J. 2022. Accessory chromosomes of the Fusarium oxysporum species complex and their contribution to host niche adaptation. B. Scott, C. Mesarich (eds.), Plant Relationships, The Mycota 5, Springer Book. Pp371-388. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16503-0_16
Allen KS, DeIulio GA, Pyne R, Maman J, Guo L, Wick RL, Simon J, Gershenson A, Ma L-J. 2022, Identification of novel basil downy mildew resistance genes using de novo comparative transcriptomics. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.23.491563
Li M, Xie L, Wang M, Lin Y, Zhong J, Zhang Y, Zeng J, Kong G, Xi P, Li H, Ma L-J, Jiang Z. FoQDE2-dependent milRNA promotes Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense virulence by silencing a glycosyl hydrolase coding gene expression. PLoS Pathog 18, e1010157 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010157
2021
Guo L, Yu, H-L, Wang B, Vescio K, DeIulio GA, Yang H, Berg A, Zhang L, Edel-Hermann V, Steinberg C, Kistler HC and Ma L-J. 2021. Metatranscriptomic comparison of endophytic and pathogenic Fusarium–Arabidopsis interactions reveals plant transcriptional plasticity. MPMI 34, 1071–1083, https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-03-21-0063-R
Zhang, Y., Kao, P. L., Rampal, A., Mafu, S., Savinov, S., & Ma, L. J. (2022). High-Throughput Screening Assays to Identify Plant Natural Products with Antifungal Properties Against Fusarium oxysporum. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2391, 171–184. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1795-3_14
Sohrab V, López-Díaz C, Di Pietro A, Ma LJ, Ayhan DH. TEfinder: A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Detecting New Transposable Element Insertion Events in Next-Generation Sequencing Data. Genes (Basel). 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12020224. PMID: 33557410.
2020
Viljoen, A., Ma, L.-J., & Molina, A. B. 2020. Fusarium wilt (Panama disease) and monoculture banana production: Resurgence of a century-old disease. In A. Records & J. Ristaino (Eds.), Emerging plant diseases and global food security. St Paul: APS Press.159-184.
Yang H, Yu H, Ma L-J. 2020. Accessory Chromosomes in Fusarium oxysporum. Phytopathology 110:1488-1496.
https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-03-20-0069-IA
Yu H, Ayhan DH, Diener A., Ma L-J. 2020. Genome Sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. matthiolae, a Brassicaceae Pathogen. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 33(4): 569-572. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-11-19-0324-A
Zhang Y, He Y, Turra D, Zhou S, Ayhan DH, DeIulio AG, Guo L, Broz K, Wiederhold N, Coleman JJ, O'Donnell K, Youngster I, McAdam AJ, Savinov S, Shea T, Young S, Zeng Q, Rep M, Schwartz DC, Di Pietro A, Kistler HC, Ma L-J. 2020. The genome of an opportunistic fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum carries a unique set of lineage-specific chromosomes. Communication Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0770-2
Liu S, Lin J, Zhang Y, Liu N, Viljoen A, Mostert D, Zuo C, Hu C, Bi F, Gao H, Sheng O, Deng G, Yang Q, Dong T, DouTongxin, Yi G, Ma L-J and Li C. 2020. Fusaric acid instigates the invasion of banana by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense TR4. New Phytologist 225(2), 913-929. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16193
Wang, Bo, Houlin Yu, Yanyan Jia, Quanbin Dong, Christian Steinberg, Claude Alabouvette, Veronique Edel-Hermann, et al. 2020. Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of Fusarium Oxysporum Strain Fo47, a Fungal Endophyte and Biocontrol Agent. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.22.110718.
2019
Ma, L-J and Xu JR. 2019. Shuttling effector genes through mini-chromosomes. PLoS Genet 15(9): e1008345. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008345
Gao S, Gold SE, Wisecaver JH, Zhang Y, Guo L, Ma L-J, Rokas A, Glenn AE. 2019. Genome-wide analysis of Fusarium verticillioides reveals inter-kingdom contribution of horizontal gene transfer to the expansion of metabolism. Fungal Genetics and Biology 128, 60-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2019.04.002
Milo-Cochavi, S., Pareek, M., Delulio, G., Almog, Y., Anand, G., Ma, L. J., & Covo, S. (2019). The response to the DNA damaging agent methyl methanesulfonate in a fungal plant pathogen. Fungal biology, 123(5), 408–422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2019.03.007
Anand G, Waiger D, Vital N, Maman J, Ma L-J, Covo S. 2019. How does Fusarium oxysporum sense and respond to nicotinaldehyde, an inhibitor of the NAD+ salvage biosynthesis pathway? Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 329.