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Diane Saunders

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Plant Biology· 2 Evolutionary Biology· 1 Genomics· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1

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Novel clonal lineages of wheat stem rust in the Southern Cone of South America

Camilla Langlands-Perry, Eva C. Henningsen, Clare M. Lewis, Oadi Matny, Rebecca Spanner, Brian Joel Steffenson, Jana Sperschneider, Silvia E. Germán, Diane Saunders, Peter N. Dodds, Pablo Campos, Paula Maria Silva, Melania Figueroa

The paper characterizes novel clonal lineages of wheat stem rust in South America using genomic data and finds a predominant lineage unique to the region with stepwise mutation patterns.

Plant Disease · Mar 5, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology

Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae

Tofazzal Islam, Daniel Croll, Pierre Gladieux, Darren Soanes, Antoine Persoons, Pallab Bhattacharjee, Shaid Hossain, Dipali Gupta, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, M Golam Mahboob, Nicola Cook, Moin Salam, Vanessa Bueno Sancho, Joao Nunes Maciel, Antonio Nani, , Sophien Kamoun

The paper identifies a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae as the cause of a wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh using transcriptome sequencing and population genomics.

bioRxiv · Jun 19, 2016Plant Biology

RUST FUNGAL EFFECTORS MIMIC HOST TRANSIT PEPTIDES TO TRANSLOCATE INTO CHLOROPLASTS

Benjamin Petre, Cécile Lorrain, Diane Saunders, Sébastien Duplessis, Sophien Kamoun

The paper identifies CTP1, a fungal effector that mimics plant chloroplast transit peptides to translocate into chloroplasts, revealing a strategy for fungal manipulation of host cell compartments.

bioRxiv · May 23, 2015Plant Biology

Crowdsourced analysis of ash and ash dieback through the Open Ash Dieback project: A year 1 report on datasets and analyses contributed by a self-organising community.

Diane Saunders, Kentaro Yoshida, Christine Sambles, Rachel Glover, Bernardo Clavijo, Manuel Corpas, Daniel Bunting, Suomeng Dong, Ghanasyam Rallapalli, Matthew D. Clark, David Swarbreck, Sarah Ayling, Matthew Bashton, Steve Collin, Tsuyoshi Hosoya, , Dan MacLean

The paper reports on a crowdsourced project analyzing ash dieback fungus data, revealing insights into its genome and biology through community contributions.

bioRxiv · Aug 4, 2014 · PreprintGenomics