K. Kanyuka

The paper compares early transcriptomic responses in wheat cultivars to Zymoseptoria tritici, finding that defense-related genes show higher expression in incompatible interactions.

This paper presents an optimized DNA extraction protocol for adhesive samplers to enable culture-independent ITS2-based metabarcoding of fungal bioaerosols, revealing site-specific and seasonal fungal community dynamics.

The paper presents haplotype-phased, chromosome-scale genomes of Puccinia hordei isolates, revealing repeat expansion, somatic hybridization, and genome plasticity.

EffectorGeneP improves gene annotation in pathogen genomes by predicting coding sequences from transcript data, outperforming existing methods and expanding the predicted secretome.

The paper identifies a two-component resistance mechanism in wheat where a tandem kinase sensor recruits an NLR helper to trigger immunity against fungal pathogens.

The paper identifies Zymoseptoria tritici effectors that suppress plant immune responses by screening libraries and analyzing structural predictions.

Virus-mediated transient expression techniques create loss- and gain-of-function mutations in black-grass and show causation between specific genotypes and measurable changes in herbicide resistance.

This study investigates RNAi pathways in Zymoseptoria tritici and their role in pathogenesis, finding that RNAi components are dispensable for infection and that sRNA biogenesis may involve non-canonical pathways.