Jessica L. Soyer

The paper identifies seven QTL associated with Leptosphaeria maculans adaptation to Brassica species and finds epistasis contributes to transgressive phenotypes in progeny isolates.

The paper shows that meiotic recombination in Leptosphaeria maculans produces isolates better adapted to the nonhost Brassica carinata than their parental isolates.

The paper analyzes nucleosome patterns in four plant pathogenic fungi with different genome structures, linking nucleosome positioning to gene expression and genome organization.

The paper maps histone modifications in two Leptosphaeria maculans species with contrasting genome structures to analyze how chromatin organization influences gene expression and pathogenicity.

The paper investigates the role of H3K9me3 and H3K27me3 in genome stability in Zymoseptoria tritici, showing H3K9me3 maintains stability by preventing H3K27me3, while H3K27me3 promotes instability of accessory chromosomes.