Peter N. Dodds

The paper shows that the Ug99 wheat stem rust pathogen emerged through somatic hybridisation and nuclear exchange between dikaryons, with one haploid nucleus genotype shared with an older African lineage.

EffectorP 2.0 improves fungal effector protein prediction with higher accuracy and reduced false positives compared to previous versions.

This study presents haplotype-phased genome assemblies of two dikaryotic Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae isolates, revealing structural variation and heterozygous SNPs, and identifies co-expressed effector candidates associated with virulence differences.

ApolystP predicts apoplastic localization of plant proteins and effectors using machine learning, achieving high sensitivity and low false positive rate.

LOCALIZER predicts subcellular localization of plant and effector proteins, showing improved accuracy for chloroplast and mitochondrial targeting and identifying a new chloroplast transit peptide in ToxA.