Peter Moffett

The paper shows that extracellular water status limits pathogen growth during both compatible and incompatible plant immune interactions, reframing the hypersensitive response as a desiccation mechanism.

The paper investigates how plants respond to pathogen-induced extracellular water, finding that it triggers an atypical immune response mediated by salicylic acid.

This study identifies BVX ORF2 as a trigger-restricted RNA silencing suppressor in Botrytis cinerea, linked to altered Dicer-like gene expression and increased viral RNA accumulation.

This study shows that chloroplast-derived reactive oxygen species (cROS) trigger salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis, a key step in plant immunity, and that pathogen effectors disrupt this process.

This study profiles the mycovirome of Botrytis cinerea in Canada, identifying novel hypovirulence-inducing mycoviruses that could serve as biocontrol agents.