Stefan J.S. van de Ruitenbeek

The paper shows that the nematode Globodera pallida uses environmental cues, specifically sucrose availability, to determine sex, with low sucrose promoting male development and high sucrose promoting female development.

The paper identifies a common genetic basis for G. pallida virulence against GpaVvrn resistance across Western Europe and develops a tool to assess virulence in the field.

This study identifies a single virulence locus in Globodera pallida that drives resistance breakdown in potato plants through negative selection on an avirulence gene.

The paper identifies viruses in plant-parasitic nematodes and shows they use RNAi to respond to viral infection, with distinct responses between nematode lines.

This study presents a chromosome-scale genome assembly of Meloidogyne hapla, revealing recombination hotspots enriched with effector proteins involved in parasitism.