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Barbara N. Kunkel
Papers Published (updated 7/2011)

Papers Published

Chen, Z., A. P. Kloek, J. Boch, F. Katagiri and B. N. Kunkel. 2000.The Pseudomonas syringae avrRpt2 gene product promotes pathogen virulence from inside plant cells. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 13:1312-1321.
http://www.apsnet.org/mpmi/search/2000/0928-01r.asp

Kloek, A. P., M. L. Verbsky, S. B. Sharma, J. E. Schoelz, J. Vogel, D. F. Klessig, and B. N. Kunkel. 2001. Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae conferred by an Arabidopsis thaliana coronatine insensitive (coi1) mutation occurs through two distinct mechanisms. Plant J. 26:509-522.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-313x.2001.01050.x

Boch, J., V. Joardar, L. Gao, T. L. Robertson, M. Lim, and B. N. Kunkel. 2002. Identification of Pseudomonas syringae genes induced during infection of Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Microbiol. 2002 44: 73-88.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02877.x

Stokes, T. L., B. N. Kunkel and E. J. Richards. 2002. Epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis disease resistance. Genes and Development 16: 171-182.
http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/reprint/16/2/171

Kunkel, BN. and D. M Brooks. 2002 Cross talk between signaling pathways in pathogen defense. Current Opin Plant Biology 5: 325-332.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1369-5266(02)00275-3

Brooks, D. M, G. Hernandez-Guzman, A. P. Kloek, F. Alarcon-Chaidez, A. Sreedharan, V. Rangaswamy, A. Penaloza-Vazquez, C. L. Bender and B. N. Kunkel. 2004. Identification and characterization of a well-defined series coronatine biosynthetic mutants of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 17:162-274.
http://www.apsnet.org/mpmi/search/2004/1210-01r.asp

Z. Chen, A. P. Kloek, A. Cuzick, D. Tang, W. Moeder, D. Klessig, J. McDowell, R. Innes, and B. N. Kunkel. 2004. The Pseudomonas syringae AvrRpt2 protein functions downstream or independently of salicylic acid to promote virulence on Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 37:494-504.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2003.01984.x

Lim, M. and B. N. Kunkel. 2004a. Mutations in the Pseudomonas syringae avrRpt2 gene that dissociate its virulence and avirulence activities lead to decreased efficiency in the AvrRpt2-induced disappearance of RIN4. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 17:313-321.
http://www.apsnet.org/mpmi/search/2004/1222-01r.asp

Lim, M. T. S., and B. N. Kunkel. 2004b The Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrRpt2 promotes virulence independently of RIN4, a predicted virulence target in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 40: 790-798.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02251.x

Kunkel, B. N. and Z. Chen. 2006. Virulence strategies of plant pathogenic bacteria. In M. Dworkin et al., eds., The Prokaryotes, Vol. 2 pp. 421-440. M. Dworkin et al., eds. Springer, New York. http://www.springerlink.com/content/r785233736010085/fulltext.html

Kover, P. X., Wolf, J. B., Kunkel, B. N., and J. M. Cheverud. 2005. The genetic architecture of Arabidopsis thaliana response to infection by Pseudomonas syringae. Heredity. 94:507-517.

Lim, M. T. S. and B. N. Kunkel. 2005. The Pseudomonas syringae gene avrRpt2 contributes to virulence on tomato. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 18: 626-633.
http://www.apsnet.org/mpmi/search/2005/mpmi-18-0626.asp

Brooks, D. M., Bender, C. L., and B. N. Kunkel. 2005. The Pseudomonas syringae phytotoxin coronatine promotes virulence by overcoming salicylic acid-dependent defences in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Plant Pathol. 6: 629-639.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2005.00311.x
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Preiter, K., Brooks, D. M., Penaloza-Vazquez, A., Sreedharan, A., Bender, C. L., and B. N. Kunkel. 2005. Novel virulence gene of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar tomato strain DC3000. J. Bacteriol. 187: 7805-14.
http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/187/22/7805

Laurie-Berry, N., Joardar, V., Street, I. H., and B. N. Kunkel. 2006. The Arabidopsis thaliana JASMONATE INSENSITIVE 1 gene is required for suppression of salicylic acid-dependent defenses during infection by Pseudomonas syringae. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 19: 789-800.
http://www.ismpminet.org/mpmi/search/2006/mpmi-19-0789.asp
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Sreedharan, A., Penaloza-Vazquez, A., Kunkel, B. N., and Bender, C. L. 2006. CorR regulates multiple components of virulence in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 19: 768-779.
Link to abstract: http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/MPMI-19-0768

Uppalapati, S. R, Ishiga, Y. Wangdi, W., Kunkel, B. N. Anand, A., Mysore, K. S and C. L. Bender. 2007. The phytotoxin coronatine contributes to pathogen fitness and is required for suppression of salicylic acid accumulation in tomato inoculated with Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 20:955-965.
Link to Abstract: http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/MPMI-20-8-0955

Chen, Z., Agnew, J. L., Cohen, J. D., He, P., Shan, L.,Sheen, J. and B. N. Kunkel. 2007. Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrRpt2 alters Arabidopsis thaliana auxin physiology. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 104: 20131-20136.
Link to Abstract/PDF: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/50/20131.full.pdf+html

Mellgren, E. M., Kloek, Andrew P. and B. N. Kunkel, 2009. Mqo, a tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme, is required for virulence of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato strain DC3000 on Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Bacteriol. 191:3132-3141.
Link to Abstract/PDF: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/pmc/articles/PMC2681806

Demianski. A. J. and B. N. Kunkel, 2011. Analysis of JAZ gene expression during Pseudomonas syringae pathogenesis reveals that JIN1/AtMYC2 regulates only a subset of JAZ genes and that JAZ10 is a negative regulator of disease symptom development. Mol. Plant Pathol. 12:published online 15 JUN 2011.
Link to Abstract/PDF: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2011.00727.x/abstract

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