Dr. Mehdi Kabbage
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Department of Plant Pathology
Sclereotinia stem rot of soybean, Bacterial blight of rice, plant resitace mechanism to bacterial and fungal disease
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mpp.12555L., Grau C., Smith DL, Kabbage M.., (2018). Integrated soybean transcriptomics, metabolomics, and chemical genomics reveal the importance of the phenylpropanoid pathway and antifungal activity in resistance to the broad host range pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. (in review). Plant Biotechnology Journal; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/363895.
2. Westrick, N.M.*, Ranjan, A.*, Jain, S., Smith DL, Kabbage M.., (2018). Gene regulation of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum during infection of Glycine max: On the Road to Pathogenesis. (In review) BMC Genomics. * equal contribution.
3. Ranjan A, Jayaraman D, Grau C, Hill JH, Whitham SA, Ané JM, Smith DL, Kabbage M. (2018). The pathogenic development of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in soybean requires specific host NADPH oxidases. Molecular Plant Pathology 19(3):700-714. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12555.
4. Ashish Ranjan# and Devanshi Khokhani. Scope and Importance of Plant Biotechnology in crop improvement. Plant Biotechnology, Volume 1: Principles, Techniques, and Applications, by Apple Academic Press, USA, (2017). ISBN 9781771885805. (Book chapter). (# indicates corresponding author)
5. McCaghey, M., Willbur, J., Ranjan, A., Grau, C. R., Chapman, S., Diers, B., Groves, C., Kabbage, M., Smith, D. L. (2017). Development and Evaluation of Glycine max Germplasm Lines with Quantitative Resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 1495. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01495.
6. Tara C. Moellers, Arti Singh, Jiaoping Zhang, Jae Brungardt, Mehdi Kabbage, Daren S. Mueller, Craig R. Grau, Ashish Ranjan, Damon L. Smith, RV Chowda-Reddy, Asheesh K. Singh. Main and epistatic loci studies in soybean for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum resistance reveal multiple modes of resistance in different environments. Scientific Reports (2017). 7(1): 3554. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03695-9.
7. Piotrowski JS, Okada H, Lu F, Li SC, Hinchman L, Ranjan A, Smith DL, Higbee AJ, Ulbrich A, Coon JJ, Deshpande R, Bukhman YV, McIlwain S, Ong IM, Myers CL, Boone C, Landick R, Ralph J, Kabbage M, Ohya Y. Plant-derived antifungal agent poacic acid targets. β-1,3-glucan (2015), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(12): E1490-7; doi:10.1073/pnas.1410400112.
Featured in news and views of Nature Journal (May 2015), Fungus against the wall; doi: 10.1038/521168a.
8. Ranjan A, Vadassery J, Patel HK, Pandey A, Palaparthi R, Mithöfer A, Sonti RV.: Upregulation of jasmonate biosynthesis and jasmonate-responsive genes in rice leaves in response to a bacterial pathogen mimic. Functional and Integrative Genomics (2014); 15(3):363-73. doi: 10.1007/s10142-014-0426-8.
9. Sinha D, Gupta MK, Patel HK, Ranjan A, Sonti RV. Cell Wall Degrading Enzyme Induced Rice Innate Immune Responses Are Suppressed by the Type 3 Secretion System Effectors XopN, XopQ, XopX and XopZ of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. Oryzae. (2013); PLoS ONE 8(9): e75867.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075867.