Papers by James Brown's group

Since 2000

Colleagues interested in our work may contact James Brown to request a reprint of any of these papers.

Collaborators outside JIC

A. Tellier & J.K.M. Brown (2009) The influence of perenniality and seed banks on polymorphism in plant-parasite interactions. American Naturalist 174: 769-779. Abstract

S. Sacristán, M. Vigouroux, C. Pedersen, P. Skamnioti, H. Thordal-Christensen, C. Micali, J.K.M. Brown & C.J. Ridout (2009) Coevolution between a family of parasite virulence effectors and a class of LINE-1 retrotransposons. PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007463 (open access), Paper

L.S. Arraiano, N. Balaam, P.M. Fenwick, C. Chapman, D. Feuerhelm, P. Howell, S.J. Smith, J.P. Widdowson & J.K.M. Brown (2009) Contributions of disease resistance and escape to the control of septoria tritici blotch of wheat. Plant Pathology 58: 910-922. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown & J.C. Makepeace (2009) The effect of genetic variation in barley on responses to Ramularia collo-cygni. Aspects of Applied Biology 92: 43-47. Abstract

L. Chartrain, P. Sourdille, M. Bernard & J.K.M. Brown, J. K. M. (2009) Identification and location of Stb9, a gene for resistance to septoria tritici blotch in wheat cultivars Courtot and Tonic. Plant Pathology 58: 547-555. Abstract

J.C. Makepeace, N.D. Havis, J.I. Burke, S.J.P. Oxley & J.K.M. Brown (2008) A method of inoculating barley seedlings with Ramularia collo-cygni. Plant Pathology 57: 991-999. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown (2008) Breeding for disease resistance as an integral component of crop protection. Proceedings, ENDURE International Conference: Diversifying crop protection, 12-15 October 2008, La Grande-Motte, France: O.02 [http://www.endure-network.eu/international_conference_2008/proceedings/monday_october_13]. Paper

P. Skamnioti, C. Pedersen, G.R. al-Cha'arani, A. Holefors, H. Thordal-Christensen, J.K.M. Brown & C.J. Ridout (2008) Genetics of avirulence genes in Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei and physical mapping of AVRa22 and AVRa12. Fungal Genetics and Biology 45: 243-252. Abstract

A. Tellier & J.K.M. Brown (2008) The relationship of host-mediated induced resistance to polymorphism in gene-for-gene relationships. Phytopathology 98: 128-136. Abstract

A. Tellier & J.K.M. Brown (2007) Polymorphism in multilocus host-parasite coevolutionary interactions. Genetics 177: 1777-1790. Abstract

LS. Arraiano, J. Kirby & J.K.M. Brown (2007) Cytogenetic analysis of the susceptibility of the wheat line Hobbit sib (Dwarf A) to Septoria tritici blotch. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 116: 113-122. Abstract

J.C. Makepeace, S.J.P. Oxley, N.D. Havis, R. Hackett, J.I. Burke & J.K.M. Brown (2007) Associations between fungal and abiotic leaf spotting and the presence of mlo alleles in barley. Plant Pathology 56: 934-942. Abstract

L.U. Wingen, J.K.M. Brown & M.W. Shaw (2007) The population genetic structure of clonal organisms generated by exponentially bounded and fat-tailed dispersal. Genetics 177: 435-448. Abstract

A. Tellier & J.K.M. Brown (2007) Stability of genetic polymorphism in host-parasite interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 274: 809-817. Abstract

LS. Arraiano, L. Chartrain, E. Bossolini, H.N. Slatter, B. Keller & J.K.M. Brown (2007) A gene in European wheat cultivars for resistance to an African isolate of Mycosphaerella graminicola. Plant Pathology 56: 73-78. Abstract

LS. Arraiano & J.K.M. Brown (2006) Identification of isolate-specific and partial resistance to septoria tritici blotch in 238 European wheat cultivars and breeding lines. Plant Pathology 55: 726-738. Abstract

C.J. Ridout, P. Skamnioti, O. Porritt, S. Sacristan, J.D.G. Jones & J.K.M. Brown (2006) Multiple avirulence paralogues in cereal powdery mildew fungi may contribute to parasite fitness and defeat of plant resistance. Plant Cell 18: 2402-2414. Abstract

O. Szentiványi, K. Varga, R. Wyand, H. Slatter & L. Kiss (2006) Paecilomyces farinosus destroys powdery mildew colonies in detached leaf cultures but not on whole plants. European Journal of Plant Pathology 115: 351–356. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown (2006) Surveys of variation in virulence and fungicide resistance and their application to disease control. In: TheEpidemiology of Plant Diseases, edited by B.M. Cooke, D.G. Jones & B. Kaye, published by Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: 81-115.

L.S. Arraiano, P.A. Brading, F. Dedryver & J.K.M. Brown (2006) Resistance of wheat to septoria tritici blotch (Mycosphaerella graminicola) and associations with plant ideotype and the 1BL−1RS translocation. Plant Pathology 55: 54-61. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown & R.J. Handley (2006) Fight or flinch? Heredity 96: 3-4. Read this paper (free on NPG website)

P. Skamnioti & C.J. Ridout (2005) Microbial avirulence determinants: guided missiles or antigenic flak? Molecular Plant Pathology 6: 551-559. Abstract

R.A. Wyand & J.K.M. Brown (2005) Sequence variation in the CYP51 gene of Blumeria graminis associated with resistance to sterol demethylase inhibiting fungicides. Fungal Genetics and Biology 42: 726-735. Abstract

L. Chartrain, S.T. Berry & J.K.M. Brown (2005) Resistance of the wheat line Kavkaz-K4500 L.6.A.4 to septoria tritici blotch controlled by isolate-specific resistance genes. Phytopathology 95: 664-671. Paper

L. Chartrain, P. Joaquim, S.T. Berry, L.S. Arraiano, F. Azanza & J.K.M. Brown (2005) Genetics of resistance to septoria tritici blotch in the Portuguese wheat breeding line TE 9111. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 110: 1138-1144. Abstract

L. Chartrain, P.A. Brading & J.K.M. Brown (2005) Presence of the Stb6 gene for resistance to septoria tritici blotch (Mycosphaerella graminicola) in cultivars used in wheat-breeding programmes worldwide. Plant Pathology 54: 134–143. Abstract

L. Chartrain, P.A. Brading, J.C. Makepeace & J.K.M. Brown (2004) Sources of resistance to septoria tritici blotch and implications for wheat breeding. Plant Pathology 53: 454–460. Abstract

L. Chartrain, P.A. Brading, J.P. Widdowson & J.K.M. Brown (2004) Partial resistance to septoria tritici blotch (Mycosphaerella graminicola) in wheat cultivars Arina and Riband. Phytopathology 94: 497-504. Paper

J.K.M. Brown (2003) A cost of disease resistance: paradigm or peculiarity? Trends in Genetics 19: 667-671. Abstract

R.A. Wyand & J.K.M. Brown (2003) Genetic and forma specialis diversity in Blumeria graminis of cereals and its implications for host-pathogen coevolution. Molecular Plant Pathology 4: 187-198. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown (2003) Little else but parasites. Science 299: 1680-1681. Abstract (On Science's website: read the abstract, read the full paper)

J.K.M. Brown (2002) Comparative genetics of avirulence and fungicide resistance in the powdery mildew fungi. In: The Powdery Mildews: a Comprehensive Treatise, edited by R.R. Bélanger, W.R. Bushnell, A.J. Dik & T.L.W. Carver, published by APS Press, St. Paul, USA: 56-65. First page

J.K.M. Brown & M.S. Hovmøller (2002) Aerial dispersal of fungi on the global and continental scales and its consequences for plant disease. Science 297: 537-541. Download

J.K.M. Brown (2002) Yield penalties of disease resistance in crops. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 5: 339-344. Abstract

H.L. Robinson, C.J. Ridout, H. Sierotzki, U. Gisi & J.K.M. Brown (2002) Isogamous, hermaphroditic inheritance of mitochondrion-encoded resistance to Qo inhibitor fungicides in Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici. Fungal Genetics and Biology 36: 98-106. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown, M.S. Hovmøller, R.A. Wyand & D.Z. Yu (2002) Oases in the desert: dispersal and host specialization of biotrophic fungal pathogens of plants. In: Dispersal Ecology, edited by J.M. Bullock, R.E. Kenward & R.S. Hails, published by Blackwell Science, Oxford, England: 395-409. First page

K.M. Devos, J.K.M. Brown & J.L. Bennetzen (2002) Genome size reduction through illegitimate recombination counteracts genome expansion in Arabidopsis. Genome Research 12: 1075–1079. Abstract

P.A. Brading, E.C.P. Verstappen, G.H.J. Kema & J.K.M. Brown (2002) A gene-for-gene relationship between wheat and Mycosphaerella graminicola, the septoria tritici blotch pathogen. Phytopathology 92: 439-445. Paper

M.S. Hovmøller, A.F. Justesen & J.K.M. Brown (2002) Clonality and long-distance migration of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici in north-west Europe. Plant Pathology 51: 24-32. Abstract

A.F. Justesen, C.J. Ridout & M.S. Hovmøller (2002) The recent history of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici in Denmark as revealed by disease incidence and AFLP markers. Plant Pathology 51: 13-23. Abstract

L.S. Arraiano, A.J. Worland, C. Ellerbrook & J.K.M. Brown (2001b) Chromosomal location of a gene for resistance to septoria tritici blotch (Mycosphaerella graminicola) in the hexaploid wheat 'Synthetic 6x'. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 103: 758-764. Abstract

D.Z. Yu, X.J. Yang, L.J. Yang, M.J. Jeger & J.K.M. Brown (2001) Assessment of partial resistance to powdery mildew in Chinese wheat varieties. Plant Breeding 120: 279-284. Abstract

L.S. Arraiano, P.A. Brading & J.K.M. Brown (2001a) A detached seedling leaf technique to study resistance to Mycosphaerella graminicola (anamorph Septoria tritici) in wheat. Plant Pathology 50: 339-346. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown, G.H.J. Kema, H.-R. Forrer, E.C.P. Verstappen, L.S. Arraiano, P.A. Brading, E.M. Foster, P.M. Fried & E. Jenny (2001) Resistance of wheat cultivars and breeding lines to septoria tritici blotch caused by isolates of Mycosphaerella graminicola in field trials. Plant Pathology 50: 325-338. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown (2001) Is too much risk assessment risky? Trends in Biotechnology 19: 124-125. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown (2000) Estimation of rates of recombination and migration in populations of plant pathogens. Phytopathology 90: 320-323. Paper

Selected older papers

Some papers dating from the pre-electronic publication era, which colleagues have requested.

R.H.E. Blatter, J.K.M. Brown & M.S. Wolfe (1998) Genetic control of the resistance of Erysiphe graminis f.sp. hordei to five triazole fungicides Plant Pathology 47: 570-579. Abstract

J.K.M. Brown (1996) The choice of molecular marker methods for population genetic studies of plant pathogens New Phytologist 133: 183-195 (erratum 134: 719). Abstract

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