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BENTHAM, A. R., DE LA CONCEPCION, J. C., VEGA BENJUMEA, J., JONES, S., MENDEL, M., STUBBS, J., STEVENSON, C. E. M., MAIDMENT, J. H. R., YOULES, M., KOURELIS, J., ZDRZAŁEK, R., KAMOUN, S., BANFIELD, M., J. 2022. Allelic compatibility in plant immune receptors facilitates engineering of new effector recognition specificities. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2022.10.10.511592

MAIDMENT, J. H. R., SHIMIZU, M., VERA, S., FRANCESCHETTI, M., LONGYA, A., STEVENSON, C. E. M., DE LA CONCEPCION, J. C., BIAŁAS, A., KAMOUN, S., TERAUCHI, R. & BANFIELD, M. J. 2022. Effector target-guided engineering of an integrated domain expands the disease resistance profile of a rice NLR immune receptor. eLife 12:e81123. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.81123
First posted as a preprint on bioRxiv: 10.1101/2022.06.14.496076

DE LA CONCEPCION, J. C.*, MAIDMENT, J. H. R.*, LONGYA, A.*, XIAO, G.*, FRANCESCHETTI, M.* & BANFIELD, M. J. 2021. The allelic rice immune receptor Pikh confers extended resistance to strains of the blast fungus through a single polymorphism in the effector binding interface. PLOS Pathogens, 17, e1009368. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009368
First posted as a preprint on bioRxiv: 10.1101/2020.09.05.284240

MAIDMENT, J. H. R., FRANCESCHETTI, M., MAQBOOL, A., SAITOH, H., JANTASURIYARAT, C., KAMOUN, S., TERAUCHI, R. & BANFIELD, M. J. 2021. Multiple variants of the fungal effector AVR-Pik bind the HMA domain of the rice protein OsHIPP19, providing a foundation to engineer plant defense. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 296. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100371.
First posted as a preprint on bioRxiv: 10.1101/2020.12.01.403451
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OIKAWA, K., FUJISAKI, K., SHIMIZU, M., TAKEDA, T., SAITOH, H., HIRABUCHI, A., HIRAKA, Y., BIAŁAS, A., LANGNER, T., KELLNER, R., BOZKURT, T. O., CESARI, S., KROJ, T., MAIDMENT, J. H. R., BANFIELD, M. J., KAMOUN, S. & TERAUCHI, R. 2020. The blast pathogen effector AVR-Pik binds and stabilizes rice heavy metal-associated (HMA) proteins to co-opt their function in immunity. bioRxiv, 2020.12.01.406389. DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.01.406389

LONGYA, A., CHAIPANYA, C., FRANCESCHETTI, M., MAIDMENT, J. H. R., BANFIELD, M. J. & JANTASURIYARAT, C. 2019. Gene duplication and mutation in the emergence of a novel aggressive allele of the AVR-Pik effector in the rice blast fungus. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-18-0245-R

VARDEN, F. A.*, DE LA CONCEPCION, J. C.*, MAIDMENT, J. H. R.* & BANFIELD, M. J. 2017. Taking the stage: effectors in the spotlight. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 38, 25-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.04.013