Publications

ORCID: 0000-0002-8229-2718

*Authors contributed equally.

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. bioRxiv. DOI: 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

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. Featured as a Science Highlight on the Diamond Light Source website.

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