List of works by Bruce A. McDonald

A Global Analysis of CYP51 Diversity and Azole Sensitivity in Rhynchosporium commune

scientific article published in December 2015

A fungal avirulence factor encoded in a highly plastic genomic region triggers partial resistance to septoria tritici blotch.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

A fungal wheat pathogen evolved host specialization by extensive chromosomal rearrangements.

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

A population-level invasion by transposable elements triggers genome expansion in a fungal pathogen

scientific article published in 2021

A small secreted protein in Zymoseptoria tritici is responsible for avirulence on wheat cultivars carrying the Stb6 resistance gene

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

A tradeoff between tolerance and resistance to a major fungal pathogen in elite wheat cultivars

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

An Improved Method for Measuring Quantitative Resistance to the Wheat Pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici Using High-Throughput Automated Image Analysis

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An analysis of the durability of resistance to plant viruses.

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Association between virulence and triazole tolerance in the phytopathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

Bacterial predation of a fungal wheat pathogen: Prelude to experimental evolution of enhanced biocontrol agents

scientific article published in 2023

Breakage-fusion-bridge cycles and large insertions contribute to the rapid evolution of accessory chromosomes in a fungal pathogen.

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Can High-Risk Fungicides be Used in Mixtures Without Selecting for Fungicide Resistance?

Coevolution and life cycle specialization of plant cell wall degrading enzymes in a hemibiotrophic pathogen

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Comparative Transcriptome Analyses in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Significant Differences in Gene Expression Among Strains During Plant Infection.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Comparative transcriptomic analyses of Zymoseptoria tritici strains show complex lifestyle transitions and intraspecific variability in transcription profiles

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Comparative transcriptomics reveals how wheat responds to infection by Zymoseptoria tritici

scientific article published in November 2017

Concordant evolution of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum

scientific article published on 10 January 2007

DNA fingerprinting of pearls to determine their origins

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Differential Selection on Rhynchosporium secalis During Parasitic and Saprophytic Phases in the Barley Scald Disease Cycle

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Distribution of mating type alleles in the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola over spatial scales from lesions to continents

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Divergence between sympatric rice- and maize-infecting populations of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from Latin America

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Divergence between sympatric rice- and soybean-infecting populations of Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group-1 IA

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Dothideomycete plant interactions illuminated by genome sequencing and EST analysis of the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum

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Effect of hosts on competition among clones and evidence of differential selection between pathogenic and saprophytic phases in experimental populations of the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum

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Emergence of a new disease as a result of interspecific virulence gene transfer

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Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae

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Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae

Evidence for extensive recent intron transposition in closely related fungi

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Evidence for local adaptation and pleiotropic effects associated with melanization in a plant pathogenic fungus

scientific article published on 04 April 2018

Evidence for subdivision of the root-endophyte Phialocephala fortinii into cryptic species and recombination within species.

scientific article published in July 2004

Evolution of Linked Avirulence Effectors in Leptosphaeria maculans Is Affected by Genomic Environment and Exposure to Resistance Genes in Host Plants

scientific article published on November 4, 2010

Evolution of the CYP51 gene in Mycosphaerella graminicola: evidence for intragenic recombination and selective replacement.

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Evolutionary analyses of the avirulence effector AvrStb6 in global populations of Zymoseptoria tritici identify candidate amino acids involved in recognition.

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Evolutionary history of the mitochondrial genome in Mycosphaerella populations infecting bread wheat, durum wheat and wild grasses

scientific article published on 9 December 2010

Experimental measures of pathogen competition and relative fitness

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

First Report of Resistance to QoI Fungicides in North American Populations of Zymoseptoria tritici, Causal Agent of Septoria Tritici Blotch of Wheat

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Frequency of Sexual Reproduction by Mycosphaerella graminicola on Partially Resistant Wheat Cultivars

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Further evidence for sexual reproduction in Rhynchosporium secalis based on distribution and frequency of mating-type alleles

scientific article published in November 2003

Genetic structure of populations of Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group-1 IA from soybean in Brazil

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Genetic structure of populations of the rice-infecting pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from China

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Candidate Genes for Aggressiveness, Deoxynivalenol Production, and Azole Sensitivity in Natural Field Populations of Fusarium graminearum.

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Genome-Wide Detection of Genes Under Positive Selection in Worldwide Populations of the Barley Scald Pathogen.

scientific article published on 2 May 2018

Genome-wide analysis of Fusarium graminearum field populations reveals hotspots of recombination

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Genome-wide evidence for divergent selection between populations of a major agricultural pathogen.

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Geographical variation and positive diversifying selection in the host-specific toxin SnToxA

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Global Hierarchical Gene Diversity Analysis Suggests the Fertile Crescent Is Not the Center of Origin of the Barley Scald Pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis.

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Global diversity and distribution of three necrotrophic effectors in Phaeosphaeria nodorum and related species

scientific article published on 4 April 2013

Global migration patterns in the fungal wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

High levels of gene flow and heterozygote excess characterize Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA (Thanatephorus cucumeris) from Texas

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Highly polymorphic microsatellite loci in the rice- and maize-infecting fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group 1 IA

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Hitchhiking selection is driving intron gain in a pathogenic fungus.

scientific article published on 7 April 2014

How Knowledge of Pathogen Population Biology Informs Management of Septoria Tritici Blotch

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

How can we achieve durable disease resistance in agricultural ecosystems?

scholarly article by Bruce A. McDonald published in December 2009

Hyperspectral Canopy Sensing of Wheat Septoria Tritici Blotch Disease

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

Intra- and intersporal diversity of ITS rDNA sequences in Glomus intraradices assessed by cloning and sequencing, and by SSCP analysis

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Intraspecific comparison and annotation of two complete mitochondrial genome sequences from the plant pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published on 23 December 2007

Intron gains and losses in the evolution of Fusarium and Cryptococcus fungi

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Is Zymoseptoria tritici a hemibiotroph?

scientific article published on June 2015

Linear Correlation Analysis of Zymoseptoria tritici Aggressiveness with In Vitro Growth Rate

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Local adaptation and evolutionary potential along a temperature gradient in the fungal pathogen Rhynchosporium commune

scientific article published on 3 January 2013

Measuring quantitative virulence in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici using high-throughput automated image analysis

scientific article published on September 2014

Meiosis Leads to Pervasive Copy-Number Variation and Distorted Inheritance of Accessory Chromosomes of the Wheat Pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.

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Migration patterns among global populations of the pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Molecular evidence for recent founder populations and human-mediated migration in the barley scald pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis

scientific article published on 14 March 2009

Multilocus resistance evolution to azole fungicides in fungal plant pathogen populations.

scientific article published on 14 November 2016

Mutations in the CYP51 gene reduce DMI sensitivity in Parastagonospora nodorum populations in Europe and China

scientific article published on 14 November 2016

Origin and domestication of the fungal wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola via sympatric speciation

scientific article published on 9 November 2006

Pathogen population genetics, evolutionary potential, and durable resistance

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Phylogenetic analysis of globally distributed Mycosphaerella graminicola populations based on three DNA sequence loci

scientific article published in February 2004

Phylogeographical analyses reveal global migration patterns of the barley scald pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis

scientific article published on 08 December 2008

Population Genomics of Fungal and Oomycete Pathogens

scientific article published on 8 June 2016

Population genetics of fungal and oomycete effectors involved in gene-for-gene interactions

scientific article published on April 2009

Population structure and pathotype diversity of the wheat blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae 25 years after its emergence in Brazil

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Precision Phenotyping Reveals Novel Loci for Quantitative Resistance to Septoria Tritici Blotch

scientific article published on 29 September 2019

Pyricularia graminis-tritici, a new Pyricularia species causing wheat blast

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QTL mapping of fungicide sensitivity reveals novel genes and pleiotropy with melanization in the pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

QTL mapping of temperature sensitivity reveals candidate genes for thermal adaptation and growth morphology in the plant pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici

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QoI resistance emerged independently at least 4 times in European populations of Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published in February 2009

Quantitative trait locus mapping of melanization in the plant pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici.

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Quantitative trait locus mapping reveals complex genetic architecture of quantitative virulence in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Quantitative variation in effector activity of ToxA isoforms from Stagonospora nodorum and Pyrenophora tritici-repentis

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

RFLPs in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA indicate low levels of genetic diversity in the oak wilt pathogen Ceratocystis fagacearum

scientific article published on March 1995

Ranking quantitative resistance to Septoria tritici blotch in elite wheat cultivars using automated image analysis

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Rapid emergence of pathogens in agro-ecosystems: global threats to agricultural sustainability and food security

scientific article published on December 2016

Rapid speciation following recent host shifts in the plant pathogenic fungus Rhynchosporium.

scientific article published on 2 April 2008

Recent advances in the Zymoseptoria tritici-wheat interaction: insights from pathogenomics

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Resistance to QoI Fungicides Is Widespread in Brazilian Populations of the Wheat Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae

scientific article published on March 2015

Reversing resistance: different routes and common themes across pathogens.

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Selection for increased cyproconazole tolerance in Mycosphaerella graminicola through local adaptation and in response to host resistance

scientific article published in July 2006

Sexual recombinants make a significant contribution to epidemics caused by the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Sexual reproduction facilitates the adaptation of parasites to antagonistic host environments: Evidence from empirical study in the wheat-Mycosphaerella graminicola system.

scientific article published on 21 March 2007

Significant difference in pathogenicity between MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 isolates in the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published in 2007

SnTox3 acts in effector triggered susceptibility to induce disease on wheat carrying the Snn3 gene

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The Frequencies and Spatial Distribution of Mating Types in Stagonospora nodorum Are Consistent with Recurring Sexual Reproduction

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

The Impact of Recombination Hotspots on Genome Evolution of a Fungal Plant Pathogen

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

The Urochloa Foliar Blight and Collar Rot Pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA Emerged in South America Via a Host Shift from Rice.

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

The accessory genome as a cradle for adaptive evolution in pathogens

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The cysteine rich necrotrophic effector SnTox1 produced by Stagonospora nodorum triggers susceptibility of wheat lines harboring Snn1.

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The genetic basis of local adaptation for pathogenic fungi in agricultural ecosystems.

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The global genetic structure of the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola is characterized by high nuclear diversity, low mitochondrial diversity, regular recombination, and gene flow

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

The influence of genetic drift and selection on quantitative traits in a plant pathogenic fungus

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The interaction among evolutionary forces in the pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

The making of a new pathogen: insights from comparative population genomics of the domesticated wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola and its wild sister species

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

The origin and colonization history of the barley scald pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

The origins of plant pathogens in agro-ecosystems

scientific article published on January 2008

The population genetic structure of Rhizoctonia solani AG-3PT from potato in the Colombian Andes

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Thermal adaptation in the fungal pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Transposable element insertions shape gene regulation and melanin production in a fungal pathogen of wheat.

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Two new species of Rhynchosporium

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Validation of Genome-Wide Association Studies as a Tool to Identify Virulence Factors in Parastagonospora nodorum

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Variation for neutral markers is correlated with variation for quantitative traits in the plant pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola.

scientific article published in August 2005

Wheat blast: from its origins in South America to its emergence as a global threat

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Wheat domestication accelerated evolution and triggered positive selection in the beta-xylosidase enzyme of Mycosphaerella graminicola

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When resistance gene pyramids are not durable-the role of pathogen diversity

scientific article published in March 2018

Whole-genome and chromosome evolution associated with host adaptation and speciation of the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola

scientific article published in 2010

Widespread signatures of selection for secreted peptidases in a fungal plant pathogen

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Zymoseptoria ardabiliae and Z. pseudotritici, two progenitor species of the septoria tritici leaf blotch fungus Z. tritici (synonym: Mycosphaerella graminicola)

scientific article published on 06 June 2012