Rust resistance publications

The following publications detail the work involved in the development of CSIRO’s Rust resistance in plants.

Books and book chapters

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, 2007, ‘Flax rust resistance gene specificity is based on direct resistance-avirulence protein interactions’, Annual Review of Phytopathology, 45: 289-306.

Ellis JG, Jones DA, 2003, ‘Plant disease resistance genes’, In: Infectious Disease: Innate Immunity, Hoffmann JA, Ezekowitz RA (eds), Humana Press, pp. 27-45.

Reviews

Dennis ES, Ellis JG, Green A, Llewellyn D, Morell M, Tabe L, Peacock WJ, 2008, ‘Genetic contributions to agricultural sustainability’, Philosophical Transactions of the British Royal Society B, 363: 591-609.

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, 2007, ‘The role of secreted proteins in diseases of plants caused by rust, powdery mildew and smut fungi’, Current Opinion in Microbiology, 10: 326-331.

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, 2007, ‘Flax rust resistance gene specificity is based on direct resistance-avirulence protein interactions’, Annual Review of Phytopathology, 45: 289-306.

Ellis JG, 2006, ‘Insights into nonhost disease resistance: can they assist disease control in agriculture?’, Plant Cell., 18: 523-528

Ellis JG, Catanzariti A-M, Dodds P, 2006, ‘The problem of how fungal and oomycete avirulence proteins enter plant cells’, TRENDS in Plant Science, 11: 61-63

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, 2003, ‘Plant pathology: monitoring a pathogen-targeted host protein’, Current Biology, 13: R400-R402.

Ellis JG, Jones DA, 2003, ‘Plant disease resistance genes’, In: Infectious Disease: Innate Immunity, Hoffmann JA, Ezekowitz RA (eds), Humana Press, pp. 27-45.

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Pryor A, 2000, ‘Structure, function and evolution of plant disease resistance genes’, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 3: 278-284.

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Pryor A, 2000, ‘The generation of resistance gene specificities’, Trends in Plant Science, 5: 373-379.

Ellis JG, Jones DA, 1998, ‘Structure and function of proteins controlling strain-specific pathogen resistance in plants’, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 1: 288-293.

Ellis JG, Lawrence GJ, Ayliffe M, Anderson P, Collins N, Finnegan J, Frost D, Luck J, Pryor T, 1997, ‘Advances in the molecular genetic analysis of the flax-flax rust interaction’, Annual Review of Phytopathology, 35: 271-291.

Papers

Catanzariti A-M, Dodds PN, Ellis JG, 2007, ‘Avirulence proteins from haustoria-forming pathogens’, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 269:181-188.

Dodds PN, Catanzariti A-M, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, 2007, ‘Avirulence proteins of rust fungi: penetrating the host-haustorium barrier’, Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 58: 512-517.

Ellis JG, Mago R, Kota R, Dodds PN, McFadden H, Lawrence G, Spielmeyer W, Lagudah E, 2007, ‘Wheat rust resistance research in CSIRO’, Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 58: 507-511.

Ellis J, Lawrence G, Dodds P, 2007, ‘Further analysis of gene-for-gene disease resistance specificity’, Molecular Plant Pathology, 8: 103-109.

Guncar G, Wang C-IA, Forwood JK, Teh T, Catanzariti A-M, Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Kobe B, 2007, ‘Use of Co2+ for crystallization and structure determination, using a conventional mono-chromatic X-ray source, of flax rust avirulence protein’, Acta Crystallographica F., 63: 209-213.

Lawrence GJ, Dodds PN, Ellis JG, 2007, ‘Rust of flax and linseed caused by Melampsora lini Molecular’, Plant Pathology, 8: 349-364.

Schmidt SA, Williams SJ, Wang C-IA, Sornaraj P, James B, Kobe B, Dodds PN, Ellis JG, Anderson PA, 2007, ‘Expression and purification of the M flax-rust resistance protein in Pichia pastoris‘, The Plant Journal, 50: 1107-1117.

Wang C-IA, Guncar G, Forwood JK, Teh T, Catanzariti A-M, Lawrence GJ, Loughlin FE, Mackay JP, Schirra HJ, Anderson PA, Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Kobe B, 2007, ‘Crystal structures of flax rust avirulence proteins AvrL567-A and -D reveal details of the structural basis for flax disease resistance specificity’, The Plant Cell., 19: 2898-2912.

Catanzariti A-M, Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Ayliffe MA, Ellis JG, 2006, ‘Haustorially expressed secreted proteins from flax rust are highly enriched for avirulence elicitors’, The Plant Cell, 18: 243-256.

Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Catanzariti A-M, Teh T, Wang CI, Ayliffe MA, Kobe B, Ellis JG, 2006, ‘Direct protein interaction underlies gene-for-gene specificity and coevolution of the flax resistance genes and flax rust avirulence genes’, Proceedings National Academy of Science, USA, 103: 8888-8893.

Howles P, Lawrence G, Finnegan J, McFadden H, Ayliffe M, Dodds P, Ellis J, 2005, ‘Autoactive alleles of the flax L6 rust resistance gene induce non-race-specific rust resistance associated with the hypersensitive response’, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 18: 570-582.

Mago R, Bariana HS, Dundas IS, Spielmeyer W, Lawrence GJ, Pryor AJ, Ellis JG, 2005, ‘Development of PCR markers for the selection of wheat stem rust resistance genes Sr24 and Sr26 in diverse wheat germplasm’, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 111: 496-504.

Mago R, Miah H, Lawrence GJ, Wellings CR, Spielmeyer W, Bariana HS, McIntosh RA, Pryor AJ, Ellis JG, 2005, ‘High-resolution mapping and mutation analysis separate the rust resistance genes Sr31, Lr26 and Yr9 on the short arm of rye chromosome 1′, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 112: 41-50.

Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Catanzariti AM, Ayliffe MA, Ellis JG, 2004, ‘The Melampsora lini AvrL567 avirulence genes are expressed in haustoria and their products are recognized inside plant cells’, Plant Cell., 16: 755-768.

Frost D, Way H, Howles P, Luck J, Manners J, Hardham A, Finnegan J, Ellis J, 2004, ‘Tobacco transgenic for the flax rust resistance gene L expresses allele-specific activation of defence responses’, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 17: 224-232.

Mago R, Spielmeyer W, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Pryor AJ, 2004, ‘Resistance genes for rye stem rust (SrR) and barley powdery mildew (Mla) are located in syntenic regions on short arm of chromosome’, Genome, 47: 112-121.

Ayliffe MA, Roberts JK, Mitchell HJ, Zhang R, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Pryor AJ, 2002, ‘A plant gene up-regulated at rust infections sites’, Plant Physiology, 129: 169-180.

Mago R, Spielmeyer W, Lawrence J, Lagudah ES, Ellis JG, Pryor AJ, 2002, ‘Identification and mapping of molecular markers linked to rust resistance genes located on chromosomes 1RS of rye using wheat-rye translocation lines’, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 104: 1317-1324.

Collins NC, Park P, Spielmeyer W, Ellis JG, Pryor AJ, 2001, ‘Resistance gene analogs in barley and their relationship to rust resistance genes’, Genome, 44: 375-381.

Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, 2001, ‘Contrasting modes of evolution acting on the complex N locus for rust resistance in flax’, Plant J., 27: 439-453.

Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, 2001, ‘Six amino acid changes confined to the leucine-rich repeat beta-strand/beta-turn motif determine the difference between the P and P2 rust resistance specificities in flax’, Plant Cell., 13: 163-178.

Ayliffe MA, Collins NC, Ellis JG, Pryor A, 2000, ‘The maize rp1 rust resistance gene identifies homologues in barley that have been subjected to diversifying selection’, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 100: 1144-1154.

Luck JE, Lawrence GJ, Dodds PN, Shepherd KW, Ellis JG, 2000, ‘Regions outside of the leucine-rich repeats of flax rust resistance proteins play a role in specificity determination’, Plant Cell., 12: 1367-1377.

Ayliffe MA, Frost DV, Finnegan EJ, Lawrence GJ, Anderson PA, Ellis JG, 1999, ‘Analysis of alternative transcripts of the flax L6 rust resistance gene’, Plant J., 17: 287-292.

Collins N, Drake J, Ayliffe M, Sun Q, Ellis J, Hulbert S, Pryor T, 1999, ‘Molecular characterization of the maize Rp1-D rust resistance haplotype and its mutants’, The Plant Cell., 11: 1365-1376.

Ellis JG, Lawrence GJ, Luck JE, Dodds PN, 1999, ‘Identification of regions in alleles of the flax rust resistance gene L that determine differences in gene-for-gene specificity’, Plant Cell., 11: 495-506.

Collins NC, Webb CA, Seah S, Ellis JG, Hulbert SH, Pryor A, 1998, ‘The isolation and mapping of disease resistance gene analogs in maize’, Mol. Plant. Microbe Interact., 11: 968-978.

Luck JE, Lawrence GJ, Finnegan EJ, Jones DA, Ellis JG, 1998, ‘A flax transposon identified in two spontaneous mutant alleles of the L6 rust reistance gene’, Plant Journal, 16: 365-369.

Anderson PA, Lawrence GJ, Morrish BC, Ayliffe MA, Finnegan EJ, Ellis JG, 1997, ‘Inactivation of the flax rust resistance gene M associated with loss of a repeated unit within the leucine-rich repeat coding region’, Plant Cell., 9: 641-651.

Ayliffe MA, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Pryor AJ, 1997, ‘Production of a self-inhibitor of urediospore germination in Melampsora lini (flax rust) segregates as a recessive, single gene trait’, Canadian Journal of Botany, 75: 74-76.

Ellis JG, Lawrence GJ, Finnegan EJ, Anderson PA, 1995, ‘Contrasting complexity of two rust resistance loci in flax’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 92: 4185-4188.

Lawrence GJ, Finnegan EJ, Ayliffe MA, Ellis JG, 1995, ‘The L6 gene for flax rust resistance is related to the Arabidopsis bacterial resistance gene RPS2 and the tobacco viral resistance gene N’, Plant Cell., 7: 1195-1206.

Staskawicz BJ, Ausubel FM, Baker BJ, Ellis JG, Jones JDG, 1995, ‘Molecular genetics of plant disease resistance’, Science, 268: 661-667.

Ayliffe MA, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Pryor AJ, 1994, ‘Heteroduplex molecules formed between allelic sequences cause nonparental RAPD bands’, Nucleic Acids Res., 22: 1632-1636.

Bechtold N, Ellis JG, Pelletier G, 1993, ‘In planta Agrobacterium mediated gene transfer by infiltration of adult Arabidopsis thaliana plants’, C.R. Academie des Sciences Paris, 16: 1194-1199.

Ellis JG, Tokuhisa JG, Llewellyn DJ, Bouchez D, Singh K, Dennis ES, Peacock WJ, 1993, ‘Does the ocs-element occur as a functional component of the promoters of plant genes?’, Plant Journal, 4: 433-443.

Finnegan EJ, Lawrence GJ, Dennis ES, Ellis JG, 1993, ‘Behaviour of modified Ac elements in flax callus and regenerated plants’, Plant Molecular Biology, 22: 625-633.

Foley RC, Grossman C, Ellis JG, Llewellyn DJ, Dennis ES, Peacock WJ, Singh KB, 1993, ‘Isolation of a maize bZIP protein subfamily: candidates for the ocs element transcription factor’, Plant Journal, 3: 669-679.

Lawrence GJ, Finnegan EJ, Ellis JG, 1993, ‘Instability of the L6 gene for rust resistance in flax is correlated with the presence of a linked Ac element’, Plant Journal, 4: 659-669.

Pryor T, Ellis JG, 1993, ‘The genetic complexity of fungal resistance genes in plants’, Advances in Plant Pathology, 10: 281-305.

Yang C-H, Ellis JG, Michelmore RW, 1993, ‘Infrequent transposition of Ac in lettuce, Lactuca sativa‘, Plant Molecular Biology, 22: 793-805.

Ellis JG, Finnegan EJ, Lawrence GJ, 1992, ‘Developing a transposon tagging system to isolate rust-resistance genes from flax’, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 85: 46-54.

Singh K, Dennis ES, Ellis JG, Llewellyn DJ, Tokuhisa JG, Wahleithner JA, Peacock WJ, 1990, ‘OCSBF-1, a maize ocs enhancer binding factor: isolation and expression during development’, Plant Cell., 2: 891-903.

Dessaux Y, Petit A, Ellis JG, Legrain C, Demarez M, Wiame J-M, Popoff M, Tempe J, 1989, ‘Ti plasmid-controlled chromosome transfer in Agrobacterium tumefaciens‘, Journal of Bacteriology, 171: 6363-6366.

Bouchez D, Tokuhisa JG, Llewellyn DJ, Dennis ES, Ellis JG, 1988, ‘The ocs-element is a component of the promoters of several T-DNA and plant viral genes’, EMBO Journal, 8: 4197-4204.

Ellis JG, Lawrence GJ, Peacock WJ, Pryor AJ, 1988, ‘Approaches to cloning plant genes conferring resistance to fungal pathogens’, Annual Review of Phytopathology, 26: 245-263.

Rezaian AM, Skene KGN, Ellis JG, 1988, ‘Anti-sense RNAs of cucumber mosaic virus in transgenic plants assessed for control of the virus’, Plant Molecular Biology, 11: 463-471.

Ellis JG, Llewellyn DJ, Walker JC, Dennis ES, Peacock WJ, 1987, ‘The ocs element: a 16 base pair palindrome essential for activity of the octopine synthase enhancer’, EMBO Journal, 6: 3203-3208.

Ellis JG, Llewellyn DJ, Dennis ES, Peacock WJ, 1987, ‘Maize Adh-1 promoter sequences control anaerobic regulation: addition of upstream promoter elements from constitutive genes is necessary for expression in tobacco’, EMBO Journal, 6: 11-16.

Llewellyn DJ, Finnegan EJ, Ellis JG, Dennis ES, Peacock WJ, 1987, ‘Structure and expression of an alcohol dehydrogenase 1 gene from Pisum sativum (cv. Greenfeast)’, Journal of Molecular Biology, 195: 115-123.

Ellis JG, Ryder M, Tate M, 1984, ‘Agrobacterium tumefaciens Tr-DNA encodes a pathway for agropine biosynthesis’, Molecular and General Genetics, 195: 466-473.

Petit A, David C, Dahl G, Ellis JG, Guyon P, Casse-Delbart F, Tempe J, 1983, ‘Further extension of the opine concept: Plasmids in Agrobacterium rhizogenes cooperate for opine degradation’, Molecular and General Genetics, 190: 2004-2214.

Conference proceedings

Rafiqi M, Gan HPP, Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Jones DA, Hardham AR, 2008, ‘Translocation of secreted effector proteins from flax rust and their recognition by host resistance proteins’, Proceedings COMBIO 2008, Canberra, 21-25 September, 2008.

Ellis JG, Lawrence GJ, Dodds PN, 2007, ‘Direct interaction between flax rust resistance proteins and flax rust avirulence proteins is the basis of gene-for-gene specificity’, Proceedings NZMS – NZSBMB Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 27-30 November, 2007.

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Kobe B, Wang A, 2007, ‘Direct interactions between resistance and avirulence proteins and gene-for-gene determine resistance specificity’, Proceedings International Meeting – Communication in plants and their response to the environment, Halle, Germany, 10-12 May, 2007.

Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Anderson P, Wang C-IA, Guncar G, Kobe B, 2007, ‘Flax rust: from gene-for-gene to protein-for-protein interactions’, Proceedings of the British Society for Plant Pathology, Bath, UK, 12-14 September, 2007.

Dodds PN, Catanzariti A-M, Lawrence GJ, Ayliffe M, Ellis JG, 2006, ‘The permeable frontier – fungal proteins smuggled into the plant cytoplasm’, Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions.

Dodds PN, Catanzariti A-M, Lawrence GJ, Ayliffe M, Wang C-IA, Kobe B, Ellis JG, 2006, ‘Recognition of haustorially expressed rust proteins in flax’, Proceedings 8th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, Adelaide, 20-25 August, 2006.

Kobe B, Wang CI-A, Guncar G, Teh T, Catanzariti A-M, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Dodds PN, 2005, ‘Structural studies of pathogen proteins that activate plant disease resistance response’, Proceedings COMBIO 2005 Adelaide, South Australia, 25-29 October, 2005.

Sanchez F, Quinto C, Lopez-Lara IM, Geiger O, 2005, Proceedings XIIth International MPMI Conference (Cancun, Mexico, 14-19 December 2005), 5: 396-410.

Dodds PN, Catanzariti A-M, Lawrence GJ, Ayliffe MA, Ellis JG, 2004, ‘Host-pathogen recognition in flax rust disease’, Proceedings COMBIO 2004, Perth, Western Australia, 26-30 September 2004.

Dodds PN, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, 2003, ‘Avirulence genes from flax rust: recognition targets in gene-for-gene disease resistance’, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology, Barcelona, Spain, 23-28 June 2003.

Mago R, Spielmeyer W, Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Pryor AJ, 2003, ‘Rye homologs of the barley powdery mildew gene Mla1 map to the region carrying stem rust resistance genes on 1RS’, Proceedings 10th International Wheat Genetics Symposium, Paestum, Italy, 1-6 September 2003, 1: 376-379.

Unrefereed publications

Ellis JG, Lawrence GJ, Finnegan EJ, 1994, ‘Breakthrough in understanding rust resistance’, Australian Grain, 17-19.

Lawrence GL, Ellis JG, Finnegan EJ, 1994, ‘Cloning disease resistance genes in plants current status and potential benefits’, Proceedings 7th Assembly Wheat Breeding Society of Australia, Paull J, Dundas IS, Shepherd KJ, Hollamby GJ (eds), Adelaide, 25-30 September 1994, pp. 189-193.

Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Finnegan EJ, 1994, ‘Cloning a rust-resistance gene in flax’,Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Daniels MJ, Downie JA, Osbourn AE (eds), Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 3: 303-306.

Lawrence GJ, Ellis JG, Finnegan EJ, Dennis ES, Peacock WJ, 1989, ‘Tagging rust resistance genes in flax’, Breeding Research: The Key to the Survival of the Earth, Iyama S, Takeda G (eds), Proceedings 6th International Congress SABRAO, pp. 535-538.