Areas of expertise

• Protein Trafficking 060108
• Plant Physiology 060705
• Signal Transduction 060111
• Gene Expression (Incl. Microarray And Other Genome Wide Approaches) 060405
• Genome Structure And Regulation 060407
• Receptors And Membrane Biology 060110
• Plant Cell And Molecular Biology 060702
• Plant Pathology 060704
• Genetics 0604

Publications

• Zhang, X, Farah, N, Rolston, L et al. 2018, 'Crystal structure of the Melampsora lini effector AvrP reveals insights into a possible nuclear function and recognition by the flax disease resistance protein P', Molecular Plant Pathology, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 1196-1209.
• Do Thi Thu, H, Catanzariti, A, Lim, G et al. 2018, 'Evidence against the existence of genes for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici races 1 and 2 on Solanum pennellii chromosome 7 additional to I-3', Acta Horticulturae, vol. 1207, pp. 19-26pp.
• Simbaqueba, J, Catanzariti, A, Gonzalez, C et al 2018, 'Evidence for horizontal gene transfer and separation of effector recognition from effector function revealed by analysis of effector genes shared between cape gooseberry- and tomato-infecting formae speciales of Fusarium oxysporum', Molecular Plant Pathology, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 2302-2318.
• Catanzariti, A, Do Thi Thu, H, Bru, P et al. 2017, 'The tomato I gene for Fusarium wilt resistance encodes an atypical leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein whose function is nevertheless dependent on SOBIR1 and SERK3/BAK1', The Plant Journal, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 1195-1209pp.
• Anderson, C, Khan, M, Catanzariti, A et al 2016, 'Genome analysis and avirulence gene cloning using a high-density RADseq linkage map of the flax rust fungus, Melampsora lini', BMC Genomics, vol. 17, no. 667, pp. 1-20.
• Chakrabarti, A, Velusamy, T, Tee, C et al 2016, 'A mutational analysis of the cytosolic domain of the tomato Cf-9 disease-resistance protein shows that membrane-proximal residues are important for Avr9-dependent necrosis', Molecular Plant Pathology. vol. 17, pp. 565-576.
• Gonzalez Cendales, Y, Catanzariti, A, Baker, B et al 2016, 'Identification of I-7 expands the repertoire of genes for resistance to Fusarium wilt in tomato to three resistance gene classes', Molecular Plant Pathology vol. 17, pp. 448-463.
• Shibata, Y, Ojika, M, Sugiyama, A et al 2016, 'The full-size ABCG transporters Nb-ABCG1 and Nb-ABCG2 Function in Pre- and Postinvasion Defense against Phytophthora infestans in Nicotiana benthamiana', The Plant Cell, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1163-1181.
• Thynne, E, Saur, I, Simbaqueba, J et al. 2017, 'Fungal phytopathogens encode functional homologues of plant rapid alkalinization factor (RALF) peptides', Molecular Plant Pathology, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 811-824.
• Catanzariti, A, Lim, G & Jones, D 2015, 'The tomato I-3 gene: A novel gene for resistance to Fusarium wilt disease', New Phytologist, vol. 207, pp. 106-118.
• Nemri, A, Saunders, D, Anderson, C et al 2014, 'The genome sequence and effector complement of the flax rust pathogen Melampsora lini', Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 5, no. 98, pp. 1-14.
• Takemoto, D & Jones, D 2014, 'Particle Bombardment-Mediated Transient Expression to Identify Localization Signals in Plant Disease Resistance Proteins and Target Sites for the Proteolytic Activity of Pathogen Effectors', in Paul Birch, John T. Jones, Jorunn I.B. Bos (ed.), Plant-Pathogen Interactions: Methods and Protocols, Humana Press, New York, pp. 91- 101.
• Gonzalez Cendales, Y, Do Thi Thu, H, Lim, G et al 2014, 'Application of CAPS Markers to the Mapping and Marker-Assisted Breeding of Genes for Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in the Tomato', in Yuri Shavrukov (ed.), Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequences (CAPS) Markers in Plant Biology, Nova Science Publishers Inc, New York, pp. 91-107.
• Ve, T, Williams, S, Catanzariti, A et al 2013, 'Structures of the flax-rust effector AvrM reveal insights into the molecular basis of plant-cell entry and effector-triggered immunity', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 110, no. 43, pp. 17594-17599.
• Takemoto, D, Rafiqi, M, Hurley, U et al 2012, 'N-terminal motifs in some plant disease resistance proteins function in membrane attachment and contribute to disease resistance', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 379-392.
• Catanzariti, A & Jones, D 2010, 'Effector proteins of extracellular fungal plant pathogens that trigger host resistance', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 901-906.
• Gan, P, Rafiqi, M, Ellis, J et al 2010, 'Lipid binding activities of flax rust AvrM and AvrL567 effectors', Plant Signaling & Behavior, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 1272-1275.
• Rafiqi, M, Gan, P, Ravensdale, M et al 2010, 'Internalization of Flax Rust Avirulence Proteins into Flax and Tobacco Cells Can Occur in the Absence of the Pathogen', The Plant Cell, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 2017-2032.
• Dodds, P, Rafiqi, M, Gan, P et al 2009, 'Effectors of biotrophic fungi and oomycetes: pathogenicity factors and triggers of host resistance', New Phytologist, vol. 183, no. 4, pp. 993-1000.
• Wulff, B, Chakrabarti, A & Jones, D 2009, 'Recognitional specificity and evolution in the tomato - Cladosporium fulvum pathosystem', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1191-1202.
• Chakrabarti, A, Panter, S, Harrison, K et al. 2009, 'Regions of the Cf-9B Disease Resistance Protein Able to Cause Spontaneous Necrosis in Nicotiana benthamiana Lie Within the Region Controlling Pathogen Recognition in Tomato', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1214-1226.
• Wulff, B, Heese, A, Tomlinson-Buhot, L et al. 2009, 'The Major Specificity-Determining Amino Acids of the Tomato Cf-9 Disease Resistance Protein Are at Hypervariable Solvent-Exposed Positions in the Central Leucine-Rich Repeats', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1203-1213.
• Lim, G, Wang, G, Hemming, M et al 2008, 'High resolution genetic and physical mapping of the I-3 region of tomato chromosome 7 reveals almost continuous microsynteny with grape chromosome 12 but interspersed mycrosynteny with duplications on Arabidopsis chromosomes 1, 2 and 3', Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 57-75.
• Hardham, A, Jones, D & Takemoto, D 2007, 'Cytoskeleton and cell wall function in penetration resistance', Current Opinion in Plant Biology, vol. 10, pp. 342-348.
• Wang, G, Lim, G & Jones, D 2007, 'Development of PCR-based markers from the tomato glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase isozyme gene family as a means of revitalising old isozyme markers and recruiting new ones', Molecular Breeding, vol. 19, pp. 209-214.
• Takemoto, D, Jones, D & Hardham, A 2006, 'Re-organization of the cytoskeleton and endoplasmic reticulum in the Arabidopsis pen1-1 mutant inoculated with the non-adapted powdery mildew pathogen, Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei', Molecular Plant Pathology, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 553-563.
• Barker, C, Talbot, S, Jones, J et al 2006, 'A tomato mutant that shows stunting wilting progressive necrosis and constitutive expression of defence genes contains a recombinant Hcr9 gene encoding an autoactive protein', The Plant Journal, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 369-84.
• Barker, C, Baillie, B, Hammond-Kosack, K et al 2006, 'Dominant-negative interference with defence signalling by truncation mutations of the tomato Cf-9 disease resistance genes', The Plant Journal, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 385-399.
• Lim, G, Wang, G, Hemming, M et al 2006, 'Mapping the I-3 gene for resistance to Fusarium wilt in tomato: application of an I-3 marker in tomato improvement and progress towards the cloning of I-3', Australasian Plant Pathology, vol. 35, pp. 671-680.
• Wilson, R, Baillie, B & Jones, D 2005, 'ER retrieval of Avr9 compromises its elicitor activity consistent with perception of Avr9 at plasma membrane', Molecular Plant Pathology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 193-197.
• Takemoto, D, Hardham, A & Jones, D 2005, 'Differences in Cell Death Induction by Phytophthora Elicitins Are Determined by Signal Components Downstream of MAP Kinase Kinase in Different Species of Nicotiana and Cultivars of Brassica rapa and Raphanus sativus', Plant Physiology, vol. 138, pp. 1419-1504.
• Takemoto, D & Jones, D 2005, 'Membrane Release and Destabilazation of Arabidopsis RIN4 Following Cleavage by Pseudomonas syringae AvrRpt2', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1258-1268.
• Hemming, M, Basuki, S, McGrath, D et al 2004, 'Fine mapping of the tomato I-3 gene for fusarium wilt resistance and elimination of a co-segregating resistance gene analogue as a candidate for I-3', Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol. 109, pp. 409-418.
• Jones, D & Takemoto, D 2004, 'Plant innate immunity - direct and indirect recognition of general and specific pathogen-associated molecules', Current Opinion in Immunology, vol. 16, pp. 48-62.
• Takemoto, D, Jones, D & Hardham, A 2003, 'GFP-tagging of cell components reveals the dynamics of subcellular re-organisation in response to infection of Arabidopsis by oomycete pathogens', The Plant Journal, vol. 33, pp. 775-792.
• Ellis, J & Jones, D 2003, 'Plant disease resistance genes', in A Ezekowitz and J Hoffman (ed.), Innate Immunity, Humana Press Inc., New Jersey, pp. 27-44.
• Gotesson, A, Marshall, J, Jones, D et al 2002, 'Characterization and evolutionary analysis of a large polygalacturonase gene family in the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 907-921.
• Panter, S, Hammond-Kosack, K, Harrison, K et al. 2002, 'Developmental control of promoter activity is not responsible for mature onset of Cf-9B-mediated resistance to leaf mold in tomato', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 1099-1107.
• Panter, S & Jones, D 2002, 'Age-related resistance to plant pathogens', Advances in Botanical Research, vol. 38, pp. 251-280.
• Benghezal, M, Wasteneys, G & Jones, D 2000, 'The C-terminal di-lysine motif confers ER localization to type I membrane proteins in plants.', The Plant Cell, vol. 12, pp. 1179-1201.
• Jones, D 2000, 'Resistance genes and resistance protein function.', in Dickinson, M; Beynon, J (ed.), Molecular Plant Pathology; Annual Plant Reviews, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, pp. 108-143.
• Parniske, M, Wulff, B, Bonnema, G et al 1999, 'Homologues of the CF-9 disease resistance gene (HCR9s) are present at multiple loci on the short arm of tomato chromosome1', Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), vol. 12, pp. 93-102.

Projects and Grants

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• Molecular basis of rust infection and host plant resistance (Secondary Investigator)
• Isolation and functional characterisation of a pathogen meta effector able to inhibit detection of multiple disease effectors by resistant plants (Primary Investigator)
• Protecting tomato crops from Fusarium wilt through the efficient application of new genetic resources (Primary Investigator)