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A. Avrova

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h-index: 31
Works: 83
Citations: 5,936

Most-cited papers

Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans
B. Haas, S. Kamoun, M. Zody, Rays H. Y. Jiang +92 more
2009Nature1,469 citations Open access
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A translocation signal for delivery of oomycete effector proteins into host plant cells
S. Whisson, P. Boevink, L. Moleleki, A. Avrova +10 more
2007Nature832 citations
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An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm.
M. Armstrong, S. Whisson, L. Pritchard, J. Bos +18 more
2005Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America478 citations Open access
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Secreted pectin monooxygenases drive plant infection by pathogenic oomycetes
Federico Sabbadin, S. Urresti, B. Henrissat, A. Avrova +9 more
2021Science170 citations Open access
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Cellulose Synthesis in Phytophthora infestans Is Required for Normal Appressorium Formation and Successful Infection of Potato[W]
L. Grenville-Briggs, Victoria L. Anderson, Johanna Fugelstad, A. Avrova +7 more
2008The Plant Cell Online159 citations Open access
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A potato gene encoding a WRKY-like transcription factor is induced in interactions with Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica and Phytophthora infestans and is coregulated with class I endochitinase expression.
A. Dellagi, J. Heilbronn, A. Avrova, M. Montesano +6 more
2000Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions152 citations Open access
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Patterns of diversifying selection in the phytotoxin-like scr74 gene family of Phytophthora infestans.
Zhen-Yu Liu, J. Bos, M. Armstrong, S. Whisson +7 more
2005Molecular biology and evolution148 citations
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Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants.
E. Gilroy, Susan Breen, S. Whisson, Julie N. Squires +17 more
2011New Phytologist146 citations Open access
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Mandipropamid targets the cellulose synthase-like PiCesA3 to inhibit cell wall biosynthesis in the oomycete plant pathogen, Phytophthora infestans.
M. Blum, M. Boehler, E. Randall, V. Young +7 more
2010Molecular plant pathology132 citations Open access
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A method for double-stranded RNA-mediated transient gene silencing in Phytophthora infestans.
S. Whisson, A. Avrova, P. van West, John T. Jones
2005Molecular plant pathology126 citations Open access
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Characterization of susceptibility and resistance responses to potato cyst nematode (Globodera spp.) infection of tomato lines in the absence and presence of the broad-spectrum nematode resistance Hero gene.
M. Sobczak, A. Avrova, Justyna Jupowicz, M. Phillips +2 more
2005Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions125 citations Open access
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Elevated amino acid biosynthesis in Phytophthora infestans during appressorium formation and potato infection.
L. Grenville-Briggs, A. Avrova, Catherine R. Bruce, Alison Williams +3 more
2005Fungal Genetics and Biology121 citations
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Isolation of potato genes that are induced during an early stage of the hypersensitive response to Phytophthora infestans
P. Birch, A. Avrova, J. Duncan, Gary D. Lyon +1 more
1999117 citations Open access
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Rapid Identification and Differentiation of the Soft Rot Erwinias by 16S-23S Intergenic Transcribed Spacer-PCR and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analyses
I. Toth, A. Avrova, L. J. Hyman
2001Applied and Environmental Microbiology112 citations Open access
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Application of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprinting for Taxonomy and Identification of the Soft Rot Bacteria Erwinia carotovora and Erwinia chrysanthemi
A. Avrova, L. Hyman, R. Toth, I. Toth
2002Applied and Environmental Microbiology106 citations Open access
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Profiling and quantifying differential gene transcription in Phytophthora infestans prior to and during the early stages of potato infection.
A. Avrova, E. Venter, P. Birch, S. Whisson
2003Fungal Genetics and Biology104 citations
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Gene expression profiling during asexual development of the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans reveals a highly dynamic transcriptome.
H. Judelson, Audrey M. V. Ah-Fong, G. Aux, A. Avrova +15 more
2008Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions101 citations Open access
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A novel Phytophthora infestans haustorium‐specific membrane protein is required for infection of potato
A. Avrova, P. Boevink, V. Young, Laura J. Grenville-Briggs +3 more
2008Cellular Microbiology100 citations
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Control of foliar diseases in barley: towards an integrated approach
D. Walters, A. Avrova, I. Bingham, F. Burnett +9 more
2012European journal of plant pathology98 citations
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Plasmodium falciparum and Hyaloperonospora parasitica effector translocation motifs are functional in Phytophthora infestans.
S. Grouffaud, P. van West, A. Avrova, P. Birch +1 more
2008Microbiology95 citations Open access
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A cysteine protease gene is expressed early in resistant potato interactions with Phytophthora infestans.
A. Avrova, H. E. Stewart, W. De Jong, J. Heilbronn +2 more
1999Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions95 citations Open access
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Use of a pooled transposon mutation grid to demonstrate roles in disease development for Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica putative type III secreted effector (DspE/A) and helper (HrpN) proteins.
M. Holeva, K. Bell, L. Hyman, A. Avrova +3 more
2004Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions89 citations Open access
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Evidence for Small RNAs Homologous to Effector-Encoding Genes and Transposable Elements in the Oomycete Phytophthora infestans
R. Vetukuri, Anna Åsman, C. Tellgren-Roth, S. Jahan +7 more
2012PLoS ONE84 citations Open access
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Rhynchosporium commune: a persistent threat to barley cultivation.
A. Avrova, W. Knogge
2012Molecular plant pathology79 citations Open access
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Potato oxysterol binding protein and cathepsin B are rapidly up-regulated in independent defence pathways that distinguish R gene-mediated and field resistances to Phytophthora infestans.
A. Avrova, N. Taleb, V. Rokka, J. Heilbronn +9 more
2004Molecular plant pathology67 citations Open access
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A new proteinaceous pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) identified in Ascomycete fungi induces cell death in Solanaceae.
Bárbara Franco-Orozco, A. Berepiki, O. Ruiz, L. Gamble +5 more
2017New Phytologist65 citations
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Evidence for involvement of Dicer-like, Argonaute and histone deacetylase proteins in gene silencing in Phytophthora infestans.
R. Vetukuri, A. Avrova, L. Grenville-Briggs, P. van West +4 more
2011Molecular plant pathology63 citations Open access
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Identification of appressorial and mycelial cell wall proteins and a survey of the membrane proteome of Phytophthora infestans.
L. Grenville-Briggs, A. Avrova, R.-J. Hay, Catherine R. Bruce +2 more
2010Fungal Biology50 citations
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Comparative genomics to explore phylogenetic relationship, cryptic sexual potential and host specificity of Rhynchosporium species on grasses
Daniel Penselin, M. Münsterkötter, S. Kirsten, M. Felder +17 more
2016BMC Genomics45 citations Open access
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Can silencing of transposons contribute to variation in effector gene expression in Phytophthora infestans?
S. Whisson, R. Vetukuri, A. Avrova, C. Dixelius
2012Mobile Genetic Elements43 citations Open access
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Sample sequencing of a selected region of the genome of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica reveals candidate phytopathogenicity genes and allows comparison with Escherichia coli.
K. Bell, A. Avrova, M. Holeva, L. Cardle +6 more
2002Microbiology31 citations Open access
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Fragmentation of tRNA in Phytophthora infestans asexual life cycle stages and during host plant infection
Anna Åsman, R. Vetukuri, S. Jahan, J. Fogelqvist +4 more
2014BMC Microbiology29 citations Open access
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Silencing of the PiAvr3a effector-encoding gene from Phytophthora infestans by transcriptional fusion to a short interspersed element.
R. Vetukuri, Zhen-Dong Tian, A. Avrova, E. Savenkov +2 more
2011Fungal Biology29 citations
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Relationship between potato seed tuber contamination by Erwinia carotovora ssp. atroseptica, blackleg disease development and progeny tuber contamination
I. Toth, L. Sullivan, J. Brierley, A. Avrova +5 more
200328 citations Open access
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A novel non-protein-coding infection-specific gene family is clustered throughout the genome of Phytophthora infestans.
A. Avrova, S. Whisson, L. Pritchard, E. Venter +3 more
2007Microbiology27 citations Open access
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A competitive PCR‐based method for the detection and quantification of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica on potato tubers
L. J. Hyman, P. Birch, Alia Dellagi, A. Avrova +1 more
2000Letters in Applied Microbiology25 citations
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A putative DEAD-box RNA-helicase is required for normal zoospore development in the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans.
Claire A. Walker, Maico Köppe, L. Grenville-Briggs, A. Avrova +5 more
2008Fungal Genetics and Biology24 citations
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Characterisation of barley resistance to rhynchosporium on chromosome 6HS
Max Coulter, Bianca Büttner, K. Hofmann, M. Bayer +5 more
2018Theoretical and Applied Genetics19 citations Open access
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Families of short interspersed elements in the genome of the oomycete plant pathogen, Phytophthora infestans.
S. Whisson, A. Avrova, O. Lavrova, L. Pritchard
2005Fungal Genetics and Biology18 citations
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Resistance to Rhynchosporium commune in a collection of European spring barley germplasm
M. Looseley, L. Griffe, Bianca Büttner, K. Wright +10 more
2018Theoretical and Applied Genetics17 citations
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A potato gene, erg-1, is rapidly induced by Erwinia carotovora ssp. atroseptica, Phytophthora infestans, ethylene and salicylic acid.
A. Dellagi, P. Birch, J. Heilbronn, A. Avrova +3 more
200016 citations
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Emerging technologies / Technologies naissantes The potato – Phytophthora infestans interaction transcriptome
P. Birch, A. Avrova, M. Armstrong, E. Venter +4 more
200315 citations
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A cullin gene is induced in tomato roots forming arbuscular mycorrhizae
A. Tahiri-Alaoui, G. Lingua, A. Avrova, S. Sampò +3 more
200215 citations
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Deciphering Molecular Host-Pathogen Interactions During Ramularia Collo-Cygni Infection on Barley
R. Lemcke, E. Sjökvist, S. Visentin, M. Kamble +8 more
2021Frontiers in Plant Science11 citations Open access
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Phenotypic diversification by gene silencing in Phytophthora plant pathogens
R. Vetukuri, Anna Åsman, S. Jahan, A. Avrova +2 more
2013Communicative & Integrative Biology11 citations Open access
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Exploiting Knowledge of Pathogen Effectors to Enhance Late Blight Resistance in Potato
S. Whisson, A. Avrova, P. Boevink, M. Armstrong +3 more
2011Potato Research11 citations
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Characterisation of barley landraces from Syria and Jordan for resistance to rhynchosporium and identification of diagnostic markers for Rrs1Rh4
M. Looseley, L. Griffe, Bianca Büttner, K. Wright +10 more
2020Theoretical and Applied Genetics10 citations
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Oomycetes manipulate plant innate immunity through galacturonide oxidases
Lydia R. J. Welsh, A. Avrova, K. Besser, Talia Kirkbride +11 more
2025Nature Communications9 citations Open access
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Programmed cell death in plants in response to pathogen attack
P. Birch, A. Avrova, A. Dellagi, C. Lacomme +2 more
2018Molecular plant pathology9 citations Open access
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Mechanisms and Application of Gene Silencing in Oomycetes
S. Whisson, A. Avrova, Laura J. Grenville Briggs, P. van West
20088 citations
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