A leucine‐rich repeat receptor kinase gene confers quantitative susceptibility to maize southern leaf blight - Chen, Chuan; Zhao, Yaqi; Tabor, Girma; Nian, Huiqin; Phillips, Joanie; Wolters, Petra; Yang, Qin; Balint‐Kurti, Peter (New Phytologist, 2023)
Keywords: disease resistance; leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase; maize; quantitative resistance; southern leaf blight; susceptibility gene

Characterization of integration sites and transfer DNA structures in Agrobacterium-mediated transgenic events of maize inbred B104 - Neelakandan, Anjanasree K.; Kabahuma, Mercy; Yang, Qin; Lopez, Miriam; Wisser, Randall J.; Balint-Kurti, Peter; Lauter, Nick (G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS, 2023)
Keywords: maize; T-DNA; transformation; nonhomologous end-joining; integration; Agrobacterium; genetic engineering; disease resistance; Plant Genetics and Genomics

A CRISPR/dCas9 toolkit for functional analysis of maize genes - Gentzel, Irene N.; Park, Chan Ho; Bellizzi, Maria; Xiao, Guiqing; Gadhave, Kiran R.; Murphree, Colin; Yang, Qin; LaMantia, Jonathan; Redinbaugh, Margaret G.; Balint-Kurti, Peter; Sit, Tim L.; Wang, Guo-Liang (Plant Methods, 2020)
Keywords: Maize; Protoplasts; CRISPR; Cas9; Transcription activation; Transcription suppression

Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of a large, diverse population of maize near‐isogenic lines - Morales, Laura; Repka, A. C.; Swarts, Kelly L.; Stafstrom, William C.; He, Yijian; Sermons, Shannon M.; Yang, Qin; Lopez‐Zuniga, Luis O.; Rucker, Elizabeth; Thomason, Wade E.; Nelson, Rebecca J.; Balint‐Kurti, Peter J. (The Plant Journal, 2020)
Keywords: near-isogenic lines; genotyping-by-sequencing; genome-wide association; allelic analysis; maize; disease resistance; flowering time; plant height; quantitative trait loci; genetics; Zea mays

Identification of a locus in maize controlling response to a host-selective toxin derived from Cochliobolus heterostrophus, causal agent of southern leaf blight - Xiaodong, Xie; Olukolu, Bode; Yang, Qin; Balint-Kurti, Peter (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2018)

Semiautomated Confocal Imaging of Fungal Pathogenesis on Plants: Microscopic Analysis of Macroscopic Specimens - Minker, Katharine R.; Biedrzycki, Meredith L.; Kolagunda, Abhishek; Rhein, Stephen; Perina, Fabiano J.; Jacobs, Samuel S.; Moore, Michael; Jamann, Tiffany M.; Yang, Qin; Nelson, Rebecca; Balint-Kurti, Peter; Kambhamettu, Chandra; et al. (MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE, 2018)
Keywords: plant-pathogen interactions; disease resistance; confocal microscopy; tissue clearing; image analysis

Fine mapping of a quantitative resistance gene for gray leaf spot of maize (Zea mays L.) derived from teosinte (Z-mays ssp parviglumis) - Zhang, Xinye; Yang, Qin; Rucker, Elizabeth; Thomason, Wade; Balint-Kurti, Peter (THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS, 2017)

Quantitative Disease Resistance: Dissection and Adoption in Maize - Yang, Qin; Balint-Kurti, Peter; Xu, Mingliang (Molecular Plant, 2017)
Keywords: quantitative disease resistance; maize; gene

Limits on the reproducibility of marker associations with southern leaf blight resistance in the maize nested association mapping population - Bian, Yang; Yang, Qin; Balint-Kurti, Peter J.; Wisser, Randall J.; Holland, James B. (BMC GENOMICS, 2014)
Keywords: Quantitative trait loci; Nested association mapping; Disease resistance; Genome wide association study; Zea mays