@article{morales_repka_swarts_stafstrom_he_sermons_yang_lopez‐zuniga_rucker_thomason_et al._2020, title={Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of a large, diverse population of maize near‐isogenic lines}, volume={103}, ISSN={0960-7412 1365-313X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14787}, DOI={10.1111/tpj.14787}, abstractNote={SUMMARY}, number={3}, journal={The Plant Journal}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Morales, Laura and Repka, A. C. and Swarts, Kelly L. and Stafstrom, William C. and He, Yijian and Sermons, Shannon M. and Yang, Qin and Lopez‐Zuniga, Luis O. and Rucker, Elizabeth and Thomason, Wade E. and et al.}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={1246–1255} }
 @article{he_kim_balint-kurti_2019, title={A maize cytochrome b-c1 complex subunit protein ZmQCR7 controls variation in the hypersensitive response}, volume={249}, ISSN={["1432-2048"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-019-03092-8}, DOI={10.1007/s00425-019-03092-8}, abstractNote={The gene GRMZM2G318346 which encodes a cytochrome b-c1 complex subunit 7 is associated with variation in strength of the hypersensitive response in maize. We previously identified a QTL at 3,545,354 bp (B73 reference genome V2) on maize chromosome 5 associated with variation in the hypersensitive response (HR) conferred by the autoactive R-gene Rp1-D21 (Olukolu et al. in PLoS Genet 10:e1004562 2014). In this study, we show that a gene at this locus, GRMZM2G318346 which encodes a cytochrome b-c1 complex subunit seven (ZmQCR7), an important part of the mitochondrial electron transport chain, can suppress HR mediated by Rp1-D21 in a transient expression assay. ZmQCR7 alleles from two maize lines, W22 and B73 differ for the encoded proteins at just two sites, amino acid 27 (threonine and alanine in B73 and W22, respectively) and amino acid 109 (asparagine and serine), however, the B73 allele is much more effective at suppressing HR. We show that variation at amino acid 27 controlled this variation in HR-suppressing effects. We furthermore demonstrate that the B73 allele of ZmQCR7 can suppress HR induced by RPM1(D505 V), another autoactive R-gene, and that Arabidopsis homologs of ZmQCR7 can also suppress NLR-induced HR. The implications of these findings are discussed.}, number={5}, journal={PLANTA}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={He, Yijian and Kim, Saet-Byul and Balint-Kurti, Peter}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={1477–1485} }
 @article{he_karre_johal_christensen_balint-kurti_2019, title={A maize polygalacturonase functions as a suppressor of programmed cell death in plants}, volume={19}, ISSN={1471-2229}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1897-5}, DOI={10.1186/s12870-019-1897-5}, abstractNote={The hypersensitive defense response (HR) in plants is a fast, localized necrotic response around the point of pathogen ingress. HR is usually triggered by a pathogen recognition event mediated by a nucleotide-binding site, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) protein. The autoactive maize NLR gene Rp1-D21 confers a spontaneous HR response in the absence of pathogen recognition. Previous work identified a set of loci associated with variation in the strength of Rp1-D21-induced HR. A polygalacturonase gene homolog, here termed ZmPGH1, was identified as a possible causal gene at one of these loci on chromosome 7. Expression of ZmPGH1 inhibited the HR-inducing activity of both Rp1-D21 and that of another autoactive NLR, RPM1(D505V), in a Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression assay system. Overexpression of ZmPGH1 in a transposon insertion line of maize was associated with suppression of chemically-induced programmed cell death and with suppression of HR induced by Rp1-D21 in maize plants grown in the field. ZmPGH1 functions as a suppressor of programmed cell death induced by at least two autoactive NLR proteins and by two chemical inducers. These findings deepen our understanding of the control of the HR in plants.}, number={1}, journal={BMC Plant Biology}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={He, Yijian and Karre, Shailesh and Johal, Gurmukh S. and Christensen, Shawn A. and Balint-Kurti, Peter}, year={2019}, month={Jul} }
 @article{wang_he_strauch_olukolu_nielsen_li_balint-kurti_2015, title={Maize homologs of hydroxycinnamoyltransferase, a key enzyme in lignin biosynthesis, bind the nucleotide binding leucine-rich repeat Rp1 proteins to modulate the defense response}, volume={169}, number={3}, journal={Plant Physiology}, author={Wang, G. F. and He, Y. J. and Strauch, R. and Olukolu, B. A. and Nielsen, D. and Li, X. and Balint-Kurti, P. J.}, year={2015}, pages={2230–2243} }