@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={Genome-wide association (GWA) studies can identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) putatively underlying traits of interest, and nested association mapping (NAM) can further assess allelic series. Near-isogenic lines (NILs) can be used to characterize, dissect and validate QTL, but the development of NILs is costly. Previous studies have utilized limited numbers of NILs and introgression donors. We characterized a panel of 1270 maize NILs derived from crosses between 18 diverse inbred lines and the recurrent inbred parent B73, referred to as the nested NILs (nNILs). The nNILs were phenotyped for flowering time, height and resistance to three foliar diseases, and genotyped with genotyping-by-sequencing. Across traits, broad-sense heritability (0.4-0.8) was relatively high. The 896 genotyped nNILs contain 2638 introgressions, which span the entire genome with substantial overlap within and among allele donors. GWA with the whole panel identified 29 QTL for height and disease resistance with allelic variation across donors. To date, this is the largest and most diverse publicly available panel of maize NILs to be phenotypically and genotypically characterized. The nNILs are a valuable resource for the maize community, providing an extensive collection of introgressions from the founders of the maize NAM population in a B73 background combined with data on six agronomically important traits and from genotyping-by-sequencing. We demonstrate that the nNILs can be used for QTL mapping and allelic testing. The majority of nNILs had four or fewer introgressions, and could readily be used for future fine mapping studies.}, 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}, 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} }