Alexander Idnurm

Globisporangium and Pythium Species Associated with Yield Decline of Pyrethrum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium) in Australia

Yuzhu Liu, Niloofar Vaghefi, Peter K Ades, Alexander Idnurm, Aabroo Ahmed, Paul WJ Taylor

Journal article  |  2023  |  Plants

Pyrethrum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium) cultivation in Australia, which accounts for the majority of global production of natural in..

A Polyphasic Approach including Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Paecilomyces paravariotii sp. nov. as a Cryptic Sister Species to P. variotii

Andrew S Urquhart, Alexander Idnurm

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Fungi

Whole genome sequencing is rapidly increasing phylogenetic resolution across many groups of fungi. To improve sequencing coverage ..

Isolation of a fungal calcineurin A mutant suggests that amoebae can counter-select virulence attributes of microbes

Alexander Idnurm

Journal article  |  2023  |  MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Evolutionary selection pressures that resulted in microbes found within environmental reservoirs that can cause diseases in animal..

A new family of structurally conserved fungal effectors displays epistatic interactions with plant resistance proteins.

Noureddine Lazar, Carl H Mesarich, Yohann Petit-Houdenot, Nacera Talbi, Ines Li de la Sierra-Gallay, Emilie Zélie, Karine Blondeau, Jérôme Gracy, Bénédicte Ollivier, Françoise Blaise, Thierry Rouxel, Marie-Hélène Balesdent, Alexander Idnurm, Herman van Tilbeurgh, Isabelle Fudal

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLoS Pathog

Recognition of a pathogen avirulence (AVR) effector protein by a cognate plant resistance (R) protein triggers a set of immune res..

Independent breakdown events of the Brassica napus Rlm7 resistance gene including via the off-target impact of a dual-specificity avirulence interaction

Angela P Van de Wouw, Elizabeth M Sheedy, Andrew H Ware, Stephen J Marcroft, Alexander Idnurm

Journal article  |  2022  |  MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Protection of many crops is achieved through the use of genetic resistance. Leptosphaeria maculans, the causal agent of blackleg d..

Sexual reproduction is the null hypothesis for life cycles of rust fungi.

Alistair R McTaggart, Timothy Y James, Alexander Idnurm, Robert F Park, Louise S Shuey, Michelle NK Demers, M Catherine Aime

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLoS Pathog

Sexual reproduction, mutation, and reassortment of nuclei increase genotypic diversity in rust fungi. Sexual reproduction is inher..

Root-TRAPR: a modular plant growth device to visualize root development and monitor growth parameters, as applied to an elicitor response of Cannabis sativa

Pipob Suwanchaikasem, Alexander Idnurm, Jamie Selby-Pham, Robert Walker, Berin A Boughton

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLANT METHODS

BACKGROUND: Plant growth devices, for example, rhizoponics, rhizoboxes, and ecosystem fabrication (EcoFAB), have been developed to..

A large transposable element mediates metal resistance in the fungus Paecilomyces variotii.

Andrew S Urquhart, Nicholas F Chong, Yongqing Yang, Alexander Idnurm

Journal article  |  2022  |  Curr Biol

The horizontal transfer of large gene clusters by mobile elements is a key driver of prokaryotic adaptation in response to environ..

Fungicide sensitivity and resistance in the blackleg fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans, across canola growing regions in Australia

AP Van de Wouw, JL Scanlan, SJ Marcroft, AJ Smith, EM Sheedy, NW Perndt, CE Harrison, LM Forsyth, A Idnurm

Journal article  |  2021  |  CROP & PASTURE SCIENCE

Fungicide use has become a fundamental part of many crop protection systems around the world, including to control blackleg diseas..

Identification of the ergC gene involved in polyene drug sensitivity in the Mucorales species Phycomyces blakesleeanus

Alexander Idnurm, Melvin Xu

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

BACKGROUND: A strain of Phycomyces blakesleeanus (Mucorales, Mucoromycota) that was previously isolated after ultraviolet mutagene..