Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers

A Galpha subunit controls zoospore motility and virulence in the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

The R3 resistance to Phytophthora infestans in potato is conferred by two closely linked R genes with distinct specificities.

Differences in intensity and specificity of hypersensitive response induction in Nicotiana spp. by INF1, INF2A, and INF2B of Phytophthora infestans.

Comparative genomics enabled the isolation of the R3a late blight resistance gene in potato.

The late blight resistance locus Rpi-bib3 from Solanum bulbocastanum belongs to a major late blight R gene cluster on chromosome 4 of potato.

Allele mining in Solanum: conserved homologues of Rpi-blb1 are identified in Solanum stoloniferum.

AFLP analysis reveals a lack of phylogenetic structure within Solanum section Petota.

Effector genomics accelerates discovery and functional profiling of potato disease resistance and phytophthora infestans avirulence genes.

In planta expression screens of Phytophthora infestans RXLR effectors reveal diverse phenotypes, including activation of the Solanum bulbocastanum disease resistance protein Rpi-blb2.

Phytophthora infestans isolates lacking class I ipiO variants are virulent on Rpi-blb1 potato.

A novel approach to locate Phytophthora infestans resistance genes on the potato genetic map.

Agroinfection-based high-throughput screening reveals specific recognition of INF elicitins in Solanum.

Active defence responses associated with non-host resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana to the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

Diversity, distribution, and evolution of Solanum bulbocastanum late blight resistance genes.

Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants.

Understanding and exploiting late blight resistance in the age of effectors.

SolRgene: an online database to explore disease resistance genes in tuber-bearing Solanum species.

Qualitative and quantitative late blight resistance in the potato cultivar Sarpo Mira is determined by the perception of five distinct RXLR effectors.

Host protein BSL1 associates with Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR2 and the Solanum demissum Immune receptor R2 to mediate disease resistance.

Genome analyses of an aggressive and invasive lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen.

Mycorrhizal symbiosis: ancient signalling mechanisms co-opted.

Functional analysis of potato genes involved in quantitative resistance to Phytophthora infestans.