Suma Chakravarthy

Tomato transcription factors pti4, pti5, and pti6 activate defense responses when expressed in Arabidopsis.

Strategies for development of functionally equivalent promoters with minimum sequence homology for transgene expression in plants: cis-elements in a novel DNA context versus domain swapping.

The tomato transcription factor Pti4 regulates defense-related gene expression via GCC box and non-GCC box cis elements.

Functional analysis of cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter: re-evaluation of the role of subdomains B5, B4 and B2 in promoter activity.

Analysis of promoter activity in transgenic plants by normalizing expression with a reference gene: anomalies due to the influence of the test promoter on the reference promoter.

A secreted effector protein (SNE1) from Phytophthora infestans is a broadly acting suppressor of programmed cell death.

Identification of Nicotiana benthamiana genes involved in pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity.

Methods to study PAMP-triggered immunity using tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana.

Genetic disassembly and combinatorial reassembly identify a minimal functional repertoire of type III effectors in Pseudomonas syringae.

A bacterial cysteine protease effector protein interferes with photosynthesis to suppress plant innate immune responses.