Selected Publications
Lim, M. T. S., and B. N. Kunkel. (2004) The Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrRpt2 promotes virulence independently of RIN4, a predicted virulence target in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 40:790-798. (Abstract/PDF)
Brooks, D. M, G. Hernandez-Guzman, A. P. Kloek, F. Alarcn-Chaidez, A. Sreedharan, V. Rangaswamy, A. Pealoza-Vazquez, C. L. Bender and B. N. Kunkel. (2004) .Identification and characterization of a well-defined series coronatine biosynthetic mutants of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 17:162-274.
Z. Chen, A. P. Kloek, A. Cuzick, D. Tang, W. Moeder, D. Klessig, J. McDowell, R. Innes, and B. N. Kunkel (2004) ThePseudomonas syringae AvrRpt2 protein functions downstream or independently of salicylic acid to promote virulence on Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 37:494-504. (Abstract/PDF)
Preiter, K., Brooks, D. M., Penaloza-Vazquez, A., Sreedharan, A., Bender, C. L., and B. N. Kunkel. (2005) . Novel virulence gene of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar tomato strain DC3000. J. Bacteriol. 187: 7805-14. (Abstract/PDF)
Lim, M. T. S. and B. N. Kunkel. (2005) The Pseudomonas syringae gene avrRpt2 contributes to the virulence on tomato.Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact 18:626-633.
Brooks, D. M., Bender, C. L., and B. N. Kunkel. (2005) The Pseudomonas syringae phytotoxin coronatine promotes virulence by overcoming salicylic acid-dependent defences in Arabidopsis thaliana.. Mol. Plant Pathol 6: 629-639. (Abstract/PDF)
Laurie-Berry, N., Joardar, V., Street, I. H., and B. N. Kunkel. (2006) The Arabidopsis thaliana JASMONATE INSENSITIVE 1 gene is required for suppression of salicylic acid-dependent defenses during infection by Pseudomonas syringae. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 19: 789-800.
Sreedharan, A., Penaloza-Vazquez, A., Kunkel, B. N., and Bender, C. L. 2006. CorR regulates multiple components of virulence in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 19: 768-779. (Abstract/PDF)
Uppalapati, S. R, Ishiga, Y. Wangdi, W., Kunkel, B. N. Anand, A., Mysore, K. S and C. L. Bender. 2007. The phytotoxin coronatine contributes to pathogen fitness and is required for suppression of salicylic acid accumulation in tomato inoculated with Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 20:955-965. (Abstract/PDF)
Chen, Z., Agnew, J. L., Cohen, J. D., He, P., Shan, L.,Sheen, J. and B. N. Kunkel. 2007. Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrRpt2 alters Arabidopsis thaliana auxin physiology. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 104: 20131-20136. (Abstract/PDF)
Mellgren, E. M., Kloek, Andrew P. and B. N. Kunkel, 2009. Mqo, a tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme, is required for virulence of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato strain DC3000 on Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Bacteriol. 191:3132-3141. (Abstract/PDF)
Demianski. A. J., Chung, K. Mi, and B. N. Kunkel. 2012. Analysis of JAZ gene expression during Pseudomonas syringae pathogenesis reveals that JIN1/AtMYC2 regulates only a subset of JAZ genes and that JAZ10 is a negative regulator of disease symptom development. Mol Plant Pathol. 13: 46–57. (Abstract/PDF)
Melotto, M. and B. N. Kunkel, 2013. Virulence strategies of plant pathogenic bacteria. In: The Prokaryotes, 4th Ed. Rosenberg E, Stackebrand E, DeLong EF, Thompson F, Lory S (eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Abstract/PDF)
Mutka, A. M., Fawley, S., Tsao, T., and B. N. Kunkel. 2013. Auxin promotes susceptibility to Pseudomonas syringae via a mechanism independent of suppression of salicylic acid-mediated defenses. Plant J. 74: 746–754 (Abstract/PDF)
Cui, F., Wu, S., Sun, W., Coaker, G., Kunkel, B. N., He, P. and Shan, L. 2013. Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrRpt2 promotes pathogen virulence via stimulating Arabidopsis Aux/IAA protein turnover. Plant Physiol. 162: 1018–1029 (Abstract/PDF)
Prigge, M., Greenham, K., Zhang, Y., Santner, A., Castillejo, C., Mutka, A. M., O'Malley, R. C., Ecker, J.R., Kunkel, B. N., and Estelle, M. 2016. The Arabidopsis Auxin Receptor F-box proteins AFB4 and AFB5 are Required for Response to the Synthetic Auxin Picloram. Genes Genomes Genetics 6:1383-90. (Abstract/PDF)
McClerklin, S. A., Lee, S. G., Harper, C. P., Nwumeh, R., Jez, J.M. and Kunkel, B.N. 2018. Indole-3-acetaldehyde dehydrogenase-dependent auxin synthesis contributes to virulence of Pseudomonas syringae strain DC3000. PLoS Pathog. 2018 Jan 2;14(1):e1006811. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006811. (Abstract/PDF)
Kunkel, B. N. and Harper, C. P. 2018. The roles of auxin during interactions between bacterial plant pathogens and their hosts. J. Exp. Bot. 69:245-254. https://doi.org/10.1039/jxb/erx447