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  1. Inderbitzin, P and BG Turgeon.   (Pondering mating: Pneumocystis jirovecii, the human lung pathogen, selfs without mating type switching in contrast to its close relative, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. mBio, in press.
  2. Oide, S, FBerthiller, G Wiesenberger, G Adam and BG Turgeon. 2015. Individual and combined roles of malonichrome, ferricrocin, and TAFC siderophores in Fusarium graminearum pathogenic and sexual development. Front Microbiol. 2015 Jan 12;5:759. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00759. eCollection 2014.
  3. Sureka, S, A Chakravorty, EC Holmes, O Spassibojko, N Bhatt, D Wu, BG Turgeon. Standardization of functional reporter and antibiotic resistance cassettes to facilitate the genetic engineering of filamentous fungi. ACS Synthetic Biology; 3(12):960-2. DOI: 10.1021/sb5000143.
  4. Wang, W, D. Wu, H Pan, and BG Turgeon. Vel2 and Vos1 hold essential roles in ascospore and asexual spore development of the heterothallic maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus. Fungal Genet Biol., 70:113-24.
  5. Mateus, FS, JCF Silva, ESG Mizubuti, EF deAraújo, BJ Condon, BG Turgeon and MV de Queiroz. Characterization and potential evolutionary impact of transposable elements in the genome of Cochliobolus heterostrophus. BMC Genomics, 15:536.
  6. BJ Condon, S Oide, DM Gibson, S Krasnoff, and BG Turgeon. Reductive iron assimilation and intracellular siderophores assist extracellular siderophore-driven iron homeostasis and virulence.  Molec Plant Micro Interact., 8:793-808.
  7. Yun, S-H, OC Yoder and BG Turgeon, 2013. Structure and function of the mating-type locus in the homothallic ascomycete, Didymella zeae-maydis. Microbiology. 51(6).
  8. Zhang, N, NAI Zainudin, K Scher, BJ Condon, BA Horwitz, BG Turgeon.   Iron, oxidative stress and virulence: roles of iron-sensitive transcription factor Sre1 and the redox sensor ChAp1 in the maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus. Molec Plant Micro Interact. 12:1473-85.
  9. Wu, D and BG Turgeon.   Setosphaeria rostrata: Insights from the sequenced genome of Setosphaeria turcica. Fungal Genet Biol. doi:pii: S1087-1845(13)00155-2. 10.1016/j.fgb.2013.08.015. [Epub ahead of print].
  10. Condon BJ, D Wu, N Krasevec, BA Horwitz, and BG Turgeon. 2013. Comparative genomics of Cochliobolus In Genomics of Plant-Associated Fungi and Oomycetes. Eds: R Dean, A Lichens Park and C Kole. Series Ed. D. Gross, A. Lichens-Park and C. Kole. Springer.
  11. Horwitz, BA, BJ Condon, BG Turgeon.  Cochliobolus heterostrophus, a Dothideomycete pathogen of maize. In Genomics of Soil- and Plant-Associated Fungi. Series Ed.: BA Horwitz, PK Mukherjee, M Mukherjee and CP. Kubicek. Springer.
  12. Xue, C, D Wu, BJ Condon, Q Bi, W Wang, BG Turgeon.   Efficient gene knockout in the maize pathogen Setosphaeria turcica using Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation (ATMT). Phytopathology. 103(6):641-7.
  13. Condon, BJ, Leng, Y, Wu, D, Bushley, KE, Ohm, RA, Otillar, R, Martin, J, Schackwitz, W, Grimwood, J, MohdZainudin, N, Xue, C, Wang, R, Dhillon, B, Tu, ZJ, Steffenson, BJ, Salamov, A, Sun, H, Lowry, S LaButti, K, Han, J, Copeland, A, Lindquist, E, Lucas, S, Barry, K, Schmutz, J, Baker, S, Grigoriev, IV, Zhong, S and Turgeon, BG.   Comparative genome structure, secondary metabolite and effector coding capacity across Cochliobolus pathogens.  PLoS Genet. 9(1):e1003233. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen. 1003233.  Epub 2013 Jan 24.
  14. Bi, Q, D Wu, X Zhu, BG Turgeon.  2013.  Cochliobolus heterostrophus Llm1 – A Lae1-like methyltransferase regulates T-toxin production, virulence, and development.  Fungal Genet Biol. 51:21-33.
  15. Manning VA, I Pandelova, B Dhillon, LJ Wilhelm, SB Goodwin, AM Berlin, M Figueroa, M Freitag, JK Hane, B Henrissat, WH Holman, CD Kodira, J Martin, RP Oliver, B Robbertse, W Schackwitz, DC Schwartz, JW Spatafora, BG Turgeon, C Yandava, S Young , S Zhou, Q Zeng, IV Grigoriev, LJ Ma, LM Ciuffetti. Comparative genomics of a plant-pathogenic fungus, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, reveals transduplication and the impact of repeat elements on pathogenicity and population divergence. 2013. G3 (Bethesda). 3(1):41-63.
  16. Ohm, RA, N Feau, B Henrissat, CL Schoch, BA Horwitz, KW Barry, BJ Condon, AC Copeland, B Dhillon, F Glaser, CN Hesse, I Kosti, K Labutti, EA Lindquist, S Lucas, AA Salamov, RE Bradshaw, L Ciuffetti, RC Hamelin, GH Kema, C Lawrence, JA Scott, JW Spatafora, BG Turgeon, PJ de Wit, S Zhong, SB Goodwin, IV Grigoriev..   Diverse lifestyles and strategies of plant pathogenesis encoded in the genomes of eighteen dothideomycetes fungi. PLoS Pathogens. 8(12):e1003037.
  17. Sevim, A,  Donzelli, BGG, Wu, D, Demirbag, Z, Gibson, DM, Turgeon, BG.  2012. Hydrophobin genes of the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum, are differentially expressed and corresponding mutants are decreased in virulence. Curr Genet. 58:79-92.
  18. Wu, D, Oide, S, Zhang, N, Choi, M-Y. and Turgeon, BG.  2012. ChLae1 and ChVel1 regulate T-toxin production, virulence, oxidative stress response, and development of the maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus. PLoS Pathog. e1002542.
  19. Lu, S-W, Yun, S-H, Lee, T, and Turgeon, B.G. Altering sexual reproductive mode by interspecific exchange of MAT loci.  Fungal Genet. & Biol. 48:714-724.
  20. Rouxel T, Grandaubert J, Hane JK, Hoede C, van de Wouw AP, Couloux A, Dominguez V, Anthouard V, Bally P, Bourras S, Cozijnsen AJ, Ciuffetti LM, Degrave A, Dilmaghani A, Duret L, Fudal I, Goodwin SB, Gout L, Glaser N, Linglin J, Kema GH, Lapalu N, Lawrence CB, May K, Meyer M, Ollivier B, Poulain J, Schoch CL, Simon A, Spatafora JW, Stachowiak A, Turgeon, B.G., Tyler BM, Vincent D, Weissenbach J, Amselem J, Quesneville H, Oliver RP, Wincker P, Balesdent MH, Howlett BJ. 2011. Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations. Nat Commun. 2:202.
  21. Martin, T, Lu, S-W, van Tilbeurgh, H, Ripoll, DR, Dixelius, C, Turgeon, B.G., and R Debuchy. Tracing the origin of the fungal α1 domain places its ancestor in the HMG-box superfamily: implication for fungal mating-type evolution.   PLoS One. e15199.
  22. Oide, S, Liu, J, Yun, S-H, Wu, D, Michev, A, Choi, MY, Horwitz, BA, and B.G. Turgeon. Histidine kinase two component response regulator proteins regulate reproductive development, virulence, and stress responses of the fungal cereal pathogens Cochliobolus heterostrophus and Gibberella zeae. Eukaryotic Cell, 9:1867–1880
  23. Turgeon BG, Condon B, Liu J, Zhang N.   Protoplast transformation of filamentous fungi. Methods Mol Biol. 638:3-19.
  24. Ma LJ, van der Does HC, Borkovich KA, Coleman JJ, Daboussi MJ, Di Pietro A, Dufresne M, Freitag M, Grabherr M, Henrissat B, Houterman PM, Kang S, Shim WB, Woloshuk C, Xie X, Xu JR, Antoniw J, Baker SE, Bluhm BH, Breakspear A, Brown DW, Butchko RA, Chapman S, Coulson R, Coutinho PM, Danchin EG, Diener A, Gale LR, Gardiner DM, Goff S, Hammond-Kosack KE, Hilburn K, Hua-Van A, Jonkers W, Kazan K, Kodira CD, Koehrsen M, Kumar L, Lee YH, Li L, Manners JM, Miranda-Saavedra D, Mukherjee M, Park G, Park J, Park SY, Proctor RH, Regev A, Ruiz-Roldan MC, Sain D, Sakthikumar S, Sykes S, Schwartz DC, Turgeon B.G., Wapinski I, Yoder O, Young S, Zeng Q, Zhou S, Galagan J, Cuomo CA, Kistler HC, Rep M.2010 Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium. Nature. 464:367-73.
  25. Inderbitzin, P., T. Asvarak, and B. G. Turgeon. 2010. Six new genes required for production of T-toxin, a polyketide determinant of high virulence of Cochliobolus heterostrophus to maize. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 23:458-72
  26. Bushley, K.E., B.G. Turgeon.  2010.  Phylogenomics reveals subfamilies of fungal nonribosomal peptide synthetases and their evolutionary relationships.  BMC Evol. Biol. 10:26.
  27. Turgeon B.G. and K. Bushley.  2009.  Secondary metabolism. In Cellular and Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi.  Eds K. Borkovich, D. Ebbole, M. Momany, ASM press.ASM. pp 376-395.
  28. Inderbitzin,  P, T. Asvarak, and B.G. Turgeon. 2009. Six New Genes Required for Production of T-Toxin, a Polyketide Determinant of High Virulence of Cochliobolus heterostrophus to Maize.  Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 23:4.
  29. Baker S.E., J. Thykaer, W.E. Adney, T.S. Brettin, F.J. Brockman, P. D’Haeseleer, A.D. Martinez, R.M. Miller, D.S. Rokhsar, C.W. Schadt, T.G. Torok, J. Bennett, R.M. Berka, S.P. Briggs, J. Heitman, J. Taylor, B.G. Turgeon, M. Werner-Washburne, M.E. Himmel.  2008.  Fungal genome sequencing and bioenergy.  Fungal Biol Rev, 22:1-5.
  30. Bushley KE, Ripoll DR, Turgeon 2008.  Module evolution and substrate specificity of fungal nonribosomal peptide synthetases involved in siderophore biosynthesis.  BMC Evol Biol. 8:328.
  31. Haas H, Eisendle M, Turgeon 2008.  Siderophores in fungal physiology and virulence. Annu Rev Phytopathol.;46:149-87.
  32. Turgeon BG, Oide S, Bushley K. Creating and screening Cochliobolus heterostrophus non-ribosomal peptide synthetase mutants.  Mycol Res. 112:200-6. Epub 2007 Nov 7.
  33. Cuomo, C.A., U. Guldener, J.-R. Xu. F. Trail, B.G. Turgeon et al. 2007. The Fusarium graminearum genome reveals a link between localized polymorphism and pathogen specialization. Science. 317:1400-02.
  34. Oide S, S.B. Krasnoff, D.M. Gibson, and B.G. Turgeon. 2007. Intracellular siderophores are essential for ascomycete sexual development in heterothallic Cochliobolus heterostrophus and homothallic Gibberella zeae. Eukaryot. Cell. 6:1339-53.
  35. Turgeon B.G. and R. Debuchy. 2007. Cochliobolus and Podospora: mechanisms of sex determination and the evolution of reproductive life style.  In; Sex in fungi: molecular determination and evolutionary implications.  Eds: J. Heitman, J. Kronstad, J. Taylor and L. Casselton.  ASM, p 93-121.
  36. Turgeon, B.G. and S.E. Baker.  2007.  Genetic and genomic dissection of the Cochliobolus heterostrophus Tox1 locus controlling biosynthesis of the virulence factor T-toxin. In: Adv. in Genetics.  Ed.  Jay Dunlap. Academic Press, p 219-261.
  37. R. Debuchy and B.G. Turgeon. 2006.  Mating-type structure, evolution, and function in Euascomycetes.  In: The Mycota I, Growth, differentiation, and sexuality.  Eds: U. Kues and R. Fischer, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. p 293-323.
  38. Oide, S, W. Moeder, S. Krasnoff, D.Gibson, H.Haas, K. Yoshioka, and B.G. Turgeon.  NPS6, encoding a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase involved in siderophore-mediated iron metabolism, is a conserved virulence determinant of plant pathogenic ascomycetes.  The Plant Cell, 2006 18(10):2836-53.
  39. Inderbitzin, P., R.A. Shoemaker, N.R. O’Neill, B.G. Turgeon, and M.L. Berbee.  2006. Systematics and mating systems of two fungal pathogens of opium poppy: the heterothallic Crivellia papaveracea with a Brachycladium penicillatum asexual state and a homothallic species with a B. papaveris asexual state. Can. J. of Botany, 84 (8): 1304-1326.
  40. Orbach, M.J. and B. G. Turgeon.  2006. The XXIII Fungal Genetics Conference, March 15-20, 2005, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific grove, CA.  Fungal Genetics and Biology, 43:669-678.
  41. Baker, S.E., S. Kroken, P. Inderbitzin, T. Asvarak, B-Y Li, L. Shi, O.C. Yoder, and B.G. Turgeon. 2006. Two Polyketide Synthase-Encoding Genes are Required for Biosynthesis of the Polyketide Virulence Factor, T-toxin, by Cochliobolus heterostrophus. Molec. Plant Micr. Inter. 19:139–149.
  42. Inderbitzin P, J. Harkness B.G. Turgeon, ML. Berbee 2005.  Lateral transfer of life history strategy in Stemphylium. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102:11390-5. Epub 2005 Jul 29.
  43. Lee, B-N, S. Kroken, D.Y-T Chou, B. Robbertse, O.C. Yoder, and B.G. Turgeon.  2005.  Functional analysis of all non-ribosomal peptide synthetases in Cochliobolus heterostrophus reveals a factor, NPS6, involved in virulence and resistance to oxidative stress.  Eukaryotic Cell, 4:545-555.
  44. Ganem, S., S-W Lu, B-N. Lee, D. Yu-Te Chou, R. Hadar, B.G. Turgeon*, and B.A. Horwitz*. 2004. A G protein b subunit of Cochliobolus heterostrophus involved in virulence, asexual and sexual reproductive ability and morphogenesis. Eukaryotic Cell 3: 1653-63 (*co-directed).
  45. Desjardins, A.E., D. Brown, S.-H. Yun, R. Proctor, T. Lee, R. Plattner, S-W Lu, and B. G. Turgeon.  2004.  Deletion and complementation of the mating type (MAT) locus of the wheat head blight pathogen Gibberella zeae.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:2437-44.
  46. Kroken S., Glass N.L., Taylor J.W., Baker S.E., Yoder O.C. and B.G. Turgeon.  2003. Phylogenomic analysis of type I polyketide synthases in pathogenic and saprobic ascomycetes.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.  100: 15670–15675.
  47. Robbertse B., O.C. Yoder, A. Nguyen, C. Schoch and B.G. Turgeon.  2003.  Deletion of all monofunctional catalase-encoding genes of Cochliobolus heterostrophus enhances oxidative stress sensitivity but does not affect virulence. Molec. Plant Micr. Inter.  16:1013-21.
  48. Catlett N.L., O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  2003.  Whole Genome Analysis of Two-Component Signal Transduction Genes in Fungal Pathogens.  Eukaryotic Cell. 2:1151–1161
  49. Lee, T. Lee, Y-W. Lee, S-H. Yun and B.G. Turgeon. 2003. Shifting fungal reproductive mode by manipulation of mating-type genes. Molec. Microbiol. 50:145-152.
  50. Lu, S-W, S. Kroken, B-N Lee, B. Robbertse, A.C.L. Churchill, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon. 2003.  A novel class of gene controlling virulence in plant pathogenic ascomycete fungi.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100:5980-5.
  51. Catlett N.L., B-N Lee, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  2003.  Split-Marker Recombination for Efficient Targeted Deletion of Fungal Genes.  Fungal Genet. Newsl. Online 50:9-11
  52. Conrad L. Schoch, J.R. Aist, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  2003.  A complete inventory of fungal kinesins in representative filamentous ascomycetes.   Fungal Genet. Biol. 39:1-15.
  53. Berbee M.L., B.P. Payne, G. Zhang, R.G. Roberts and B.G. Turgeon. 2003. Shared ITS DNA substitutions in isolates of opposite mating type reveal a recombining history for three presumed asexual species in the filamentous ascomycete genus Alternaria. Mycol. Res. 107:169-82.
  54. Turgeon, B. G., S. Kroken, B.-N. Lee, S. E. Baker, P. Amedeo, N. Catlett, U. Gunawardena, E. Wagner, B. Robbertse, J. Wu, O. C. Yoder, N. L. Glass, J. W. Taylor. 2002. Comparative Genomic Analysis of Fungal Plant Pathogens: Secondary Metabolites and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis. APSnet feature Story. July.
  55. Rose, M.R., S-H. Yun, T. Asvarak, S.W Lu, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  2002.  A decarboxylase at the Cochliobolus heterostrophus translocation-associated Tox1B locus is required for polyketide biosynthesis and high virulence on maize.  Molec. Plant Micr. Inter. 15:883-893.
  56. Li B-Y, W.K. Kwan, B.G. Turgeon, J. Wu, S. Baker, E. Li, X. Wang, T. Zhu, L.Shi.  2002.  Analysis of Differential Gene Expression by Ligation Specificity-Based Transcript Profiling. OMICS. A Journal of Integrative Biology. 6:175-185.
  57. Yoder, O.C and B.G. Turgeon.  2001.  Fungal genomics and pathogenicity.   Curr. Opin. Plant Biol.  4:315-21.
  58. McGuire, I. C., R.E. Marra, B.G Turgeon and M.G. Milgroom. 2001.  Analysis of mating-type genes in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. Fungal Genet. Biol. 34:131-44.
  59. Lee, T., S-H. Yun, K.T. Hodge, R.A. Humber, S.B. Krasnoff , G.B. Turgeon, O.C. Yoder, and D.M. Gibson.  2001.  Polyketide Synthase Genes in Insect-Pathogenic Fungi. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.  56:181-87.
  60. Turgeon B.G. and O.C. Yoder. Genome wide analysis of fungal pathogenicity to plants.  In: Biology of plant microbe interactions, Vol. 3 IC-MPMI Congress Proceedings:  Eds., S.A Leong, A. Bent, C. Allen and E. Tripplet.
  61. Turgeon, B.G. and S-W. Lu.  2000.  Evolution of pathogenicity in Cochliobolus heterostrophus. In: Metabolic Engineering for Molecular Breeding, pp70-89, 2000 Agricultural Biotechnology Symposium, Seoul National University, Korea.
  62. Turgeon, B.G. and S-W. Lu.  2000.  Evolution of host specific virulence in Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  In: Fungal Pathology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Ed. J.W.  Kronstad. 93-126.
  63. Yun, S.H., T. Arie, I. Kaneko, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon. 2000.  Molecular Organization of Mating Type Loci in Heterothallic, Homothallic and Asexual Gibberella/Fusarium Species. Fungal Genet. Biol.  31:7-20.
  64. Turgeon, B.G. and O.C. Yoder 2000. Proposed Nomenclature for Mating Type Genes of Filamentous Ascomycetes. Fungal Genet. Biol.  31:1-5
  65. Yun, S.H. and B.G. Turgeon. 1999.  Molecular comparisons of mating type loci and adjacent chromosomal regions from self-fertile and self-sterile Cochliobolus spp. Jap. J. of Plant Path. 15(3):131-136
  66. Shen, X, S.B. Krasnoff, S-W Lu, C.D. Dunbar, J. O’Neal, B.G. Turgeon, O.C. Yoder, D.M. Gibson and M.T. Hamann.  1999. Characterization of 6-epi-3-Anhydroophiobolin B from Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  J. Natural Prod. 62:895-897.
  67. Yun, S.H., M.L. Berbee, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1999.  The fungal self-fertile reproductive life style evolves from self-sterile ancestors.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96:5592-5597.
  68. Horwitz, B.A., A. Sharon, S.W. Lu, V. Ritter, T.M. Sandrock, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1999.  A G protein alpha subunit from Cochliobolus heterostrophus involved in mating and appressorium formation.  Fungal Genet. Biol. 26:19-32.
  69. Kodama, M., M. Rose, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1999.  The translocation-associated Tox1 locus of Cochliobolus heterostrophus is two genetic elements on two different chromosomes.  Genetics 151:585-596
  70. Christiansen, S.K., S. Wirsel, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1998.  The two Cochliobolus mating type genes are conserved among species but one of them is missing in C. victoriae.  Mycol. Res.  102:919-929.
  71. Wirsel, S., B.A. Horwitz, K. Yamaguchi, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1998.  Single mating type-specific genes and their 3′ UTRs control mating and fertility in Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  Mol. Gen. Genet.  259:272-281.
  72. Inoue, S., B.G. Turgeon, O.C. Yoder and J.R. Aist.  1998.  Role of fungal dynein in hyphal growth, microtubule organization, spindle pole body motility and nuclear migration.  J. Cell Sci. 111:1555-1566.
  73. Inoue, S., O.C. Yoder, B.G. Turgeon and J.R. Aist.  1998.  A cytoplasmic dynein required for mitotic aster formation in vivo.  J. Cell Sci.  111:2607-2614.
  74. Wu, Q., T.M. Sandrock, B.G. Turgeon, O.C. Yoder, S.G. Wirsel and J.R. Aist.  1998.  A fungal kinesin required for organelle motility, hyphal growth and morphogenesis.  Mol. Biol. Cell 9: 89-101.
  75. Yun, S.H., B.G. Turgeon and O.C. Yoder. 1998.  REMI-induced mutants of Mycosphaerella zeae-maydis lacking the polyketide PM-toxin are deficient in pathogenesis to corn.  Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 52:53-66.
  76. Arie, T., S.K. Christiansen, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1997.  Efficient cloning of ascomycete mating type genes by PCR amplification of the conserved MAT HMG box.  Fungal Genet. Biol. 21:118-130.
  77. Leubner-Metzger, G., B.A. Horwitz, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1997.  Transcripts at the mating type locus of Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  Mol. Gen. Genet. 256:661-673.
  78. Sharon, A., K. Yamaguchi, S.K. Christiansen, B.A. Horwitz, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1996.  An asexual fungus has the potential for sexual development.  Mol. Gen. Genet. 251:60-68.
  79. Wirsel, S., B.G. Turgeon and O.C. Yoder.  1996.  Deletion of the Cochliobolus heterostrophus mating type (MAT) locus promotes function of MAT transgenes.  Curr. Genet. 29:241-249.
  80. Yang, G., M.S. Rose, B.G. Turgeon and O.C. Yoder.  1996.  A polyketide synthase is required for fungal virulence and production of the polyketide T-toxin.  The Plant Cell 8:2139-2150.
  81. Yoder, O.C. and B.G. Turgeon.  1996.  Molecular genetic evaluation of fungal molecules for roles in pathogenesis to plants.  J. Genet. 75:425-440.
  82. Turgeon, B.G., M. Kodama, G. Yang, M.S. Rose, S.W. Lu and O.C. Yoder.  1995.  Function and chromosomal location of the Cochliobolus heterostrophus Tox1 locus.  Can. J. Bot. 73:S1071-S1076.
  83. Turgeon, B.G., A. Sharon, S. Wirsel, S.K. Christiansen, K. Yamaguchi and O.C. Yoder.  1995.  Structure and function of mating type genes in Cochliobolus spp. and asexual fungi.  Can. J. Bot. 73:S788-S783.
  84. Guillén, A., B.G. Turgeon, P.R. Thorson, C.R. Bronson and O.C. Yoder.  1994.  Linkage among melanin biosynthetic mutations in Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  Fungal Genet. Newsl. 41:41-42.
  85. Lu, S.W., L. Lyngholm, G. Yang, C.R. Bronson, O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1994.  Tagged mutations at the Tox1 locus of Cochliobolus heterostrophus using Restriction Enzyme Mediated Integration.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 91:12649-12653.
  86. Yang, G., B.G. Turgeon and O.C. Yoder.  1994.  Toxin-deficient mutants from a toxin-sensitive transformant of Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  Genetics 137:751-757.
  87. Mullin, P.G., B.G. Turgeon and O.C. Yoder.  1993.  Complementation of Cochliobolus heterostrophus trp- mutants produced by gene replacement.  Fungal Genet. Newsl. 40:51-53
  88. Turgeon, B.G., H. Bohlmann, L.M. Ciuffetti, S.K. Christiansen, G. Yang, W. Schäfer and O.C. Yoder. 1993.  Cloning and analysis of the mating type genes from Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  Mol. Gen. Genet.  238:270-284.
  89. Ciuffetti, L.M., O.C. Yoder and B.G. Turgeon.  1992.  A microbiological assay for host-specific fungal polyketide toxins.  Fungal Genet. Newsl. 39:18-19.
  90. Straubinger, B., E. Straubinger, S. Wirsel, B.G. Turgeon and O.C. Yoder.  1992.  Versatile transformation vectors carrying the bar gene of Streptomyces hygroscopicus.  Fungal Genet. Newsl. 39:82-83.
  91. Garber, R.C., B.G. Turgeon, E.U. Selker and O.C. Yoder.  1988.  Organization of ribosomal RNA genes in the fungus Cochliobolus heterostrophus.  Curr. Genet.  14: 573-582.
  92. Weltring, K., B.G. Turgeon, O.C. Yoder and H.D. VanEtten.  1988.  Isolation of a phytoalexin-detoxification gene from the plant pathogenic fungus Nectria haematacocca by expression in Aspergillus nidulans.  Gene: 68:335-344.
  93. Turgeon, B.G., R.C. Garber and O.C. Yoder.  1987.  Development of a fungal transformation system based on selection of sequences with promoter activity.  Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:3297-3305.
  94. Turgeon, B.G., W.D. MacRae, R.C. Garber, G.R. Fink and O.C. Yoder.  1986.  A cloned tryptophan synthesis gene from the Ascomycete Cochliobolus heterostrophus functions in Escherichia coli, yeast, and Aspergillus nidulans.  Gene 42:79-87.
  95. Turgeon, B.G. and W.D. Bauer.  1985.  Ultrastructure of infection thread development during infection of soybean by Rhizobium japonicum.  Planta 163:328-349.
  96. Turgeon, B.G., R.C. Garber and O.C. Yoder.  1985.  Transformation of the fungal maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus using the Aspergillus nidulans amdS gene.  Mol. Gen. Genet. 201:450-453.
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