Director, UC Davis Genome Center
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wmichelmore@ucdavis.edu

Scofield, S.R. Tobias, C.M., Rathjen, J.P., Chang, J.H., Lavelle, D.T., Michelmore, R.W., and Staskawicz, B.J. (1996). Molecular basis of gene-for-gene specificity in bacterial speck disease of tomato. Science 274:2063-2065.

Meyers, B.C., Chin, D.B., Shen, K.A., Sivaramakrishnan, S., Lavelle, D.O., Zhang, Z., Michelmore, R.W. (1998). The major resistance gene cluster in lettuce is highly duplicated and spans several megabases. Plant Cell 10:1817-1832.

Meyers, B.C., Shen, K.A., Rohani, P., Gaut, B.S., Michelmore, R.W. (1998).  Receptor-like genes in the major resistance locus of lettuce are subject to divergent selection.  Plant Cell 10:1833-1846.

Michelmore, R.W. and Meyers, B.C. (1998). Clusters of resistance genes in plants evolve by divergent selection and a birth-and-death process. Genome Research 8:1113-1130. 

Rathjen, J.P., Chang, J.H., Staskawicz, B.S., Michelmore, R.W. (1999). Activated Pto mediates the AvrPto-dependent hypersensitive disease resistance response in N. benthamiana and tomato. EMBO J 18:3232-3240.

Chin, D.B., Arroyo-Garcia, R., Ochoa, O., Kesseli, R.V., Lavelle, D.O., Michelmore, R.W. (2001).  Recombination and spontaneous mutation at the major cluster of resistance genes in lettuce (Lactuca sativa). Genetics 157:831-849.

Chang, J.H., Tobias, C.M., Staskawicz, B.J., Michelmore, R.W. (2001). Functional studies of the bacterial avirulence protein AvrPto by mutational analysis. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 14:451-459.

Shen, K.A., Chin, D.B., Arroyo-Garcia, R., Ochoa, O.E., Lavelle, D.O., Wroblewski, T., Meyers B.C., and Michelmore, R.W. (2002). Dm3 is one member of a large constitutively-expressed family of NBS-LRR encoding genes. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 15:251-261.

Chang, J.H., Tai, Y.-S., Bernal, A.J., Lavelle, D.T., Staskawicz, B.J., Michelmore, R.W. (2002). Functional analysis of the Pto resistance gene family in tomato. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 15:281-191.

Kozik, A., Kochetkova, E., Michelmore, R.W. (2002). GenomePixelizer – a visualization program for comparative genomics within and between species. Bioinformatics 18:335-336.

Meyers, B.C., Morgante, M, and Michelmore, R.W. (2002). TIR-X and TIT-NBS proteins: two new families related to disease resistance TIR-NBS-LRR proteins encoded in Arabidopsis and other plant species. Plant Journal 32:77-92.

Meyers, B.C., Kozik, A., Griego, A., Kuang, H. and Michelmore, R.W. (2003). Genome-wide analysis of NBS-LRR-encoding genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 15:809-834.

Michelmore, R.W. (2003). Impact zone: genomics and breeding for durable disease resistance.  Current Opinion in Plant Biology 6:397-404.

Rose L.E., Bittner-Eddy, P.D., Langley, C.H., Holub, E.B., Michelmore, R.W., and Beynon, J.L. (2004). The maintenance of extreme amino acid diversity at the resistance gene RPP13 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 166:1517-1527.

Kuang, H., Woo, S.-S., Meyers, B., Nevo, E. and Michelmore, R.W. (2004). Multiple genetic processes result in heterogeneous rates of evolution within the major cluster of disease resistance genes in lettuce. Plant Cell 16:2870-2894.