individual publications

• academic article

  • Analyses of the secretomes of Erwinia amylovora and selected hrp mutants reveal novel type III secreted proteins and an effect of HrpJ on extracellular harpin levels.  Molecular Plant Pathology.  8:55-67. 2007
  • Erwinia amylovora secrets DspE, a pathogenicity factor and functional AvrE homolog through the Hrp (Type III Secretion) pathway.  Journal of Bacteriology.  180:2244-2247. 1998
  • Homology and functional similarity of an hrp-linked pathogenicity locus, dspEF, of Erwinia amylovora and the avirulence locus avrE of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar tomato.  Proceedings at the National Academy of Science USA.  95:1325-1330. 1998
  • Characterization of bacteria that cause "bacterial shoot blight of pear" in Japan.  Acta Horticulturae.  411:179-181. 1996
  • Erwinia amylovora secretes harpin via a Type III pathway and contains a homolog of yopN of Yersinia spp.  Journal of Bacteriology.  178:1720-1730. 1996
  • Unified nomenclature for broadly conserved hrp genes of phytopathogenic bacteria.  Molecular Microbiology.  20:681-683. 1996
  • Erwinia chrysanthemi hrp genes and their involvement in soft rot pathogenesis and elicitation of the hypersensitive response.  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.  5:573-581. 1994

• booksection

  • Disease-specific genes of Erwinia amylovora: Keys to understanding pathogenesis and potential targets for disease control 2000

• conference paper

  • Secreted enigmatic proteins of Erwinia amylovora—for good and evil.  Acta Hortic.. 371-375. 1999
  • Secreted enigmatic proteins of Erwinia amylovora—for good and evil.  Proc. 8th Inter. Workshop on Fire Blight. 1998
  • Characterization of bacteria that cause “bacterial shoot blight of pear” in Japan.  Acta Hortic.. 179-181. 1996
  • The hrp gene cluster of Erwinia amylovora contains homologs of ysc genes of Yersinia.  Acta Hortic.. 265-271. 1996