individual publications

• academic article

  • OEM--a new medium for rapid isolation of onion-pathogenic and onion-associated bacteria..  Journal of Microbiological Methods.  91:520-526. 2012
  • Eop1 from a Rubus strain of Erwinia amylovora functions as a host-range limiting factor. .  Phytopathology.  101:935-944. 2011
  • First Report of Enterobacter Bulb Decay of Onions Caused by Enterobacter cloacae in New York..  Plant Disease.  95:1581. 2011
  • First report of a bulb disease caused by Pantoea ananatis in New York. .  Plant Disease.  94:916. 2010
  • Apple proteins that interact with DspA/E, a pathogenicity effector of Erwinia amylovora, the fire blight pathogen.  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.  19:53-61. 2006
  • PR genes of apple: identification and expression in response to elicitors and inoculation with Erwinia amylovora.  BMC Plant Biology.  6:23. 2006
  • Downstream divergence of the ethylene signaling pathway for harpin-stimulated Arabidopsis growth and insect defense.  Plant Physiology.  136:3628-3638. 2004
  • Harpin-elicited hypersensitive cell death and pathogen resistance requires the NDR1 and EDS1 genes.  Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology.  62:317-326. 2003

• article

  • Better understanding of bacterial onion diseases in New York.  Onion World.  28:18-23. 2012
  • Understanding bacterial diseases of onion in New York 2012

• conference paper

  • Research yields greater understanding of bacterial diseases of onion in New York. 2012 Empire State Fruit & Vegetable Expo Proceedings. http://www.hort.cornell.edu/expo/2012proceedings.php.  2012 Empire State Fruit & Vegetable Expo Proceedings.. 6. 2012
  • Studies of bacterial problems of onion in New York -- 2010.  Proceedings of the 2011 Empire State Fruit & Vegetable Expo.. 105-107. 2011
  • Interaction of DspE/A, a pathogenicity/avirulence protein of Erwinia amylovora, with pre-ferredoxin from apple and its relationship to photosynthetic efficiency.  Proceedings X International Workshop on Fire Blight. 473-477. 2006
  • The fire blight resistance of apple clones in which DspE interacting proteins are silenced.  Acta Horticulturae. 509-513. 2006
  • DspE of Erwinia amylovora interacts with receptor kinases of apple.  Acta Horticulturae. 469-475. 2002
  • Gene expression in apple in response to inoculation with Erwinia amylovora.  Acta Horticulturae. 463-466. 2002

• document part

  • Transposon mutagenesis of Pantoea ananatis: Isolation and characterization of a Tn5-induced mutant with reduced virulence to onion.  144. 2010
  • Silencing of DspE interacting proteins increases resistance to fire blight of susceptible apple genotypes 2005
  • Silencing of Apple Proteins that Interact with DspE, a Pathogenicity Effector from Erwinia amylovora, increases resistance to fire blight 2004
  • Apple proteins that interact with DspE, a pathogenicity effector from Erwinia amylovora 2003
  • Silencing of Apple Proteins that Interact with DspE, a Pathogenicity Effector from Erwinia amylovora, as a Strategy to Increase Resistance to Fire Blight 2003