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  1. Coordinated transcriptomic and metabolomic responses in rice reveal lignin-based physical barriers as key mechanisms of nonhost resistance to rust fungi

    Article • PLoS Genetics, May 2025, PLOS

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  2. Glycine-serine-rich effector PstGSRE4 in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici inhibits the activity of copper zinc superoxide dismutase to modulate immunity in wheat

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, July 2022, PLOS

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  3. SNP-based linkage mapping for validation of adult plant stripe rust resistance QTL in common wheat cultivar Chakwal 86

    Article • The Crop Journal, April 2019, Tsinghua University Press

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  4. A novel citrate synthase isoform contributes infection and stress resistance of the stripe rust fungus

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  5. Silencing PsKPP4 , a MAP kinase kinase kinase gene, reduces pathogenicity of the stripe rust fungus

    Article • Molecular Plant Pathology, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  6. A novel wheat NAC transcription factor, Ta NAC30, negatively regulates resistance of wheat to stripe rust

    Article • Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, April 2018, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  7. A novel MADS-box transcription factor PstMCM1-1 is responsible for full virulence of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, February 2018, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  8. Understanding the lifestyles and pathogenicity mechanisms of obligate biotrophic fungi in wheat: The emerging genomics era

    Article • The Crop Journal, February 2018, Tsinghua University Press

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  9. The transcription factor PstSTE12 is required for virulence of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

    Article • Molecular Plant Pathology, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  10. Overexpression of AtPAD4 in transgenic Brachypodium distachyon enhances resistance to Puccinia brachypodii

    Article • Plant Biology, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Xiaojie Wang, Professor Zhensheng Kang

  11. Basidiomycete-specific PsCaMKL1 encoding a CaMK-like protein kinase is required for full virulence of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ralf Thomas Voegele, Professor Zhensheng Kang

  12. A unique invertase is important for sugar absorption of an obligate biotrophic pathogen during infection

    Article • New Phytologist, July 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ralf Thomas Voegele, Professor Zhensheng Kang

  13. Puccinia striiformisf. sp.triticimicroRNA-like RNA 1 (Pst-milR1), an important pathogenicity factor ofPst, impairs wheat resistance toPstby suppressing the wheat pathogenesis-related 2 gene

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Xiaojie Wang, Professor Zhensheng Kang

  14. PSTha5a23, a candidate effector from the obligate biotrophic pathogen P uccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici , is involved in plant defense suppression and rust pathogenicity

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Xiaojie Wang, Professor Zhensheng Kang

  15. Cereal rusts

    Article • Annual Review of Phytopathology, August 2016, Annual Reviews

    Dr. Xianming Chen, Professor Zhensheng Kang

  16. An extracellular Zn-only superoxide dismutase from Puccinia striiformis confers enhanced resistance to host-derived oxidative stress

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2016, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  17. Two distinct Ras genes from Puccinia striiformis exhibit differential roles in rust pathogenicity and cell death

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, July 2016, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  18. Isolation and characterisation of cDNA encoding a wheat heavy metal-associated isoprenylated protein involved in stress responses

    Article • Plant Biology, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  19. Characterization of protein kinasePsSRPKL, a novel pathogenicity factor in the wheat stripe rust fungus

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang

  20. Defence responses including hypersensitive cell death, oxidative burst and defence gene expression in ‘Moro’ wheat inoculated withPuccinia striiformis

    Article • Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr André Laroche, Professor Zhensheng Kang

  21. The target gene of tae-miR164, a novel NAC transcription factor from the NAM subfamily, negatively regulates resistance of wheat to stripe rust

    Article • Molecular Plant Pathology, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Zhensheng Kang