| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Type III Secretion Machines: Bacterial Devices for Protein Delivery into Host Cells | Science | 1999 | 1,152 |
| 2 | Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis | Science | 2006 | 1,059 |
| 3 | Systemic acquired resistance induced by localized virus infections in plants | Virology | 1961 | 802 |
| 4 | Harpin, elicitor of the hypersensitive response produced by the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora | Science | 1992 | 750 |
| 5 | Benzothiadiazole induces disease resistance in Arabidopsis by activation of the systemic acquired resistance signal transduction pathway | Plant Journal | 1996 | 717 |
| 6 | Cucumber MOSAIC Virus | Advances in Virus Research | 1992 | 698 |
| 7 | TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM EFFECTOR PROTEINS: Double Agents in Bacterial Disease and Plant Defense | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2004 | 684 |
| 8 | Phytophthora infestans: the plant (and R gene) destroyer | Molecular Plant Pathology | 2008 | 649 |
| 9 | The type III (Hrp) secretion pathway of plant pathogenic bacteria: trafficking harpins, Avr proteins, and death | Journal of Bacteriology | 1997 | 498 |
| 10 | RECOMBINATION AND THE MULTILOCUS STRUCTURE OF FUNGAL POPULATIONS | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 1996 | 496 |
| 11 | Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae harpinPss: A protein that is secreted via the hrp pathway and elicits the hypersensitive response in plants | Cell | 1993 | 489 |
| 12 | CONTROL OF PAPAYA RINGSPOT VIRUS IN PAPAYA: A Case Study | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 1998 | 487 |
| 13 | BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CHESTNUT BLIGHT WITH HYPOVIRULENCE: A Critical Analysis | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2004 | 409 |
| 14 | Impact of soil health management practices on soilborne pathogens, nematodes and root diseases of vegetable crops | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 401 |
| 15 | Panglobal distribution of a single clonal lineage of the Irish potato famine fungus. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1994 | 397 |
| 16 | Methods for assessing the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities | Applied Soil Ecology | 2000 | 391 |
| 17 | Molecular Phylogenetic Diversity, Multilocus Haplotype Nomenclature, and In Vitro Antifungal Resistance within theFusarium solaniSpecies Complex | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2008 | 391 |
| 18 | Identification of genes differentially expressed during interaction of resistant and susceptible apple cultivars (Malus × domestica) with Erwinia amylovora | BMC Plant Biology | 2010 | 388 |
| 19 | Viral Movement Proteins as Probes for Intracellular and Intercellular Trafficking in Plants | Plant Cell | 1999 | 361 |
| 20 | Transmission of plant viruses by aphid vectors | Molecular Plant Pathology | 2004 | 345 |
| 21 | LUTEOVIRUS-APHIDINTERACTIONS | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2003 | 338 |
| 22 | MICROBIAL DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS IN THE SPERMOSPHERE | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2004 | 318 |
| 23 | Localized acquired resistance to plant virus infection in hypersensitive hosts | Virology | 1961 | 316 |
| 24 | NPS6, Encoding a Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Involved in Siderophore-Mediated Iron Metabolism, Is a Conserved Virulence Determinant of Plant Pathogenic Ascomycetes | Plant Cell | 2006 | 311 |
| 25 | Proposed Nomenclature for Mating Type Genes of Filamentous Ascomycetes | Fungal Genetics and Biology | 2000 | 305 |
| 26 | Whole-Genome Sequence Analysis of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448A Reveals Divergence among Pathovars in Genes Involved in Virulence and Transposition | Journal of Bacteriology | 2005 | 301 |
| 27 | Mechanisms of Arthropod Transmission of Plant and Animal Viruses | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 1999 | 298 |
| 28 | Deductions about the Number, Organization, and Evolution of Genes in the Tomato Genome Based on Analysis of a Large Expressed Sequence Tag Collection and Selective Genomic Sequencing | Plant Cell | 2002 | 283 |
| 29 | A fungal gene for antibiotic resistance on a dispensable ("B") chromosome | Science | 1991 | 280 |
| 30 | Genomewide identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 promoters controlled by the HrpL alternative sigma factor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2002 | 280 |
| 31 | A Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 mutant lacking the type III effector HopQ1-1 is able to cause disease in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana | Plant Journal | 2007 | 278 |
| 32 | Ultrastructural analysis of hyphal tip cell growth in fungi: Spitzenkörper, cytoskeleton and endomembranes after freeze substitution | Journal of Cell Science | 1981 | 278 |
| 33 | An overview of the systematics of the Sordariomycetes based on a four-gene phylogeny | Mycologia | 2006 | 275 |
| 34 | Identification ofPseudomonas syringaetype III effectors that can suppress programmed cell death in plants and yeast | Plant Journal | 2004 | 273 |
| 35 | Bacterial Pathogens in Plants: Life up against the Wall. | Plant Cell | 1996 | 269 |
| 36 | Cloning and genetic analyses of two highly polymorphic, moderately repetitive nuclear DNAs from Phytophthora infestans | Current Genetics | 1992 | 266 |
| 37 | Plants transformed with a tobacco mosaic virus nonstructural gene sequence are resistant to the virus. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1990 | 262 |
| 38 | Evolution of Plant Pathogenicity inStreptomyces | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2006 | 260 |
| 39 | Development of a fungal transformation system based on selection of sequences with promoter activity. | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1987 | 255 |
| 40 | Laser microsurgery in cell and developmental biology | Science | 1981 | 242 |
| 41 | Virus Resistant Papaya Plants Derived from Tissues Bombarded with the Coat Protein Gene of Papaya Ringspot Virus | Nature Biotechnology | 1992 | 240 |
| 42 | Evolution of the fungal self-fertile reproductive life style from self-sterile ancestors | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1999 | 238 |
| 43 | Tagged mutations at the Tox1 locus of Cochliobolus heterostrophus by restriction enzyme-mediated integration. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1994 | 233 |
| 44 | Full-genome analysis of resistance gene homologues in rice | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2004 | 233 |
| 45 | Isolation of DNA from filamentous fungi and separation into nuclear, mitochondrial, ribosomal, and plasmid components | Analytical Biochemistry | 1983 | 232 |
| 46 | Unified nomenclature for broadly conserved hrp genes of phytopathogenic bacteria | Molecular Microbiology | 1996 | 232 |
| 47 | Molecular Organization of Mating Type Loci in Heterothallic, Homothallic, and Asexual Gibberella/Fusarium Species | Fungal Genetics and Biology | 2000 | 231 |
| 48 | Harpin induces disease resistance in Arabidopsis through the systemic acquired resistance pathway mediated by salicylic acid and the NIM1 gene | Plant Journal | 1999 | 227 |
| 49 | Pseudomonas syringae Hrp type III secretion system and effector proteins | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2000 | 227 |
| 50 | APPLICATION OF MATING TYPE GENE TECHNOLOGY TO PROBLEMS IN FUNGAL BIOLOGY | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 1998 | 225 |
