Publications

2024

Lei Zhang, Qun Zhu, Yuanhua Tan, Miaomiao Deng, Lei Zhang, Yangrong Cao, Xiaoli Guo (2024) Mitogen-activated protein kinases MPK3 and MPK6 phosphorylate receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase CDL1 to regulate soybean basal immunity. The Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae008

2023

Ricky Critchfield, Jaden King, John Bonkowski, Darcy Telenko, Tom Creswell and Lei Zhang (2023) Characterization of Virulence Phenotypes of Heterodera glycines during 2020 in Indiana. Journal of Nematology DOI: 10.2478/jofnem-2023-0039
Travis R Faske, John D Mueller, J Ole Becker, Ernest Bernard, Carl A Bradley, Jason P Bond, Johan Desaeger, Jon D Eisenback, Zane Joseph Grabau, Jiahuai Hu, Robert C Kemerait, Alyssa Koehler, Kathy Lawrence, Hillary Mehl, Rachel E Rudolph, Edward Sikora, Steve Thomas, Nathan R Walker, Terry Wheeler, James Allen Wrather, Weimin Ye, Lei Zhang (2023) Summarized distribution of the southern root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, in field crops in the United States. Plant Health Progress https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-04-23-0031-BR

2021

Zhang, L, and Gleason, C. (2021) Transcriptome Analyses of Pre-parasitic and Parasitic Meloidogyne Chitwoodi Race 1 to Identify Putative Effector Genes. Journal of Nematology 53: e2021-84.
Bali, S*., Zhang, L*., Franco, J and Gleason, C. (2021) Biotechnological advances with applicability in potatoes for resistance against root-knot nematodes. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 70, 226-233 (*: authors with equal contributions)
Bali, S., Hu, S., Vining, K., Brown, C., Majtahedi, H., Zhang, L., Gleason, C., and Sathuvalli, V. (2021) Nematode Genome Announcement: Draft genome of Meloidogyne chitwoodi, an economically important pest of potato in the Pacific Northwest. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 34(8): 981-9860

2020

Zhang, L. and Gleason, C.A. (2020) Enhancing potato resistance against root-knot nematodes using a plant elicitor peptide delivered by bacteria. Nature Plants 6, 625-629.

Before 2020

Zhang, L. and Gleason, C.A. (2019) Loop-mediated isothermal amplification for the diagnostic detection of Meloidogyne chitwoodi and M. fallax. Plant Disease 103:1, 12-18.
Leelarasamee, N., Zhang, L. and Gleason, C.A. (2018) The root-knot nematode effector MiPFN3 disrupts plant actin filaments and promotes parasitism. PLOS Pathogens 14(3): e1006947.
Gleason, C.A., Polzin, F., Habash, S.S., Zhang, L., Utermark, J., Grundler, F.M. and Elashry, A. (2017) Identification of two Meloidogyne hapla genes and an investigation of their roles in the plant-nematode interaction. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 30: 101-122.
Zhang, L., Davies, L.J., and Elling, A.A. (2015) A Meloidogyne incognita effector is imported into the nucleus and exhibits transcriptional activation activity in planta. Molecular Plant Pathology 16: 48-60.
Davies, L.J., Zhang, L. and Elling, A.A. (2015) The Arabidopsis thaliana papain-like cysteine protease RD21 interacts with a root-knot nematode effector protein. Nematology 17: 655-666.

(2021) Bacterially secreted immunostimulants and methods to protect against pathogens