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BIO1OF - Organization and Function of Cells and Organisms

BIO1PS - Plant Science

BOTILP - Inner Life of Plants

BOT3PB - Plant Biotechnology - analysis of plant gene function, plant genomics and genetics

BOT3ABT - Agricultural Biotechnology

BOT5BPP - Biosecurity Plant Pests: Pathogens

 Mann, R.A., Blom, J., Bühlmann, A., Plummer, K.M., Beer, S.V., Luck, J.E., Goesmann, A., Smits, T.H.M. (2012) Comparative analysis of the Hrp pathogenicity island of Rubus- and Spiraeoideae-infecting Erwinia amylovora strains identifies the IT region as a remnant of an integrative conjugative element. Gene 504 (2012) 6–12.

Joëlle Amselem et al.  (2011) Genomic analysis of the necrotrophic fungal pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea. PLoS Genetics 7(8): e1002230. 

Vincent G. M. Bus, Erik H.A. Rikkerink, Valérie Caffier, Charles-Eric Durel, and Kim M. Plummer. (2011) Revision of the Nomenclature of the Differential Host-Pathogen Interactions of Venturia inaequalis and Malus. Annual Review of Phytopathology Volume 49:391–413. 

Edwige J.F. Souleyre, Sean D.G. Marshall, John G. Oakeshott, Robyn J. Russell, Kim M. Plummer, Richard D. Newcomb. (2011) Biochemical characterization of MdCXE1, a carboxylesterase from apple that is expressed during fruit ripening. Phytochemistry 72 564–571.

Rachel Powney, Steven V. Beer, Kim Plummer, Jo Luck, and Brendan Rodoni (2011). The specificity of PCR-based protocols for detection of Erwinia amylovora. Australasian Plant Pathology 40(1): 87-97

Joanna K, Bowen, Carl H. Mesarich, Vincent G.M. Bus, Robert M. Beresford, Kim M. Plummer and Matthew D. Templeton (2011) Venturia inaequalis: the causal agent of apple scab.   Molecular Plant Pathology 12(2):105.   

Rachel Powney, Theo H.M. Smits, Tim Sawbridge, Beatrice Frey, Jochen Blom, Jürg E. Frey, Kim M. Plummer, Steven V. Beer, Joanne Luck, Brion Duffy, and Brendan Rodoni. (2011) Genome Sequence of an Erwinia amylovora Strain with Restricted Pathogenicity to Rubus Plants. J. Bacteriology 193: 785 - 786. 

Yucel, R., Bird, F., Blanksby, T., Valenta, K., Gendall, A., Plummer, K.M., Malone, B., Harvey, A. (2009) Association for Academic Language and Learning A broad based, grass-roots, community of practice achieving curriculum reform in first year biology. Journal of Academic Language & Learning 3(2): 26-35

Bus, V., Rikkerink, E., Aldwinckle, H.S., Caffier, V., Durel, C.E., Gardiner, S., Gessler, C., Groenwold, R., Laurens, F., Cam, B.L., Luby, J., Meulenbroek, B., Kellerhals, M., Parisi, L., Patocchi, A., Plummer, K., Schouten, H.J., Tartarini, S., Van De Weg, W.E. (2009) A proposal for the nomenclature of Venturia inaequalis races. Acta Horticulturae, 814 pp. 739-746.         

Bowen, J.K., Mesarich, C.H., Rees-George, J., Cui, W., Fitzgerald, A, Win, J., Plummer K.M. and Templeton M.D. (2009) Candidate effector gene identification in the ascomycete fungal phytopathogen Venturia inaequalis by expressed sequence tag analysis. Molecular Plant Pathology 10( 3 ): 431– 448 

Nataliya Kucheryava, Joanna K. Bowen, Paul W. Sutherland, Joshua J. Conolly, Carl H. Mesarich, Erik H.A. Rikkerink, Eric Kemen, Kim M. Plummer, Matthias Hahn and Matthew D. Templeton (2008) Two novel Venturia inaequalis genes induced upon morphogenetic differentiation during infection and in vitro growth on cellophane. Fungal Genetics and Biology 45: 1329-1339.

Rachel Powney, Kim M. Plummer, Jo Luck, Brendan Rodoni, Steven V. Beer (2008) Evaluation of PCR-based protocols for the detection of Erwinia amylovora. Acta Horticulturae, 793 pp. 505-512. 

Xing Zhang Tong, Xiuwen Zhang, Kim M. Plummer, Kathryn M. Stowell, Patrick A. Sullivan, and Peter C. Farley (2007)GcSTUA, an APSES transcription factor, is required for generation of appressorial turgor pressure and full pathogenicity of Glomerella cingulata. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 20(9): 1102–1111

Nadeesha R. Ileperuma, Sean D. G. Marshall, Christopher J. Squire, Heather M. Baker, John G. Oakeshott, Robyn J. Russell, Kim M. Plummer, Richard D. Newcomb and Edward N. Baker (2007) High Resolution Crystal Structure of the Plant Carboxylesterase AeCXE1, from Actinidia eriantha, and its Complex with a High Affinity Inhibitor Paraoxon. Biochemistry 46 (7): 1851-1859

Joanne L Simons, Carolyn A Napoli, Bart J Janssen, Kim M Plummer, and Kimberley C Snowden (2007) Analysis of the DECREASED APICAL DOMINANCE (DAD) genes of Petunia hybrida in the control of axillary branching. Plant Physiology 143: 697-706

C.T. Turner, M.W. Davy, R.M. MacDiarmid, K.M. Plummer, N.P. Birch and R.D. Newcomb. (2006) RNA interference in the light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) induced by double-stranded RNA feeding. Insect Molecular Biology: 15 (3): 383-391

Weld, R.J., Plummer, K.M., Carpenter, M.A. & Ridgway, H.J. (2006) Approaches to Functional Genomics in Filamentous Fungi. Cell Research 16: 31-44

Bus V.G.M., Rikkerink E.H.A., van de Weg E.W., Gardiner S.E., Bassett H.C.M., Kodde L.P., Parisi L., Laurens F.N.D., Rusholme R., Meulenbroek B. and Plummer, K.M. (2005) The Vr and Vx scab resistance genes in two differential hosts derived from Russian apple R12740-7A map to the same linkage group of apple. Molecular Breeding 15: 103-116

Bus V.G.M., Laurens F.N.D., van de Weg W.E., Rusholme R.L., Rikkerink E.H.A., Gardiner S.E., Bassett H.C.M., Kodde L.P. and Plummer K.M. (2005) The Vh8 locus of a new gene-for-gene interaction between Venturia inaequalis and the wild apple Malus sieversii is closely linked to the Vh2 locus in M. pumila R12740-7A. New Phytologist 166 (3): 1035-1049

Fitzgerald, A.M., van Kan J.A.L., Plummer, K.M. (2004) ‘Simultaneous Silencing of Multiple Genes in the Apple Scab Fungus, Venturia inaequalis, by Expression of RNA with Chimeric Inverted Repeats’. Fungal Genetics and Biology 41(10): 963-971

Plummer, K.M., Clark, S.J., Ellis, L.M., Loganathan, A., AL-Samarrai, T. H., Rikkerink, E. H. A., Sullivan, P.A., Templeton, M.D., Farley, P.C. (2004) Analysis of a secreted aspartic peptidase disruption mutant of Glomerella cingulata. European Journal of Plant Pathology 110: 265-274

Win, J, Greenwood, D.R., Plummer, K.M. (2003) Characterisation of a protein from Venturia inaequalis that induces necrosis in Malus carrying the Vm resistance gene. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 62 (4): 193-202

Fitzgerald, A.M., Mudge, A. M., Gleave, A., Plummer, K.M. (2003) Agrobacterium and PEG-mediated transformation of the phytopathogen Venturia inaequalis. Mycological Research 107 (7): 803-810

Marshall, S.D.G. Putterill, J.J., Plummer, K.M. and Newcomb, R.D. (2003) The Carboxylesterase Gene Family from Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57 (5): 487-500

Plummer, K.M. (2002) Proteomics and genomics tools for the war on apple scab. NZ Bio Science. 11 (4), 38-41.

Bowen, J., Lay-Yee, M., Plummer, K.M., Ferguson, I. (2002) The heat shock response is involved in thermotolerance in suspension-cell cultured applefruit cells. Journal of Plant Physiology 159, 599-606

Stehmann, C., Pennycook, S., Plummer, K.M. (2001) Molecular identification of a sexual interloper: the pear pathogen, Venturia pirina, has sex on apple. Phytopathology 91 (7), 633-641

Book chapters

• Plummer, K.M. (2003) Plant Pests and Diseases: Fungal Diseases. In Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences, Eds., B Thomas, DJ Murphy, BG Murray, Elsevier, London UK, pp 223-230.
• Plummer, K.M. (2003) GM of pest and disease resistance: Fungal pathogens. In Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences, Eds., B Thomas, DJ Murphy, BG Murray, Elsevier, London UK, pp 253-258.
• Plummer, K.M., Win, J., Greenwood, D. R. (2003) Characterisation of avirulence in the apple scab fungus. Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions Vol 4 Eds., I Tikhonovich, B Lugtenberg, N Provorov. International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, St. Petersburg, Russia. Pages 157-161.
• Bus V.G.M., Plummer K.M., Rikkerink E., Luby J. (2000) Evaluation of the pathogenicity of two scab isolates from the Vf-resistant apple cultivar 'Baujade'. Integrated control of Pome Fruit Diseases IOBC WPRS Bulletin 23:231-237.

Lardner, R., Johnston, P.R., Plummer, K.M., Pearson, M. (1999). Morphological and molecular analysis of Colletotrichum acutatum sensu lato. Mycological Research 103 (3), 275-285  

Crowhurst, R.N., Binnie, S.J., Bowen, J.K., Hawthorne, B.T., Plummer, K.M., Rees-George, J., Rikkerink, E.H.A., Templeton, M.D. (1997). Effect of disruption of a cutinase gene (cutA) on virulence and tissue specificity of Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae race 2 toward Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 10: 355-368.  

Chen, C.Y., Plummer, K.M. and Howlett, B.J. (1996). Ability of an Leptosphaeria maculans isolate to form stem cankers on Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) segregates as a single locus. European Journal of Plant Pathology 102, 349-352.  

Plummer, K.M. and Howlett, B.J. (1995). Inheritance of chromosomal length polymorphisms in the ascomycete, Leptosphaeria maculans. Molecular and General Genetics 247, 416-422.  

Salisbury, P., Ballinger, D., Wratten, N., Plummer, K.M. and Howlett, B.J. (1995). Blackleg disease on oilseed Brassica in Australia: a Review. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 35, 665-72.  

Plummer, K.M. and Howlett, B.J. (1993). Major chromosomal rearrangements occur during meiosis in the ascomycetous fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans. Current Genetics 24, 107-113.  

Plummer, K.M., Dunse, K. and Howlett, B.J. (1993). Molecular analysis discriminates between highly and weakly virulent strains amongst Australian isolates of the blackleg fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans. Australian Journal of Botany 42, 1-8.