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Were, V.; Yan, X.; Foster, A.; Sklenar, J.; Langner, T.; Gentle, A.; Sahu, N.; Bentham, A.; Zdrzałek, R.; Ryder, L. et al.; Kaimenyi, D.; Gómez De La Cruz, D.; Petit-Houdenot, Y.; Bisola Eseola, A.; Smoker, M.; Bautista, M.; Ma, W.; Kourelis, J.; Maclean, D.; Banfield, M.; Kamoun, S.; Menke, F.; Moscou, M.; Talbot, N.: The Magnaporthe oryzae effector Pwl2 alters HIPP43 localization to suppress host immunity. Plant Cell 37 (6), koaf116 (2025)

Fagundes, W.; Huang, Y.-S.; Häußler, S.; Langner, T.: From Lesions to Lessons: Two Decades of Filamentous Plant Pathogen Genomics. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 38 (2), pp. 187 - 205 (2025)

Haeussler, S.; Lutz, U.; Langner, T.: DNA Extraction from Magnaporthe oryzae (PCR quality). Springer Protocols Epub ahead (2025)

Barragan, A.; Latorre, S.; Malmgren, A.; Harant, A.; Win, J.; Sugihara, Y.; Burbano, H.; Kamoun, S.; Langner, T.: Multiple horizontal mini-chromosome transfers drive genome evolution of clonal blast fungus lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41 (8), msae164 (2024)

Betz, R.; Heidt, S.; Figueira-Galán, D.; Hartmann, M.; Langner, T.; Requena, N.: Alternative splicing regulation in plants by SP7-like effectors from symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature Communications 15 (1), 7107 (2024)

Zdrzałek, R.; Xi, Y.; Langner, T.; Bentham, A.; Petit-Houdenot, Y.; De la Concepcion, J.; Harant, A.; Shimizu, M.; Were, V.; Talbot, N. et al.; Terauchi, R.; Kamoun, S.; Banfield, M.: Bioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface towards a conserved fungal pathogen effector. PNAS 121 (28), e2402872121 (2024)

De la Concepcion, J.; Langner, T.; Fujisaki, K.; Yan, X.; Were, V.; Lam, A.; Saado, I.; Brabham, H.; Win, J.; Yoshida, K. et al.; Talbot, N.; Terauchi, R.; Kamoun, S.; Banfield, M.: Zinc-finger (ZiF) fold secreted effectors form a functionally diverse family across lineages of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. PLOS Pathogens 20 (6), e1012277 (2024)

Esparza-Perusquía, M.; Langner, T.; García-Cruz, G.; Feldbrügge, M.; Zavala, G.; Pardo, J.; Martínez, F.; Flores-Herrera, O.: Deletion of the ATP20 gene in Ustilago maydis produces an unstable dimer of F1FO-ATP synthase associated with a decrease in mitochondrial ATP synthesis and a high H2O2 production. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Bioenergetics 1864 (2), 148950 (2023)

Latorre, S.; Were, V.; Foster, A.; Langner, T.; Malmgren, A.; Harant, A.; Asuke, S.; Reyes-Avila, S.; Gupta, D.; Jensen, C. et al.; Ma, W.; Mahmud, N.; Mehebub, S.; Mulenga, R.; Muzahid, A.; Paul, S.; Rabby, S.; Al Mahbub Rahat, A.; Ryder, L.; Shrestha, R.; Sichilima, S.; Soanes, D.; Singh, P.; Bentley, A.; Saunders, D.; Tosa, Y.; Croll, D.; Lamour, K.; Islam, T.; Tembo, B.; Win, J.; Talbot, N.; Burbano, H.; Kamoun, S.: Genomic surveillance uncovers a pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus. PLoS Biology 21 (4), e3002052 (2023)

Sugihara, Y.; Abe, Y.; Tagaki, H.; Abe, A.; Shimizu, M.; Ito, K.; Kanzaki, E.; Oikawa, K.; Kourelis, J.; Langner, T. et al.; Win, J.; Białas, A.; Lüdke, D.; Contreras, M.; Chuma, I.; Saitoh, H.; Kobayashi , M.; Zheng, S.; Tosa, Y.; Banfield, M.; Kamoun, S.; Terauchi, R.; Fujisaki, K.: Disentangling the complex gene interaction networks between rice and the blast fungus identifies a new pathogen effector. PLoS Biology 21 (1), e3001945 (2023)

Shimizu, M.; Hirabuchi, A.; Sugihara, Y.; Abe, A.; Takeda, T.; Kobayashi, M.; Hiraka, Y.; Kanzaki, E.; Oikawa, K.; Saitoh, H. et al.; Langner, T.; Banfield, M.; Kamoun, S.; Terauchi, R.: A genetically linked pair of NLR immune receptors shows contrasting patterns of evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (27), e2116896119 (2022)

Bentham, A.; Petit-Houdenot, Y.; Win, J.; Chuma, I.; Terauchi , R.; Banfield, M.; Kamoun, S.; Langner, T.: A single amino acid polymorphism in a conserved effector of the multihost blast fungus pathogen expands host-target binding spectrum. PLoS Pathogens 17 (11), e1009957 (2021)

Białas, A.; Langner, T.; Harant, A.; Contreras, M.; Stevenson, C.; Lawson, D.; Sklenar, J.; Kellner, R.; Moscou, M.; Terauchi, R. et al.; Banfield, M.; Kamoun, S.: Two NLR immune receptors acquired high-affinity binding to a fungal effector through convergent evolution of their integrated domain. eLife 10, e66961 (2021)

Langner, T.; Harant, A.; Gomez-Luciano, L.; Shrestha, R.; Malmgren, A.; Latorre, S.; Burbano, H.; Win, J.; Kamoun, S.: Genomic rearrangements generate hypervariable mini-chromosomes in host-specific isolates of the blast fungus. PLoS Genetics 17 (2), e1009386 (2021)

Petit-Houdenot, Y.; Langner, T.; Harant, A.; Win, J.; Kamoun, S.: A Clone Resource of Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors That Share Sequence and Structural Similarities Across Host-Specific Lineages. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 33 (8), pp. 1032 - 1035 (2020)

Aschenbroich, J.; Hussnaetter, K.; Stoffels, P.; Langner, T.; Zander, S.; Sandrock, P.; Bölker, M.; Feldbrügge, M.; Schipper, K.: The germinal centre kinase Don3 is crucial for unconventional secretion of chitinase Cts1 in Ustilago maydis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Proteins and Proteomics 1867 (12), 140154 (2019)

Langner, T.; Kamoun, S.; Belhaj, K.: CRISPR Crops: Plant Genome Editing Toward Disease Resistance. Annual Review of Phytopathology 56, pp. 479 - 512 (2018)

Langner, T.; Białas, A.; Kamoun, S.: The Blast Fungus Decoded: Genomes in Flux. mBio 9 (2), e00571-18 (2018)

Białas, A.; Zess, E.; De la Concepcion, J.; Franceschetti, M.; Pennington, H.; Yoshida, K.; Upson, J.; Chanclud, E.; Wu, C.-H.; Langner, T. et al.; Maqbool, A.; Varden, F.; Derevnina, L.; Belhaj, K.; Fujisaki, K.; Saitoh, H.; Terauchi, R.; Banfield, M.; Kamoun, S.: Lessons in Effector and NLR Biology of Plant-Microbe Systems. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 31 (1), pp. 34 - 45 (2018)

Langner, T.; Göhre, V.: Fungal chitinases: function, regulation, and potential roles in plant/pathogen interactions. Current Genetics 62 (2), pp. 243 - 254 (2016)