Professor Kemal Kazan
Honorary Professor
Centre for Plant Science (QAAFI)
Honorary Professor
Centre for Crop Science
Book Chapters
Rana, Anuj , Karunakaran, Aneesh , Fitzgerald, Timothy L., Sabburg, Rosalie, Aitken, Elizabeth A. B., Henry, Robert J. , Powell, Jonathan J. and Kazan, Kemal (2018). A highly efficient and reproducible Fusarium spp. inoculation method for Brachypodium distachyon. In Gaurav Sablok, Hikmet Budak and Peter J. Ralph (Ed.), Brachypodium genomics: methods and protocols (pp. 43-55) New York, NY, United States: Humana Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7278-4
Vos, Christine M. F. and Kazan, Kemal (2016). Introduction to belowground defence strategies in plants. In Belowground defence strategies in plants (pp. 1-3) Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42319-7_1
Thatcher, Louise F., Kidd, Brendan N. and Kazan, Kemal (2016). Belowground defence strategies against Fusarium oxysporum. In Christine M.F. Vos and Kemal Kazan (Ed.), Belowground defence strategies in plants (pp. 71-98) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42319-7_4
Kidd, Brendan, Kazan, Kemal and Schenk, Peer M. (2014). Transcriptome analysis of induced resistance. In Dale R. Walters, Adrian C. Newton and Gary D. Lyon (Ed.), Induced Resistance for Plant Defense: A Sustainable Approach to Crop Protection 2nd ed. (pp. 41-57) Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/9781118371848.ch3
Journal Articles
Kazan, Kemal and Gardiner, Donald M. (2018) Fusarium crown rot caused by Fusarium pseudograminearum in cereal crops: recent progress and future prospects. Molecular Plant Pathology, . doi:10.1111/mpp.12639
Powell, Jonathan J., Carere, Jason, Sablok, Gaurav, Fitzgerald, Timothy L., Stiller, Jiri, Colgrave, Michelle L., Gardiner, Donald M., Manners, John M., Vogel, John P., Henry, Robert J. and Kazan, Kemal (2017) Transcriptome analysis of brachypodium during fungal pathogen infection reveals both shared and distinct defense responses with wheat. Scientific reports, 7 1: . doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17454-3
Rana, Anuj, Karunakaran, Aneesh, Fitzgerald, Timothy L, Sabburg, Rosalie, Aitken, Elizabeth A B, Henry, Robert J, Powell, Jonathan J and Kazan, Kemal (2017) A Highly Efficient and Reproducible Fusarium spp. Inoculation Method for Brachypodium distachyon. Methods in Molecular Biology , 1667 43-55. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7278-4_4
Sablok, Gaurav, Powell, Jonathan J. and Kazan, Kemal (2017) Emerging roles and landscape of translating mRNAs in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8 . doi:10.3389/fpls.2017.01443
Davoine, Celine, Abreu, Ilka N., Khajeh, Khalil, Blomberg, Jeanette, Kidd, Brendan N., Kazan, Kemal, Schenk, Peer M., Gerber, Lorenz, Nilsson, Ove, Moritz, Thomas and Bjorklund, Stefan (2017) Functional metabolomics as a tool to analyze Mediator function and structure in plants. Plos One, 12 6: . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0179640
Kazan, Kemal (2017) The Multitalented MEDIATOR25. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8 . doi:10.3389/fpls.2017.00999
Kazan, Kemal and Gardiner, Donald M. (2017) Targeting pathogen sterols: defence and counterdefence?. PLoS Pathogens, 13 5: . doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006297
Fallath, Thorya, Kidd, Brendan N., Stiller, Jiri, Davoine, Celine, Bjorklund, Stefan, Manners, John M., Kazan, Kemal and Schenk, Peer M. (2017) MEDIATOR18 and MEDIATOR20 confer susceptibility to Fusarium oxysporum in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plos One, 12 4: . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0176022
Powell, Jonathan J. , Fitzgerald, Timothy L. , Stiller, Jiri, Berkman, Paul J. , Gardiner, Donald M. , Manners, John M. , Henry, Robert J. and Kazan, Kemal (2017) The defence-associated transcriptome of hexaploid wheat displays homoeolog expression and induction bias. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 15 4: 533-543. doi:10.1111/pbi.12651
Powell, Jonathan J., Carere, Jason, Fitzgerald, Timothy L., Stiller, Jiri, Covarelli, Lorenzo, Xu, Qian, Gubler, Frank, Colgrave, Michelle L., Gardiner, Donald M., Manners, John M., Henry, Robert J. and Kazan, Kemal (2017) The Fusarium crown rot pathogen Fusarium pseudograminearum triggers a suite of transcriptional and metabolic changes in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Annals of Botany, 119 5: 853-867. doi:10.1093/aob/mcw207
Blum, Ailisa, Benfield, Aurelie H., Stiller, Jiri, Kazan, Kemal, Batley, Jacqueline and Gardiner, Donald M. (2016) High-throughput FACS-based mutant screen identifies a gain-of-function allele of the Fusarium graminearum adenylyl cyclase causing deoxynivalenol over-production. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 90 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2016.02.005
Thatcher, Louise F., Cevik, Volkan, Grant, Murray, Zhai, Bing, Jones, Jonathan D. G., Manners, John M. and Kazan, Kemal (2016) Characterization of a JAZ7 activation-tagged Arabidopsis mutant with increased susceptibility to the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67 8: 2367-2386. doi:10.1093/jxb/erw040
Kettle, Andrew J., Carere, Jason, Batley, Jacqueline, Manners, John M., Kazan, Kemal and Gardiner, Donald M. (2016) The Fdb3 transcription factor of the Fusarium Detoxification of Benzoxazolinone gene cluster is required for MBOA but not BOA degradation in Fusarium pseudograminearum. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 88 44-53. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2016.01.015
Sewelam, Nasser, Kazan, Kemal and Schenk, Peer M. (2016) Global plant stress signaling: reactive oxygen species at the cross-road. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7 . doi:10.3389/fpls.2016.00187
Kazan, Kemal and Lyons, Rebecca (2016) The link between flowering time and stress tolerance. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67 1: 47-60. doi:10.1093/jxb/erv441
Kettle, Andrew J., Carere, Jason, Batley, Jacqueline, Benfield, Aurelie H., Manners, John M., Kazan, Kemal and Gardiner, Donald M. (2015) A gamma-lactamase from cereal infecting Fusarium spp. catalyses the first step in the degradation of the benzoxazolinone class of phytoalexins. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 83 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2015.08.005
Lyons, Rebecca, Rusu, Anca, Stiller, Jiri, Powell, Jonathan, Manners, John M. and Kazan, Kemal (2015) Investigating the association between flowering time and defense in the Arabidopsis thaliana-Fusarium oxysporum interaction. PL o S One, 10 6: 1-24. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127699
Kettle, Andrew J., Batley, Jacqueline, Benfield, Aurelie H., Manners, John M., Kazan, Kemal and Gardiner, Donald M. (2015) Degradation of the benzoxazolinone class of phytoalexins is important for virulence of Fusarium pseudograminearum towards wheat. Molecular Plant Pathology, 16 9: 946-962. doi:10.1111/mpp.12250
Fitzgerald, Timothy L., Powell, Jonathan J., Schneebeli, Katharina, Hsia, M. Mandy, Gardiner, Donald M., Bragg, Jennifer N., McIntyre, C. Lynne, Manners, John M., Ayliffe, Mick, Watt, Michelle, Vogel, John P., Henry, Robert J. and Kazan, Kemal (2015) Brachypodium as an emerging model for cereal-pathogen interactions. Annals of Botany, 115 5: 717-731. doi:10.1093/aob/mcv010
Lyons, Rebecca, Stiller, Jiri, Powell, Jonathan, Rusu, Anca, Manners, John M. and Kazan, Kemal (2015) Fusarium oxysporum triggers tissue-specific transcriptional reprogramming in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plos One, 10 4: 1-23. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121902
Kazan, Kemal (2015) Diverse roles of jasmonates and ethylene in abiotic stress tolerance. Trends in Plant Science, 20 4: 219-229. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2015.02.001
Fitzgerald, Timothy L., Powell, Jonathan J., Stiller, Jiri, Weese, Terri L., Abe, Tomoko, Zhao, Guangyao, Jia, Jizeng, McIntyre, C. Lynne, Li, Zhongyi, Manners, John M. and Kazan, Kemal (2015) An assessment of heavy ion irradiation mutagenesis for reverse genetics in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). PLoS One, 10 2: . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117369
De Coninck, Barbara, Timmermans, Pieter, Vos, Christine, Cammue, Bruno P. A. and Kazan, Kemal (2015) What lies beneath: belowground defense strategies in plants. Trends in Plant Science, 20 2: 91-101. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2014.09.007
Sewelam, Nasser, Kazan, Kemal, Thomas-Hall, Skye R., Kidd, Brendan N., Manners, John M. and Schenk, Peer M. (2013) Ethylene response factor 6 is a regulator of reactive oxygen species signaling in Arabidopsis. PLoS One, 8 8: e70289.1-e70289.13. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070289
Cevik, Volkan, Kidd, Brendan N., Zhang, Peijun, Hill, Claire, Kiddle, Steve, Denby, Katherine J., Holub, Eric B., Cahill, David M., Manners, John M., Schenk, Peer M., Beynon, Jim and Kazan, Kemal (2012) MEDIATOR25 acts as an integrative hub for the regulation of jasmonate-responsive gene expression in Arabidopsis 1[C][W]. Plant Physiology, 160 1: 541-555. doi:10.1104/pp.112.202697
Gardiner, Donald M., McDonald, Megan C., Covarelli, Lorenzo, Solomon, Peter S., Rusu, Anca G., Marshall, Mhairi, Kazan, Kemal, Chakraborty, Sukumar, McDonald, Bruce A. and Manners, John M. (2012) Comparative pathogenomics reveals horizontally acquired novel virulence genes in fungi infecting cereal hosts. Plos Pathogens, 8 9: e1002952.1-e1002952.22. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002952
Kidd, Brendan N., Kadoo, Narendra Y., Dombrecht, Bruno, Tekeoglu, Mücella, Gardiner, Donald M., Thatcher, Louise F., Aitken, Elizabeth A. B., Schenk, Peer M., Manners, John M. and Kazan, Kemal (2011) Auxin signaling and transport promote susceptibility to the root infecting fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions, 24 6: 733-748. doi:10.1094/MPMI-08-10-0194
Kidd, Brendan N., Edgar, Cameron I., Kumar, Krish K., Aitken, Elizabeth A., Schenk, Peer M., Manners, John M. and Kazan, Kemal (2009) The Mediator Complex Subunit PFT1 Is a Key Regulator of Jasmonate-Dependent Defense in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 21 8: 2237-2252. doi:10.1105/tpc.109.066910
Desmond, Olivia J., Manners, John M., Schenk, Peer M., Maclean, Donald J. and Kazan, Kemal (2008) Gene expression analysis of the wheat response to infection by Fusarium pseudograminearum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 73 1-3: 40-47. doi:10.1016/j.pmpp.2008.12.001