Mosquera, G., M. Giraldo, C.H. Khang, S. Coughlan, and B. Valent. 2009. Interaction transcriptome analysis identifies Magnaporthe oryzae BAS1-4 as biotrophy-associated secreted proteins in rice blast disease. The Plant Cell, 21:1273-1290. (Rated F1000 Biology Factor 6, Must Read)
Kankanala, P., G. Mosquera, C.H. Khang, G. Valdovinos-Ponce and B. Valent. 2009. Cellular and molecular analyses of biotrophic invasion by the rice blast fungus. In: Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease. (edited by G.L. Wang and B. Valent) Springer Science and Business Media, New York, New York, pp 83-91.
Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease. 2009. Edited by G.L. Wang and B. Valent. Springer Science and Business Media, New York, New York. 464 pp.
Khang, C.-H., S.-Y. Park, Y.-H. Lee, B. Valent and S. Kang. 2008. Genome organization and evolution of the AVR-Pita avirulence gene family in the Magnaporthe grisea species complex. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact., 21:658-670.
Wang, Z., Lin, H., Valent, B, Rutger, J.N. and Jia, Y. 2007. Cytological and molecular analyses of disease resistance to the rice blast fungus. Chinese J. of Rice Sci. 21: 335-340. (In Chinese, English abstract, English version of manuscript published by this journal in November). 2007.
Kankanala, P., K. Czymmek and B. Valent, 2007. Roles for rice membrane dynamics and plasmodesmata during biotrophic invasion by the blast fungus. The Plant Cell, 19:706-724.
Jia, Y. and B. Valent, 2007. Blast Resistance in Rice: Functional analysis of the Pi-ta and AVR-Pita genes. IN: “RICE IMPROVEMENT IN THE GENOMIC ERA” Ed. Dr. Swapan Datta Publisher: Howarth Press, USA.
Berruyer, R., S. Poussier, P. Kankanala, G. Mosquera, and B. Valent. 2006. Quantitative and qualitative influence of inoculation methods on in planta growth of rice blast fungus. Phytopathology 96:346-355.
Couch, B.C., I. Fudal, M.-H. Lebrun, D. Tharreau, B. Valent, P.van Kim, J.L. Notteghem, and L.M. Kohn. 2005. Origins of host-specific populations of the blast pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae , in crop domestication with subsequent expansion of pandemic clones on rice and weeds of rice. Genetics 170:613-630.
Valent, B. 2004. Underground Life for Rice Foe, Nature News and Views, 431:516-517.
Jia, Y., G.T. Bryan, L. Farrall, and B. Valent. 2003. Natural variation at the Pi-ta rice blast resistance locus. Phytopathology 93:1452-1459.
Jia, Y., B. Valent, and F.N. Lee. 2003. Determination of host responses to Magnaporthe grisea on detached rice leaves using a spot inoculation method. Plant Disease 87: 129-133.
Liao, D.-I., J. E. Thompson, S. Fahnestock, B. Valent and D. B. Jordan. 2001. A structural account of substrate and inhibitor specificity differences between two naphthol reductases. Biochemistry, 40:8696-8704.
Kang, S., M. H. Lebrun, L. Farrall and B. Valent. 2001. Spontaneous gain of virulence by insertion of MGR586, an inverted repeat transposon in the rice blast fungus. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 14:671-674.
Valent, B., G. T. Bryan, Y. Jia, L. Farrall, S. A. McAdams, K. N. Faulk, and M. Levy. 2001. Enhancing deployment of rice blast resistance genes: Opportunities from cloning a resistance gene / avirulence gene pair. In Rice Genetics IV. Proceedings of the Fourth International Rice Genetics Symposium, G.S. Khush, ed. (IRRI: International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines).
D.-I. Liao, G. S. Basarab, A. A. Gatenby, B. Valent and D. B. Jordan. 2001. Structures of trihydroxynaphthalene reductase-fungicide complexes: implications for structure-based design, an active-site water molecule, and substrate specificity. Structure, 9:19-27.
Valent, B., G. T. Bryan, Y. Jia, L. Farrall, S. A. McAdams, K. N. Faulk and H. P. Hershey. 2001. Molecular interactions between the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta and its corresponding avirulence gene. In “Delivery and Perception of Pathogen Signals in Plants”. N. T. Keen, S. Mayama, J. E. Leach and S. Tsuyumu, ed. (APS Press, St Paul, Minnesota) pp. 174 – 183.
Thompson, J. E., S. Fahnestock, L. Farrall, D.-I. Liao, B. Valent and D. B. Jordan. 2000. The second naphthol reductase of fungal melanin biosynthesis in Magnaporthe grisea, tetrahydroxynaphthalene reductase. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275:34867-34872.
Orbach, M. J., L. Farrall, J. A. Sweigard, F. G. Chumley and B. Valent. 2000. A telomeric avirulence gene determines efficacy of the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta. The Plant Cell, 12:2019-2032.
Bryan, G. T., K.-S. Wu, L. Farrall, Y. Jia, H. P. Hershey, S. A. McAdams, K. N. Faulk, G. K. Donaldson, R. Tarchini, and B. Valent. 2000. A single amino acid difference distinguishes resistant and susceptible alleles of the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta. The Plant Cell, 12:2033-2046.
Jia, Y., S. A. McAdams, G. T. Bryan, H. P. Hershey and B. Valent. 2000. Direct Interaction of resistance gene and avirulence gene products confers rice blast resistance. The EMBO Journal, 19:4004-4014.
Bryan, G. T., Y. Jia, L. Farrall, K.-S. Wu, H. P. Hershey, S. A. McAdams, K. N. Faulk, G. K. Donaldson, R. Tarchini and B. Valent. 2000. Molecular characterization of resistance gene/avirulence gene in the rice blast system. In the Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. (edited by P.J.G.M. de Wit, T. Bisseling and W.J. Stiekema) Amsterdam, pp. 35-39.
DeZwaan, T. M., A. M. Carroll, B. Valent and J. A. Sweigard. 1999. Magnaporthe grisea Pth11p is a novel plasma membrane protein that mediates appressorium differentiation in response to inductive substrate cues. The Plant Cell 11:2013-2030.
Sweigard, J. A., A. M. Carroll, L. Farrall, F. G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1998. Magnaporthe grisea pathogenicity genes obtained through insertional mutagenesis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 11:404-412.
Valent, B. 1997. The rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. In The Mycota V Part B, Plant Relationships. (edited by G. Carroll and P. Tudzynski) Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Pages 37-54.
Orbach, M.J., F.G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1996. An electrophoretic karyotype for the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 9: 261-271.
Andersson, A., D. Jordan, G. Schneider, B. Valent and Y. Lindqvist. 1996. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction study of 1,3,8-trihydroxynaphthalene reductase from Magnaporthe grisea. PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Genetics. 24:525-527.
Wu, K.-S., C. Martinez, Z. Lentini, J. Tohme, F. G. Chumley P. A. Scolnik and B. Valent. 1996. Cloning a blast resistance gene by chromosome walking. In Rice Genetics III. Proceedings of the Third International Rice Genetics Symposium, G.S. Khush, ed. (IRRI: International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines), pp. 669-674.
Howard, R.J. and B. Valent. 1996. Breaking and entering: host penetration by the fungal rice blast pathogen, Magnaporthe grisea. Annual Review of Microbiology. 50:491-512.
Zeigler, R.S., L.X. Cuoc, R.P. Scott, M.A. Bernardo, D.H. Chen, B. Valent and R.J. Nelson. 1995. The relationship between lineage and virulence in Pyricularia grisea in the Philippines. Phytopathology 85: 443-451.
Sweigard, J.A., A.M. Carroll, S. Kang, L. Farrall, F.G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1995. Cloning and characterization of PWL2, a gene from the rice blast fungus controlling host-species specificity. The Plant Cell 7: 1221-1233.
Kang, S., J.A. Sweigard and B. Valent. 1995. The PWL host specificity gene family in the blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 8: 949-959.
Kang, S., F.G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1994. Isolation of the mating-type genes of the phytopathogenic fungus Magnaporthe grisea using genomic subtraction. Genetics 138: 1-8.
Carroll, A.M., J.A. Sweigard and B. Valent. 1994. Improved vectors for selecting resistance to hygromycin. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 41: 22.
Valent, B., and F.G. Chumley. 1994. Avirulence genes and mechanisms of genetic instability in the rice blast fungus. Chapter 7 in: The Rice Blast Disease. (edited by R.S. Zeigler, S. Leong and P. Teng) International Rice Research Institue, Los Banos and Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Cambridge. pp. 111-134.
Sweigard, J.A., B. Valent, M.J. Orbach, A.M. Walter, A. Rafalski, and F.G. Chumley. 1993. Genetic map of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. In: Genetic Maps, Sixth Edition. (editied by S.J. O'Brien) Cold Laboratory Press. pp. 3.112-3.115. Spring Harbor
Sweigard, J.A., F.G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1992. Cloning and analysis of CUT1, a cutinase gene from Magnaporthe grisea. Mol. Gen. Genet. 232: 174-182.
Sweigard, J.A., F.G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1992. Disruption of a Magnaporthe grisea cutinase gene. Mol. Gen. Genet. 232: 183-190.
Heath, M.C., R.J. Howard, B. Valent and F.G. Chumley. 1992. Ultrastructural interactions between Magnaporthe grisea and goosegrass or weeping lovegrass. Canadian Journal of Botany 70: 779-787.
Valent, B., L. Farrall and F. G. Chumley. 1991. Magnaporthe grisea genes for pathogenicity and virulence identified through a series of backcrosses. Genetics 127: 87-101.
Valent, B., and F. G. Chumley. 1991. Molecular Genetic Analysis of the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. Annual Review of Phytopathology 29: 443-467.
Chumley, F. G., and B. Valent. 1990. Strategies for characterizing and cloning host specificity genes in Magnaporthe grisea, the rice blast fungus. In 1990 U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Seminar: Molecular Strategies of Pathogens and Host Plants. (Edited by S. Patil and S. Ouchi) Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 131-138.
Valent, B. 1990. APS Plenary Session Lecture (1989): Rice blast as a model system for plant pathology. Phytopathology 80: 33-36.
Heath, M. C., B. Valent, R. J. Howard and F. G. Chumley. 1990. Interactions of two strains of Magnaporthe grisea with rice, goosegrass, and weeping lovegrass. Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 1627-1637.
Heath, M. C., B. Valent, R. J. Howard and F. G. Chumley. 1990. Correlations Between Cytologically Detected Plant-Fungal Interactions and Pathogenicity of Magnaporthe grisea Toward Weeping Lovegrass. Phytopathology 80: 1382-1386.
Rossman, A. Y., R. J. Howard and B. Valent. 1990. Pyricularia grisea, the correct name for the rice blast disease fungus. Mycologia 82: 509-512.
Sweigard, J. A., M. J. Orbach, B. Valent and F. G. Chumley. 1990. A miniprep procedure for isolating genomic DNA from Magnaporthe grisea. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 37: 4
Chumley, F. G., and B. Valent. 1990. Genetic analysis of melanin deficient, nonpathogenic mutants of Magnaporthe grisea. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 3: 135-143.
Bonman, J. M., J. M. Bandong, Y. H. Lee, E. J. Lee and B. Valent. 1989. Race-specific partial resistance in temperate japonica rice cultivars. Plant Disease 73: 496-499.
Hamer, J. E., B. Valent, and F. G. Chumley. 1989. Mutations at the SMO+ locus affect the shapes of diverse cell types in the rice blast fungus. Genetics 122: 351-361.
Valent, B. and F. G. Chumley. 1989. Genes for cultivar specificity in the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. In: Signal Molecules in Plants and Plant-Microbe Interactions. Ed. B. J. J. Lugtenberg. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. NATO ASI Series 36: 415-422.
Hamer, J. E., L. Farrall, M. J. Orbach, B. Valent and F. G. Chumley. 1989. Host species-specific conservation of a family of repeated DNA sequences in the genome of a fungal plant pathogen. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 86: 9981-9985.
Hamer, J. E., R. J. Howard, F. G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1988. A mechanism for surface attachment in spores of a fungal plant pathogen. Science 239: 288-290.
Parsons, K. A., F. G. Chumley and B. Valent. 1987. Genetic transformation of the fungal pathogen responsible for rice blast disease. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 84: 4161-4165.
Valent, B. and F. G. Chumley. 1987. Genetic analysis of host species specificity in Magnaporthe grisea. In: Molecular Strategies for Crop Protection, C. J. Arntzen and C. Ryan, Ed., Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 83-93.
Valent, B., M. S. Crawford, C. G. Weaver and F. G. Chumley. 1986. Genetic studies of fertility and pathogenicity in Magnaporthe grisea (Pyricularia oryzae). Iowa Journal of Research, 60: 569-594. State
Crawford, M. S., F. G. Chumley, C. G. Weaver and B. Valent. 1986. Characterization of the heterokaryotic and vegetative diploid phases of Magnaporthe grisea. Genetics 114: 1111-1129.
Yoder, O. C., B. Valent and F. Chumley. 1986. Genetic nomenclature and practice for plant pathogenic fungi. Phytopathology 76: 383-385.
Khang, C.H. and B. Valent. 2010. Magnaporthe oryzae. In: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi. (edited by K.A. Borkovich and D.J. Ebbole) ASM Press. Washington D.C.