Thomas K. Mitchell

Selected Publications

• Inoue, Y., Vy, T.T.P., Yoshida, K., Asano, H., Mitsuoka, C., Asuke, S., Anh, V.L., Cumangun, C., Chuma, I., Terauchi, R., Kato, K., Mitchell, T., Valent, B., Farman, M., and Y. Tosa.  2017.  Evolution of the wheat blast fungus through functional losses in a host specificity determinant.  Science, Vol. 357: 80-83.

• Selisana, S., Yanoria, M., Quime, B., Chaipanya, C., Lu, G., Opulencia, R., Wang, G., Mitchell, T., Correll, J., Talbot, N., Leung, H., and B. Zhou.  2017. Avirulence (AVR) gene based diagnosis compliments existing pathogen surveillance tools for effective deployment of resistance (R) genes against rice blast disease. Phytopathology, Vol. 107: 711-720.

• Villari, C; Mahaffee, WF; Mitchell, TK; Pedley, KF; Pieck, ML; Hand, FP. 2017. Early Detection of Airborne Inoculum of Magnaporthe oryzae in Turfgrass Fields Using a Quantitative LAMP Assay. Plant Disease 101:170-177

• Mutiga, SK; Rotich, F; Ganeshan, VD; Mwongera, DT; Mgonja, EM; Were, VM; Harvey, JW; Zhou, B; Wasilwa, L ; Feng, C; Ouedraogo, I; Wang, GL; Mitchell, TK; Talbot, NJ; Correll, JC .2017. Assessment of the Virulence Spectrum and Its Association with Genetic Diversity in Magnaporthe oryzae Populations from Sub-Saharan Africa. Phytopathology 107:852-863
• Mgonja, EM; Park, CH; Kang, H; Balimponya, EG ; Opiyo, S; Bellizzi, M; Mutiga, SK; Rotich, F; Ganeshan, VD; Mabagala, R; Sneller, C; Correll, J; Zhou, B; Talbot, NJ; Mitchell, TK; Wang, GL. 2017. Genotyping-by-Sequencing-Based Genetic Analysis of African Rice Cultivars and Association Mapping of Blast Resistance Genes Against Magnaporthe oryzae Populations in Africa. Phytopathology 107:1039-1046
• Flores, F., Marek, S., Anderson, J., Mitchell, T., and N. Walker. 2015. Infection and colonization of several bermudagrasses by Ophiosphaerella korrae. Phytopathology http:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25560925
• Vaughan, J., Mitchell, T., and B. McSpadden Gardener.  "What's inside that seed we brew? A new approach to mining the coffee micro biome"  Applied and Environmental Microbiology  (2015)  81: 1 - 11.
• Chen, C., Chen, M., Hu, J., Zhang, W., Zhong, Z., Jia, Y., Wang, G.L., Wang, Z., Shen, W.C., Lu, G., Wang, B., and T. Mitchell. 2014. Sequence variation and recognition specificity of the avirulence gene AvrPiz-t in Magnaporthe oryzae field populations. Fungal Genomics and Biology 4: 1-8
• Chung, D., Barker, B., Carey, C., Chung, D., Cheng, C., Xu, W., Merriman, B., Blosser, S., Morohashi, K., Mazurie, A., Mitchell, T., Mitchell, A., R. Cramer. 2014. ChIP-seq and in vivo gene expression analyses of the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus SREBP SrbA reveals new insights into hypoxia adaptation and fungal virulence. PLoS Pathogens 6: 1-14
• Book chapter. Singh, J, Zhang, X, Stewart, L, Mitchell, T, and Qu, F. "Role of double-stranded RNA-binding proteins in RNA silencing and antiviral defense." In PLANT VIRUS-HOST INTERACTION: MOLECULAR APPROACHES AND VIRAL EVOLUTION. Edited by Gaur, RK, Hohn, T, and Sharma, P.. 1-16. AMSTERDAM, BOSTON, HEIDELBERG, LONDON, NEW YORK et al, NL|NLD: Elsevier, January 2014
• Chen, SB; Songkumarn, P; Venu, RC; Gowda, M; Bellizzi, M; Hu, JN; Liu, WD; Ebbole, D; Meyers, B; Mitchell, T; Wang, GL. 2013. Identification and Characterization of In planta-Expressed Secreted Effector Proteins from Magnaporthe oryzae That Induce Cell Death in Rice. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 26: 191-202
• Hu, J., Chen, C., Peever, T., Dang, H., Lawrence, C., and T. Mitchell. 2012. Genomic characterization of the conditionally dispensable chromosome in Alternaria arborescens provides evidence for horizontal gene transfer.  BMC Genomics  13:171
• Orshinsky, A. M., Hu, J., Opiyo, S. O., Reddyvari-Channarayappa, V., Mitchell, T. M., and Boehm, M.J. 2012.  RNA-Seq analysis of the Sclerotinia homoeocarpa creeping bentgrass pathosystem. Plos ONE 7(8): e41150.
• Li, G., Zhou, X., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Zhu, H., Mitchell, T., Dean, R., and J. R. Xu. 2011. MoSfl1 Is Important for Virulence and Heat Tolerance in Magnaporthe oryzae.  PLoS ONE 6(5): e19951. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019951.
• Nunes, C., Sailsbery, J., Gowda, M., Xue, M., Chen, F., Brown, D., Oh, Y., Mitchell, T., and R. Dean. 2011. Diverse and Tissue-enriched small RNAs in the plant pathogenic fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.  Nucleic Acids Research. (IF: 7.5) (Unspecified)
• Liu J, Wang X, Mitchell T, Hu Y, Liu X, Dai L, Wang GL. 2010.  Recent progress and understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the rice-Magnaporthe oryzae interaction. Mol Plant Pathology 11: 419-427.
• Kim, S., Hu, J., Oh, Y., Park, J., Choi, J., Lee, Y-H., Dean, R., and T. Mitchell. 2010. Combining ChIP-chip and expression profiling to model the MoCRZ1 mediated circuit for Ca2+/calcineurin signaling in the rice blast fungus.  PLoS Pathogens. Vol. 6, no. 5 (May): 1-15. (IF: 9.2)
• Caasi, Oliver C.; Nathan R. Walker; Stephen M. Marek; James N. Enis; and Thomas K. Mitchell.  2010.  Infection and colonization of turf-type bermudagrass by Ophiosphaerella herpotricha expressing green (GFP) or red (tdTomato) fluorescent proteins.  Phytopathology 100(5):415-423
• Kim, Soonok; Jongsun Park; Sook-Young Park; Thomas K. Mitchell; and Yong-Hwan Lee.  2010. Identification and analysis of in planta expressed genes of Magnaporthe oryzae.  BMC Genomics.  Vol. 11:104.
• Anco, D.J., Kim, S., Mitchell, T.K., Madden, L.V., and Ellis, M.A. 2009. Transformation of Phomopsis viticola with the green fluorescent protein.  Mycologia. Vol. 101, no. 6: 853-858. DOI: 10.3852/09-007.
• Cho, Y., Kwang-Hyung, K., Mauricio, L.R., Scott, D., Santopietro, G., Callihan, M., Mitchell, T.K., and C. Lawrence. 2009.  Identification of novel virulence factors associated with signal transduction pathways in Alternaria brassicicola.  Molecular Microbiology. Vol. 72, no. 6: 1316-1333.
• Meng, S., Brown, D.E., Ebbole, D., Torto-Alalibo, T., Oh, Y.Y., Deng, J., Mitchell, T.K., and R. A. Dean. (2009) Gene ontology annotation of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae.  BMC Microbiology. Vol. S8, no. 9: 1-6.
• Mitchell, T.K., R. A. Dean, J-R. Xu, H. Zhu, Y. Oh, and H-S. Rho (2009). Protein Chips and Chromatin Immunoprecipitation - Emerging Technologies to Study Macromolecule Interactions in M. grisea. In Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease. Part I, 73-82.
• Craven, K.D., Valez, E., Hicks, R., Cho, Y., Lawrence C.B., and T. K. Mitchell (2008). The role of anastomosis in pathogenicity of the fungal pathogen Alternaria brassicicola. Eukaryotic Cell 7:675-683.
• Ellis, S.D., Boehm, M.J., and T.K. Mitchell (2008).  Fungal and Fungal-Like Diseases of Plants > OSU Extension Fact Sheet PP 401.07
• Lawrence, C.B., T.K. Mitchell, K.D. Craven, Y. Cho, R.A. Cramer, and K.H. Kim (2008).  Knocking on Death's Door: Alternaria Pathogenicity Mechanisms.  Plant Pathology Journal 24, 101-111.
• Oh, Y. Y., Donofrio, N., Pan, H., Coughlan, S., Brown, D., Meng, S., Mitchell, T., and R. Dean (2008). Transcriptome analysis reveals new insight into appressorium formation and function in the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae. Genome Biology 9:R85.