Bruce McDonald

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Professor of Plant Pathology

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Switzerland

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Professor Bruce McDonald is a faculty member in the Department of Plant Pathology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on plant pathology, particularly the molecular epidemiology of pathogenic fungi and the mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. Recent publications include studies on pathogen population biology, resistance mechanisms in crops, and the genomic evolution of agricultural pathogens.

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Genomics of quantitative traits and chromosome instability in Zymoseptoria tritici

Open Date: 2015-02-01

Close Date: 2018-01-31

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QTL mapping of virulence and other quantitative traits in the model plant pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola

Open Date: 2011-04-01

Close Date: 2014-09-30

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Center for genetic diversity - molecular genetic technology for evolutionary research

Open Date: 2007-07-01

Close Date: 2009-09-30

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An integrated phylogeographical approach to understand the evolution of plant pathogens

Open Date: 2004-04-01

Close Date: 2007-09-30

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Sexual reproduction and the evolution of pathogen virulence

Open Date: 1999-10-01

Close Date: 2003-09-30

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María Garrido Arandia

Associate Professor

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

SPAIN

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Jessica Stapley

ETH Zürich

SWITZERLAND

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Gregory Velicer

Professor of Evolutionary Biology

ETH-Rat und im ETH-Bereich

SWITZERLAND

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Fanny Hartmann

Assistant Professor

Université Paris-Saclay

FRANCE

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Alexey Mikaberidze

UNITED KINGDOM

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Nichola Hawkins

National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science

UNITED KINGDOM

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Zoe Bernasconi

University of Zurich

SWITZERLAND

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Andrea Sánchez-Vallet

SPAIN

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How knowledge of pathogen population biology informs management of Septoria nodorum blotch on wheat

Molecular epidemiology of Cercospora leaf spot on resistant and susceptible sugar beet hybrids

GWAS reveals a rapidly evolving candidate avirulence effector in the Cercospora leaf spot pathogen

Bacterial predation of a fungal wheat pathogen: Prelude to experimental evolution of enhanced biocontrol agents

Natural variation in Avr3D1 from Zymoseptoria sp. contributes to quantitative gene‐for‐gene resistance and to host specificity

Asexual reproductive potential trumps virulence as a predictor of competitive ability in mixed infections

How large and diverse are field populations of fungal plant pathogens? The case of Zymoseptoria tritici

A population-level invasion by transposable elements triggers genome expansion in a fungal pathogen

Population genomics of transposable element activation in the highly repressive genome of an agricultural pathogen

Widespread distribution of resistance to triazole fungicides in Brazilian populations of the wheat blast pathogen

The Genetic Architecture of Emerging Fungicide Resistance in Populations of a Global Wheat Pathogen

A polyetic modelling framework for plant disease emergence

Chromatin Dynamics Contribute to the Spatiotemporal Expression Pattern of Virulence Genes in a Fungal Plant Pathogen

Collaborators (8)

María Garrido Arandia

Jessica Stapley

Gregory Velicer

Fanny Hartmann

Alexey Mikaberidze

Nichola Hawkins

Zoe Bernasconi

Andrea Sánchez-Vallet

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