2022

Sertedakis, Matthaios, Kotsaridis, Konstantinos, Tsakiri, Dimitra, Mermigka, Glykeria, Dominguez‐Ferreras, Ana, Ntoukakis, Vardis and Sarris, Panagiotis F. (2022) Expression of putative effectors of different Xylella fastidiosa strains triggers cell death‐like responses in various Nicotiana model plants. Molecular Plant Pathology, 23 (1). pp. 148-156. doi:10.1111/mpp.13147

2021

Tsitsekian, Dikran, Daras, Gerasimos, Karamanou, Konstantina, Templalexis, Dimitris, Koudounas, Konstantinos, Malliarakis, Dimitris, Koufakis, Theologos, Chatzopoulos, Dimitris, Goumas, Dimitris, Ntoukakis, Vardis, Hatzopoulos, Polydefkis and Rigas, Stamatis (2021) Clavibacter michiganensis downregulates photosynthesis and modifies monolignols metabolism revealing a crosstalk with tomato immune responses. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (16). e8442. doi:10.3390/ijms22168442

Greer, Shannon F., Vicente, Joana, Hussain, Rana Muhammad Fraz, Harrison, Jamie, Smith, Julian, Teakle, Graham R., Studholme, David J., Ntoukakis, Vardis and Grant, Murray (2021) Identification, characterisation and mapping of resistance to black rot (Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris) in Brassica spp. In: Management of Diseases and Pests of Oilseed Rape, University of Hertfordshire, 16 Jun 2021. Published in: Proceedings of Management of Diseases and Pests of Oilseed Rape, University of Hertfordshire, 16 June 2021 p. 64.

Gkizi, Danai, González Gil, Anna, Pardal , Alonso Javier, Piquerez, Sophie J., Sergaki, Chrysi, Ntoukakis, Vardis and Tjamos, Sotirios E. (2021) The bacterial biocontrol agent Paenibacillus alvei K165 confers inherited resistance against Verticillium dahliae. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72 (12). pp. 4565-4576. doi:10.1093/jxb/erab154

Pardal, Alonso J., Piquerez, Sophie J. M., Dominguez-Ferreras, Ana, Frungillo, Lucas, Mastorakis, Emmanouil, Reilly, Emma, Latrasse, David, Concia, Lorenzo, Gimenez-Ibanez, Selena, Spoel, Steven H., Benhamed, Moussa and Ntoukakis, Vardis (2021) Immunity onset alters plant chromatin and utilizes EDA16 to regulate oxidative homeostasis. PLOS Pathogens, 17 (5). e1009572. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1009572

Lee, Morgan, Dominguez-Ferreras, Anna, Kaliyadasa, Ewon, Huang, Wei-Jie, Antony, Edna, Stevenson, Tracey, Lehmann, Silke, Schäfer, Patrick, Knight, Marc R., Ntoukakis, Vardis and Knight, Heather (2021) Mediator subunits MED16, MED14, and MED2 are required for activation of ABRE-dependent transcription in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12 . 649720. doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.649720

Bender, Kyle W., Couto, Daniel, Kadota, Yasuhiro, Macho, Alberto P., Sklenar, Jan, Derbyshire, Paul, Bjornson, Marta, DeFalco, Thomas A., Petriello, Annalise, Font Farre, Maria, Schwessinger, Benjamin, Ntoukakis, Vardis, Stransfeld, Lena, Jones, Alexandra M. E., Menke, Frank L. H. and Zipfel, Cyril (2021) Activation loop phosphorylaton of a non-RD receptor kinase initiates plant innate immune signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (38). e2108242118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2108242118

2020

(2020) GCN5 modulates salicylic acid homeostasis by regulating H3K14ac levels at the 5ʹ and 3ʹ ends of its target genes. Nucleic Acids Research, 48 (11). pp. 5953-5966. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa369

Lehmann, Silke, Dominguez-Ferreras, Ana, Huang, Wei-Jie, Denby, Katherine J., Ntoukakis, Vardis and Schäfer, Patrick (2020) Novel markers for high-throughput protoplast-based analyses of phytohormone signaling. PLoS One, 15 (6). e0234154. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0234154

2019

Bianchet, Chantal, Wong, Aloysius, Quaglia, Mara, Alqurashi, May, Gehring, Chris, Ntoukakis, Vardis and Pasqualini, Stefania (2019) An Arabidopsis thaliana leucine-rich repeat protein harbors an adenylyl cyclase catalytic center and affects responses to pathogens. Journal of Plant Physiology, 232 . pp. 12-22. doi:10.1016/j.jplph.2018.10.025

2018

Sheikh, A.H. and Ntoukakis, V. (2018) Mitogen-activated protein kinase activation after effector recognition in tomato. In: V INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TOMATO DISEASES: PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN TOMATO PROTECTION , Malaga,Spain, June 13- June 16 2016. Published in: Acta Horticulturae (1207). pp. 99-104. ISSN 0567-7572. doi:10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1207.13

2017

Gimenez-Ibanez, Selena, Boter, Marta, Ortigosa, Andrés, García-Casado, Gloria, Chini, Andrea, Lewsey, Mathew G., Ecker, Joseph R., Ntoukakis, Vardis and Solano, Roberto (2017) JAZ2 controls stomata dynamics during bacterial invasion. New Phytologist, 213 (3). pp. 1378-1392. doi:10.1111/nph.14354

2016

Üstün, Suayib, Sheikh, Arsheed, Gimenez-Ibanez , Selena, Jones, Alexandra M., Ntoukakis, Vardis and Börnke, Frederik (2016) The proteasome acts as a hub for plant immunity and is targeted by Pseudomonas type-III effectors. Plant Physiology, 172 (3). 1941-1958 . doi:10.​1104/​pp.​16.​00808

Couto, Daniel, Niebergall, Roda, Liang, Xiangxiu, Bücherl, Christoph A., Sklenar, Jan, Macho, Alberto P., Ntoukakis, Vardis, Derbyshire, Paul, Altenbach, Denise, Maclean, Dan, Robatzek, Silke, Uhrig, Joachim, Menke, Frank, Zhou, Jian-Min and Zipfel, Cyril (2016) The Arabidopsis protein phosphatase PP2C38 negatively regulates the central immune kinase BIK1. PLoS Pathogens, 12 (8). e1005811. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005811

Ntoukakis, Vardis and Gimenez-Ibanez, S. (2016) Parasitic plants--A CuRe for what ails thee. Science, 353 (6298). pp. 442-443. doi:10.1126/science.aag3111

2015

(2015) Standards for plant synthetic biology : a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts. New Phytologist, 208 (1). pp. 13-19. doi:10.1111/nph.13532

2014

Rosa, S., Ntoukakis, Vardis, Ohmido, N., Pendle, A., Abranches, R. and Shaw, P. (2014) Cell differentiation and development in Arabidopsis are associated with changes in histone dynamics at the single-cell level. The Plant Cell, 26 (12). pp. 4821-4833. doi:10.1105/tpc.114.133793

Piquerez, Sophie J. M., Harvey, Sarah E., Beynon, Jim and Ntoukakis, Vardis (2014) Improving crop disease resistance : lessons from research on Arabidopsis and tomato. Frontiers in Plant Science, Volume 5 . pp. 1-13. Article number 671 . doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.00671

Segonzac, C., Macho, A. P., Sanmartin, M., Ntoukakis, Vardis, Sanchez-Serrano, J. J. and Zipfel, C. (2014) Negative control of BAK1 by protein phosphatase 2A during plant innate immunity. The EMBO Journal, 33 . pp. 2069-2079. doi:10.15252/embj.201488698

Ntoukakis, Vardis, Saur, Isabel M. L., Conlan, Brendon and Rathjen, John P. (2014) The changing of the guard : the Pto/Prf receptor complex of tomato and pathogen recognition. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Volume 20 . pp. 69-74. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2014.04.002

Kadota, Yasuhiro, Sklenar, Jan, Derbyshire, Paul, Stransfeld, Lena, Asai, Shuta, Ntoukakis, Vardis, Jones, Jonathan D. G., Shirasu, Ken, Menke, Frank, Jones, Alexandra M. and Zipfel, Cyril (2014) Direct regulation of the NADPH oxidase RBOHD by the PRR-associated kinase BIK1 during plant immunity. Molecular Cell, Volume 54 (Number 1). pp. 43-55. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2014.02.021

Macho, A. P., Schwessinger, B., Ntoukakis, Vardis, Brutus, A., Segonzac, C., Roy, S., Kadota, Y., Oh, M. -H., Sklenar, J., Derbyshire, P., Lozano-Duran, R., Malinovsky, F. G., Monaghan, J., Menke, F. L., Huber, S. C., He, S. Y. and Zipfel, C. (2014) A bacterial tyrosine phosphatase inhibits plant pattern recognition receptor activation. Science, Volume 343 (Number 6178). pp. 1509-1512. doi:10.1126/science.1248849

Piquerez, Sophie J., Balmuth, Alexi L., Sklenář, Jan, Jones, Alexandra M., Rathjen, John P. and Ntoukakis, Vardis (2014) Identification of post-translational modifications of plant protein complexes. Journal of Visualized Experiments (Number 84). doi:10.3791/51095

2013

Jones, Alexandra M., Monaghan, Jacqueline and Ntoukakis, Vardis (2013) Editorial : mechanisms regulating immunity in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, Volume 4 . doi:10.3389/fpls.2013.00064

Ntoukakis, Vardis, Balmuth, Alexi L., Mucyn, Tatiana S., Gutierrez, Jose R., Jones, Alexandra M. and Rathjen, John P. (2013) The tomato Prf complex is a molecular trap for bacterial effectors based on Pto transphosphorylation. PLoS Pathogens, Vol.9 (No.1). Article no. e1003123. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003123

2011

Ntoukakis, Vardis, Schwessinger, B., Segonzac, C. and Zipfel, C. (2011) Cautionary Notes on the Use of C-Terminal BAK1 Fusion Proteins for Functional Studies. The Plant Cell, Vol. 23 (No. 11). pp. 3871-3878. doi:10.1105/tpc.111.090779

Guttman, David S., Schwessinger, Benjamin, Roux, Milena, Kadota, Yasuhiro, Ntoukakis, Vardis, Sklenar, Jan, Jones, Alexandra M. and Zipfel, Cyril (2011) Phosphorylation-Dependent Differential Regulation of Plant Growth, Cell Death, and Innate Immunity by the Regulatory Receptor-Like Kinase BAK1. PLoS Genetics, Vol. 7 (No. 4). e1002046. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002046

2010

Gutierrez, Jose R., Balmuth, Alexi L., Ntoukakis, Vardis, Mucyn, Tatiana S., Gimenez-Ibanez, Selena, Jones, Alexandra M. and Rathjen, John P. (2010) Prf immune complexes of tomato are oligomeric and contain multiple Pto-like kinases that diversify effector recognition. The Plant Journal, Vol. 61 (No. 3). pp. 507-518. doi:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.04078.x

2009

Ntoukakis, Vardis, Mucyn, T. S., Gimenez-Ibanez, S., Chapman, H. C., Gutierrez, J. R., Balmuth, Alexi L., Jones, Alexandra M. and Rathjen, J. P. (2009) Host inhibition of a bacterial virulence effector triggers immunity to infection. Science, Volume 324 (Number 5928). pp. 784-787. doi:10.1126/science.1169430

Gimenez-Ibanez, Selena, Hann, Dagmar R., Ntoukakis, Vardis, Petutschnig, Elena, Lipka, Volker and Rathjen, John P. (2009) AvrPtoB Targets the LysM Receptor Kinase CERK1 to Promote Bacterial Virulence on Plants. Current Biology, Vol. 19 (No. 5). pp. 423-429. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.054

Gimenez-Ibanez, Selena, Ntoukakis, Vardis and Rathjen, John P. (2009) The LysM receptor kinase CERK1 mediates bacterial perception in Arabidopsis. Plant Signaling & Behavior, Vol. 4 (No. 6). pp. 539-541. doi:10.4161/psb.4.6.8697