Jordi Muria Gonzalez

Research Fellow

jordi.muria@curtin.edu.au

+61 8 9266 7964

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Biography

Jordi works detangling the molecular interaction of barley and the fungi causing both types of barley net blotch. He mainly looks for genes in exotic barley lines conferring resistance to these diseases, but also aims to identify fungal genes involved in causing disease.

While happenstance brought Jordi to plant pathology, plant-microbe interactions captivated him long time ago when working with woody plant endophytes. Jordi believes interkingdom interactions, shaped by millions of years of evolution, are a fascinating window to the complexity of our world.

Related Resources & Publications

Muria-Gonzalez, M.J., Lawrence, J.A., Palmiero, E., D'Souza, N.K., Gupta, S., Ellwood, S.R. (2023) "Major Susceptibility Gene Epistasis over Minor Gene Resistance to Spot Form Net Blotch in a Commercial Barley Cultivar." Phytopathology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-22-0376-R

Hassett, K., Muria-Gonzalez, M. J., Turner, A., McLean, M. S., Wallwork, H., Martin, A., & Ellwood, S. R. (2023). "Widespread genetic heterogeneity and genotypic grouping associated with fungicide resistance among barley spot form net blotch isolates in Australia." G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad076

Milazzo, C., Zulak, K., Muria-Gonzalez, M., Jones, D., Power, M., Bransgrove, K., Bunce, M., Lopez-Ruiz, F. (2021) "High-throughput metabarcoding characterises fungal endophyte diversity in the phyllosphere of a barley crop." APS Publications. DOI: https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PBIOMES-09-20-0066-R

Hassett, K., Ellwood, S.R., Zulak, K.G., Muria-Gonzalez, M.J. (2020) "Analysis of apoplastic proteins expressed during net form net blotch of barley." Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41348-020-00318-w

Moolhuijzen, P.M., Muria-Gonzalez, J.M., Syme, R., Rawlinson, C., See, P.T., Moffat, C.S., Ellwood, S.R. (2020) "Expansion and Conservation of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Pathogenic Pyrenophora spp" Toxins DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12040242

Muria-Gonzalez, M.J., Zulak, K.G., Allegaert, E., Oliver, R.P., Ellwood, S.R. (2019) "Profile of the in vitro secretome of the barley net blotch fungus, Pyrenophora teres f. teres." Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmpp.2019.101451

Syme, R.A., Martin, A., Wyatt, N.A., Lawrence, J.A., Muria-Gonzalez, M.J., Friesen, T.L., Ellwood, S.R. (2018) "Transposable element genomic fissuring in Pyrenophora teres is associated with genome expansion and dynamics of host-pathogen genetic interactions" Frontiers in Genetics. Volume 9, Issue APR, 18 April 2018, Article number 130 DOI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2018.00130/full

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