Simon Ellwood

Project Leader | Senior Research Fellow

simon.ellwood@curtin.edu.au

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Biography

Simon has pioneered fundamental research into resistance to plant fungal diseases and in both plant and fungal genomics. He has published widely in some 31 journals and collaborates with researchers in each continent. At the CCDM, he leads a team investigating two important disease of barley, the spot and net forms of net blotch.

Related Resources & Publications

Ge, C., Wentzel, E., D'Souza, N., Chen, K., Oliver, R.P., Ellwood, S.R. (2021) "Adult resistance genes to barley powdery mildew confer basal penetration resistance associated with broad-spectrum resistance" The Plant Genome. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20129

Moolhuijzen, P., Lawrence, J., Ellwood, S. (2021) "Potentiators of disease during barley infection by Pyrenophora teres f. teres in a susceptible interaction." APS Publications. DOI: https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-10-20-0297-R

Ge, C., Moolhuijzen, P., Hickey, L., Wentzel, E., Deng, W., Dinglasan, E.G., Ellwood, S.R. (2020) "Physiological Changes in Barley mlo-11 Powdery Mildew Resistance Conditioned by Tandem Repeat Copy Number" International Journal of Molecular Sciences DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21228769

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

Mair, W.J., Thomas, G.J., Dodhia, K., Hills, A.L., Jayasena, K.W., Elwood, S.R., Oliver, R.P., Lopez-Ruiz, F.J. (2020) "Parallel evolution of multiple mechanisms for demethylase inhibitor fungicide resistance in the barley pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. sp. maculata" Fungal Genetics and Biology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2020.103475

Martin, A., Moolhuijzen, P., Tao, Y., McIlroy, J., Ellwood, S.R., Fowler, R.A., Platz, G.J., Kilian, A., Snyman, L. (2020) "Genomic Regions Associated with Virulence in Pyrenophora teres f. teres Identified by Genome-Wide Association Analysis and Biparental Mapping." Phytopathology 110 (4), 881-891. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-19-0372-R

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

Ellwood, S.R., Piscetek, V., Mair, W.J., Lawrence, J.A., Lopez-Ruiz, F.J., Rawlinson, C. (2018) "Genetic variation of Pyrenophora teres f. teres isolates in Western Australia and emergence of a Cyp51A fungicide resistance mutation." Plant Pathology. Doi: 10.1111/ppa.12924 DOI: https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ppa.12924

Ellwood, S., Wallwork, H. (2018) "Diseases affecting barley: Net blotches" Cambridge, UK: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. Part 1, section 9 DOI: https://shop.bdspublishing.com/checkout/Store/bds/Detail/WorkGroup/3-190-72711

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

Poudel, B., Ellwood, S.R., Testa, A.C., McLean, M., Sutherland, M.W., Martin, A. (2017) "Rare pyrenophora teres hybridization events revealed by development of sequence-specific PCR markers." Phytopathology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-16-0396-R

Ge, X., Deng, W., Lee, Z.Z., Lopez-Ruiz, F.J., Schweizer, P., Ellwood, S.R. (2016) "Tempered mlo broad-spectrum resistance to barley powdery mildew in an Ethiopian landrace" Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/srep29558

Lu, X., Kracher, B., Saur, I.M.L., Bauer, S., Ellwood, S.R., Wise, R., Yaeno, T., Maekawa, T., Schulze-Lefert, P. (2016) "Allelic barley MLA immune receptors recognize sequence-unrelated avirulence effectors of the powdery mildew pathogen" PNAS DOI: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612947113

Mair, W.J., Deng, W., Mullins, J.G.L., West, S., Wang, P., Besharat, N., Ellwood, S.R., Oliver, R.P., Lopez-Ruiz, F.J. (2016) "Demethylase Inhibitor Fungicide Resistance in Pyrenophora teres f. sp. teres Associated with Target Site Modification and Inducible Overexpression of Cyp51" Frontiers in Microbiology DOI: doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01279

Syme, R.A., Tan, K.C., Hane, J.K., Dodhia, K., Stoll, T., Hastie, M., Furuki, E., Ellwood, S.R., Williams, A.H., Tan, Y., Testa, A.C., Gorman, J.J., Oliver, R.P. (2016) "Comprehensive Annotation of the Parastagonospora nodorum Reference Genome Using Next-Generation Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteogenomics" PLoS ONE DOI: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147221

Testa, A.C., Hane, J.K., Ellwood, S.R., Oliver, R.P. (2015) "CodingQuarry: highly accurate hidden Markov model gene prediction in fungal genomes using RNA-seq transcripts" BMC Genomics DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1344-4

Cowley, R., Luckett, D.J., Ash, G.J., Harper, J.D.I., Vipin, C.A., Raman, H., Ellwood, S.R. (2014) "Identification of QTLs associated with resistance to Phomopsis pod blight (Diaporthe toxica) in Lupinus albus" Breeding Science DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.64.83

Tucker, M.A., Moffat, C.S., Ellwood, S.R., Tan, K.C., Jayasena, K, Oliver, R.P. (2014) "Development of genetic SSR markers in Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei and application to isolates from Australia" Plant Pathology DOI: doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12258

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