Selected Publications
Mitchum, M.G., X. Wang, and E.L. Davis (2008) Diverse and conserved roles of CLE peptides. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 11:75-81.
Wang, X., A. Replogle, E.L. Davis, and M.G. Mitchum (2007) The tobacco Cel7 gene promoter is auxin-responsive and locally induced in nematode feeding sites of heterologous plants. Mol. Plant Pathol. 8:423-436.
Sukno, S.A., J. McCuiston, M.-Y. Wong, X. Wang, M.R. Thon, R. Hussey, T. Baum, and E. Davis (2007) Quantitative detection of double-Stranded RNA-mediated gene silencing of parasitism genes in Heterodera glycines. J. Nematol. 39:145-152.
Wang, X., M.G. Mitchum, B. Gao, C. Li, H. Diab, T.J. Baum, R.S. Hussey, and E.L. Davis (2005) A parasitism gene from a plant-parasitic nematode with function similar to CLAVATA3/ESR (CLE) of Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Plant Pathol. 6:187-191.
Mitchum, M.G., S. Sukno, X. Wang, Z. Shani, G. Tsabary, O. Shoseyov, and E.L. Davis (2004) The promoter of the Arabidopsis thaliana Cel1 endo-beta-1,4-glucanase gene is differentially expressed in feeding sites induced by root-knot and cyst nematodes. Mol. Plant Pathol. 5:175-181.
De Boer, J.M., J.P. McDermott, X. Wang, T. Maier, F. Qui, R.S. Hussey, E.L. Davis, and T.J. Baum (2002) The use of DNA microarrays for the developmental expression analysis of cDNAs from oesophageal gland cell region of Heterodera glycines. Mol. Plant Pathol. 3:261-270.
Goellner, M., X. Wang, and E.L. Davis (2001) Endo-beta-1,4-glucanase expression in compatible plant-nematode interactions. Plant Cell 13:2241-2255.
Wang, X., R. Allen, X. Ding, M. Goellner, T. Maier, J.M. de Boer, T.J. Baum, R.S. Hussey, and E.L. Davis (2001) Signal peptide-selection of cDNA cloned directly from the esophageal gland cells of the soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 14:536-544.
de Boer, J.M., Y. Yan, X. Wang, G. Smant, R.S. Hussey, E.L. Davis, and T.J. Baum (1999) Developmental expression of secretory beta-1,4-endoglucanases in the subventral esophageal glands of Heterodera glycines. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 12:663-669.
Wang, X., D. Meyers, Y. Yan, T. Baum, G. Smant, R. Hussey, E. Davis. (1999) In planta localization of a beta-1,4-endoglucanse secreted by Heterodera glycines. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 12:64-67.
Smart G., J.P., W.G. Stokkermans, Y. Yan, J.M. de Boer, T. Baum, X. Wang, R.S. Hussey, F.J. Gommers, B. Henrissat, E.L. Davis, J. Helder, A. Schots, and J. Bakker (1998) Endogenous cellulases in animals: isolation of beta-1,4-endoglucanase genes from two species of plant-parasitic cyst nematodes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95:4906-4911.