Research
We work in areas of Food Security and Plant Pathology. We are trying to understand how plant pathogens and parasites are so successful, despite our efforts to control them. We are particularly interested in plant-parasitic nematodes for their remarkable ability to cause existing plant cells to re-differentiate into a novel tissue.
Publications
§ C. J. Lilley, A. Maqbool, D. Wu, H. B. Yusup, L. M. Jones, P. R. J. Birch, M. J. Banfield, P. E. Urwin, and S. Eves-van den Akker. (2018). Effector gene birth in plant parasitic nematodes: neofunctionalization of a housekeeping glutathione synthetase gene. PLOS Genetics – in press.
§ S. Eves-van den Akker* and P. R. J. Birch (2016). Opening the effector protein toolbox for plant-parasitic cyst-nematode interactions. Molecular Plant. DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2016.09.008.
§ S. Eves-van den Akker* and D.R. Laetsch, P. Thorpe, C. J. Lilley, E. G. J. Danchin, M. Da Rocha, C. Rancurel, E. Grenier, J. Montarry, N. E. Holroyd, J. A. Cotton, B. Mimee, M. Duceppe, I. Boyes, J. Lapalme, M. Esquibet, M. Sabeh, M. Rott, H. Overmars, A. Tomczak, G. Smant, V. Blok, S. Mantelin, P. J. A. Cock, W. Phillips, J. Marvin, L. M Jones, H. B. Yusup, P. E. Urwin, M. Blaxter, J. T. Jones. (2016) The genomic and transcriptomic bases of pathogenicity in the golden potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis. – Genome biology. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0985-1.
