Michael Ayliffe

10.1k citations

79 papers · 6.7k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.2%
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
Molecular Biology top 2%
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Papers in

Plant Science 71
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 32
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 30
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology 29
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms 13
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis 10
Molecular Biology 36
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration 11
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies 10
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 9

Co-authors: Jeremy N. Timmis Gregory J. Lawrence Chun Huang Peter N. Dodds William Martin Jeffrey G. Ellis Ann‐Maree Catanzariti E. Jean Finnegan
Journals: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (9 papers)The Plant Cell (9 papers)Theoretical and Applied Genetics (5 papers)PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (4 papers)Frontiers in Plant Science (3 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Michael Ayliffe

77 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Emergence and Spread of New Races of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus: Continued Threat to Food Security and Prospects of Genetic Control 2015 · 315 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Phytopathology
2015 Nature Genetics
2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 Nature Reviews Genetics

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1	Challenges to Wheat Disease Resistance and Current Global Strategies Annual Review of Phytopathology ·Ravi Pratap Singh, David Hodson, P. K. Singh, Caixia Lan, Xinyao He, Evans Lagudah, Philomin Juliana, Michael Ayliffe, Sridhar Bhavani, Michael James Conway Michael James Conway, Julio Huerta‐Espino	2025	0
2	Pooled effector library screening in protoplasts rapidly identifies novel Avr genes Nature Plants ·R.E. Staal, Jian Chen, Jana Sperschneider, Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Cheryl Blundell, Г. М. Степанян, Megan A. Outram, Aihua Wang, Stephen M. Swain, Ming Luo, Michael Ayliffe, Melania Figueroa, Thomas Vanhercke, Peter N. Dodds	2024	18
3	Introgression of the bread wheat D genome encoded Lr34/Yr18/Sr57/Pm38/Ltn1 adult plant resistance gene into Triticum turgidum (durum wheat) Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Hongyu Li, Peng Zhang, Ming Luo, Mohammad Shamsul Hoque, Ralphael Silek Bugie, N Karen, Jianbo Li, 卜宁, César Rojas, Irina Radoman, Lianquan Zhang, Diane E. Mather, Michael Ayliffe	2023	2
4	Plant and pathogen genomics: essential approaches for stem rust resistance gene stacks in wheat Frontiers in Plant Science ·Matthias Jost, Megan A. Outram, Katherine E. Dibley, Jianping Zhang, Ming Luo, Michael Ayliffe	2023	6
5	The barley leaf rust resistance gene Rph3 encodes a predicted membrane protein and is induced upon infection by avirulent pathotypes of Puccinia hordei Nature Communications ·Yuri Azizov, Davinder Singh, 公生小松, Göetz Hensel, Jochen Kumlehn, Martin Mascher, Nils Stein, Dragan Perović, Michael Ayliffe, Matthew Moscou, Robert Park, Mohammad Pourkheirandish	2022	19
6	Genomics accelerated isolation of a new stem rust avirulence gene–wheat resistance gene pair Nature Plants ·Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Rohit Mago, Vinay Panwar, Tim Hewitt, Ming Luo, Jian Chen, Jana Sperschneider, Hoa Nguyen‐Phuc, Aihua Wang, Diana Ortiz, Devie Rahmawati, Dhara Bhatt, Feng Li, Jianping Zhang, Michael Ayliffe, Melania Figueroa, K. Kanyuka, Jeffrey G. Ellis, Peter N. Dodds	2021	74
7	The Gene Sr33, an Ortholog of Barley Mla Genes, Encodes Resistance to Wheat Stem Rust Race Ug99 Science ·Sambasivam Periyannan, John Moore, Michael Ayliffe, Urmil Bansal, Xiaojing Wang, Li Huang, Karin R. Deal, Ming‐Cheng Luo, Xiuying Kong, Harbans Bariana, Rohit Mago, R. A. McIntosh, Peter N. Dodds, Jan Dvořák, Evans Lagudah	2013	266
8	Infection of Brachypodium distachyon with Selected Grass Rust Pathogens Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Michael Ayliffe, Davinder Singh, Robert Park, Matthew Moscou, Tony Pryor	2013	37
9	Plastid DNA in the nucleus Plant Signaling & Behavior ·Mathieu Rousseau‐Gueutin, Michael Ayliffe, Jeremy N. Timmis	2012	6
10	Activation Tagging and Insertional Mutagenesis in Barley Methods in molecular biology ·Michael Ayliffe, A. Pryor	2010	7
11	Durable resistance to wheat stem rust needed Current Opinion in Plant Biology ·Michael Ayliffe, Ravi P. Singh, Evans Lagudah	2008	77
12	Transfer of Plastid DNA to the Nucleus Is Elevated during Male Gametogenesis in Tobacco PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Anna E. Sheppard, Michael Ayliffe, Érica Eliziane de Pádua, Anil Day, Sven K Delaney, J. X. Wang, Yuan Li, Panagiotis Madesis, A. Pryor, Jeremy N. Timmis	2008	45
13	The M flax rust resistance pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced and contains a complex upstream untranslated region Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Simon A. Schmidt, Maria Stella Lombardi, Donald M. Gardiner, Michael Ayliffe, Peter Anderson	2007	9
14	Direct protein interaction underlies gene-for-gene specificity and coevolution of the flax resistance genes and flax rust avirulence genes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Peter N. Dodds, Gregory J. Lawrence, Ann‐Maree Catanzariti, Trazel Teh, Ching‐I. A. Wang, Michael Ayliffe, Boštjan Kobe, Jeffrey G. Ellis Hit paper breakdown →	2006	572
15	Barley (<i>Hordeum vulgare</i> L.) Humana Press eBooks ·John V. Jacobsen, Ingrid Venables, Ming‐Bo Wang, Peter Matthews, Michael Ayliffe, Frank Gubler	2006	149
16	Haustorially Expressed Secreted Proteins from Flax Rust Are Highly Enriched for Avirulence Elicitors The Plant Cell ·Ann‐Maree Catanzariti, Peter N. Dodds, Gregory J. Lawrence, Michael Ayliffe, Jeffrey G. Ellis	2005	322
17	The Melampsora lini AvrL567 Avirulence Genes Are Expressed in Haustoria and Their Products Are Recognized inside Plant Cells The Plant Cell ·Peter N. Dodds, Gregory J. Lawrence, Ann‐Maree Catanzariti, Michael Ayliffe, Jeffrey G. Ellis	2004	296
18	Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes Nature Reviews Genetics ·Jeremy N. Timmis, Michael Ayliffe, Chun Huang, William Martin Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1096
19	Aberrant mRNA Processing of the Maize Rp1-D Rust Resistance Gene in Wheat and Barley Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Michael Ayliffe, Martin Steinau, Robert Park, Kapanadze Eg, María Pacheco, Scot H. Hulbert, Harold N. Trick, A. Pryor	2004	24
20	Molecular Genetics of Disease Resistance in Cereals Annals of Botany ·Michael Ayliffe	2004	54

About Michael Ayliffe

Michael Ayliffe is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Biotechnology and Insect Science, having authored 79 papers that have together received 6.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (32 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (30 papers), Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (29 papers), Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms (13 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (11 papers), Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (10 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (10 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (5.4k citations), Molecular Biology (2.9k citations), Cell Biology (518 citations), Genetics (706 citations) and Horticulture (23 citations). Michael Ayliffe has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Jeremy N. Timmis, Gregory J. Lawrence, Chun Huang, Peter N. Dodds, William Martin, Jeffrey G. Ellis, Ann‐Maree Catanzariti, E. Jean Finnegan, Jim Ellis and Evans Lagudah. Their work appears in journals such as Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, The Plant Cell, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and Frontiers in Plant Science.

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