Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity

Selected publications (since 2015)

• Bucknell A, Wilson HM, Gonçalves dos Santos KC, Simpfendorfer S, Milgate A, Germain H, Solomon PS, Bentham A &McDonald MC (2025) Sanctuary: a Starship transposon facilitating the movement of the virulence factor ToxA in fungal wheat pathogens. mBio 16, e01371-25.
• Nguyen HT, Sbaraini N, Bracegirdle J, Smithers L, Moggach SA, Vuong D, Lacey E, Solomon PS, Haywood J, Piggott AM & Chooi Y-H (2025) Heterologous expression of an in planta-upregulated gene cluster in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum establishes the biosynthesis of methylene-bridged depsides. Chemical Science 16, 21852-21861. 
• Darma R, Shang Z, Bracegirdle J, Moggach S, McDonald MC, Piggott AM, Solomon PS¹ & Chooi Y-H¹ (2025) Transcriptomics-Driven Discovery of New Meroterpenoid Rhynchospenes Involved in the Virulence of the Barley Pathogen Rhynchosporium commune. ACS Chemical Biology  20, 421-431 (¹Co-corresponding authors)
• Darma R, Yu DS, Outram MA, Ovenden B, Sung Y-C, Hill EH, Croll D, Williams SJ, Zhang X, Milgate A, Solomon PS¹ & McDonald MC¹ (2025) Revisiting the Evolution and Function of NIP2 Paralogues in the Rhynchosporium Spp. Complex. Plant Pathology 74, 1622-1640. (¹Co-corresponding authors)
• Kariyawasam GK, Nelson AC, Williams SJ, Solomon PS, Faris JD & Friesen TL (2023) The necrotrophic pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum is a master manipulator of wheat defense. Molecular Microbe-Plant Interactions 36, 764-773
• Aboukhaddour R, Hafez M, McDonald MC, Moffat CS, Navathe S, Friesen TL, Strelkov SE, Oliver RP, Tan K-C, Liu Z, Moolhuijzen PM, Phan H, Theen See P, Solomon PS (2023) A revised nomenclature for ToxA haplotypes across multiple fungal species. Phytopathology 113, 1180-1184.
• Feurtey A, Lorrain C, McDonald MC, Milgate A, Solomon PS, Warren R, Puccetti G, Scalliet G, Torriani SFF, Gout L, Marcel TC, Suffert F, Alassimone J, Lipzen A, Yoshinaga Y, Daum C, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Goodwin SB, Genissel A, Seidl MF, Stukenbrock EH, Lebrun M-H, Kema GHJ, McDonald BA & Croll D (2023) A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen. Nature Communications 14, 1059
• McDonald MC, Williams SJ & Solomon PS (2023) The role of Tox effector proteins in the Parastagonospora nodorum – wheat interaction. Plant Relationships: Fungal-Plant Interactions, 53-63
• Yang N, Ovenden B, Baxter B, McDonald MC, Solomon PS & Milgate A (2023) Multi-stage resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici revealed by GWAS in an Australian bread wheat diversity panel. Frontiers in Plant Science 13, 990915
• McCombe CL, Greenwood JR, Solomon PS* & Williams SJ* (2023) Molecular plant immunity against biotrophic, hemibiotrophic, and necrotrophic fungi. Essays in Biochemistry 66, 581-5593 (*co-corresponding)
• Dagvadorj B, Outram M, Williams SJ & Solomon PS (2022) The necrotrophic effector ToxA from Parastagonospora nodorum interacts with wheat NHL proteins to facilitate Tsn1-mediated necrosis. The Plant Journal 110, 407-418.
• Yu DS, Outram MA, Crean E, Smith A, Sung Y-C, Darma R, Sun X, Ma L, Jones DA, Solomon PS & Williams SJ (2022) Optimised production of disulfide-bonded fungal effectors in E. coli using CyDisCo and FunCyDisCo co-expression approaches. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 35, 109-118
• Kanyuka K, Igna A, Solomon PS & Oliver PS (2022) The rise of necrotrophic effectors. New Phytologist 233, 11-14 
• Outram M, Solomon PS & Williams SJ (2021) Pro-domain processing of fungal effectors proteins from plant pathogens. PLoS Pathogens 17(10), e1010000 
• Dagvadorj B & Solomon PS (2021) Simple and efficient heterologous expression of necrosis-inducing effectors using the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Direct 5(8), e341 
• Stephens C, Olmez F, Blyth H, McDonald MC, Bansal A, Turgay AV, Hahn F, Saintenac C, Nekrasov V, Solomon PS, Milgate A, Fraaije B, Kanyuka K (2021) Remarkable recent changes in genetic diversity of the avirulence gene AvrStb6 in global populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Molecular Plant Pathology 22, 1121-1133. 
• Outram M, Sung Y-C, Yu D, Dagvadorj B, Rima S, Jones D, Ericsson D, Sperschneider J, Solomon PS, Kobe B, Williams SJ (2021) The crystal structure of SnTox3 from the necrotrophic fungus Parastagonospora nodorum reveals a unique effector fold and provides insight into Snn3 recognition and pro-domain protease processing of fungal effectors. New Phytologist 231, 2282-2296
• Wang C, Milgate AM, Solomon PS*, McDonald MC* (2021) The identification of a transposon affecting the asexual reproduction of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Molecular Plant Pathology 22, 800-816 (*Co-corresponding authors) 
• Sung Y-C*, Outram MA*, Breen S, Wang C, Dagvadorj B, Winterberg B, Kobe B, Williams SJ# & Solomon PS# (2021) PR1-mediated defence via C-terminal peptide release is targeted by a fungal pathogen effector. New Phytologist 229, 3467-3480 (* Co-first authors; # Co-corresponding authors) 
• Kessler SC, Zhang X, McDonald MC, Gilchrist CLM, Lin Z, Rightmyer A, Solomon PS, Turgeon GB & Chooi, Y-H (2020) Victorin, the host-selective cyclic peptide toxin from the oat pathogen Cochliobolus victoriae, is ribosomally encoded. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117, 24243-24250 
• Hill EH & Solomon PS (2020) Extracellular vesicles from the apoplastic fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 7, Article number: 13
• Yesmin N, Jenny F, Abdullah HM, Hossain MM, Kader MA, Solomon PS, Bhuiyan MAHB (2020) A review on South Asian wheat blast: the present status and future perspective. Plant Pathology 69, 1618-1629 
• Khan H, McDonald MC, Williams SJ & Solomon PS (2020) Assessing the efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in the wheat pathogen Parastagonspora nodorum. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 7, Article number 4
• Muria Gonzalez MJ, Yeng Y, Breen S, Mead O, Wang C, Chooi Y-H, Barrow RA & Solomon PS (2020) Volatile molecules secreted by the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum are involved in development and phytotoxicity. Frontiers in Microbiology 11, Article 466 
• Green K, Berry D, Feussner K,Eaton C, Ram A, Mesarich C, Solomon PS, Feussner I & Scott B (2020) Lolium perenne apoplast metabolomics for identification of novel metabolites produced by the symbiotic fungus Epichloë festuca. New Phytologist 227, 559-571 
• Li H*, Wei H*, Hu J, Lacey E, Sobolev A, Stubbs K, Solomon PS# & Chooi Y-H# (2020) Genomics-driven discovery of phytotoxic cytochalasans involved in the virulence of the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. ACS Chemical Biology 15, 226-233
• Jones DAB, John E, Rybak K, Phan HTT, Singh KB, Lin S-Y, Solomon PS, Oliver RP & Tan K-C (2019) A specific fungal transcription factor controls effector gene expression and orchestrates the establishment of the necrotrophic pathogen lifestyle on wheat. Scientific Reports 9, 15884 
• Li H, Hu J, Wei H, Solomon PS, Stubbs KA & Chooi Y-H (2019) Biosynthesis of a tricyclo[6.2.2.02,7]dodecane system by a berberine bridge enzyme-like intramolecular aldolase. Chemistry - A European Journal 25, 15062-15066
• McDonald MC, Taranto A, Hill E, Schwessinger B, Liu Z, Simpfendorfer S, Milgate A & Solomon PS (2019) Transposon mediated horizontal transfer of the host-specific virulence protein ToxA between three fungal wheat pathogens. mBio 10, e01515-e01519
• Phan C-S, Li H, Kessler S, Solomon PS, Piggott AM & Chooi Y-H (2019) New sesquiterpenoids from the fungal plant pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 15, 2020-2028
• Thynne E, Mead O, Chooi YH, McDonald MC* & Solomon PS* (2018) Acquisition and loss of secondary metabolite clusters shaped the evolutionary path of three recently emerged phytopathogens of wheat. Genome Biology and Evolution 11, 890-905
• McDonald MC, Renkin M, Spackman M, Orchard B, Croll D, Solomon PS & Milgate A (2019) Rapid parallel evolution of azole fungicide resistance in Australian populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 85, e01908-e01918
• Newman T, Lee J, Williams S, Choi S, Halane M, Zhou J, Solomon PS, Kobe B, Jones J, Segonzac C, Sohn KH (2019) Autoimmunity and effector recognition in Arabidopsis thaliana can be uncoupled by mutations in the RRS1-R immune receptor. New Phytologist 222, 954-965
• Li H, Hu J, Wei H, Solomon PS, Vuong D, Lacey E, Stubbs K, Piggott A & Choi Y-H (2018) Chemical ecogenomics-guided discovery of phytotoxic α-pyrones from the fungal wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. Organic Letters 20, 6148-6152 
• Yang N, McDonald MC, Solomon PS & Milgate A (2018) Genetic mapping of Stb19, a novel resistance gene to Zymoseptoria tritici in wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 131, 2765-2773 
• Figueroa M, Hammond-Kosack KE & Solomon, PS (2018) A review of wheat diseases - a field perspective. Molecular Plant Pathology 19, 1523-1536 (doi: 10.1111/mpp.12618)
• Lin, S.Y., Chooi, Y.H. and Solomon, P.S. (2018) The global regulator of pathogenesis PnCon7 positively regulates Tox3 effector gene expression through direct interaction in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. Molecular Microbiology 109, 79-90
• McDonald, M.C. and Solomon, P.S. (2018) Just the surface: advances in the discovery and characterization of necrotrophic wheat effectors. Curr. Opin. Microbiol., 46, 14-18.
• McDonald, M.C., Ahren, D., Simpfendorfer, S., Milgate, A. and Solomon, P.S. (2018) The discovery of the virulence gene ToxA in the wheat and barley pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana. Mol. Plant Pathol., 19, 432-439.
• Zhang, X., Nguyen, N., Breen, S., Outram, M.A., Dodds, P.N., Kobe, B., Solomon, P.S. and Williams, S.J. (2017) Production of small cysteine-rich effector proteins in Escherichia coli for structural and functional studies. Mol. Plant Pathol., 18, 141-151.
• Yap, H.Y.Y., Muria-Gonzalez, M.J., Kong, B.H., Stubbs, K.A., Tan, C.S., Ng, S.T., Tan, N.H., Solomon, P.S., Fung, S.Y. and Chooi, Y.H. (2017) Heterologous expression of cytotoxic sesquiterpenoids from the medicinal mushroom Lignosus rhinocerotis in yeast. Microbial Cell Factories, 16.
• Thynne, E., Saur, I.M.L., Simbaqueba, J., Ogilvie, H.A., Gonzalez-Cendales, Y., Mead, O., Taranto, A., Catanzariti, A.M., McDonald, M.C., Schwessinger, B., Jones, D.A., Rathjen, J.P. and Solomon, P.S. (2017) Fungal phytopathogens encode functional homologues of plant rapid alkalinization factor (RALF) peptides. Mol. Plant Pathol., 18, 811-824.
• Thynne, E., McDonald, M.C. and Solomon, P.S. (2017) Transition from heterothallism to homothallism is hypothesised to have facilitated speciation among emerging Botryosphaeriaceae wheat-pathogens. Fungal Genet Biol, 109, 36-45.
• Solomon, P.S. (2017) Have we finally opened the door to understanding Septoria tritici blotch disease in wheat? New Phytol., 214, 493-495.
• Chooi, Y.H., Zhang, G., Hu, J., Muria-Gonzalez, M.J., Tran, P.N., Pettitt, A., Maier, A.G., Barrow, R.A. and Solomon, P.S. (2017) Functional genomics-guided discovery of a light-activated phytotoxin in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum via pathway activation. Environ. Microbiol., 19, 1975-1986.
• Breen, S., Williams, S.J., Outram, M., Kobe, B. and Solomon, P.S. (2017) Emerging Insights into the Functions of Pathogenesis-Related Protein 1. Trends Plant Sci., 22, 871-879.
• Vincent, D., Plummer, K.M., Solomon, P.S., Lebrun, M.H., Job, D. and Rafiqi, M. (2016) Editorial: How can secretomics help unravel the secrets of plant-microbe interactions? Frontiers in Plant Science, 7.
• Phan, H.T.T., Rybak, K., Furuki, E., Breen, S., Solomon, P.S., Oliver, R.P. and Tan, K.C. (2016) Differential effector gene expression underpins epistasis in a plant fungal disease. Plant J., 87, 343-354.
• McDonald, M.C., McGinness, L., Hane, J.K., Williams, A.H., Milgate, A. and Solomon, P.S. (2016) Utilizing gene tree variation to identify candidate effector genes in Zymoseptoria tritici. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 6, 779-791.
• Breen, S., Williams, S.J., Winterberg, B., Kobe, B. and Solomon, P.S. (2016) Wheat PR-1 proteins are targeted by necrotrophic pathogen effector proteins. Plant J., 88, 13-25.
• Thynne, E., McDonald, M.C. and Solomon, P.S. (2015) Phytopathogen emergence in the genomics era. Trends Plant Sci., 20, 246-255.
• Thynne, E., McDonald, M.C., Evans, M., Wallwork, H., Neate, S. and Solomon, P.S. (2015) Re-classification of the causal agent of white grain disorder on wheat as three separate species of Eutiarosporella. Austral. Plant Pathol., 44, 527-539.
• Tan, K.C., Phan, H.T.T., Rybak, K., John, E., Chooi, Y.H., Solomon, P.S. and Oliver, R.P. (2015) Functional redundancy of necrotrophic effectors – consequences for exploitation for breeding. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6.
• Sánchez-Vallet, A., McDonald, M.C., Solomon, P.S. and McDonald, B.A. (2015) Is Zymoseptoria tritici a hemibiotroph? Fungal Genet Biol, 79, 29-32.
• Pascovici, D., Song, X., Solomon, P.S., Winterberg, B., Mirzaei, M., Goodchild, A., Stanley, W.C., Liu, J. and Molloy, M.P. (2015) Combining protein ratio p -values as a pragmatic approach to the analysis of multirun iTRAQ experiments. Journal of Proteome Research, 14, 738-746.
• Muria-Gonzalez, M.J., Chooi, Y.H., Breen, S. and Solomon, P.S. (2015) The past, present and future of secondary metabolite research in the Dothideomycetes. Mol. Plant Pathol., 16, 92-107.
• McDonald, M.C., Williams, A.H., Milgate, A., Pattemore, J.A., Solomon, P.S. and Hane, J.K. (2015) Next-generation re-sequencing as a tool for rapid bioinformatic screening of presence and absence of genes and accessory chromosomes across isolates of Zymoseptoria tritici. Fungal Genet Biol, 79, 71-75.
• McDonald, M.C., McDonald, B.A. and Solomon, P.S. (2015) Recent advances in the Zymoseptoria tritici–wheat interaction: Insights from pathogenomics. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6.
• Eaton, C.J., Dupont, P.Y., Solomon, P., Clayton, W., Scott, B. and Cox, M.P. (2015) A core gene set describes the molecular basis of Mutualism and Antagonism in Epichloë spp. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact., 28, 218-231.
• Dupont, P.Y., Eaton, C.J., Wargent, J.J., Fechtner, S., Solomon, P.S., Schmid, J., Day, R.C., Scott, B. and Cox, M.P. (2015) Fungal endophyte infection of ryegrass reprograms host metabolism and alters development. New Phytol., 208, 1227-1240.
• Chooi, Y.H., Muria-Gonzalez, M.J., Mead, O.L. and Solomon, P.S. (2015) SnPKS19 encodes the polyketide synthase for alternariol mycotoxin biosynthesis in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 81, 5309-5317.
• Chooi, Y.H., Krill, C., Barrow, R.A., Chen, S., Trengove, R., Oliver, R.P. and Solomon, P.S. (2015) An in planta-expressed polyketide synthase produces (R)-mellein in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 81, 177-186.
• Breen, S., Solomon, P.S., Bedon, F. and Vincent, D. (2015) Surveying the potential of secreted antimicrobial peptides to enhance plant disease resistance. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6.