Seogchan Kang

Professor of Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology

Seogchan Kang

Research Summary

Genetic and cellular mechanisms underpinning plant-fungal interactions with Arabidopsis thaliana and Fusarium oxysporum as a model system. Molecular genetics and comparative genomics of fungal plant pathogens. Bioinformatics.

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Fusarium Fungi Genes Oryza Transcription Factors Immunity Growth Volatile Organic Compounds Rice Plant Health Pathogens Calcium Proteins Arabidopsis Pathogenicity Genomics Calmodulin Infections Conidiation Gene Fusarium Solani Trapping Loci Stress Response Health

Most Recent Publications

Evaluation of multi-color genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators in filamentous fungi

Hye-Seon Kim, Jungeun Kim, Aram Hwangbo, Jasper Akerboom, Loren Luger, Larry Duncan, Hokyoung Son, Kirk Czymmek, Seogchan Kang, Fungal Genetics & Biology on p. 103540

Plant-endophyte associations: Rich yet under-explored sources of novel bioactive molecules and applications

Pragya Tiwari, Seogchan Kang, Hanhong Bae, 2023, Microbiological Research

DdaCrz1, a C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-Type Transcription Factor, Regulates Growth, Conidiation, and Stress Resistance in the Nematode-Trapping Fungus Drechslerella dactyloides

Xiaozhou Zhao, Yani Fan, Meichun Xiang, Seogchan Kang, Shunxian Wang, Xingzhong Liu, 2022, Journal of Fungi

FUSARIUM-ID v.3.0: An Updated, Downloadable Resource for Fusarium Species Identification

Terry J. Torres-Cruz, Briana K. Whitaker, Robert H. Proctor, Kirk Broders, Imane Laraba, Hye Seon Kim, Daren W. Brown, Kerry O’Donnell, Tania L. Estrada-Rodríguez, Yong Hwan Lee, Kyeongchae Cheong, Emma C. Wallace, Chyanna T. McGee, Seogchan Kang, David M. Geiser, 2022, Plant Disease on p. 1610-1616

Genomics and Informatics, Conjoined Tools Vital for Understanding and Protecting Plant Health

Seogchan Kang, Ki Tae Kim, Jaeyoung Choi, Hyun Kim, Kyeongchae Cheong, Ananda Bandara, Yong Hwan Lee, 2022, Phytopathology on p. 981-995

Phytophthora spp. Associated with Appalachian Oak Forests and Waterways in Pennsylvania, with P. abietivora as a Pathogen of Five Native Woody Plant Species

Devin Bily, Ekaterina Nikolaeva, Tracey Olson, Seogchan Kang, 2022, Plant Disease on p. 1143-1156

A rice gene encoding glycosyl hydrolase plays contrasting roles in immunity depending on the type of pathogens

Chi Yeol Kim, Ju Young Park, Gobong Choi, Seongbeom Kim, Kieu Thi Xuan Vo, Jong Seong Jeon, Seogchan Kang, Yong Hwan Lee, 2022, Molecular Plant Pathology on p. 400-416

Phytophthora Diversity in Pennsylvania Nurseries and Greenhouses Inferred from Clinical Samples Collected over Four Decades

Devin Bily, Ekaterina Nikolaeva, Tracey Olson, Seogchan Kang, 2022, Plant Disease

Alternative splicing diversifies the transcriptome and proteome of the rice blast fungus during host infection

Jongbum Jeon, Ki Tae Kim, Jaeyoung Choi, Kyeongchae Cheong, Jaeho Ko, Gobong Choi, Hyunjun Lee, Gir Won Lee, Sook Young Park, Seongbeom Kim, Sun Tae Kim, Cheol Woo Min, Seogchan Kang, Yong Hwan Lee, 2022, RNA Biology on p. 373-385

Time-Lapse Imaging of Root Pathogenesis and Fungal Proliferation Without Physically Disrupting Roots

Hye Seon Kim, Sook Young Park, Seogchan Kang, Kirk J. Czymmek, 2022, on p. 153-170

Most-Cited Papers

Phylogenetic analyses of RPB1 and RPB2 support a middle Cretaceous origin for a clade comprising all agriculturally and medically important fusaria

Kerry O'Donnell, Alejandro P. Rooney, Robert H. Proctor, Daren W. Brown, Susan P. McCormick, Todd J. Ward, Rasmus J.N. Frandsen, Erik Lysøe, Stephen A. Rehner, Takayuki Aoki, Vincent A.R.G. Robert, Pedro W. Crous, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Seogchan Kang, David M. Geiser, 2013, Fungal Genetics and Biology on p. 20-31

DNA sequence-based identification of Fusarium: Current status and future directions

Kerry O’Donnell, Todd J. Ward, Vincent A.R.G. Robert, Pedro W. Crous, David M. Geiser, Seogchan Kang, 2015, Phytoparasitica on p. 583-595

Sniffing on microbes: Diverse roles of microbial volatile organic compounds in plant health

Vasileios Bitas, Hye Seon Kim, Joan W. Bennett, Seogchan Kang, 2013, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 835-843

One fungus, one name: Defining the genus Fusarium in a scientifically robust way that preserves longstanding use

David M. Geiser, Takayuki Aoki, Charles W. Bacon, Scott E. Baker, Madan K. Bhattacharyya, Mary E. Brandt, Daren W. Brown, Lester W. Burgess, Sofia Chulze, Jeffrey J. Coleman, James C. Correll, Sarah F. Covert, Pedro W. Crous, Christina A. Cuomo, G. Sybren De Hoog, Antonio Di Pietro, Wade H. Elmer, Lynn Epstein, Rasmus J.N. Frandsen, Stanley Freeman, Tatiana Gagkaeva, Anthony E. Glenn, Thomas R. Gordon, Nancy F. Gregory, Kim E. Hammond-Kosack, Linda E. Hanson, María Del Mar Jímenez-Gasco, Seogchan Kang, H. Corby Kistler, Gretchen A. Kuldau, John F. Leslie, Antonio Logrieco, Guozhong Lu, Erik Lysøe, Li Jun Ma, Susan P. McCormick, Quirico Migheli, Antonio Moretti, Françoise Munaut, Kerry O'Donnell, Ludwig Pfenning, Randy C. Ploetz, Robert H. Proctor, Stephen A. Rehner, Vincent A.R.G. Robert, Alejandro P. Rooney, Baharuddin Bin Salleh, Maria Mercedes Scandiani, Jonathan Scauflaire, Dylan P.G. Short, Emma Steenkamp, Haruhisa Suga, Brett A. Summerell, Deanna A. Sutton, Ulf Thrane, Francis Trail, Anne Van Diepeningen, Hans D. VanEtten, Altus Viljoen, Cees Waalwijk, Todd J. Ward, Michael J. Wingfield, Jin Rong Xu, Xiao Bing Yang, Tapani Yli-Mattila, Ning Zhang, 2013, Phytopathology on p. 400-408

Kingdom-wide analysis of fungal small secreted proteins (SSPs) reveals their potential role in host association

Ki Tae Kim, Jongbum Jeon, Jaeyoung Choi, Kyeongchae Cheong, Hyeunjeong Song, Gobong Choi, Seogchan Kang, Yong Hwan Lee, 2016, Frontiers in Plant Science

Fusarium oxysporum volatiles enhance plant growth via affecting auxin transport and signaling

Vasileios Bitas, Nathaniel McCartney, Ningxiao Li, Jill Demers, Jung Eun Kim, Hye Seon Kim, Kathleen M. Brown, Seogchan Kang, 2015, Frontiers in Microbiology

Phylogenomic analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-gene dataset resolves a monophyletic fusarium that includes the fusarium solani species complex

David M. Geiser, Abdullah M.S. Al-Hatmi, Takayuki Aoki, Tsutomu Arie, Virgilio Balmas, Irene Barnes, Gary C. Bergstrom, Madan K. Bhattacharyya, Cheryl L. Blomquist, Robert L. Bowden, Balazs Brankovics, Daren W. Brown, Lester W. Burgess, Kathryn Bushley, Mark Busman, Jose F. Cano-Lira, Joseph D. Carrillo, Hao Xun Chang, Chi Yu Chen, Wanquan Chen, Martin Chilvers, Sofia Chulze, Jeffrey J. Coleman, Christina A. Cuomo, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, G. Sybren de Hoog, Johanna Del Castillo-Munera, Emerson M. Del Ponte, Javier Dieguez-Uribeondo, Antonio Di Pietro, Veronique Edel-Hermann, Wade H. Elmer, Lynn Epstein, Akif Eskalen, Maria Carmela Esposto, Kathryne L. Everts, Sylvia P. Fernandez-Pavıa, Gilvan Ferreira da Silva, Nora A. Foroud, Gerda Fourie, Rasmus J.N. Frandsen, Stanley Freeman, Michael Freitag, Omer Frenkel, Kevin K. Fuller, Tatiana Gagkaeva, Donald M. Gardiner, Anthony E. Glenn, Scott E. Gold, Thomas R. Gordon, Nancy F. Gregory, Marieka Gryzenhout, Josep Guarro, Beth K. Gugino, Santiago Gutierrez, Kim E. Hammond-Kosack, Linda J. Harris, Monika Homa, Cheng Fang Hong, Laszlo Hornok, Jenn Wen Huang, Macit Ilkit, Adriaana Jacobs, Karin Jacobs, Cong Jiang, Marıa del Mar Jimenez-Gasco, Seogchan Kang, Matthew T. Kasson, Kemal Kazan, John C. Kennell, Hye Seon Kim, H. Corby Kistler, Gretchen A. Kuldau, Tomasz Kulik, Oliver Kurzai, Imane Laraba, Matthew H. Laurence, Theresa Lee, Yin Won Lee, Yong Hwan Lee, John F. Leslie, Edward C.Y. Liew, Lily W. Lofton, Antonio F. Logrieco, Manuel S. Lopez-Berges, Alicia G. Luque, Erik Lysøe, Li Jun Ma, Robert E. Marra, Frank N. Martin, Sara R. May, Susan P. McCormick, Chyanna McGee, Jacques F. Meis, Quirico Migheli, N. M.I. Mohamed Nor, Michel Monod, Antonio Moretti, Diane Mostert, Giuseppina Mule, Françoise Munaut, Gary P. Munkvold, Paul Nicholson, Marcio Nucci, Kerry O’Donnell, Matias Pasquali, Ludwig H. Pfenning, Anna Prigitano, Robert H. Proctor, Stephane Ranque, Stephen A. Rehner, Martijn Rep, Gerardo Rodrıguez-Alvarado, Lindy Joy Rose, Mitchell G. Roth, Carmen Ruiz-Roldan, Amgad A. Saleh, Baharuddin Salleh, Hyunkyu Sang, Marıa Mercedes Scandiani, Jonathan Scauflaire, David G. Schmale, Dylan P.G. Short, Adnan Sisic, Jason A. Smith, Christopher W. Smyth, Hokyoung Son, Ellie Spahr, Jason E. Stajich, Emma Steenkamp, Christian Steinberg, Rajagopal Subramaniam, Haruhisa Suga, Brett A. Summerell, Antonella Susca, Cassandra L. Swett, Christopher Toomajian, Terry J. Torres-Cruz, Anna M. Tortorano, Martin Urban, Lisa J. Vaillancourt, Gary E. Vallad, Theo A.J. van der Lee, Dan Vanderpool, Anne D. van Diepeningen, Martha M. Vaughan, Eduard Venter, Marcele Vermeulen, Paul E. Verweij, Altus Viljoen, Cees Waalwijk, Emma C. Wallace, Grit Walther, Jie Wang, Todd J. Ward, Brian L. Wickes, Nathan P. Wiederhold, Michael J. Wingfield, Ana K.M. Wood, Jin Rong Xu, Xiao Bing Yang, Tapani Yli-Mattila, Sung Hwan Yun, Latiffah Zakaria, Hao Zhang, Ning Zhang, Sean X. Zhang, Xue Zhang, 2021, Phytopathology on p. 1064-1079

Volatile compound-mediated recognition and inhibition between trichoderma biocontrol agents and fusarium oxysporum

Ningxiao Li, Alsayed Alfiky, Wenzhao Wang, Md Islam, Khoshnood Nourollahi, Xingzhong Liu, Seogchan Kang, 2018, Frontiers in Microbiology on p. 1-15

Global Expression Profiling of Transcription Factor Genes Provides New Insights into Pathogenicity and Stress Responses in the Rice Blast Fungus

Sook Young Park, Jaeyoung Choi, Se Eun Lim, Gir Won Lee, Jongsun Park, Yang Kim, Sunghyung Kong, Se Ryun Kim, Hee Sool Rho, Junhyun Jeon, Myung Hwan Chi, Soonok Kim, Chang Hyun Khang, Seogchan Kang, Yong Hwan Lee, 2013, PLoS Pathogens

Stop and smell the fungi: Fungal volatile metabolites are overlooked signals involved in fungal interaction with plants

Ningxiao Li, Alsayed Alfiky, Martha M. Vaughan, Seogchan Kang, 2016, Fungal Biology Reviews on p. 134-144