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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Fungi Genes Verticillium Virulence Fusarium Proteins Pathogens Growth Verticillium Dahliae Oryza Genome Volatile Compounds Bacteria Genomics Blood Vessels Dna Transposable Elements Enzymes Magnaporthe Dna Immunity Auxins Protein Kinases Soil Trichoderma Gene Expression

Most Recent Papers

Molecular changes associated with spontaneous phenotypic variation of Paenibacillus polymyxa, a commonly used biocontrol agent, and temperature-dependent control of variation

Younmi Lee, Young Soo Kim, Kotnala Balaraju, Young Su Seo, Jungwook Park, Choong Min Ryu, Seung Hwan Park, Jihyun F. Kim, Seogchan Kang, Yongho Jeon, 2020, Scientific Reports

Two nuclear effectors of the rice blast fungus modulate host immunity via transcriptional reprogramming

Seongbeom Kim, Chi Yeol Kim, Sook Young Park, Ki Tae Kim, Jongbum Jeon, Hyunjung Chung, Gobong Choi, Seomun Kwon, Jaeyoung Choi, Junhyun Jeon, Jong Seong Jeon, Chang Hyun Khang, Seogchan Kang, Yong Hwan Lee, 2020, Nature Communications

First report of Vascular Wilt on Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) Caused by Fusarium redolens in Pakistan

Seogchan Kang, 2020, Plant Disease on p. 2525

Expression patterns of transposable elements in magnaporthe oryzae under diverse developmental and environmental conditions

Hyunjung Chung, Seogchan Kang, Yong Hwan Lee, Sook Young Park, 2020, Research in Plant Disease on p. 38-43

Evolution of the genes encoding effector candidates within multiple pathotypes of magnaporthe oryzae

Ki Tae Kim, Jaeho Ko, Hyeunjeong Song, Gobong Choi, Hyunbin Kim, Jongbum Jeon, Kyeongchae Cheong, Seogchan Kang, Yong Hwan Lee, 2019, Frontiers in Microbiology

Disruption and over expression of the gene encoding ACC (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid) deaminase in soil-borne fungal pathogen verticillium dahliae revealed the role of ACC as a potential regulator of virulence and plant defense

Maria Dimitra Tsolakidou, Iakovos Pantelides, Aliki K. Tzima, Seogchan Kang, Epaminondas J. Paplomatas, Dimitris Tsaltas, 2019, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 639-653

I Plate-based Assay for Studying How Fungal Volatile Compounds (VCs) Affect Plant Growth and Development and the Identification of VCs via SPME-GC-MS

Wenzhao Wang, Ningxiao Li, Xingzhong Liu, Seogchan Kang, 2019, BIO-PROTOCOL

Secreted metabolite-mediated interactions between rhizosphere bacteria and Trichoderma biocontrol agents

Ningxiao Li, Md Tariqul Islam, Seogchan Kang, 2019, PLoS One

Volatile compounds emitted by diverse verticillium species enhance plant growth by manipulating auxin signaling

Ningxiao Li, Wenzhao Wang, Vasileios Bitas, Krishna Subbarao, Xingzhong Liu, Seogchan Kang, 2018, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 1021-1031

Do volatile compounds produced by Fusarium oxysporum and Verticillium dahliae affect stress tolerance in plants?

Ningxiao Li, Seogchan Kang, 2018, Mycology on p. 166-175

Most-Cited Papers

Comparative genomics yields insights into niche adaptation of plant vascular wilt pathogens

Steven J. Klosterman, Krishna V. Subbarao, Seogchan Kang, Paola Veronese, Scott E. Gold, Bart P.H.J. Thomma, Zehua Chen, Bernard Henrissat, Yong Hwan Lee, Jongsun Park, Maria D. Garcia-Pedrajas, Dez J. Barbara, Amy Anchieta, Ronnie de Jonge, Parthasarathy Santhanam, Karunakaran Maruthachalam, Zahi Atallah, Stefan G. Amyotte, Zahi Paz, Patrik Inderbitzin, Ryan J. Hayes, David I. Heiman, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Reinhard Engels, James Galagan, Christina A. Cuomo, Katherine F. Dobinson, Li Jun Ma, 2011, PLoS Pathogens

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

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

Phylogenetic diversity of insecticolous fusaria inferred from multilocus DNA sequence data and their molecular identification via FUSARIUM-ID and Fusarium MLST

Kerry O'Donnell, Richard A. Humber, David M. Geiser, Seogchan Kang, Bongsoo Park, Vincent A.R.G. Robert, Pedro W. Crous, Peter R. Johnston, Takayuki Aoki, Alejandro P. Rooney, Stephen A. Rehner, 2012, Mycologia on p. 427-445

Systematic and searchable classification of cytochrome P450 proteins encoded by fungal and oomycete genomes

Venkatesh Moktali, Jongsun Park, Natalie D. Fedorova-Abrams, Bongsoo Park, Jaeyoung Choi, Yong Hwan Lee, Seogchan Kang, 2012, BMC Genomics

VdSNF1, the sucrose nonfermenting protein kinase gene of verticillium dahliae, is required for virulence and expression of genes involved in cell-wall degradation

Aliki K. Tzima, Epaminondas J. Paplomatas, Payungsak Rauyaree, Manuel D. Ospina-Giraldo, Seogchan Kang, 2011, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions on p. 129-142

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

The G protein β subunit controls virulence and multiple growth- and development-related traits in Verticillium dahliae

Aliki K. Tzima, Epaminondas J. Paplomatas, Dimitrios I. Tsitsigiannis, Seogchan Kang, 2012, Fungal Genetics and Biology on p. 271-283

Identification of pathogenicity-related genes in the vascular wilt fungus Verticillium dahliae by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated T-DNA insertional mutagenesis

K. Maruthachalam, S. J. Klosterman, S. Kang, R. J. Hayes, K. V. Subbarao, 2011, Molecular Biotechnology on p. 209-221

Cyber infrastructure for Fusarium: Three integrated platforms supporting strain identification, phylogenetics, comparative genomics and knowledge sharing

Bongsoo Park, Jongsun Park, Kyeong Chae Cheong, Jaeyoung Choi, Kyongyong Jung, Donghan Kim, Yong Hwan Lee, Todd J. Ward, Kerry O'Donnell, David M. Geiser, Seogchan Kang, 2011, Nucleic Acids Research on p. D640-D646