Timothy McNellis
Associate Professor of Plant Pathology & Environmental Microbiology
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318 Buckhout Lab
University Park, PA - twm4@psu.edu
- 814-863-7646
Research Summary
Genetics, molecular biology and physiology of plant interactions with phytopathogenic bacteria. Signal transduction events involved in plant disease resistance. Genetic control of plant hypersensitive cell death.
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Most Recent Publications
Synthesis of aspartic acid and tyrosine by the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora is not required for proliferation on apple flower stigmas or virulence in fruitlets
Neil P. Schultes, Judith Pawloski Sinn, Eric S. Swenson, Timothy W. McNellis, 2024, Journal of Applied Microbiology Symposium Supplement on p. 11
Arabidopsis Wall-Associated Kinase 3 is required for harpin-activated immune responses
Jeremy B. Held, Taran Rowles, William Schulz, Timothy W. McNellis, 2024, New Phytologist on p. 853-857
Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is required for fire blight disease establishment in apple fruitlets
Neil P. Schultes, Judith P. Sinn, Timothy W. McNellis, 2023, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
The Antiterminator: How Erwinia amylovora avoids premature transcription termination of long operons to maintain virulence
Timothy McNellis, 2022, Phytopathology on p. 1
Putative transcription antiterminator RfaH contributes to Erwinia amylovora virulence
Sara Klee, Judith P. Sinn, Jeremy Held, Chad Vosburg, J Vosburg, Aleah Holmes, Brian Lehman, K Peter, Timothy McNellis, 2022, Molecular Plant Pathology on p. 9
Flowering locus T chimeric protein induces floral precocity in edible citrus.
Judith Sinn, Jeremy Held, Chad Vosburg, Vladimir Orbovic, Earl Taylor, Tim Gottwald, Ed Stover, Gloria Moore, Timothy McNellis, 2021, Plant Biotechnology Journal on p. 3
Virulence genetics of an erwinia amylovora putative polysaccharide transporter family member
Sara Klee, Judith P. Sinn, Elena Christian, Aleah Holmes, Kaixi Zhao, Brian Lehman, Kari A. Peter, Cristina Rosa, Timothy McNellis, 2020, Journal of Bacteriology on p. 19
Flowering Locus T chimeric protein induces floral precocity in edible citrus
Judith P. Sinn, Jeremy B. Held, Chad Vosburg, Sara M. Klee, Vladimir Orbovic, Earl L. Taylor, Tim R. Gottwald, Ed Stover, Gloria A. Moore, Timothy W. McNellis, 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
Extragenic suppression of elongation factor P gene mutant phenotypes in erwinia amylovora
Sara Klee, Judith P. Sinn, Aleah Holmes, Brian Lehman, Teresa Krawczyk, Teresa Kraczyk, Kari A. Peter, Timothy W. McNellis, 2019, Journal of Bacteriology on p. 11
The apple fruitlet model system for fire blight disease
Sara Klee, Judith Sinn, Timothy McNellis, 2019, on p. 187-198
Most-Cited Papers
Identification of apple miRNAs and their potential role in fire blight resistance
Elżbieta Kaja, Michał W. Szcześniak, Philip J. Jensen, Michael J. Axtell, Timothy McNellis, Izabela Makałowska, 2015, Tree Genetics and Genomes
Flowering Locus T chimeric protein induces floral precocity in edible citrus
Judith P. Sinn, Jeremy B. Held, Chad Vosburg, Sara M. Klee, Vladimir Orbovic, Earl L. Taylor, Tim R. Gottwald, Ed Stover, Gloria A. Moore, Timothy W. McNellis, 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
Erwinia amylovora auxotrophic mutant exometabolomics and virulence on apples
Sara Klee, Klee Sara, Judith Sinn, Melissa Finley, Erik Allman, Philip B. Smith, Osaretin Aimufua, Viji Sitther, Brian Lehman, Teresa Kraczyk, Teresa Krawczyk, Kari A. Peter, Timothy McNellis, 2019, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 19
An Erwinia amylovora yjeK mutant exhibits reduced virulence, increased chemical sensitivity and numerous environmentally dependent proteomic alterations
Sara M. Klee, Islam Mostafa, Sixue Chen, Craig Dufresne, brian L. Lehman, Judith P. Sinn, Kari A. Peter, Timothy W. McNellis, 2018, Molecular Plant Pathology on p. 1667-1678
The apple fruitlet model system for fire blight disease
Sara Klee, Judith Sinn, Timothy McNellis, 2019, on p. 187-198
Erwinia amylovora pyrC mutant causes fire blight despite pyrimidine auxotrophy
L. S. Ramos, J. P. Sinn, B. L. Lehman, E. E. Pfeufer, K. A. Peter, T. W. McNellis, 2015, Letters in Applied Microbiology on p. 572-579
Virulence genetics of an erwinia amylovora putative polysaccharide transporter family member
Sara Klee, Judith P. Sinn, Elena Christian, Aleah Holmes, Kaixi Zhao, Brian Lehman, Kari A. Peter, Cristina Rosa, Timothy McNellis, 2020, Journal of Bacteriology on p. 19
Extragenic suppression of elongation factor P gene mutant phenotypes in erwinia amylovora
Sara Klee, Judith P. Sinn, Aleah Holmes, Brian Lehman, Teresa Krawczyk, Teresa Kraczyk, Kari A. Peter, Timothy W. McNellis, 2019, Journal of Bacteriology on p. 11
Arabidopsis Wall-Associated Kinase 3 is required for harpin-activated immune responses
Jeremy B. Held, Taran Rowles, William Schulz, Timothy W. McNellis, 2024, New Phytologist on p. 853-857
Putative transcription antiterminator RfaH contributes to Erwinia amylovora virulence
Sara Klee, Judith P. Sinn, Jeremy Held, Chad Vosburg, J Vosburg, Aleah Holmes, Brian Lehman, K Peter, Timothy McNellis, 2022, Molecular Plant Pathology on p. 9
News Articles Featuring Timothy McNellis
Jun 03, 2020
Huck graduate students among NSF award recipients
Five graduate students in Huck programs or involved with Huck centers, advised by faculty members in the College of Agricultural Sciences, were recipients or honorable mentions of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
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