Kyungyong Seong

Publications


*Equal contribution

2025

The Annotated Blueprint: Integrated Functional Genomic Resources for a model Tetraploid Wheat Triticum turgidum cv. Kronos

Seong K, Kumar R, Prigozhin DM, Lunde C, Cherubino Ribeiro TH, Bélanger S, Hsieh JWA, Tang M, Meyers BC and Krasileva KV
bioRxiv (2025)
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Durum wheat mutants with enhanced disease resistance to stripe rust show differential responses to other fungal diseases

Lunde C, Seong K, Kumar R, Deatker A, Chhabra B, Wang M, Kaur S, Raats D, Schudoma C, Schultink A, Song S, Palayur A, Davies C, Cumberlich W, Gill U, Rawat N, Chen X, Aoun M, Mundt C and Krasileva KV
Molecular Breeding (2025)
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Resurrection of the plant immune receptor Sr50 to overcome pathogen immune evasion


2024

An array of Zymoseptoria tritici effectors suppress plant immune responses

Thynne E, Ali H, Seong K, Abukhalaf M, Guerreiro MA, Flores‐Nunez VM, Hansen R, Bergues A, Salman MJ, Rudd JJ, Kanyuka K, Tholey A, Krasileva KV, Kettles GJ and Stukenbrock EH
Molecular Plant Pathology (2024)


Novel Secreted Effectors Conserved Among Smut Fungi Contribute to the Virulence of Ustilago maydis

Schuster M, Schweizer G, Reissmann S, Happel P, Aßmann D, Rössel N, Gueldener U, Mannhaupt G, Ludwig N, Winterberg S, Pellegrin C,Tanaka S, Vincon V, Lo Presti L, Wang L, Bender L, Gonzalez C, Vranes M, Kämper J, Seong K, Krasileva K and Kahmann R
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (2024)


Proxiome assembly of the plant nuclear pore reveals an essential hub for gene expression regulation

Tang Y, Yang X, Huang A, Seong K, Ye M, Li M, Zhao Q, Krasileva K, Gu Y
Nature Plants (2024)
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CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated editing of Bs5 and Bs5L in tomato leads to resistance against Xanthomonas

Ortega A, Seong K, Schultink A, de Toledo Thomazella DP, Seo E, Zhang E, Pham J, Cho MJ, Dahlbeck D, Warren J, Minsavage GV, Jones JB, Sierra-Orozco E, Hutton SF and Staskawicz B
Plant Biotechnolgy Journal (2024)


2023


Altering specificity and autoactivity of plant immune receptors Sr33 and Sr50 via a rational engineering approach

Tamborski J, Seong K, Liu F, Staskawicz BJ and Krasileva KV
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (2023)
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Paralog editing tunes rice stomatal density to maintain photosynthesis and improve drought tolerance

Karavolias NG, Patel-Tupper D, Seong K, Tjahjadi M, Gueorguieva GA, Tanaka J, Gallegos Cruz A, Lieberman S, Litvak L, Dahlbeck D, Cho MJ, Niyogi KK and Staskawicz BJ
Plant Physiology (2023)


2022

Diversity of genomic adaptations to the post-fire environment in Pezizales fungi points to crosstalk between charcoal tolerance and sexual development

Steindorff AS, Seong K, Carver A, Calhoun S, Fischer MS, Stillman K, Liu H, Drula E, Henrissat B, Simpson HJ, Schilling JS. Lipzen A, He G, Yan M, Andreopoulos B, Pangilinan J, LaButti K, Ng V, Traxler M, Bruns TD and Grigoriev IG
New Phytologist (2022)



2021


Functional specificity, diversity, and redundancy of Arabidopsis JAZ family repressors in jasmonate and COI1‐regulated growth, development, and defense

Liu B*, Seong K*, Pang S*, Song J*, Gao H, Wang C, Zhai J, Zhang Y, Gao S, Li X, Qi T and Song S
New Phytologist (2021)


Loss of function of a DMR6 ortholog in tomato confers broad-spectrum disease resistance

Thomazella DP, Seong K, Mackelprang R, Dahlbeck D, Geng YU, Gill US, Qi T, Pham J, Giuseppe P, Lee CY, Ortega A, Cho MJ, Samuel HF and Staskawicz B
PNAS (2021)


2020


2018

NRG1 functions downstream of EDS1 to regulate TIR-NLR-mediated plant immunity in Nicotiana benthamiana

Qi T, Seong K, Thomazella DP, Kim JR, Pham J, Seo E, Cho MJ, Schultink A and Staskawicz BJ
PNAS (2018)