Shaowu Meng

Gene Ontology annotation of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae (2009)

Meng, Shaowu, Brown, Douglas E, Ebbole, Daniel J, Torto-Alalibo, Trudy, Oh, Yeon, Deng, Jixin, ...

Abstract Background Magnaporthe oryzae , the causal agent of blast disease of rice, is the most destructive disease of rice worldwide. The genome of this fungal pathogen has been sequenced and an...

Common processes in pathogenesis by fungal and oomycete plant pathogens, described with Gene Ontology terms (2009)

Meng, Shaowu, Torto-Alalibo, Trudy, Chibucos, Marcus C, Tyler, Brett M, Dean, Ralph A

Abstract Plant diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes result in significant economic losses every year. Although phylogenetically distant, the infection processes by these organisms share many common...

Transcriptome analysis reveals new insight into appressorium formation and function in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (2008)

Oh, Yeonyee, Donofrio, Nicole, Pan, Huaqin, Coughlan, Sean, Brown, Douglas E, Meng, Shaowu, ...

Abstract Background Rice blast disease is caused by the filamentous Ascomycetous fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and results in significant annual rice yield losses worldwide. Infection by this and many...

Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis (2006)

Kahmann, Regine, Bölker, Michael, Ma, Li-Jun, Brefort, Thomas, Saville, Barry J, ...

Ustilago maydis is a ubiquitous pathogen of maize and a well-established model organism for the study of plant-microbe interactions. This basidiomycete fungus does not use aggressive virulence...

Two Pseudoknots from Human C2H2 Zinc Finger Genes Discovered by Computational Structure Analysis (2005)

Shaowu Meng, Zhuo Zhang

Pseudoknots have been extensively identified in viruses. However, very few pseudoknots in Human genome have been previously reported. In this study, we identify two pseudoknots in mRNAs of two...

A +1 Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting of a Human C2H2 Zinc Finger Gene Discovered by Computational Analysis (2005)

Shaowu Meng, Zhuo Zhang, Limsoon Wong

In this study, we discover a +1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting in a human C2H2 zinc finger (C2H2-ZNF) gene after testing total 226 C2H2-ZNF genes in Human Chromosome 19 through using an original...

Two Pseudoknots from Human C2H2 Zinc Finger Genes Discovered by Computational Structure Analysis (2005)

Shaowu Meng, Zhuo Zhang

Pseudoknots have been extensively identified in viruses. However, very few pseudoknots in Human genome have been previously reported. In this study, we identify two pseudoknots in mRNAs of two...

A +1 Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting of a Human C2H2 Zinc Finger Gene Discovered by Computational Analysis (2005)

Shaowu Meng, Zhuo Zhang, Limsoon Wong

In this study, we discover a +1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting in a human C2H2 zinc finger (C2H2-ZNF) gene after testing total 226 C2H2-ZNF genes in Human Chromosome 19 through using an original...

Transcriptome analysis reveals new insight into appressorium formation and function in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Oh, Yeonyee, Donofrio, Nicole, Pan, Huaqin, Coughlan, Sean, Brown, Douglas E, Meng, Shaowu, ...

Analysis of genome-wide gene-expression changes during spore germination and appressorium formation in Magnaporthe oryzae revealed that protein degradation and amino-acid metabolism are essential for...

Common processes in pathogenesis by fungal and oomycete plant pathogens, described with Gene Ontology terms

Meng, Shaowu, Torto-Alalibo, Trudy, Chibucos, Marcus C, Tyler, Brett M, Dean, Ralph A

Plant diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes result in significant economic losses every year. Although phylogenetically distant, the infection processes by these organisms share many common...