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Journal Articles
Ramamoorthy, V., Cahoon, E., Thokala, M., Li, J., Kaur, J. and Shah, D. M. (2009) Sphingolipid C9-methyltransferases are important for growth and virulence but not for sensitivity to antifungal plant defensins in Fusarium graminearum. Eukaryotic Cell 8, 217-229.
Allen, A., Snyder, A.K., Preuss, M., Nielsen, E.E., Shah, D.M. and Smith, T.J.  2008.  Plant defensins and virally encoded fungal toxin KP4 inhibit plant root growth.  Planta, 227, 331-339.  
Ramamoorthy, V., Cahoon, E., Li, J. and Shah, D.M.  2007.  Glucosylceramide synthase is essential for alfalfa defensin-mediated growth inhibition but not for pathogenicity of Fusarium graminearumMol Microbiol 66:771-786. 
Ramamoorthy, V., Zhao, X., Snyder, A.K., Xu, J-R., and Shah, D.M. (2007). Two mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling cascades mediate basal resistance to antifungal plant defensins in Fusarium graminearum. Cell Microbiol 9:1491-1506.
Hanks, J. N., Snyder, A. K., Graham, M. A., Shah, R.K., Blaylock, L.A., Harrison, M.J. and Shah, D.M. (2005) Defensin gene family in Medicago truncatula: structure, expression and induction by signal molecules. Plant Mol. Biol. 58, 385-399.
Spelbrink, R, Dilmac, N, Allen, A, Smith, T, Shah, D.M. and Hockerman, G. (2004) Differential antifungal and calcium channel blocking activity among structurally related plant defensins. Plant Physiology 135, 2065-2077
Gao, A-G., Hakimi, S., Mittanck, C., Wu, Y., Stark, D., Shah, D.M., Liang, J. and Rommens, C. (2000) Fungal pathogen protection in potato by expression of a plant defensin peptide. Nature Biotechnol. 18, 1307-1310

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