Les J Szabo
Cereal Disease Laboratory
Research Geneticist
Phone: (612) 625-3780
Fax: (651) 649-5054
1551 LINDIG ST
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SAINT PAUL, MN, 55108-6052
Barnes, C.W., Szabo, L.J., Isard, S.A., Ariatti, A., Tenuta, A.U., Hambleton, S., Tropiano, R., Bowersox, V.C., Claybrooke, R., Lehmann, C. 2008. Patterns of Phakopsora pachyrhizi Spore Deposition Detected in North America Rain and Their Use to Calibrate IAMS Soybean Rust Forecasts in 2007 [abstract]. Phytopathology. 98:518.
Stoxen, S., Szabo, L.J. 2008. Assessing Population Structure of the Most Prevalent North American Races of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici Using Molecular Markers [abstract]. Phytopathology. 98:5152.
Jin, Y., Szabo, L.J., Pretorious, Z., Singh, R., Fetch, Jr., T. 2008. Detection of Virulence to Resistance Gene Sr24 within Race TTKS of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. Plant Disease. 92:923-926.
Castell-Miller, C., Szabo, L.J., Gale, L.R., O'Neill, N.R., Samac, D.A. 2008. Molecular variability of a Minnesota population of Phoma medicaginis var. medicaginis, the causal agent of spring black stem and leaf spot of alfalfa. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology. 30:85-96.
Szabo, L.J., Kolmer, J.A. 2007. Development of Simple Sequence Repeat Markers for the Plant Pathogenic Rust Fungus, Puccinia triticina. Molecular Ecology Notes. 7:708-710.
Barnes, C.W., Szabo, L.J. 2008. A Rapid Method for Detection and Quantification of Bacterial DNA in Rust Fungal DNA Samples. Phytopathology. 98:115-119.
Barnes, C.W., Szabo, L.J. 2007. Detection and identification of four common rust pathogens of cereals and grasses using real-time polymerase chain reaction. Phytopathology. 97:717-727.
Jafary, H., Szabo, L.J., Niks, R.E. 2006. Innate Non-Host Immunity in Barley to Different Heterologous Rust Fungi is Controlled by Sets of Resistance Genes with Different and Overlapping Specificities. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 11:1270-1279.
Szabo, L.J., Anikster, Y., Eilam, T. 2006. Phylogenetic Analysis of the Puccinia coronata Complex [abstract]. American Phytopathological Society Abstracts. 96:5112.
Barnes, C.W., Szabo, L.J., Johnson, J.L., Nguyen, K.P., Floyd, C.M., Kurle, J.E. 2006. Detection of Phakopsora pachyrhizi dna in rain using qpcr and a portable rain collector [abstract]. Phytopathology. 96:59.
Krupa, S., Bowersox, V.C., Claybrooke, R.D., Barnes, C.W., Szabo, L.J., Harlin, K.S., Kurle, J.E. 2006. Introduction of Asian Soybean Rust Urediniospores into the Midwestern United States ¿ A Case Study. Plant Disease. 90:1254-1259.
Szabo, L.J. 2006. Deciphering species complexes: Puccinia andropogonis and Puccinia coronata, examples of differing modes of speciation. Mycoscience. 47:130-136.
Kurle, J., Bowersox, V., Claybrooke, R., Krupa, S.V., Barnes, C.W., Szabo, L.J. 2005. 2005: introduction and spread of soybean rust spores in the north central united states. Available: http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org.
Barnes, C.W., Szabo, L.J., Johnson, J.L., Bowersox, V.C., Krupa, S.V., Gay, D.A., Harlin, K.S. 2005. An early warning system for detection of aerially transported plant pathogens: Puccinia graminis as a test case. In: Proceedings of American Phytopathological Society, Ontario Region Annual Meeting. June 29-30. Winsor, Ontario, Canada.
Ordonez, M.E., Kolmer, J.A., Szabo, L.J. 2005. Genetic diversity of a world-wide collection of Puccinia triticina from durum wheat using simple sequence repeat markers and rDNA sequence [abstract]. Phytopathology. 95:S78.
Szabo, L.J., Nguyen, K.P. 2005. Development of simple sequence repeat markers for Puccinia graminis and P. triticina. Fungal Genetics Newsletter. 52:S72.
Szabo, L.J., Markova, J., Anikster, Y., Eilam, T., Manisterski, J., Yehuda, P.B. 2004. In search of the correct name for leaf rust of cultivated wheat [abstract]. In: 11th International Cereal Rusts and Mildews Conference Proceedings, August 22-27, 2004, Norwich, England. Abstract 1.51. Available: http://www.crpmb.org/icrpmc11/abstracts.htm.
McLaughlin, D.L., Hanson, Jr., R.W., Frieders, E.M., Swann, E.C., Szabo, L.J. 2004. Mitosis in the yeast phase of the basidiomycetes Bensingtonia yuccicola and Stilbum vulgare and its phylogenetic implications. American Journal of Botany. 91:808-815.
Dyer, A.T., Szabo, L.J., Windels, C.E. 2004. Characterization and spatial
distribution of Aphanomyces in sugarbeet fields. Journal of Sugarbeet Research. 41:1-16.
Anikster, Y., Szabo, L.J., Eilam, T., Manisterski, J., Koike, S.T., Bushnell, W.R. 2004. Morphology, life-cycle biology and DNA analysis of rust on garlic and chives from California. Phytopathology. 94:569-577.
SZABO, L.J., BARNES, C.W., NGUYEN, K.P. DEVELOPMENT OF REAL-TIME PCR ASSAYS FOR THE DETECTION OF STEM AND LEAF RUST PATHOGENS OF WHEAT. PHYTOPATHOLOGY. 2003. v. 93. p. S82.
SZABO, L.J. DEVELOPMENT OF REAL-TIME PCR ASSAYS FOR THE DETECTION OF STEM AND LEAF RUST PATHOGENS OF WHEAT. FUNGAL GENETICS NEWSLETTER. 2003. v. 50 p. S469
MCLAUGHLIN, D.J., HANSON, R.W., FRIEDERS, E.M., SWANN, E.C., SZABO, L.J. ASCOMYCETOUS MITOSIS IN BASIDIOMYCETOUS YEASTS: ITS EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MYCOLOGY PROCEEDINGS AND ABSTRACTS. 2002. The 7th International Mycological Congress Book of Abstracts. 727.
CASTELL, C., SAMAC, D., SZABO, L.J. MOLECULAR VARIABILITY AND PATHOGENESIS OF PHOMA MEDICAGINIS VAR. MEDICAGINIS ISOLATES FROM MINNESOTA. AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY ABSTRACTS. 2002. v. 92. p. S12.