Tesfaye Mengiste
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
116
Citations
10,524
Est. group size
~7
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
30
Publishing since 1996
Tesfaye Mengiste studies how plants defend themselves against fungal pathogens, focusing on crops like sorghum, tomato, and maize. The lab investigates plant immune signaling (such as receptor proteins and epigenetic regulation) and the molecular strategies fungal pathogens like Botrytis cinerea and Colletotrichum use to cause disease, aiming to understand and improve crop disease resistance.
Publication output rose sharply around 2019-2021, then declined and has remained more modest (roughly 2-7 per year) through 2022-2025, with a mean of about 4.4 papers per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Contrasting Mechanisms of Defense Against Biotrophic and Necrotrophic Pathogens, 20 Years Later: What Has Changed?
Annual Review of Phytopathology · 2025
- Activation of multilayered plant immunity through spatiotemporal expression of Botrytis cinerea BcCrh1-derived dual epitopes
Molecular Plant · 2025
- Receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases: orchestrating plant cellular communication
Trends in Plant Science · 2024
- Pathotype determination of sorghum anthracnose (Colletotrichum sublineola) isolates from Ethiopia using sorghum differentials
Frontiers in Microbiology · 2024
- Editorial: Molecular biology of plant-fungal interactions
Frontiers in Plant Science · 2024
- Killing softly: a roadmap of Botrytis cinerea pathogenicity
Trends in Plant Science · 2022
- Pathogenic strategies and immune mechanisms to necrotrophs: Differences and similarities to biotrophs and hemibiotrophs
Current Opinion in Plant Biology · 2022
- Improved pathogen and stress tolerance in tomato mutants of <scp>SET</scp> domain histone 3 lysine methyltransferases
New Phytologist · 2022
- <i>ANTHRACNOSE RESISTANCE GENE2</i> confers fungal resistance in sorghum
The Plant Journal · 2022
- Improved pathogen and stress tolerance in tomato mutants of SET domain histone 3 lysine methyltransferases
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- <i>ANTHRACNOSE RESISTANCE GENE2</i> confers fungal resistance in sorghum
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- Broad-spectrum fungal resistance in sorghum is conferred through the complex regulation of an immune receptor gene embedded in a natural antisense transcript
The Plant Cell · 2021
- Transcriptome analysis of early stages of sorghum grain mold disease reveals defense regulators and metabolic pathways associated with resistance
BMC Genomics · 2021
- A Maize (Zea mays L.) BIK1-Like Receptor-Like Cytoplasmic Kinase Contributes to Disease Resistance
Plant Molecular Biology Reporter · 2021
- Additional file 9 of Transcriptome analysis of early stages of sorghum grain mold disease reveals defense regulators and metabolic pathways associated with resistance
Figshare · 2021
- Figshare×16
- Frontiers in Plant Science×4
- The Plant Cell×4
- New Phytologist×4
- BMC Genomics×3
- Guo‐Liang Wang
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Chao‐Jan Liao
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Kai Zhang
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Amit K. Jaiswal
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Kang He
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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