Pryor Laboratory - Focusing on Lettuce Diseases, Mycology, and Alternaria at The University of Arizona School of Plant Sciences, Tucson, Arizona USA

Alternaria
Commercial Mushroom Production
Lettuce Diseases

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Stewart, J.A, Timmer, T.W., Lawrence, C.B., Pryor, B.M., and Peever, T.L. 2014. Discord between morphological and phylogenetic species boundaries: Incomplete lineage sorting and recombination results in fuzzy species boundaries in an asexual fungal pathogen. BMC Evolutionary Biology. In press

Ortiz, M., Legatzki, A., Neilson, J.W., Fryslie, B., Nelson, W.M., Wing, R.A, Soderlund, C.A, Pryor, B.M., and Maier, R.M. 2014. Making a living while starving in the dark: metagenomic insights into the energy dynamics of a carbonate cave. The ISME Journal, 8:478-491.

Lawrence, D. P., Dugan, F. M., and Pryor, B. M. 2014. Characterization of Alternaria isolates from the infectoria species-group and a new taxon from Arrhenatherum, Pseudoalternaria arrhenatheria sp. nov. Mycological Progress 13:257-276.

Tiznado-Hernandez, M. E., Troncoso-Rojas, R., Báez-Flores, M. E., Pryor, B. M. , García-Galindo, H. S. 2013. Inter simple sequence repeat polymorphism in Alternaria genomic DNA exposed to lethal concentrations of isothiocyanate. African Journal of Microbiology Research, 7:838-852.

Chitrampalam, P. and Pryor, B. M. 2013. Population and spatial pattern of sclerotia of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in desert lettuce production fields of Arizona and California. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 35:494-502.

Lawrence, D.P., Gannibal, P.B., Peever, T.L., and Pryor, B.M. 2013. The Sections of Alternaria: Formalizing species-group concepts. Mycologia 105:530-546.

Stewart, J.E., Thomas, K.A., Lawrence, C.B., Dang, H., Pryor, B.M., Timmer, T.L., and Peever, T.L. 2013. Signatures of recombination in clonal lineages of the citrus brown spot pathogen, Alternaria alternata sensu lato. Phytopathology 103:741-749.

Ortiz, M., Neilson, J.W., Nelson, W.M., Legatzki, A., Byrne, A., Yu, Y., Soderlund, C.A., Pryor, B.M., Pierson, L.S., and Maier, R.M. 2013. Profiling bacterial diversity and taxonomic compostion on speleothem surfaces in Karchner Caversn, AZ. Microbial Ecology 65:371-383.

Legatzki, A., Ortiz, M., Neilson, J. W., Casavant, R. R., Palmer, M. W., Rasmussen, C., Pryor, B. M., Pierson III, L. S., and Maier, R. M. 2012. Factors influencing observed variations in the structure of bacterial communities on calcite formations in Kartchner Caverns, AZ, USA. Geomicrobiology Journal 29:422-434.

Rotondo, F., Brunelli, A., and Pryor, B. M. 2012. Comparison of Alternaria collected in Italy from apple with A. mali and other AM-toxin producing strains. Phytopathology 102:1130-1142.

Lawrence, D. P, Park, M. S., and Pryor, B. M. 2011. Nimbya and Embellisia revisited, with nov. comb for Alternaria celosiae and A. perpunctulata. Mycological Progress 11:799-815.

Lawrence DP , Kroken S , Pryor BM , Arnold AE , 2011Interkingdom Gene Transfer of a Hybrid NPS/PKS from Bacteria to Filamentous Ascomycota.PLoS ONE 6(11):e28231.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028231

Baez-Flores, M. E., Troncoso-Rojas, R., Islas-Osuna, M. A., Dominguez, M. R., Pryor, B. M. Tiznado-Hernandez, M. E. 2011. Differentially expressed cDNAs in Alternaria alternata treated with 2-propenyl isothiocyanate. Microbiology Research 166:566-577.

Taralova, E. H., Schlecht, J., Barnard, K., and Pryor, B. M. 2011. Modeling and visualizing morphology in the fungus Alternaria. Fungal Biology 115:1163-1173

Vaughan, M. J., Maier, R. M., and Pryor, B. M. 2011. Fungal communities on speleothem surfaces in Kartchner Caverns, Arizona, USA. International Journal of Speleology 40:65-77.

Legatzki A., Ortiz M., Neilson J.W., Doninguez S., Andersen G.L., Toomey R.S., Pryor B.M., Pierson L.S. III & Maier R.M., 2011 - Bacterial and archaeal community structure of two adjacent calcite speleothems in Kartchner Caverns, Arizona, USA. Geomicrobiology Journal 28:99-117.

Chitrampalam, P., Turini, T. A., Matheron, M. E., and Pryor, B. M. 2010. Effect of sclerotium density and irrigation on disease incidence and on efficacy of Coniothyrium minitans in suppressing lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Plant Dis. 94:1118-1124

Chitrampalam, P., C.A. Cox, C. A., Turini, T. A., and Pryor, B. M. 2010. Efficacy of Coniothyrium minitans on lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia minor in desert agroecosystems. Biological Control 55:92-96.

Hayes, R. J., Wu, B. M., Pryor, B. M., Chitrampalam, C., and, Subbarao, K. V. 2010. Assessment of Resistance in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) to Mycelial and Ascospore Infection by Sclerotinia minor Jagger and S. sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary. HortScience 45: 333- 341.

Mbofung, G. C. and Pryor, B. M. 2010. A PCR-Based Assay for Detection of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae in Lettuce Seed. Plant Dis. 94:860-866.

Chitrampalam, P., Figuli, P. J., and Pryor, B. M. 2009. Population and spatial pattern of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in commercial winter lettuce fields of Arizona and California. Plant Dis. in review.

Pryor, B. M., Creamer, R., Shoemaker, R. A., McLain-Romero, J., and Hambleton, S. 2009. Undifilum, a new genus for endophytic Embellisia oxytropis and parasitic Helminthosporium bornmuelleri on legumes. Botany 87:178-194.

Andrew, M., Peever, T. L., and Pryor, B. M. 2009. An expanded multilocus phylogeny does not resolve species within the small-spored Alternaria species complex. Mycologia 101:95-109.

Runa, F., Park, M. S., and Pryor, B. M. 2009. Ulocladium systematics revisited: phylogeny and taxonomic status. Mycological Progress 8:35-47.

Hong, S.G., Choi, J.Y., Pryor, B.M., and Lee, H.K., 2009. An Efficient Method to Prepare PCR Cloning Vectors. Mycobiology 37:240-242.

Chitrampalam, P., Figuli, P. J., Matheron, M. E., Subbarao, K. V., and Pryor, B. M. 2008. Biocontrol of lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and S. minor in desert agroecosystems. Plant Dis. 92:1625-1634.

Andersen, B., Dongo, A., and Pryor, B. M. 2008. Secondary metabolite profiling of Alternaria dauci, A. porri, A. solani, and A. tomatophila. Mycol Res. 112:241-50.

Park, M. S., Romanoski, C. E., and Pryor, B. M. 2008. A re-examination of the phylogenetic relationship between the causal agents of carrot black rot, Alternaria radicina and A. carotiincultae. Mycologia 100:511-527.

Schlecht, J., Barnard, K., Spriggs, E. and Pryor, B. M. 2007. Inferring grammar-based structure models from 3D microscopy data, in Proc. IEEE computer society conference in computer vision (CVPR), 2007.

Mbofung, G. Y., Hong, S. G., and Pryor, B. M. 2007. Phylogeny of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae inferred from mitochondrial small subunit, elongation factor 1-?, and nuclear ribosomal intergenic spacer sequence data. Phytopathology 97:87-98.

Ikner, L. A., Tommey, R. S., Nolan, G., Neilson, J. W., Pryor, B. M., and Maier, R. M. 2007. Culturable Microbial Diversity and the Impact of Tourism in Kartchner Caverns, Arizona. Microbial Ecology 53:30-42.

Cho, Y., Cramer, R. A., Kim, K. H., Davis, J., Mitchel, T. K., Figuli, P., Pryor, B. M., Lemasters, E., and Lawrence, C. B. 2007. The Fus3/Kss1 MAP kinase homolog Amk1 regulates the espression of genes encoding hydrolytic enzymes in Alternaria brassicicola. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 44:543-53.

Pryor, B. M. and Asma, M. 2007. First report of seedling damping-off of fennel caused by Alternaria petroselini in the Netherlands. Plant Disease 91:1688.

Hong, S. G., Maccaroni, M., Figuli, P. J., Belisario, A, and Pryor, B. M. 2006. Polyphasic classification of Alternaria isolated from hazelnut and walnut fruit in Europe. Mycological research 104:1312-1321.

Drees, K. P., Neilson, J. W., Betancourt, J. L., Quade, J., Henderson, D. A., Pryor, B. M., and Maier, R. M. 2006. Bacterial diversity in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72:7902-7908.

Schlecht, J., Barnard, K. and Pryor, B. M. 2006. Statistical inference of biological structure and point spread functions in 3D microscopy, in Proc. Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2006.

Hong, G. S., Liu, D., and Pryor, B. M. 2005. Restriction mapping of IGS regions from Alternaria spp. and their taxonomic implication. Mycol. Res. 109:87-95.

Hong, S. G., Cramer, R. A., Lawrence, C. B., and Pryor, B. M. 2005. Detection of Alt a1 homologs in Alternaria and related taxa and their use in phylogenetic reconstruction. Fungal Genetics and Biology 42:119-129.

Farrar, J. J., Pryor, B. M., and Davis, R. M. 2004. Alternaria diseases of carrot. Plant Dis. 88:776-784.

Hong, G. S. and Pryor, B. M. 2004. Development of selective media for the isolation and enumeration of Alternaria species from soil and plant debris. Can. J. Microbiol. 50:461-468.

Belisario, A., Maccaroni, M. Coramusi, A., Corazza, L., Pryor, B. M., and Figuli, P. 2004. First report of Alternaria species-groups involved in disease complexes of hazelnut and walnut fruit. Plant Dis. 88: 426.

Pryor, B. M. and Bigelow, D. M. 2003. Molecular characterization of Embellisia and Nimbya species and their relationship to Alternaria, Ulocladium, and Stemphylium. Mycologia 95:1141-1154.

Pryor, B. M., Strandberg, J, M., Davis, R. M., Nunez, J. J., and Gilbertson, R. L. 2002. Survival and persistence of Alternaria dauci in carrot cropping systems. Plant Dis. 86:1115-1122.

Pryor, B. M. and Michailides, T. J. 2002. Morphological, molecular, and pathogenic characterizations of Alternaria isolates associated with Alternaria late blight of pistachio. Phytopathology 92:406-416.

Pryor, B. M. and Gilbertson, R. L. 2002. Relationships and taxonomic status of Alternaria radicina, A. carotiincultae, and A. petroselini based upon morphological, biochemical, and molecular characteristics. Mycologia 94:49-61.

Pryor, B. M. and Gilbertson, R. L. 2001. A PCR-based assay for detection of Alternaria radicina from carrot seed. Plant Dis. 85:18-23.

Teviodale, B. M,, Pryor, B. M., and Adeskaveg, J. M. 2001. First report of Alternaria leaf blight of almonds caused by the Alternaria alternata complex. Plant Disease 85:558.

Pryor, B. M. and Gilbertson, R. L. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among Alternaria and related fungi based upon analysis of nuclear internal transcribed sequences and mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Mycological Research 104:1312-1321.

Pryor, B. M., Davis, R. M., and Gilbertson, R. L. 2000. A toothpick inoculation method for evaluating carrot cultivars for resistance to Alternaria radicina. HortScience 35:1099-1102.

Stock, S. P., Pryor, B. M., and Kaya, H. K. 1999. Distribution of entomopathogenic nematodes (Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae) in natural habitats in California, USA. Biodiversity and Conservation 8:535-549.

Pryor, B. M., Davis, R. M., and Gilbertson, R. L. 1998. Detection of soilborne Alternaria radicina and its occurrence in California carrot fields. Plant Disease 82:891-895.

Pryor, B. M., Davis, R. M., and Gilbertson, R. L. 1994. Detection and eradication of Alternaria radicina on carrot seed. Plant Disease 78:452-456.

Scherm, H., Pryor, B. M., and van Bruggen, A.H.C. 1993. Effects of ozonated water on sporangial germination of Bremia lactucae in vitro and in vivo. Ann. Appl. Biol., 122 (supplement):40-41.