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Robert Howard

- Verified email at ucl.ac.uk - Cited by 52257

Russell J Howard

- Verified email at genome.one - Cited by 13986

BREAKING AND ENTERING: Host Penetration by the Fungal Rice Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe grisea

RJ Howard, B Valent - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 1996 - annualreviews.org
… contact with a surface is not required (42; RJ Howard, unpublished results). Lee & Dean (50) …
sticky mucilage at the germ tube apex (RJ Howard & MA Ferrari, unpublished information) …

Cognitive neuropsychiatric models of persecutory delusions

NJ Blackwood, RJ Howard… - American Journal of …, 2001 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: The major cognitive theories of persecutory delusion formation and maintenance
are critically examined in this article. METHOD: The authors present a comprehensive …

Can filamentous fungi form biofilms?

MW Harding, LLR Marques, RJ Howard… - Trends in microbiology, 2009 - cell.com
The discovery of biofilm formation in bacteria and yeasts has led to a better understanding of
microbial ecology and to new insights into the mechanisms of virulence and persistence of …

Virtual in vivo interactive dissection of white matter fasciculi in the human brain

M Catani, RJ Howard, S Pajevic, DK Jones - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
This work reports the use of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance tractography to visualize
the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the major white matter fasciculi within living human …

Putting brain training to the test

…, JA Grahn, R Stenton, S Dajani, AS Burns, RJ Howard… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
‘Brain training’, or the goal of improved cognitive function through the regular use of computerized
tests, is a multimillion-pound industry 1 , yet in our view scientific evidence to support …

[HTML][HTML] Lifestyle transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses

…, P Gan, D Heiman, B Henrissat, RJ Howard… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Colletotrichum species are fungal pathogens that devastate crop plants worldwide. Host
infection involves the differentiation of specialized cell types that are associated with penetration…

Cloning the P. falciparum gene encoding PfEMP1, a malarial variant antigen and adherence receptor on the surface of parasitized human erythrocytes

…, X Bi, XC Ma, M Feldman, TF Taraschi, RJ Howard - Cell, 1995 - cell.com
Plasmodium falciparum-infected human erythrocytes evade host immunity by expression of
a ceil-surface variant antigen and receptors for adherence to endothelial cells. These …

Penetration of hard substrates by a fungus employing enormous turgor pressures.

RJ Howard, MA Ferrari, DH Roach… - Proceedings of the …, 1991 - National Acad Sciences
Many fungal pathogens penetrate plant leaves from a specialized cell called an appressorium.
The rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea can also penetrate synthetic surfaces such …

The effect of filter size on VBM analyses of DT-MRI data

DK Jones, MR Symms, M Cercignani, RJ Howard - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) has been used to analyze diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI)
data in a number of studies. In VBM, following spatial normalization, data are smoothed to …

A mechanism for surface attachment in spores of a plant pathogenic fungus

JE Hamer, RJ Howard, FG Chumley, B Valent - Science, 1988 - science.org
Rice blast disease is caused by a fungus that attacks all above-ground parts of the rice plant.
In a study of the means by which the fungus attaches to the hydrophobic rice leaf surface, it …