Brande Wulff

Post Doctoral Scientist

Contact details

+44 (0)1603 450649
Email: brande.wulff@sainsbury-laboratory.ac.uk

Research interests

Publications 

WULFF BBH, HEESE A, TOMLINSON-BUHOT L, JONES DA, DE LA PEÑA M & JONES JDG (2009) The major specificity-determining amino acids of the tomato Cf-9 disease resistance protein are at hypervariable solvent-exposed positions in the central leucine-rich repeats. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 22:1203-1213.

WULFF BBH, CHAKRABARTI A & JONES DA (2009) Recognitional specificity and evolution in the tomato - Cladosporium fulvum pathosystem. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 22:1191-1202.

REINDERS J, WULFF BBH, MIROUZE M, MARÍ-ORDÓÑEZ A, DAPP M, ROZHON W, BUCHER E, THEILER G & PASZKOWSKI J (2009) Compromised stability of DNA methylation and transposon immobilization in mosaic Arabidopsis epigenomes. Genes and Development 23:939-950.

VAN DER HOORN RA, WULFF BBH, RIVAS S, DURRANT MC, VAN DER PLOEG A, DE WIT PJ & JONES JDG (2005) Structure-function analysis of Cf-9, a receptor-like protein with extracytoplasmic leucine-rich repeats.  Plant Cell 17:1000-1015.
(joint first author)

WULFF BBH, KRUIJT MCOLLINS PLTHOMAS CMLUDWIG AADE WIT PJJONES JDG (2004) Gene shuffling-generated and natural variants of the tomato resistance gene Cf-9 exhibit different auto-necrosis-inducing activities in Nicotiana species.  Plant Journal 40:942-956.

WULFF BBH, THOMAS CM, PARNISKE M & JONES JDG (2003) Genetic variation at the Cf-4/Cf-9 tomato disease resistance locus induced by EMS mutagenesis and intra-locus recombination.  Genetics, 167:459-470.

VAN DER HOORN RA, RIVAS S, WULFF BBH, JONES JDG & JOOSTEN MH (2003) Rapid migration in gel filtration of the Cf-4 and Cf-9 resistance proteins is an intrinsic property of Cf proteins and not due to their association with high molecular weight proteins.  Plant Journal 35:305-315.

WULFF BBH, THOMAS CM, SMOKER M, GRANT M & JONES JDG (2001) Domain Swapping and gene shuffling identify sequences required for induction of an avr-dependent hypersensitive response by the tomato Cf-4 and Cf-9 proteins.
Plant Cell 13:255-72.

PARNISKE M, WULFF BBH, BONNEMA G, THOMAS CM, JONES DA & JONES JDG (1999) Homologues of the Cf-9 disease resistance gene (Hcr9s) are present at multiple loci on the short arm of tomato chromosome 1. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 12:93-102.

LLORET J, WULFF BBH, RUBIO JM, DOWNIE JA, BONILLA I & RIVILLA R (1998) Exopolysaccharide II production is regulated by salt in the halotolerant strain Rhizobium meliloti EFB1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64:1024-8.

PARNISKE M, HAMMOND-KOSACK KE, GOLSTEIN C, THOMAS CM, JONES DA, HARRISON K, WULFF BB & JONES JD (1997) Novel disease resistance specificities result from sequence exchange between tandemly repeated genes at the Cf-4/9 locus of tomato.  Cell 91:821-32.