Peter Balint-Kurti

Professor
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
North Carolina State University
United States of America

Biography

Education:(a) Ph.D. Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK, 1994. “Genetic mapping and analysis of two tomato genes for resistance to Cladosporium fulvum.” (b) BA (Plant molecular biology) – Cambridge University, UK, 1990.

Research Intrest

Analysis of quantitative (partial, polygenic) disease resistance, Genetic and biochemical analysis of the maize hypersensitive defense response, The basal response to microbes in maize and sorghum, Multiple disease resistance in maize, Analysis of the maize microbiome.

List of Publications

Liu, Z., Cook, J.,Melia-Hancock, S., Guill, K., Bottoms, C., Garcia, A., Ott, O., Nelson, R., Recker, J., Balint-Kurti, P., Larsson, S., Lepak, N., Buckler, E., Trimble, L., Tracy, W., McMullen, M., Flint-Garcia, S. (2016) Expanding maize genetic resources with pre-domestication alleles: maize-teosinte introgression populations. Plant Genome doi:10.3835/plantgenome2015.07.0053.

G-F Wang and Balint-Kurti P (2016) Maize Homologs of CCoAOMT and HCT, Two Key Enzymes in Lignin Biosynthesis, Form Complexes with the NLR Rp1 Protein to Modulate the Defense Response. Plant Physiology pp.00224.2016

X. Zhang, ValdÃ©s-LÃ³pez, O., Arellano, C., Stacey, G. and Balint-Kurti, P. (2017). Genetic dissection of the maize (Zea mays L.) MAMP response. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 130: 1155.

X. Zhang, Q. Yang, Î‡ Rucker, E., Thomason, W. and Balint-Kurti, P. (2017) Fine mapping of a quantitative resistance gene for gray leaf spot of maize (Zea mays L.) derived from teosinte (Z. mays ssp. parviglumis). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2017. 130(6): p. 1285-1295.

Find Experts

Experts in Plant Sciences

Peter Balint-Kurti

G-F Wang and Balint-Kurti P (2016) Maize Homologs of CCoAOMT and HCT, Two Key Enzymes in Lignin Biosynthesis, Form Complexes with the NLR Rp1 Protein to Modulate the Defense Response. Plant Physiology pp.00224.2016

X. Zhang, ValdÃ©s-LÃ³pez, O., Arellano, C., Stacey, G. and Balint-Kurti, P. (2017). Genetic dissection of the maize (Zea mays L.) MAMP response. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 130: 1155.

X. Zhang, Q. Yang, Î‡ Rucker, E., Thomason, W. and Balint-Kurti, P. (2017) Fine mapping of a quantitative resistance gene for gray leaf spot of maize (Zea mays L.) derived from teosinte (Z. mays ssp. parviglumis). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2017. 130(6): p. 1285-1295.

Experts in United States of America

Connect with your Global Scientific Fields by Subject