Publications - Faculty Publications - Dr. Nabil Killiny
Refereed Publications
A. Rashed, N. Killiny, J. Kawn, R. P. P. Almeida. Background matching behaviour and acquisition: Plant tissue preference does not predict the bacterial acquisition efficiency of vector.our future (Arthropod-Plant Interactions, in press)
N. Killiny, S. Prado, and R. P. P. Almeida. 2010. Chitin utilization by the insect--transmitted bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76:6134-40.
S. chattergee*, N. Killiny*, R. P. P. Almeida and S. E. Lindow. 2010. Role of Cyclic di-GMP in Xylella fastidiosa Biofilm Formation, Plant Virulence and Insect Transmission. Molecular Plant-Microbe interactions. 23:1356-63.
* Authors contributed equally to this work.
N. Killiny and R. P. P. Almeida. 2009. Host structural polysaccharide induces vector transmission of a bacterial plant pathogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.106:22416-20.
N. Killiny and R. P. P. Almeida. 2009. Xylella fastidiosa afimbrial adhesins are associated with cell attachment to leafhopper vectors and transmission to plants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75:521-8
C. Saillard, P. Carle, S. Duret-Nurbel, R. Henri, N. Killiny, S. Carrère, J. Gouzy, J. M. Bové, J. Renaudin and X. Foissac. 2008. The abundant extrachromosomal DNA content of the Spiroplasma citri GII3-3X genome. BMC Genomics. 9:195
N. Killiny, B. Batailler, X. Foissac and C. Saillard 2006. Identification of a Spiroplasma citri hydrophilic protein associated with insect transmissibility Microbiology. 152, 1221-1230
N. Killiny, M. Castroviejo and C. Saillard. 2005. Spiroplasma citri spiralin acts in vitro as a lectin binding to glycoproteins from its insect vector Circulifer haematoceps. Phytopatholgy. 95: 541-548.
Non-Refereed Publications
N. Killiny, and R. P. P. Almeida (2007) Biology of Xylella fastidiosa-vector interaction “I”. Pierce’s Disease Research Symposium proceedings. Pages 107-110. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/pdcp/Research_Symposium_Index.html
N. Killiny and R.P.P. Almeida (2007) In vitro attachment of Xylella fastidiosa to polysaccharides. Phytopathology 97(7):S57. (Abstract)
N. Killiny, and R. P. P. Almeida (2008) Biology of Xylella fastidiosa-vector interaction “II”. Pierce’s Disease Research Symposium proceedings. Pages 83-86. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/pdcp/Research_Symposium_Index.html
N. Killiny and R.P.P. Almeida (2008). Role of fimbrial and afimbrial adhesins and gum production on Xylella fastidiosa insect transmission. Phytopathology 98(6):S81. (Abstract)
N. Killiny, and R. P. P. Almeida (2009) Biology of Xylella fastidiosa-vector interaction “III”. Pierce’s Disease Research Symposium proceedings. Pages 51-56. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/pdcp/Research_Symposium_Index.html
N. Killiny and R.P.P. Almeida (2010) Role of structural polysaccgharides in the virulence and transmission of Xylella .fastidiosa. Phytopathology 100(6):S62. (Abstract)
N. Killiny, and R. P. P. Almeida (2010) Blocking Xylella fastidiosa transmission. Pierce’s Disease Research Symposium proceedings. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/pdcp/Research_Symposium_Index.html
S. E. Lindow, M. Inescu, C. Baccari, N. Killiny, R. P. P. Almeida, and E. Beaulieu (2010) Control of Pierce’s disease using pathogen signal molecules. Pierce’s Disease Research Symposium proceedings. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/pdcp/Research_Symposium_Index.html
