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• Khan M#, Nagarajan N, Schneewolf K, Marcon C, Wang D, Hochholdinger F, Yu P, Djamei A#. Pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis exploits the lateral root regulators to induce pluripotency in maize shoots. 2025. New Phytologist (2025) Dec 26. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70843 . Online ahead of print.

• Khan M#. Gatekeeping symbiosis: autophagy shapes Serendipita indica -Arabidopsis thaliana interaction. Plant Physiology. 2025 Oct 31;199(3):kiaf593. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf593.

• Khan M#. Belowground podcast: Digital droplet PCR to estimate root biomass and species profiling from soil samples. Plant Physiology. 2025 Jul 3;198(3):kiaf313. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf313

• Khan M#. N matters: Insights into nitrogen assimilation from the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor. Plant Physiol. (2025) May 30;198(2):kiaf231. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf231

• Khan M, Uhse S, Bindics J, Kogelmann B, Nagarajan N, Tabassum R, Ingole KD, Djamei A. Tip of the iceberg? Three novel TOPLESS-interacting effectors of the gall-inducing fungus Ustilago maydis. New Phytologist (2024) Nov;244(3):949-961. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19967
• Khan M, Djamei A. TOPLESS Corepressors as an Emerging Hub of Plant Pathogen Effectors. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. (2024) Mar;37(3):190-195. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-10-23-0158-FI
• Khan M#., Djamei A. Co-immunoprecipitation based identification of effector-host protein interactions from pathogen-infected plant tissue. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2690:87-100.  (2023). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3327-4_8
• Khan M#., Djamei A. Performing Infection Assays of Sporisorium reilianum f. sp. Zea in Maize. Methods Mol Biology;2494:291-298 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2297-1_20
• Bindics J*., Khan M*., Uhse S., Kogelmann B., Baggely L., Reumann D., Ingole K., Stirnberg A., Rybecky A., Darino M., Navarrete F., Doehlemann G., Djamei A. Many ways to TOPLESS – manipulation of plant auxin signalling by a cluster of fungal effectors (2022). New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18315 
• Khan, M, Rozhon, W, Unterholzner, SJ, Chen, T, Eremina, M, Wurzinger, B, Bachmair, A, Teige, M, Sieberer, T, Isono, E and Poppenberger, B. “Interplay between phosphorylation and SUMOylation events determines CESTA protein fate in brassinosteroid signaling”. Nature Communications (2014) Aug 19;5:4687. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5687
• Khan, M, Rozhon, W, and Poppenberger, B. Mini-Review ‘The role of hormones in the aging of plants. Gerontology 2014 ;60(1):49-55.  DOI: 10.1159/000354334
• Khan, M, Rozhon, W, Bigeard, J, Pflieger, D, Husar, S, Pitzschke, A, Teige, M, Jonak, C, Hirt, H and Poppenberger B. “Brassinosteroid-regulated GSK3/shaggy-like kinases phosphorylate MAP kinase kinases, which control stomata development in Arabidopsis thaliana”. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2013) Mar 15;288(11):7519-27. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.384453

This publication was selected by the "Journal of Biological Chemistry" (JBC) as one of the 22 best papers of 2013 from more than 4000 JBC publications https://www.jbc.org/best-of-2013

• Poppenberger B*, Rozhon W*, Khan M*, Husar S, Adam G, Luschnig C, Fujioka S and Sieberer T. CESTA, a positive regulator of brassinosteroid biosynthesis. EMBO Journal 2011 Mar 16;30(6):1149-61. DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.35