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Khodadadi, F., Santander, R. D., McHenry, D., Jurick II, W. M., & Aćimović, S. G. (2023). A Bitter, Complex Problem: Causal Colletotrichum Species in Virginia Orchards and Apple Fruit Susceptibility. Plant Disease, 107(10), 3217–3228. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-22-2947-RE
Khodadadi, F., Martin, P. L., Donahue, D. J., Peter, K. A., & Aćimović, S. G. (2022). Characterizations of an Emerging Disease: Apple Blotch Caused by Diplocarpon coronariae (syn. Marssonina coronaria) in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Plant Disease, 106(10), 2703–2717. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-11-21-2557-RE
Santander, R. D., Khodadadi, F., Meredith, C. L., Rađenović, Ž., Clements, J., & Aćimović, S. G. (2022). Fire blight resistance, irrigation and conducive wet weather improve Erwinia amylovora winter survival in cankers. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 1009364. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1009364
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Khodadadi, F., Tohidfar, M., Vahdati, K., Dandekar, A. M., & Leslie, C. A. (2020). Functional analysis of walnut polyphenol oxidase gene (JrPPO1) in transgenic tobacco plants and PPO induction in response to walnut bacterial blight. Plant Pathology, 69(4), 756–764. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13159
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