Bailey, B.A., Crozier, J., Strem, M.D., Melnick, R.L., Zhang, D., Maximova, S., Guiltinan, M., Meinhardt, L.W. 2013. Dynamic changes in pod and fungal physiology associated with the shift from biotrophy to necrotrophy during the infection of Theobroma cacao by Moniliophthora roreri. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 81:84-96.
Melnick, R.L., Poleatewich, A., Backman, P., Bailey, B.A. 2012. Detection and expression of enterotoxin genes in plant-associated strains of Bacillus cereus. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 54:468-474.
Zhang, D., Gardini, E.A., Baligar, V.C., Bailey, B.A., Meinhardt, L.W. 2011. Dissecting genetic structure in farmer selections of Theobroma cacao in the Peruvian Amazon: implications for on-farm conservation and rehabilitation. Tropical Plant Biology. 4:106-116.
Melnick, R.L., Marelli, J., Sicher, Jr., R.C., Strem, M.D., Bailey, B.A. 2012. The interaction of Theobroma cacao and Moniliophthora perniciosa, the causal agent of witches’ broom disease, during parthenocarpy. Tree Genetics and Genomes. DOI: 10.1007/s11295-012-0513-8.
Tiburcio, R.A., Costa, G.G., Carazzolle, M.F., Schuster, S.C., Carlson, J.E., Guiltinan, M.J., Bailey, B.A., Argueso, J.L., Mieckowski, P., Meinhardt, L.W., Pereira, G.A. 2009. Genes acquired by horizontal transfer are potentially involved in the evolution of phytopathogenicity in Moniliophthora perniciosa and Moniliophthora roreri, two of the major pathogens of cacao. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 70:85-97.
Bae, H., Sicher Jr, R.C., Natarajan, S.S., Bailey, B.A. 2009. In situ expression of trehalose synthesizing genes, TPS1 and TPPB, in Arabidopsis thaliana using the GUS reporter gene. Plant Cell Tissue And Organ Culture. 98:311-319.
Bae, H., Kim, S., Sicher, Jr., R.C., Kim, M.S., Strem, M.D., Bailey, B.A., Melnick, R. 2009. The beneficial endophyte, Trichoderma hamatum, isolate DIS 219B promotes growth and delays the onset of the drought response in Theobroma cacao. Journal of Experimental Botany. 60:3279-3295.
Zhang, D., Boccara, M., Motilal, L., Mischke, B.S., Johnson, E.S., Butler, D., Bailey, B.A., Meinhardt, L.W. 2009. Molecular characterization of an earliest cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) collection from Peruvian Amazon using microsatllite DNA markers. Tree Genetics and Genomes. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11295-009-0212-2.
Lydon, J., Casale, J.F., Kong, H.N., Sullivan, J.H., Daughtry, C.S., Bailey, B.A. 2009. The effects of ambient solar UV radiation on alkaloid production by Erythroxylum novogranatense var. novogranatense. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 85(5):1156:1161.
Meinhardt, L.W., Bailey, B.A., Guiltinan, M., Carazzolle, M.F., Lacerda, G., Mondego, J., Formigheri, E., Periera, G.A. 2008. Comparative genome analyses of moniliophthora perniciosa and moniliophthora roreri: two closely related phytopathogenic basidiomycetes that cause distinctly different diseases of theobroma cacao. Mid Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society Conference. .
Meinhardt, L.W., Rincones, J., Bailey, B.A., Aime, M.C., Griffith, C., Zhang, D., Pereira, G. 2008. Moniliophthora perniciosa, the causal agent of witches’ broom disease of cacao: What’s new from this old foe. Molecular Plant Pathology. 9(5):577-588.
Desouza, J.T., Pomella, A.W., Bailey, B.A., Bae, H., Erbe, E.F., Murphy, C.A. 2008. Colonization of cacao seedlings by Trichoderma stromaticum, a mycoparasite of the witches’ broom pathogen, and its influence on plant growth and resistance. Biological Control 46:36-45.
Melnick, R.L., Zidack, N.K., Bailey, B.A., Maximova, S.N., Guitinan, M., Backman, P.A. 2008. Bacterial endophytes: Bacillus spp. from vegetable crops as potential biological control agents of black pod rot of cacao. Biological Control. 46:46-56.
Holmes, K.A., Johnson, E.S., Kruass, U., Bateman, R., Bailey, B.A., Samuels, G.J., Suarez, C., Thomas, S.E., Evans, H.C., Adonijah, V., Rosenquist, E. Towards integrated control of frosty pod rot (moniliophthora roreri) of cacao: a model programme for pest and disease control. Proceedings of the International Cocoa Producer's Conference. Oct 15-17. Abstr. P.43.
Meinhardt, L.W., Bailey, B.A., Guiltinan, M., Pereira, G.A. 2007. Genetic comparison of two related fungal pathogens of Theobroma cacao. International Conference on Microbial Genomes.
Fravel, D.R., Moravec, B.C., Bailey, B.A. 2007. Identification and regulation of genes from a biocontrol strain of fusarium oxysporum. Phytopathology. 155:526-530.
Bae, H., Kim, M.S., Sicher Jr, R.C., Bae, H., Bailey, B.A. 2006. Necrosis- and ethylene-inducing peptide (nep1) from fusarium oxysporum induces a complex cascade of transcripts associated with signal transduction and programmed cell death. Plant Physiology. 141:1056-1067.
Bailey, B.A., Bae, H., Strem, M.D., Roberts, D.P., Thomas, S.E., Samuels, G.J., Choi, I., Holmes, K.A. 2006. Fungal and plant gene expression during the colonization of theobroma cacao seedlings by isolates of four trichoderma species. Planta. 224(6):1449-1464.
Bae, H., Bowers, J.H., Tooley, P.W., Bailey, B.A. 2005. Nep1 orthologs encoding the necrosis and ethylene inducing proteins exist as a multigene family in phytophthora megakarya, causal agent of black pod disease on cacao. Mycological Research. 109:1373-1385.
Fageria, N.K., Baligar, V.C., Bailey, B.A. 2005. Role of cover crops in improving soil and row crops productivity. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 36:2733-2757.
Bailey, B.A., Bae, H., Strem, M.D., Samuels, G.J., Evans, H.C., Thomas, S.E., Holmes, K.A. 2005. Molecular responses resulting from the endophytic association between Trichoderma species and cocoa (Theobroma cacao). American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting. Phytopathology 95:S5
Bailey, B.A., Bae, H., Strem, M.D., De Mayolo, G.A., Guiltinan, M.J., Verica, J.A., Maximova, S.N., Bowers, J.H. 2005. Nep1 induced gene expression in theobroma cacao leaves and the relationship to a compatible infection by phytophthora megakarya, causal agent of black pod. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 43: 611-622.
Baligar, V.C., Bunce, J.A., Bailey, B.A., Machado, R.C., Pomella, A.W. 2004. Carbon dioxide and photosynthetic photon flux density effects on growth and mineral uptake parameters of cacao. Journal of Food Agriculture and the Environment 3:142-147.
Bae, H., Bailey, B.A., Strem, M.D., De Maylolo, G.A., Guilitnan, M.J., Verica, J.A., Maximova, S.N., Bowers, J.H. 2004. Multiple nep1 orthologues from phytophthora megakarya were expressed during the infection of theobroma cacao leaves and nep1 protein induces various wound-responding genes in cacao leaves. [abstract]. BARC Poster Day.
Bailey, B.A., Oneill, N.R., Anderson, J.D. 2004. Influence of adjuvants on disease development by pleospora papaveracea on opium poppy (papaver somniferm) and resulting yield losses. Weed Science. 52:424-432.
Bowers, J.H., Bailey, B.A., Martin, F.N. 2003. Genetic diversity of temperate and tropical isolates of phytophthora capsici [abstract]. American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting.
Baligar, V.C., Bunce, J.A., Johnson, E.L., Sicher Jr, R.C., Bailey, B.A. 2003. Forms and levels of n on growth and nutrition of cacao [abstract]. American Society of Agronomy Meetings.p. 28.
Gronwald, J.W., Plaisance, K.L., Bailey, B.A. 2004. Effects of the fungal protein Nep1 and Pseudomonas syringae on growth of Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), and common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Weed Science. 52(1):98-104.
Bailey, B.A., Lumsden, R.D., O'Neill, N.R., Lewis, J.A. 2004. Production of Pleospora papaveracea biomass in liquid culture and its infectivity on opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Weed Science. 51:91-97.
Keates, S.E., Kostman, T.A., Anderson, J.D., Bailey, B.A. 2003. Altered gene expression in three plant species in response to treatment with nep1, a fungal protein that causes necrosis. Plant Physiology. 132:1610-1622.
Keates, S.E., Kostman, T.A., Anderson, J.D., Bailey, B.A. 2002. Cellular damage and wound responsive gene induction in weeds treated with nep1, a necrosis inducing peptide [abstract]. American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting.
Sanogo, S., Pomella, P.K., Hebbar, P.K., Bailey, B.A., Costa, J.C., Samuels, G.J., Lumsden, R.D. 2002. Production and germination of conidia by trichoderma stromaticum, a mycoparasite of crinipellis perniciosa on cocao. Phytopathology. 92:1032-1037.
Bailey, B.A., Apel-Birkhold, P.C., Luster, D.G. 2002. Expression of nep1 by fusarium oxysporum f. sp. erythoxyli after gene replacement and overexpression using peg-mediated transformation. Molecular Plant Microbe International Symposium. 92:283-841.
Keates, S.E., Bailey, B.A. 2001. Differential gene expression in weed species treated with a necrosis inducing peptide [abstract]. Molecular Plant Microbe International Symposium.
Keates, S.E., Bailey, B.A. 2001. Differential gene expression in weed species treated with a necrosis-inducing peptide [abstract]. Mid Atlantic Plant and Molecular Biology Proceedings.