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Agim Ballvora, Maria Raffaella Ercolano, Julia Weiß, Khalid Meksem, Christina Angelika Bormann, Petra Oberhagemann, Francesco Salamini, Christiane Gebhardt (2002). The R1 gene for potato resistance to late blight (Phytophthora infestans) belongs to the leucine zipper/NBS/LRR class of plant resistance genes. The Plant Journal (2002) 30(3), 361-371

Njiti V.N, Meksem K, Iqbal MJ, J. E. Johnson, K. F. Zobrist, V.Y. Kilo, D. A. Lightfoot (2002). Common Loci Underlie Field Resistance to Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome in Forrest, Pyramid, Essex, and Douglas. Theor Appl Genet 104: 294- 300

J. Yuan, V. N. Njiti, K. Meksem, M. J. Iqbal, K. Triwitayakorn, My. A. Kassem, G. T. Davis, M. E. Schmidt, and D. A. Lightfoot (2002).Quantitative trait loci in Two Soybean Recombinant Inbred Line Populations Segregating for Yield and Disease Resistance. Crop Science 42:271-277

Meksem K, Ruben E, Hyten D, K. Triwitayakorn, D. A. Lightfoot (2001) Conversion of AFLP bands to high-throughput DNA markers. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 265: 207-214 

Chang Y-L, Tao Q, Scheuring C, Ding K, Meksem K and Zhang H-B. 2001. An integrated map of Arabidopsis thaliana for functional analysis of its genome sequence. Genetics 159: 1231-1242

Meksem K., Pantazopoulos P., Njiti V.N., Hyten L.D., Arelli P.R., Lightfoot D.A., (2001) ‘Forrest’ resistance to soybean cyst nematode is bigenic: Saturation mapping of the Rhg1 and Rhg4 loci. Theor Appl Genet 103: 710-717

Meksem K., Hyten D., Ruben E. and D. A. Lightfoot, (2001) High-throughput genotyping for a polymorphism linked to soybean cyst nematode resistance gene Rhg4 by using TaqmanTM probes. Molecular Breeding 77 (1): 63-71

Meksem K*, Iqbal J*., Njiti V.*, Kassem M., and Lightfoot DA., (2001) Microsatellite markers identify three additional quantitative trait loci for resistance to soybean sudden death syndrome (SDS) in Essex x Forrest RILs. Theor Appl Genet 102 2/3, pp 187-192

Khalid Meksem*, Artem E. Men*, My Abdelmajid Kassem, Dasharath Lohar, Jiri Stiller, David Lightfoot, and Peter M. Gresshoff. (2001) A Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Library of Lotus japonicus Constructed in an Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Transformable Vector. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interaction 14 3:422-425

Meksem K*, Njiti V.*, Banz B., Iqbal J., Hyten D., Kassem M., Yuang J., Winters T. and Lightfoot DA.,  (2001) Genomic regions that underlie soybean seed phytoestrogen content. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 1: 35-42

Meksem K, Zobrist K._, Ruben E., Hyten D., Quanzhou T., Zhang H-B, D. A. Lightfoot (2000) Two large insert soybean genomic libraries constructed in a binary vector: Applications in chromosome walking and genome wide physical mapping. Theor Appl Genet 101 5/6: 747-755

Coyne C.J*., Meksem K*., Lightfoot  D.A., Keller K.E.,  Martin R.R., McClendon, M.T., Inglis D.A., Storlie E.W.,  and McPhee K.E.(2000). Construction of a bacterial artificial chromosome library for pea (Pisum sativum L.). Pisum Genetics 32:23-26

Meksem K, Doubler TW, Chancharoenchai K., Njiti V, Chang SJC, A.P. Rao Arelli, Cregan PE, Gray LE, Gibson PT, Lightfoot DA (1999) Clustering among loci underlying soybean resistance to Fusarium solani, SDS and SCN in near-isogenic lines. Theor Appl Genet 99 7/8: 1131-1142

Njiti* VN., Meksem* K., Jiazheng Y., Lightfoot DA., Banz WJ. And Winters TA. (1999) DNA markers associated with Loci underlying seed phytoestrogen content in soybeans. Journal of Medicinal Food 2 3-4: 165-167

Meksem K., Leister D., Peleman J., Zabeau M., Salamini F., Gebhardt, C. (1995) A high-resolution map of the vicinity of the R1 locus (Phytophtora infestans) on chromosome V of potato based on RFLP and AFLP markers. Mol. Gen. Genet. 249: 74-81