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ARS Home Northeast Area Kearneysville, West Virginia Appalachian Fruit Research Laboratory Innovative Fruit Production, Improvement, and Protection People & Locations







Erik  Burchard
                        Innovative Fruit Production, Improvement, and Protection

                        




                        
                        Biological Science Lab Technician
                        Phone: (304) 725-3451
                         ext. 262
                        
                        Fax: (304) 728-2340(Employee information on this page comes from the REE Directory. Please contact your front office staff to update the REE Directory.)
                            **Publications**
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                                                    will take you to the publication reprint.)Almond can be infected by Plum Pox Virus-D isolate Penn4 and is a transmission-competent host

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Peach LAZY1 and DRO1 protein-protein interactions and co-expression with PRAF/RLD family support conserved gravity-related protein interactions across plants
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Waite, J.M., Hollender, C.H., Eilers, J.R., Burchard, E.A., Dardick, C.D. 2024. Peach LAZY1 and DRO1 protein-protein interactions and co-expression with PRAF/RLD family support conserved gravity-related protein interactions across plants. microPublication Biology. 10. Article 17912. https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000995.A haplotype resolved chromosome-scale assembly of North American wild apple Malus fusca and comparative genomics of the fire blight Mfu10 locus
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Mansfeld, B., Yocca, A., Ou, S., Harkness, A., Burchard, E.A., Gutierrez, B.L., Van Nocker, S., Gottschalk, C.C. 2023. A haplotype resolved chromosome-scale assembly of North American wild apple Malus fusca and comparative genomics of the fire blight Mfu10 locus. The Plant Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16433.A haplotype resolved chromosome-scale assembly of North American wild apple Malus fusca and comparative genomics of the fire blight Mfu10 locus
                                                        

- (Pre-print Publication)Mansfeld, B., Yocca, A., Ou, S., Harkness, A., Burchard, E.A., Gutierrez, B.L., Van Nocker, S., Gottschalk, C.C. 2023. A haplotype resolved chromosome-scale assembly of North American wild apple Malus fusca and comparative genomics of the fire blight Mfu10 locus. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.22.533842.Global analysis of the apple fruit microbiome: are all apples the same
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Abdelfattah, A., Freilich, S., Bartuv, R., Zhimo, Y., Kumar, A., Biasi, A., Salim, S., Feygenberg, O., Burchard, E.A., Dardick, C.D., Liu, J., Khan, A., Amiri, A., Ellouze, Q., Ali, S., Spadaro, D., Torres, R., Teixido, N., Ozkaya, O., Buehlmann, A., Vero, S., Berg, G., Whitehead, S., Wisniewski, M., Droby, S. 2021. Global analysis of the apple fruit microbiome: are all apples the same. Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15469.Fox hunting in wild apples: searching for novel genes in Malus sieversii
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Wisniewski, M., Artlip, T.S., Liu, J., Ma, J., Burchard, E.A., Norelli, J., Dardick, C.D. 2020. Fox hunting in wild apples: searching for novel genes in Malus sieversii. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21249516.Apple endophytic microbiota of different rootstock/scion combinations suggests a genotype-specific influence
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Liu, J., Abdelfattah, A., Norelli, J.L., Burchard, E.A., Schena, L., Droby, S., Wisniewski, M.E. 2018. Apple endophytic microbiota of different rootstock/scion combinations suggests a genotype-specific influence. BMC Microbiome. 6:18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0403-x.Transcriptomic response of resistant (P161983-Malus sieversii) and susceptible ("Royal Gala") genotypes of apple to blue mold (penicillium expansum) infection

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Ballester, A., Norelli, J.L., Burchard, E.A., Abdelfattah, A., Levin, E., Gonzalez-Candelas, L., Droby, S., Wisniewski, M.E. 2017. Transcriptomic response of resistant (P161983-Malus sieversii) and susceptible ("Royal Gala") genotypes of apple to blue mold (penicillium expansum) infection. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8(1981):1-16.Genotyping-by-sequencing markers facilitate the identification of quantitative trait loci controlling resistance to Penicillium expansum in Malus sieversii

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Norelli, J.L., Wisniewski, M.E., Fazio, G., Burchard, E.A., Gutierrez, B.L., Levin, E., Droby, S. 2017. Genotyping-by-sequencing markers facilitate the identification of quantitative trait loci controlling resistance to Penicillium expansum in Malus sieversii. PLoS One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172949.


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