Publication

Lou Y., Srinivas A., Guidry C., Bull C., Haney C.*, & Hamilton CD.* 2025, The GacA/S two-component system lacks functional conservation for virulence across Pseudomonas species.  Msphere https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00277-25

Puig-Lluch, M., Williams, M., Wada, E., Valdes, I., Tribble, C., Read, A., ... Hamilton CD, ...& Baldrich, P. (2025). Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations. eLife, 14, e106877. 

Liu Y., Gates AD., Liu Z., Duque Q., Chen M., Hamilton CD., O’Toole G., & Haney C.* 2025 In vitro biofilm formation only partially predicts beneficial Pseudomonas fluorescens protection against rhizosphere pathogens. ISME

Hamilton CD.* & Lowe-Power TM.* (2025) Rigorous mathematical modeling and physiological experimentation reveal that Ralstonia wilt pathogens consume an in planta diet of amino acids with a dash of sugar. This article is a New Phytologist Commentary on Baroukh et al. (2024), doi: 10.1111/ nph.20216 

Chen MY., Fulton L., Huang I., Liman A., Hossain S., Hamilton CD., Song S., Geissmann Q., King K., Haney C., Order among chaos: high throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system. Plos Pathogens. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012894

Muzio F. M., Hamilton CD., Stincone P., Agaras B., Haney CH., Petras D., & Valverde C. (2024). Comparative Multi‐Omics Survey Reveals Novel Specialized Metabolites and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Under GacS Control in Pseudomonas donghuensis Strain SVBP6. Molecular Microbiology, 122(6), 896-913. 

Hamilton CD., Zaricor B., Dressel E., Dye C., & Allen C. (2024), Ralstonia solanacearum pandemic lineage strain UW551 overcomes inhibitory xylem chemistry to break tomato bacterial wilt resistance. Molecular Plant Pathology: DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13395

Wiesmann C., Zhang Y., Alford M., Hamilton CD., Thomas D., Dostert M., Wilson A., Pletzer D., Hancock R., & Haney C., (2023) The ColR/S two-component system is a conserved determinant of host association across Pseudomonas species. The ISME Journal 17: 286–296

MacIntyre AM., Meline V., Gorman Z., Augustine SP., Dye CJ., Hamilton CD., Iyer-Pascuzzi AS., Kolomiets MV., McCulloh KA., and Allen C. 2022. Trehalose induces tomato defenses and increases drought tolerance and bacterial wilt disease resistance. PLoS ONE 17(4): e0266254

Georgoulis S., Shalvarjian K., Helmann T., Carlson H., Hamilton CD., Deutschbauer A., & Lowe-Power T. (2021) Genome-Wide Identification of Tomato Xylem Sap Fitness Factors for three plant pathogenic Ralstonia Species. mSystems 6: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.01229-21

Hamilton CD., Steidl O., MacIntyre A., & Allen C. (2021), Ralstonia solanacearum depends on catabolism of myo-inositol, sucrose, and trehalose for virulence in an infection stage-dependent manner. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 34: 669-679  doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/700351

Hamilton CD., Allen C., Harris M., (2022), Perceived academic barriers effect instructor autonomy to implement evidence-based teaching practices in biology community college classrooms. CIRTL Teaching Certification Thesis, DELTA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA