Wonyong Kim*, Tânia Keiko Shishido, Huong T. Pham, Kyo Bin Kang, Rundong Liu, Matti Wahlsten, Jérôme Collemare, Hyun Park, Soon-Ok Oh, Hyung-Ho Ha, Hangun Kim, Jae-Seoun Hur. 2025. Deciphering the biosynthetic pathways of lichen acids. New Phytologist (in press)

Minjoo Cho, Eunkyung Choi, Seung Jae Lee, Soyun Choi, Inseo Kim, Doyoon Shin, Wonyong Kim, Jae-Seoun Hur, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Jae-Sung Rhee, Hyun Park. 2025. Whole-genome sequence of the lichen-forming fungus Cetrariella delisei reveals an expanded repertoire of biosynthetic gene clusters. Genomics. 117(6):111131

2025

Sultan Pulat, Wonyong Kim, Jee-Hyun Hwang, Rui Zhou, Chathurika D. B. Gamage, Mücahit Varlı, İsa Taş, Yi Yang, So-Yeon Park, Kyung-Min Lim, Jae-Seoun Hur, Hangun Kim. 2025. Atraric Acid Induces Hair Growth through the Stimulation of Sonic Hedgehog/GLI1 in Human Dermal Papilla Cells. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. 21: 283–286

Hongbee Han, Rundong Liu, Jung-Jae Woo, Jae-Seoun Hur, Wonyong Kim*. 2025. Generation of a Clean Host for Polyketide Production Using Agricultural Wastes in Ascochyta Rabiei. Mycobiology. 53(2): 225-235

Mitja M. Zdouc, Kai Blin and 286 coauthors including Wonyong Kim. 2025. MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration. Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D678-D690

2024

Jaycee A. G. Paguirigan, Eunah Jeong, Kyo Bin Kang, Jae-Seoun Hur, Wonyong Kim*. 2024. Investigation of Antimicrobial Compounds Produced by Endolichenic Fungi in Different Culture Media. Plant Pathology Journal. 40(5): 559-567

Wonyong Kim*, Da-Woon Kim, Zheng Wang, Meng Liu, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Frances Trail. 2024. Transcription factor-dependent regulatory networks of sexual reproduction in Fusarium graminearum. mBio. 16(1): e03030-24

Rundong Liu, Jaycee A. G. Paguirigan, Jae-Seoun Hur, Wonyong Kim*. 2024. Cercosporamide, a polyketide-derived fungal metabolite, serves as an antifungal agent against phytopathogenic fungi. Mycoscience. 11: 19-27

In Seong Lee, Wonyong Kim*, Gyeongpyo Jo, Kwang-Yeol Yang. 2024. Rapid Detection of a Downy Mildew Pathogen, Peronospora destructor, in Infected Onion Tissues and Soils by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification. Phytopathology. 114(6): 1237-1243

Hyeonjae Kim, Jianzhong Hu, Hunseung Kang, Wonyong Kim*. 2024. Phylogenetic and functional analyses of N6-methyladenosine RNA methylation factors in the wheat scab fungus Fusarium graminearum. mSphere. 9(1): e00552-23

Rui Zhou, Rundong Liu, Kyo Bin Kang, Wonyong Kim, Jae-Seoun Hur, Hangun Kim. 2024. The Depside Derivative Pericodepside Inhibits Cancer Cell Metastasis and Proliferation by Suppressing Epithelial−Mesenchymal Transition. ACS Omega. 9: 6828-6836

2023

Jaycee A. G. Paguirigan, Jung A. Kim, Jae-Seoun Hur, Wonyong Kim*. 2023. Identification of a biosynthetic gene cluster for a red pigment cristazarin produced by a lichen-forming fungus Cladonia metacorallifera. PLOS ONE. 18(6): e0287559

Gi-Gyeong Park, Wonyong Kim, Kwang-Yeol Yang. 2023. Rapid and Sensitive Detection of the Causal Agents of Postharvest Kiwifruit Rot, Botryosphaeria dothidea and Diaporthe eres, Using a Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay. Plant Pathology Journal. 39(5): 522-527

Eunah Jeong, Wonyong Kim, Martin Steinegger, Dasom Gwon, Jihee Hong, Yoonhee Cho, Chang-Young Jang, Seungju Son, Sungyeon Yang, Young Woon Lim, Kyo Bin Kang. 2023. Qualitative metabolomics-based characterization of a phenolic UDP-xylosyltransferase with a broad substrate spectrum from Lentinus brumalis. PNAS. 120(28): e2301007120

Jiho Yang, Jung-Jae Woo, Wonyong Kim, Seung-Yoon Oh, Jae-Seoun Hur. 2023. Exploring the influence of climatic variables on mycobiome composition and community diversity in lichens: insights from structural equation modeling analysis. Environmental Microbiome. 18: 79

Zheng Wang, Wonyong Kim, Yen-Wen Wang, Elizabeta Yakubovich, Caihong Dong, Frances Trail, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Oded Yarden. 2023. The Sordariomycetes: an expanding resource with Big Data for mining in evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics. Frontiers in Fungal Biology. 4: 1214537

Jiho Yang, Jung-Jae Woo, Seung-Yoon Oh, Wonyong Kim, Jae-Seoun Hur. 2023. Fungal community inside lichen: a curious case of sparse diversity and high modularity. Environmental Microbiome. 18: 73

2022

Barbara R. Terlouw, Kai Blin and 80 coauthors including Wonyong Kim. 2022. MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters. Nucleic Acids Research. 51: D603-D610

Wonyong Kim*, Zheng Wang, Hyeonjae Kim, Kasey Pham, Yujia Tu, Jeffrey P. Townsend, and Frances Trail. 2022. Transcriptional Divergence Underpinning Sexual Development in the Fungal Class Sordariomycetes. mBio. 13: e01100-22

Seungeun Gi, Wonyong Kim*, Kwang-Yeol Yang. 2022. Emergence of multiple Diaporthe species causing kiwifruit rot and occurrence of resistance to a methyl benzimidazole carbamate fungicide in South Korea. Crop Protection. 158: 106016

Ji Ho Yang, Seung-Yoon Oh, Wonyong Kim, and Jae-Seoun Hur. 2022. Endolichenic Fungal Community Analysis by Pure Culture Isolation and Metabarcoding: A Case Study of Parmotrema tinctorum. Mycobiology. 50: 55-65

Jaycee A. Paguirigan, Rundong Liu, Seong Mi Im, Jae-Seoun Hur, and Wonyong Kim*. 2022. Evaluation of Antimicrobial Properties of Lichen Substances against Plant Pathogens. The Plant Pathology Journal. 38: 25-32

2021

Wonyong Kim*, Rundong Liu, Sunmin Woo, Kyo Bin Kang, Hyun Park, Young Hyun Yu, Hyung-Ho Ha, Seung-Yoon Oh, Ji Ho Yang, Hangun Kim, Sung-Hwan Yun, and Jae-Seoun Hur. 2021. Linking a Gene Cluster to Atranorin, a Major Cortical Substance of Lichens, through Genetic Dereplication and Heterologous Expression. mBio. 12: e01111-21

Wonyong Kim*, Min-Hye Jeong, Sung-Hwan Yun and Jae-Seoun Hur. 2021. Transcriptome Analysis Identifies a Gene Cluster for the Biosynthesis of Biruloquinone, a Rare Phenanthraquinone, in a Lichen-Forming Fungus Cladonia macilenta. Journal of Fungi. 7: 398

Ji Ho Yang, Seung-Yoon Oh, Wonyong Kim, Jung-Jae Woo, Hyeonjae Kim and Jae-Seoun Hur. 2021. Effect of Isolation Conditions on Diversity of Endolichenic Fungal Communities from a Foliose Lichen, Parmotrema tinctorum. Journal of Fungi. 7: 335

Rundong Liu, Wonyong Kim*, Jaycee A. Paguirigan, Min-Hye Jeong, and Jae-Seoun Hur. 2021. Establishment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Cladonia macilenta, a model lichen-forming fungus. Journal of Fungi. 7: 252

2019

Wonyong Kim* and Weidong Chen. 2019. Phytotoxic metabolites produced by legume-associated Ascochyta and Its related genera in the Dothideomycetes. Toxins. 11: 627

Wonyong Kim*, Judith Lichtenzveig, Robert A. Syme, Angela H. Williams, Tobin L. Peever and Weidong Chen. 2019. Identification of a polyketide synthase gene responsible for ascochitine biosynthesis in Ascochyta fabae and its abrogation in sister taxa. mSphere. 4: e00622-19

Wonyong Kim*, Brad Cavinder, Robert H. Proctor, Kerry O'Donnell, Jeffrey P. Townsend and Frances Trail. 2019. Comparative genomics and transcriptomics during sexual development gives insight into the life history of the cosmopolitan fungus Fusarium neocosmosporiellum. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 1237

2015~2018

Wonyong Kim*, Cristina Miguel-Rojas, Jie Wang, Jeffrey P. Townsend and Frances Trail. 2018. Developmental dynamics of long noncoding RNA expression during sexual fruiting body formation in Fusarium graminearum. mBio. 9: e01292-18

Wonyong Kim*, Jeong-Jin Park, Frank M. Dugan, Tobin L. Peever, David R. Gang, George Vandemark and Weidong Chen. 2017. Production of the antibiotic secondary metabolite solanapyrone A by the fungal plant pathogen Ascochyta rabiei during fruiting body formation in saprobic growth. Environmental Microbiology. 19: 1822-1835

Wonyong Kim*, Tobin L. Peever, Jeong-Jin Park, Chung-Min Park, David R. Gang, Ming Xian, Jenny A. Davidson, Alessandro Infantino, Walter J. Kaiser and Weidong Chen. 2016. Use of metabolomics for the chemotaxonomy of legume-associated Ascochyta and allied genera. Scientific Reports. 6: 20192

Wonyong Kim*, Jeong-Jin Park, David R. Gang, Tobin L. Peever and Weidong Chen. 2015. A novel type pathway-specific regulator and dynamic genome environments of a solanapyrone biosynthesis gene cluster in the fungus Ascochyta rabiei. Eukaryotic Cell. 14: 1102-1113

Azadeh Habibi, Tobin L. Peever, Wonyong Kim, Martin L. Chilvers, Weidong Chen, Walter J. Kaiser and Fred J. Muehlbauer. 2015. First report of Ascochyta blight of spotted locoweed (Astragalus lentiginosus) caused by Ascochyta sp. in Idaho. Plant Disease. 99: 1446

Wonyong Kim*, Chung-Min Park, Jeong-Jin Park, Hajime O. Akamatsu, Tobin L. Peever, Ming Xian, David R. Gang, George Vandemark and Weidong Chen. 2015. Functional analyses of the Diels-Alderase gene sol5 of Ascochyta rabiei and Alternaria solani indicate that the solanapyrone phytotoxins are not required for pathogenicity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction. 28: 482-496

2010~2014

Kyung Jin Kwak, Hyun Ju Jung, Kwang Ho Lee, Young Soon Kim, Wonyong Kim, Sung Ju Ahn and Hunseung Kang. 2012. The minor spliceosomal protein U11/U12-31K is an RNA chaperone crucial for U12 intron splicing and the development of dicot and monocot plants. PLoS ONE. 7: e43707

Woyong Kim*, Hyun Ju Jung, Kyung Jin Kwak, min Kyung Kim, Seung Han Oh, Yeon Soo Han and Hunseung Kang. 2010. The Arabidopsis U12-type spliceosomal protein U11/U12-31K is involved in U12 intron splicing via RNA chaperone activity and affects plant development. The Plant Cell. 22: 3951-3962

Woyong Kim*, Joo Yeol Kim, Hyun Ju Jung, Seung Han Oh, Yeon Soo Han and Hunseung Kang. 2010. Comparative analysis of Arabidopsis zinc finger-containing glycine-rich RNA-binding proteins during cold adaptation. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 48: 866-872

Joo Yeol Kim, Wonyong Kim, Kyung Jin Kwak, Seung Han Oh, Yeon Soo Han and Hunseung Kang. 2010. Glycine-rich RNA-binding proteins are functionally conserved in Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa during cold adaptation process. Journal of Experimental Botany. 61: 2317-2325

Joo Yeol Kim, Wonyong Kim, Kyung Jin Kwak, Seung Han Oh, Yeon Soo Han and Hunseung Kang. 2010. Zinc finger-containing glycine-rich RNA-binding protein in Oryza sativa has an RNA chaperone activity under cold stress conditions. Plant Cell and Environment. 33: 759-768