Staskawicz has made many seminal contributions to the understanding of infection strategies of plant
pathogens and
immune response of plants. These include the cloning of the first pathogen effector gene and the cloning and characterisation of one of the first plant
NOD-like receptors. He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences of the US and has been elected a
Fellow of both the
American Phytopathological Society and the
American Academy of Microbiology. ==References==