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🚨New paper, now published in nature! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in collab. with Michael Schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

☀️ I’ve been working on this for a few years & very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… The full story is summarized here:

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The discovery of the resistosome was a milestone in plant immunity. Here, we identify a kinase that phosphorylates the NLR, and reveal how this kinase regulates resistosome assembly to fine-tune immune responses. rdcu.be/eeuCr

Oh yes. This is new. Non-NLR and NLR pair for immune sensor and executor! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Monkeys at Rigged Typewriters: A Population and Network View of Plant Immune System Incompatibility | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/3E1EQ1w

No joke! Pseudomonas viridiflava naturally infects wild Marchantia. Now published in Current Biology. Led by Kayla Robinson with Lucia Buric, Kris Grenz, KhongSam Chia from our group John Innes Centre, and Michelle Hulin & Dr. Wenbo Ma from The Sainsbury Laboratory -sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene 🧵1/6 Ever wonder how bacteria organize during an infection?! Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

Challenges of translating Arabidopsis insights into crops academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Curious about 4mC and how our paper is different from the preprint? Check out the thread by the brilliant James Walker 🤩🎉

Here is some exciting progress on HLB published by Science by the team of Dr. Jian Ye from Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in China.  science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

A breakthrough in plant gene delivery!🌱 Our new study shows that R. rhizogenes strain A4 outperforms traditional agro strains in transient gene expression, especially in solanaceous crops like tomato and pepper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb… 📄Published in Plant Biotechnology Journal

Bacterial pathogen deploys the iminosugar glycosyrin to manipulate plant glycobiology Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#TansleyInsight RLK cleavage and its role in plants Yu et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

A true “lab” story in full bloom: Jonathan D. G. Jones, Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture 2025, and Caroline Dean, Wolf Prize Laureate in Agriculture 2020, are more than just partners in life — they’re also partners in discovery. Jonathan’s pioneering work revealed how plants

A kinase mediator of rhizobial symbiosis and immunity in Medicago | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is wild. Chromosome distributions into different nuclei! Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

After 18 years as an editor at Nature Portfolio journals and Science Magazine , I am now a freelance editor. By being a step away from your work, I can take an objective view and give constructive feedback to improve papers and grant proposals. biosciedit.co.uk 1/n

We summarize recent advances in the study of replication organelles of plant positive-strand RNA viruses, with a focus on their three-dimensional structure, biogenesis, and interactions with other cellular physiological processes. annualreviews.org/content/journa…