Non-invasive, bioluminescence-based visualization and quantification of bacterial infections in Arabidopsis over time biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#Xanthomonas pathogens are stuck in hydathodes for weeks(!) and cannot traverse to the xylem vasculature if they lack four specific cell wall degrading enzymes. Tremendous effort and beautiful “Xantho-blots” by @MishaPaauw Harrold van den Burg biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Have you ever seen Arabidopsis lighting up like a Christmas tree🎄? – it’s always the right season for this! Try our new imaging setup to follow bioluminescent bacteria💡inside plants over time. Great work by our group Nanne Taks Harrold van den Burg biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A single phosphorylatable amino acid residue is essential for the recognition of multiple potyviral HCPro effectors by potato Nytbr: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

#Turnip mosaic #virus selectively subverts a PR-5 thaumatin-like, plasmodesmal protein to promote viral #infection He et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

New Article: "The complete genome assembly of Nicotiana benthamiana reveals the genetic and epigenetic landscape of centromeres" rdcu.be/d0h6Q ...revealing the structure, epigenetic landscape and evolutionary dynamics of its centromeres following allotetraploidization.

Our latest paper Cell Host & Microbe, SFB_1403, CEPLAS is online: "A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization". Many thanks to Nick Dunken and the fantastic team of scientists involved. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Please check our latest paper on using Google DeepMind AlphaFold 3 to study NLR immune receptors. Here we use AI-guided structural modelling to distinguish between sensor and helper NLRs! 👇🧵 (1/10) #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

"A type II secreted subtilase from commensal rhizobacteria cleaves immune elicitor peptides and suppresses flg22-induced immune activation" cell.com/cell-reports/f…

A common immune response node in diverse plants | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Tissue culture-free gene editing breaks transformation bottleneck. Simpler, faster, avoids somaclonal variation. #CropImprovement #GeneEditing Oxford Journals Details:doi.org/10.1093/hr/uha…

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💡🎇Technical advance: bioluminescence-based visualisation and quantification of bacterial infections in Arabidopsis: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

nature.com/articles/s4158… "Balanced plant helper NLR activation by a modified host protein complex" Fine tuning of immune responses

Structure determinants of DANGEROUS MIX 3, an alpha/beta hydrolase, for triggering NLR-mediated genetic incompatibility in plants Eunyoung Chae biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🥒Selective degradation of cucumber mosaic virus RNA3 by nonsense-­mediated decay benefits viral early infection: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Potato type I protease inhibitor mediates host defence against potato virus X infection by interacting with the viral RNA silencing suppressor P25: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

#TansleyInsight Unlocking the potential of genome editing in agriculture with tissue culture-free techniques Hu and Liu 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

New Article: "A cell wall-associated kinase phosphorylates NLR immune receptor to negatively regulate resistosome formation" rdcu.be/eeRhG A kinase that phosphorylates the NLR, and how this kinase regulates resistosome assembly to fine-tune immune responses.

A highly efficient and environmentally friendly strategy to obtain transgene-free genome-edited progeny in flowering plants #correspondence #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plan…