AvrSr27 is a zinc-bound effector with a modular structure important for immune recognition biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

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See our new review on effector regulation, delivery and function in the blast fungus by Ely Oliveira-Garcia, Miriam Oses-Ruiz and Xia Yan in New Phytologist 👇 Effector‐triggered susceptibility by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

The blast effector Pwl2 is a virulence factor that modifies the cellular localisation of host protein HIPP43 to suppress immunity. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

PWL2 is a well known blast fungus effector. But what is its biological function? We wanted to understand how Pwl2 functions during a susceptible interaction between M. oryzae and its host. (1/8) Nick Talbot The Sainsbury Laboratory

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Agnes Arber was born #OnThisDay in 1879. Agnes was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of #botany and philosopher of #biology. In recognition of her contributions, she was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1946, the first woman botanist to be elected.

Ksenia Krasileva Ksenia Krasileva and co-workers UC Berkeley show that high allelic diversity in #Arabidopsis #NLRs is associated with distinct genomic features. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

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So pleased to see our Nature Plants paper is out on Nature Plants 🥳🎉 Check a plot twist on the interaction between the effector from M. oryzae AVR-Pita and a known resistance protein here 🌾🍄 doi.org/10.1038/s41477… A huge thanks to all collaborators Thomas Kroj Maël Baudin

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The barley MLA13-AVRA13 heterodimer reveals principles for immunoreceptor recognition of RNase-like powdery mildew effectors biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

I am *beyond thrilled* to have the work from my PhD finally out!! 💫 We found that MLA3, a plant immune receptor, mimics a virulence target of Magnaporthe oryzae to set a trap for this fungus and trigger disease resistance. How cool is that?! 🤓 🧵1/15 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm excited to share the peer-reviewed version of my PhD work in JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/jxb/article-ab… A huge thanks to my Swiss collaborators Yukihisa Goto, @kylewbender and Prof. Cyril Zipfel😊 UMR IAM @umr-iam.bsky.social Lorraine The Sainsbury Laboratory

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Zymoseptoria tritici proteins structurally related to UmV-KP4 and UmV-KP6 are toxic to fungi, and define novel structural families of fungal effectors biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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