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📢New paper! The fungal pathogen Fusarium uses a specialized protein to weaken plant immune defences & cause head blight - discovery could lead to bio-engineered disease-resistant grains. Agricultural Research Service IU Biology The American Phytopathological Society IS-MPMI Read the full story 👇 rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungal-pr…

Transcriptomic analyses revealed that Fusarium graminearum expresses many candidate effector proteins during early phases of the infection process, some of which are annotated as proteases. Martin Darino et al. characterize an F. graminearum endopeptidase, FgTPP1 (FGSG_11164),

New paper Nature Genetics nature.com/articles/s4158… Our most recent thinking on HYP effectors involves programmed shuffling of the parasite genome. This prompted us to review how and when organisms edit their own genomes In so doing, Vincent made two important discoveries... (1/3)

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors Tolga Bozkurt and Jiorgos Kourelis labs: jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/res…

Thrilled to share our latest bioRxiv! This work started during my PhD and was finished together with Jogi Madhuprakash. We found a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector that bridges a host TOL protein to activated NLRs to suppress immunity! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/15

Shedding light on the structure-function mechanisms of LRR-RPs. Our research merges #AlphaFold3, years of literature and functional validation to reveal diverse ligand-binding mechanisms and a conserved co-receptor association mechanism. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible! Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance!🚀🌱 Small🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to preprint work mainly by former postdocs Li Feng, Yingnan Hou Yingnan Hou, and the phylogenomics genius AmirAli Toghani The Sainsbury Laboratory. We found a plant defense gene family enabling pathogen gene silencing & explored engineering this pathway to boost disease resistance!

Editor’s Pick! Pathogenic bacteria use Type 3 effectors to suppress host defenses. The cassava pathogen Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis (Xpm) causes severe disease, but its effector functions are not well understood. Diana Gómez De La Cruz et al. show that the Xpm effector XopAE

Cryo structure of CARD1 from N. benthamiana transiently produced protein.

🎉 Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in New Phytologist! 🌱 Aphid effector Mp10 fine-tunes plant immunity via EDS1, balancing suppression and activation of defence. 🧑‍🔬Matteo Gravino, Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social, Saskia Hogenhout et al., John Innes Centre, SapienzaFisVe (curated by Pontiggia) #️⃣

I’m happy to share that the research article from my PhD is now finally published online in Nature Plants! This work was truly a team effort, made possible through the guidance of my mentors and collaborators. nature.com/articles/s4147…

Today we report how plant immune preparedness against future infections is negatively intercepted by elevated temperatures! The Plant Journal #OpenAccess This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. Laurier Biology 💜𓅪💛 Laurier Research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

Happy to share the first paper from my lab! We wrote a review on bacterial plant pathogen evolution 🧫🌱MSU MSU-PSM Department sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Slippery skin of onion, caused by Burkholderia gladioli pv. alliicola (Bga), is a globally reported disease with poorly understood virulence mechanisms. Sujan Paudel et al. used genomics and reverse genetics to identify key virulence factors in Bga, regulated partly by quorum

Population genomics reveals distinct lineage of the Asian soybean rust fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi in the United States 🇺🇸unrelated to Brazilian 🇧🇷populations: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…