Next up at #queenstownresearchweek plant-microbe is Mariana Tarallo on the cell death suppressing function of RXLR40 of the Kauri dieback pathogen Phytophthora agathidicida

Our next speaker #queenstownresearchweek is KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 from Curtin University who is out to save our smashed avocado toast by exploring phosphite tolerance in P. cinnamomi

And now our.morning session #queenstownresearchweek concludes with Lauren Hemara on redundant effectors in the kiwi fruit pathogen P. syringae

GRDC International Visiting Fellow Thorsten Langner of @MPI_Bio discussing mini chromosome evolution in cereal blast #QRW2024

NEW REVIEW OUT Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection. We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What a spin out! Our CCDM PLOS Pathogens paper just got published during #IWC2024Perth 😱 We identified and validated a TF binding site associated with effector gene regulation in the septoria nodorum blotch wheat fungus journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

🚨Internship Opportunity!🚨 We're looking for a motivated Master’s student to join our lab! 🔬🌱 Join us if you're passionate about molecular plant-pathogen interactions 📍 Angers (France) IRHS Angers 📅 6 months in 2025 👇For application shorturl.at/2UEx8

Now published in Plant, Cell & Environment! 🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

Excited to share our latest preprint! We've sequenced over 500 isolates from New Zealand's Psa3 population as part of ongoing genome biosurveillance efforts 🧬🦠🥝 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am excited to share the first chapter of  doctoral dissertation. Have you ever wondered how is time-of-day information integrated into the immune response? We did! A thread 1/13

Looks like Rvi12, the third major apple scab resistance gene to be cloned, encodes an RLK :onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

New preprint! I always wondered: How much diversity do pathogens have within a single field? This important to assess the risk of resistance breakdown or spread of fungicide resistance . Together with colleagues from BASF we looked into this. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super happy to share this: A recombinant, interspecific hybrid of two fungal maize pathogens helps us to understand how effector gene regulation determines infection style and tumorigenesis. Huge congrats to Janina Werner and everyone involved! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Molecular investigation of Rlm3 from rapeseed as a broad-spectrum resistance gene against fungal pathogens producing structurally ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

Could we identify broad-spectrum resistances able to recognize structural families of effectors? During her PhD, Nacera Talbi demonstrated proof of concept with the Rlm3 resistance protein, which can recognize members of the LARS structural family. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great review of fungal effectors Structure‐guided insights into the biology of fungal effectors - Le Naour‐‐Vernet - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Happy to welcome Keith Thorburn and Ashleigh Mosen to our Bioprotection Aotearoa team Massey University! Both will be working on PhD projects related to the identification & functional characterization of avirulence effectors in the #AppleScab fungus, Venturia inaequalis 🍏🍎

🌲 Pines vs. pathogens! New research finds pine trees can detect shared proteins from unrelated pathogens, activating immune responses across species. A leap for forest health! 📖 buff.ly/gvF58Vt #PlantScience #Forestry #Biosecurity #TreeHealth

New research led by Christiaan Schol showing that the Ecp5 effector of Fulvia fulva is Avr6! Congrats to all co-authors!🍅

Conserved 'late' effector genes from Leptosphaeria maculans inducing gene-for-gene quantitative resistance in Brassica napus ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants