Pathogen recognition-dependent association between a helper NLR NRG1 and EDS1-SAG101 in TIR-NLR immunity is in Nature Communications. With The Sainsbury Laboratory, we establish the timing and molecular basis to co-functions between components in this genetically hard-wired signalling node

Plant Science Research Weekly -- A bacterial effector targets a plant iron sensing protein, and benefits pathogen growth (Plant Cell) Parker Lab Gitta Coaker Dmitry Lapin (Summary by Marlo Hall Marlo Hall) buff.ly/3gvT3nz

.UC Riverside #entomologists win #grants to develop #pesticide alternatives: insideucr.ucr.edu/awards/2021/06… #pesticides #Entomology UCR Entomology UC Riverside CNAS @[email protected] Chow-Yang Lee @CA_Pesticides #insects #pests #bugs

Beautiful work from Erica Sarro Gustilo in the Woodard lab @UCR. Happy to have contributed to this effort (and it's a first 🐝 paper for me 😀).

Take a plant self-defense course 🥋from these #ECRs at #PlantBio21 in Concurrent Symposium. 24: Immune Signaling: The plant strikes back! We got some great talks in this session and awesome ECR representation with Chien Yu Huang, Danya Prigozhin, and many others. #WeAreECPS

Citrus Huanglongbing is an immune-mediated disease that can be treated by mitigating reactive oxygen species triggered cell death of the phloem tissues caused by Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share our new preprint about unexpected and complex error-prone DNA repair at on-target sites following Cas12a editing in the fungal pathogen M. oryzae🎯 Great teamwork with @ David Rowe Wei Zhang Tyler Suelter @ValentLab David E Cook biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Methodological guidelines for isolation and purification of plant extracellular vesicles #EV : isolating pure apoplastic fluid is a key 1st step; many EVs present in the supernatant of 40,000g centrifugation; immuno-capture is the best for EV purification: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Surprise finding about ER bodies and immunity from Jose Rufián and Gitta Coaker !

Base editors for citrus gene editing biorxiv.org/content/10.110… More than 6 weeks in the review process, I guess that is why colleagues appreciate preprints!

Our article "Citrus Huanglongbing is a pathogen-triggered immune disease that can be mitigated with antioxidants and gibberellin" has been published online Nature Communications. rdcu.be/cFKbp

The International Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP) statement on the atrocities in the Ukraine.

#HFP2022 🍄 Day 3 Hailing Jin Hailing Jin presents how mRNA trafficks from a plant host 🪴 to its fungal 🍄 pathogen to suppress infection 💉. Beautiful mechanistic journey 🚀 of extracellular vesicles in host/pathogens interactions. More: annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an…

Fungal small RNAs ride in extracellular vesicles to enter plant cells through clathrin-mediated endocytosis — Fungus uses the same strategy as its host to protest and deliver sRNAs in #EVs. rdcu.be/dhkxB Congratulations to baoye he Angela_ChenBio & co-authors!

Unveiling enigma of salicylic acid marker PR1 (Pathogenesis-related protein 1) at 中央研究院 Academia Sinica. Our paper in Nature Communications shows PR1's pivotal function as a #cytokine precursor targeted by a caspase-like enzyme #XCP1 to release #CAPE for systemic immunity. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Improving RNA-based crop protection through nanotechnology and insights from cross-kingdom RNA trafficking sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉🎉We are #Hiring 📣📣 We are recruiting motivated graduate students to study epigenetic regulation, lipid biosynthesis regulating plant immunity and defense response. 🌱🫛🍅🍊LSU PPCP Sent your CV and cover letter to [email protected]

Wonderful and inspiring talk from Prof. Keiko Torii about stomata! LSU

Thank you very much Sika! I am deeply honored!

#UCRiverside professors Mary Droser & Hailing Jin were elected to National Academy of Sciences, the highest-profile scientific organization in the country! ✨ Read more ⬇️ #ucr UC Riverside CNAS news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/…