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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

The BRUTUS iron sensor and E3 ligase facilitates soybean root nodulation by monoubiquitination of NSP1 | Nature Plants nature.com/articles/s4147…

Steven Runo RIKEN Yasuhiro Kadota Thanks! If you don't have a plan for the next weekend, here is something to read. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #parasiticplants

So excited that my first FIRST author article is out! 🥳 We used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to uncover the role of the Pgs gene in Fusarium circinatum—a major pine pathogen. 🌲🧬 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.… 🧵👇

Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at The Sainsbury Laboratory is looking for a pre-doc intern to work on plant immunity research. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com

Registration and abstract submission for the CSPB/SCBV 2025 Annual General Meeting are now open. The meeting will be held from August 9th to 12th, 2025, at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Go to CSPB2025.ca to register for the meeting and submit your abstract.

Big shoutouts to Nick Coleman for bringing this delightful protein into existence. FuGFP is the bestest. I've literally put this in everything I interface with. Pictures don't do it justice, tbh.

I thank all co-authors for this work. By combining phylogenetics, structural prediction and functional assays, we demonstrate that the IC-based SA biosynthetic pathway emerged during Brassicales evolution. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. Nick Coleman Great story: schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/201…

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🪅🪅 I am pleased to share this comprehensive and in-depth review paper on #postharvest diseases affecting various #fruit crops 🥑🍊🥭🍎🍋🍇🍈🫐🍐. It serves as an excellent example of collaborative work among government, private, and academic institutions. All authors are

Review by Feng et al. Jing Wang Molecular Plant & Plant Communications Integrating #evolutionary #genomics of #forest trees to inform future tree #breeding amid rapid #climate change cell.com/plant-communic… #PlantSci Plant Science Forestry Research Evolutionary Genomics Journal of Forestry Research Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry GenomeResearch

Interested in gene expression, machine learning, natural selection, & evolution? My former student, Georgia Henry, just published a paper that may interest you. Her goal: understand how selection acts on the transcriptome, within a single generation experiment, *in the field*

Thrilled to share my first paper published at Current biology!! We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) cell.com/current-biolog…

A breakthrough in plant gene delivery!🌱 Our new study shows that R. rhizogenes strain A4 outperforms traditional agro strains in transient gene expression, especially in solanaceous crops like tomato and pepper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pb… 📄Published in Plant Biotechnology Journal

Vesicular and non-vesicular extracellular small RNAs direct gene silencing in a plant-interacting bacterium nature.com/articles/s4146…

comprehensive all-in-one CRISPR toolbox for large-scale screens in plants academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…