Our new story on #T6SS WHIX effectors and bacterial warfare is out in PLOS Biology . It has a lot more data than the original bioRxiv preprint, so take a look even if you’ve read that. What did we find? A thread... 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Glad to share our efforts in providing a practical guide for researchers through the #3rd_Volume of #CRISPR_Cas_Methods! The popularity of the first two volumes was incredible, with a total of 101,000+ downloads. 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… #GenomeEditing #TnpB #Protocols

Excited to announce: Our new study reveals how bacteria effectors disrupt plant immune defenses by targeting receptor Condensates via Percolation. A surprising twist in assembly properties during host-pathogen interactions! 🌿🦠authors.elsevier.com/a/1kpxd5Sx5g-Y…

Climate Resilient Agriculture-call for proposals by Department of Biotechnology DBT-BIRAC to foster innovative ecosystem for enabling development & deployment of sustainable & scalable, industry ready technologies to revamp the agricultural value chain dbtindia.gov.in/latest-announc… Apply by 30th April

High-fidelity in vitro packaging of diverse synthetic cargo into encapsulin protein cages "Fluorescent dyes, proteins and cytotoxic drug molecules can all be selectively packaged via a peptide-mediated targeting process." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Bacterial DNA Contamination of Commercial PCR Enzymes: Considerations for Microbiome Protocols and Analysis mdpi.com/3239304 #mdpimicroorganisms via Microorganisms MDPI

Our newest preprint. Congrats Emma Jane Walker and all authors in collaboration Thomas Mock 🔹 Fast electroporation & PEG methods 🔹Delivery of large episomes 🔹 DNA-free Cas9 editing 🔹 In vivo DNA assembly. #SynBio #Diatoms #CRISPR doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Evolutionary insights into light-induced stomatal opening mechanisms dlvr.it/TK72q3 #plantscience

Discovery of a hairy root strain A4 with super efficiency in transient expression in Nb and other Solanaceous plants. Great team work IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) led by Chih-Hang Wu #AMT #Rhizobium #Agrobacterium

WIMI is thrilled to share Professor Su from the College of Agriculture at Yangtze University “Flavonoids enhance tomato plant resistance to whitefly by interfering with the expression of a salivary effector” 📚published in Plant Physiology academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

Evolution of a vascular plant pathogen is associated with the loss of CRISPR-Cas and an increase in genome plasticity and virulence genes sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#aBIOTECH_Letter Microbe-induced gene silencing of fungal gene confers efficient resistance against Fusarium graminearum in maize link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Bacterial pathogen deploys the iminosugar glycosyrin to manipulate plant glycobiology | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited to share our new work mBio reporting two #Agrobacterium DGC proteins control virulence and #T6SS interbacterial competition via distinct strategies. Congrats to 1st author, my PhD student Xuan (Stephenson) Lai for the achievement and co-authors Manda Yu IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所).

OUT NOW! 👇🏼We built a make-or-break Prime editing tool—have a read to discover how it’s changing the way we do genomic engineering. nature.com/articles/s4146… Jan-Willem Veening Axel Janssen & all others authors! 👏🏻

Protein editing using a coordinated transposition reaction | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We performed a dedicated search of anti-CRISPR proteins targeting the model E. coli Type IE CRISPR-Cas system and revealed AcrIE9 as a potent inhibitor and the most widespread anti-CRISPR protein in enteric bacteria. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

To make our research more approachable, I used #Gemini to develop (mostly by #vibecoding) a simulation of #T6SS mediated bacterial interactions. I hope that you'll have as much fun as I have with this and that you'll learn something new! sites.google.com/view/bacfight6/

Population histories of the Indigenous Adivasi and Sinhalese from Sri Lanka using whole genomes: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…