Very excited to announce the work from my PhD is now officially published! 🥳 The barley Xa21 orthologue works with a coupled Exo70 to confer wheat stripe rust resistance Do other RKs have this requirement? Why do grasses have SO MANY Exo70 genes? 🤔 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Field scouts get to see cool stuff. Lacewing eggs on a beautiful Washington cherry. PS.. lacewings are beneficial insects 📸Jackie Ross

2 in a row! 🎉🥳And another Science paper out by Parker Lab and Jijie Chai MPIPZ Cologne and Universität zu Köln on revealing enzymatic activity of TIRs that enables specific activation of the EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 immunity branch. #immunity #Resistance science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

So proud that our manuscript on the LARS structural family of effectors is now published in PLOS Pathogens. A new family of structurally conserved fungal effectors displays epistatic interactions with plant resistance proteins. journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

What if we increased the number of seeds per floret by two!!!??? #wheatbreeding

My first observation of calcium spikes detected by GCaMP3 in Arabidopsis after touching by forceps!

We've developed smartphone fluorescence microscopes, aka Glowscopes. A few simple and inexpensive components convert your smartphone into a basic fluorescence microscope. 1/n

Adding a custom bar plot to a phylogenetic tree visualization in #Rstats #phytools. 👉 blog.phytools.org/2022/07/adding…

Good morning 🌄 (sunrise photo at 5:37 am) Have a lovely Saturday ⚘️ #NaturePhotography #ThePhotoHour

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Mutation in Auxin Efflux Carrier OsPIN9 Confers Chilling Tolerance by Modulating ROS Homoestasis in Rice frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Beet armyworms not wasting any time getting in the fall pepper crop. #entomology #pepper

Our latest poster: 'The appressorium at a glance' by Talbot &co Nick Talbot The Sainsbury Laboratory Lauren Ryder Neftaly Cruz Mireles @CamilaMolinari3 Iris Eisermann EseolaAlice. #openaccess thanks to The Company of Biologists' #Readandpublish agreement with Jisc: ow.ly/KqUz50KarT3

Not surprised. Plant a susceptible hybrid and “they (the bacteria) will come”. Okay be of my favorite corn diseases!

We came. We saw. We assessed. Great looking corn up here at the ISU Northwest Research Farm. Very ver little disease 😔

The complex nature of cotton boll rot makes management options difficult. A laundry list of fungi and some bacteria (e.g., Xcm, the organism that causes bacterial blight) can cause boll rot when the environment remains conducive #mscrops

Attention Missouri soybean farmers: Plan to test for SCN this fall for free!

@JoseDinneny and I wrote a review on building genetic circuits in rhizobacteria! We highlight bacterial synthetic biology tools for sensing and actuating changes within root systems and soil. BioDesign Research TomKat Center spj.sciencemag.org/journals/bdr/2…

Meet the Lab of Chih-hang Wu Chih-Hang Wu IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) EVOLUTIONARY AND FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICS OF PLANT IMMUNITY sites.google.com/view/chwlab/pe…

Previous PhD student sent this to me and I can't stop laughing.

I guess you saw this right? Thermocycler-free super fast PCR 😮 nature.com/articles/s4146…