A physical model links structure and function in the plant immune system | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Brassinosteroids promote pollen tube guidance by coordinating gene expression in male and female reproductive tissues cell.com/cell-reports/f…

A plant dual-kinase protein traps a pathogen effector to trigger immunity. Nat Genet 57, 1070–1071 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41588…

Resurrection plants: The drought-resistant 'zombie plants' that come back from the dead (BBC) bbc.com/future/article…

I’m excited to share our latest preprint on the cell biology of plant hypersensitive cell death! 🌱💥 We used live-cell imaging to unravel what happens after resistosome activation—one of the least understood phases of plant immune responses. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Happy to share our latest work on the specific role of phosphatase PLL2 in phytocytokine as opposed to MAMP signaling nature.com/articles/s4147… Big congrats to 1st author Rong Li !

Franklin W. Stahl, a molecular biologist who helped create a methodology to confirm how DNA replicates so elegant that the research has been remembered for more than five decades as “the most beautiful experiment in biology,” has died at 95. nyti.ms/44Qs9kH

Preprint alert! Here is the second chapter from Avik Kumar Pal, a fantastic PhD student. We show endosperm-specific roles of OsCLSY4 chromatin remodeler especially its involvement in grain quality. Comments welcome National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research DAE India biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our new paper is out! 1/16 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. cell.com/current-biolog…

Deeighted to share our on "GA-independent DELLA regulation by inositol pyrophosphate in a nonvascular land plant", published now in Nature Chemical Biology Nature Chemical Biology. Excellent efforts by Priyanshi Priyanshi, a brilliant graduate student in my lab. nature.com/articles/s4158…

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant Vienna BioCenter student Alibek Abdrakhmanov: 👇A quick 🧵+ link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝 We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors! We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression. cc Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Networks of the symbiosis-immunity continuum in plants. cell.com/cell-host-micr…

An antagonistic peptide preventing hyperactivation of the plant immune system - cool story by the Felix-lab, just published in Cell ! Glad we could contribute. A receptor antagonist counterbalances multiple systemin phytocytokines... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our work on identification of non-archetypal activity of IPK2 in generating inositol pyrophosphate 4/6-IP7 and regulating heat stress acclimation conserved in land plants, now out in PLOS Genetics, spearheaded by very talented Ranjana Ranjana Yadav journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

So excited to see our research published in Nature Biotechnology! 🌿 We engineered pattern recognition receptor to overcome species barriers and boost crop immunity across diverse plants. nature.com/articles/s4158…

#LatestPublication Harshith C Y from Shiva prasad's lab identified the role of transcription factor OsWRKY53 that dictates wound responses in rice. It fine-tunes wound responses by turning on defense-related genes while turning down growth-related ones. bit.ly/4ojkJgT

bit.ly/4ojkJgT Congratulations to the team! Harshith C Y Dipasmit Palchaudhuri Steffi , RijuDey Shiva prasad National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research The Plant Journal Wiley DAE India

Excited to see my colleague’s second paper published on the fascinating balance between wound response and immunity — great work from the OS WRKY53 project! 👏🔥 Congratulations Harshith C Y Shiva prasad and team.