Evolutionary dynamics of defense core elements, NLRs, suggest stochastic variation to ensure plant population adaptation ,(vertebrate individual=plant population?). Nice work from Gautam Shirsekar plantevolution.bsky.social 🌱 et col. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pls RT & share📢: Only one month left to apply for a PostPostdoc Position in the Stegmann Lab (Martin Stegmann)! We're offering a 3 years position for a plant biologist with a strong interest in receptor biology and molecular plant physiology!🌱

New Preprint 🚨 Using AF2, we predicted the 3D structures of the gall-forming plasmodiophorid, oomycete and fungi secretome to investigate - 1. common and unique folds associated with a lifestyle, 2. SUSS effector families x.com/biorxiv_micrbi…

With AlphaProteo you can now design novel proteins with higher affinity to target molecules:

Interested in root nodule symbiosis signalling? Postdoctoral research position available to join us; Application deadline October 1st. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

Thrilled to share our latest on RALF peptide signalling! Please have a look at our version of record eLife - the journal doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Ann-Kathrin Rößling Lothar Kalmbach Elke Barbez CIBSS

AlphaFold-guided redesign of a plant pectin methylesterase inhibitor for broad-spectrum disease resistance cell.com/molecular-plan…

COMMUNITY RESOURCE The Plant PTM Viewer 2.0: in-depth exploration of plant protein modification landscapes By Patrick Willems Avilien Dard et al doi.org/10.1093/jxb/er…

Cross‐family transfer of the Arabidopsis cell‐surface immune receptor LORE to tomato confers sensing of 3‐hydroxylated fatty acids and enhanced disease resistance bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mp…

Let me present our lab’s latest publication, which is also a big chunk of Sruthi s PhD thesis and part of Simon’s PhD thesis. I am so happy to see this online in EMBO Reports now. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…..

Unraveling the role of antimicrobial peptides in plant resistance against phytopathogens doi.org/10.1007/s43621…

A new preprint from Ksenia Krasileva lab: Engineering pathogen-inducible promoters for conferring disease resistance in tomato biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Let’s transition from ideology to science. Say yes to: → GMOs → Vaccines → Pesticides → Nuclear power …and other innovations that improve our world for the better.

Overexpression of rice lectin receptor-like kinase, OsLec-RLK, confers salinity stress tolerance and increases seed yield in pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) doi.org/10.1007/s00299…

And - it - is - finally - out ! A great story from Yan Ma - in case you haven’t seen it yet. Again, congratulations to all involved!nature.com/articles/s4147…

GrainGenes update: Aegilops tauschii genome resource/tools in GrainGenes wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG3/content/au… Wheat Initiative Simon Krattinger Brande Wulff

NLR resurrection is now a thing Ksenia Krasileva #PPATH24 See also Resurrect Bio Ltd kamounlab.medium.com/resurrection-i…

Humans have been improving crops for 1000’s of years. Corn is just one of the foods that is unrecognizable from its wild ancestors, thanks to these genetic improvements. Growing more food per acre is leaving more land for nature.

Science Magazine - H₂O₂ sulfenylates CHE, linking local infection to the establishment of systemic acquired resistance sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazin…

Thrilled to see this out! Rational immune receptor engineering and proof-of-concept transferring expanded perception. Big thanks to Jerry Tianrun Li (李天润） for leading experiments, with support from Esteban Bolanos, Hanxu Sha, Dani Stevens, Ph.D., & Danya Prigozhin. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…