Hurray! Our fab collab is online in New Phytologist! Working with Urwin Lab Leeds, Emily Magkourilou + Chris Bell, we show AMF C-for-N/P exchange in potatoes 🥔 was disrupted by PCN 🪱, with C supply to AMF 🍄 much reduced while AMF maintained P+N supply to the plant🧵1/3 Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil The Leverhulme Trust

TIL: If you run blast locally, it reports back your usage to NCBI. There's an option to disable it, but who the hell thought this was a good idea?!? I'll patch the blast distributed by Bioconda to disable this ASAP.

The structural repertoire of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici effectors revealed by experimental and computational studies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Genome-edited powdery mildew resistance in wheat without growth penalties | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

News&Views: "Plant immunity: Buy 1, get 2" rdcu.be/cG4Ic "Dual recognition specificity of an MLA immune receptor in barley demonstrates that the deployment of mildew-resistant cultivars by breeders has unintentionally affected nonhost resistance to wheat stripe rust."

Researchers show how a paper pouch from banana fibers disrupts hatching of cyst nematodes and prevents them from finding potato roots, boosting yields fivefold in trials with small-scale farmers in Kenya. bit.ly/3IxCKTZ NemaChap IITA CGIAR icipe RootsTubersBananas Breeding

Happy to announce our review article on the quid pro quo principle in beneficial plant-fungus interactions. Great collaboration 🙏 with Juliana Almario Izabela Fabiańska and Georgios Saridis! Enjoy reading. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Disaster for U.K. science. U.K. govt knew this was coming and let it happen. Where does the cash come from to replace this invaluable source? European Research Council (ERC) is something we need to be part of. StG support the next generation…..Advanced funds half this old dawg’s group.

Xiaowei Han Xiaowei Han (韩晓伟) and I wrote a review about plant immunity evolution. Hope that it will be useful! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This is a free access link for 6 months! authors.elsevier.com/a/1evmh4tPF3q9…

Extreme field biology: miniaturised equipment for DNA extraction, sequencing and analysis in the wild (rdcu.be/cK7hP)

Our Rubisco engineering paper is now available at Science Advances. See the Cornell press release here cals.cornell.edu/news/2022/04/s…

Molecular biology holds vast potential for tackling climate change & biodiversity loss. In this PLOS Perspective, EMBL & other scientists call for community-wide action to bring molecular biology to the forefront of climate change solutions. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… #EarthDay

Ensuring future food security and resource sustainability: insights into the rhizosphere sco.lt/8xfmyG

New Review Paper: We discuss how nematodes perceive and find suitable hosts, how plants perceive and mount a defense response against the approaching parasites, and how nematodes fight back against host defenses 1/2 annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

At the molecular plant-nematode interface: new players and emerging paradigms authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13…

Prediction of protein–ligand binding affinity from sequencing data with interpretable machine learning - Harmen Bussemaker go.nature.com/3lAJlTZ

Deconvoluting signals downstream of growth and immune receptor kinases by phosphocodes of the BSU1 family phosphatases | Nature Plants nature.com/articles/s4147…