Basal SA levels matter--> needed for expression of immunity-related genes such as RLP23. Great team work Tijmen van Butselaar Dmitry Lapin & others. The Role of Salicylic Acid in the Expression of RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN 23 and Other Immunity-Related Genes apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH…

For anyone interested in drawing phylogenetic trees, here’s a new free and powerful tree-drawing software application called TreeViewer. Available on Windows/macOS/Linux, it lets you transform phylogenetic trees, add layers, map data to branches, align text, and much more! 👇…

Our manuscript, which describes a negative regulator of autophagy and immune-related secretion, is out! It features a direct physical interaction between autophagy and vesicle transport, as predicted and visualized by AlphaFold-Multimer. Great teamwork with Yasin Dagdas lab

Excited to host Chih-hang Wu, my first PhD mentee, who is running his own group at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Amazing work on #NLR immune receptor networks!

We created a new technology to examine plant transmembrane proteins: Plant Membrane-On-A-Chip. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Our study on the regulation of the basal expression of the immune receptor genes in Arabidopsis via salicylic acid (SA) is now online. 🥳In this final version, we provide evidence for the role of Arabidopsis SA receptors in this process.
Phytopathology™ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PH……

Our latest paper is online!
Cell wall-mediated root development is targeted by Ralstonia to promote infection

By Gang Yu et al
Cell Reports

doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

Besides the main topic, we also uncover a different regulation of immunity in roots vs leaves:

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Excited to share one of the last pieces of my postdoc work in Alberto Macho lab. Cell wall-mediated root development is targeted by a soil-borne bacterial pathogen to promote infection|Cell Reports
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Assistant Features Editors Bradley Laflamme and Michael Busche co-wrote an In Brief on our evo-NLR story. They do an amazing job and provide an excellent figure that could easily slot into our paper! Check it out 😎 🍁 🍎

Meet the organizers of Cell Symposia #CSRNAs24 : Xuemei Chen lab, Chuan He @Uchicago, Krista Bledsoe Molecular Cell & Antonia De Maio Cell Reports. Join them in Beijing this October! hubs.li/Q02lVqt60

Are you a Black undergraduate student in the UK with an interest in plant science? Applications are now open for the BiPS Summer Studentship supported by The Plant Journal
Apply by 31 May 2024: blackinplantscience.org/2024/04/29/bla…
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I just published: More on toxic academia: does investing time in outreach, mentoring and community activities matter?

Outreach, mentoring, and community support are crucial for fostering a positive academic environment. Yet some established academics dismiss their importance,…

Does phase separation of subnuclear organelles occur randomly? Our study shows that photobodies form via nonrandom phytochrome B condensation at defined subnuclear locations. Congratulations to my brilliant postdocs Juan Du and Keunhwa Kim -- nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations Venkatesan Sundaresan of UC Davis, newly inducted #NASmember ! #NAS161 #plantbiology #genomics

Congratulations Jane Parker of MPIPZ Cologne, newly inducted NAS international member! #NAS161 #NASmember #genetics #plantbiology

The peer-reviewed version is now online at Current Biology!

Here, we unveiled a conserved molecular rheostat that fine-tunes both plant autophagy and immunity. Massive thanks to everyone in the labs of Tolga Bozkurt and Yasin Dagdas🌟!!

🤩 to see this one out Current Biology! A negative regulator of #autophagy in plants that regulates defense! Led by the incredible Enoch Lok Him Yuen Tolga Bozkurt lab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

PRESS RELEASE: Three prominent researchers look back on a half century of key scientific breakthroughs in plant immunity

Authors Jonathan D G Jones Brian Staskawicz & Jeff Dangl celebrate early pioneers, review 50 years of MPMI highlights & anticipate exciting discoveries ahead.

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Happy to share our new paper on photobodies -- photobody formation spatially segregates two opposing phytochrome B signaling actions of PIF5 degradation and stabilization. Congrats, Ruth Jean Ae Kim, De Fan, jiangman, Keunhwa Kim, Juan Du! nature.com/articles/s4146…

I am very excited to be among the selected participants for this event. I very much look forward to the fortnight full of plant-microbe interactions 🦠🌱🧬