How does salicylic acid activate plant immunity? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 EffectorGeneP is finally here! Stop missing small, single-exon or orphan genes from your favourite pathogen genome. Current tools only annotate 15%-78% of effector genes, EffectorGeneP finds 95% - including the large AvrSr26 family in stem rust. #Bioinformatics 📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pathogen-inducible expression of autoactive NLRs confers multi-pathogen resistance in tomato www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oligosaccharide Elicitors in Plant Immunity: Molecular Mechanisms and Disease Resistance Strategies #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Today we report how plant immune preparedness against future infections is negatively intercepted by elevated temperatures! @theplantjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. @laurierbiology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Three back-to-back papers reveal salicylic acid biosynthesis via the PAL pathway! Unlike the old model (BA → SA via BA2H), SA forms from benzoyl-CoA & benzyl alcohol through BB & BS intermediates. One to three 😂😂😂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper "An optimized disease resistance gene cloning workflow for wheat" is now published in @natcomms.nature.com! This workflow allows us to clone resistance genes rapidly. www.nature.com/articles/s41...