A wheat NLR conferring broad-spectrum resistance against powdery mildew by recognizing two structurally diverse AVR effectors. Interested? Check out our newest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A chromosome-scale genome assembly of the flax rust fungus reveals the two unusually large effector proteins, AvrM3 and AvrN https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.28.651126v1

Several excellent USDA group leaders were fired last week. Anyone at scientific federal agencies that could be fired, were. Anyone within a couple years of hiring (Matthew Moscou, Amelia Lovelace, etc, etc), or reclassified within the last couple years (promotion, new department, new title). 1/2

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The dominant lineage of Phakopsora pachyrhizi in the United States of America does not have a Brazilian origin https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.26.634911v1

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