We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research. 📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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/...

Finally a method to identify plant RNA-binding proteins! 🧬 This enables so much new biology to discover from immunity to development! 🤯 🪴 Established by the incredible Victor Sanchez with @havandenburg.bsky.social @uva.nl Congratulations!!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brilliant new strategy to obtain broad resistance against Potyviruses, and possibly other protease-encoding viruses

Hydathode immunity 🌱 - the discovery journey continues ... ⏩ Today: Immune receptor SUT1 confers resistance against #Xanthomonas pathogens in hydathodes. In the latest version, we contrast the tissue-specificity of SUT1 with the well-known ZAR1 resistance. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Happy to share that our Helixer deeplearning-based annotation of 230 superasterid genomes is now online on @datadryad.bsky.social 💻🌱 doi.org/10.5061/drya... Check out how we used 69 of them to study the molecular evolution of a plant immune receptor network here! 👇

Reciprocal phosphorylation between SOAK1 and SOBIR1 fine-tunes receptor-like protein (RLP)–mediated plant immunity @science.org #ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Huanglongbing causes crop damage worth $10 billion annually, and most trees die within a few years once infected. This week in a new Science study, researchers report that they have developed therapeutic peptides that may be able to save and revive infected citrus trees. scim.ag/4jtM8dC

Beautiful paper

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene! #MicroSky #PlantScience #Pseudomonas Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

Delighted to have our Perturb-multiome paper, led by #JorgeMartinRufino and @hemagene.bsky.social from our lab, published today in @science.org. Please check out this powerful approach to decipher gene regulatory networks enriched for genetic variation: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Liu is honored for the development of base editing and prime editing, two gene editing technologies transforming medicine. www.broadinstitute.org/news/david-l...

Le Naour--Vernet et al. Structure‐guided insights into the biology of fungal effectors nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... featuring MycFOLD effectors

Oh yes. This is new. Non-NLR and NLR pair for immune sensor and executor! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yes, that's a proteasome! Guess where it is....in the apoplast! Nice to see Richard Vierstra's work out! #PPStasis #proteostasis #proteasomes #PlantSci www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new study! We show that Arabidopsis uses the EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 node to trigger rapid yet contained cell death. Key finding: NRG1C variant regulates this process by competing with functional NRG1s. Amazing collaboration between Jijie Chai and Parker Labs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great new study from our lab revealing insights in Xanthomonas evolution and how loss of the Crispr genome defense was a key step for X. campestris pv campestris.

Lighten up your life! We built a “darkbox” with a CCD camera to image bacterial infections across entire trays of Arabidopsis plants. Our technical advance with Python image analysis pipeline out now! @havandenburg.bsky.social @nwtaks.bsky.social bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...