My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉 We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

By the @cellsensing.bsky.social and Zipfel labs: The plant receptor kinase HSL3 senses a cyclic, disulfide-bond stabilized peptide phytocytokine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#LatestPublication @harshithcy.bsky.social from @shivaprasadpv.bsky.social's lab identified the role of transcription factor OsWRKY53 that dictates wound responses in rice. It fine-tunes wound responses by turning on defence-related genes while turning down growth-related ones. bit.ly/4ojkJgT

🍅🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱🍅 Resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato is linked to variety-specific proteomic changes; the CAPE1 peptide restricts Ralstonia solancearum growth in planta - Zhang et al. 🦠🍅 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @bactodeath.bsky.social

💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡 Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social

🧬 How have tiny immune-signaling peptides evolved across the plant kingdom? Comparative analysis of small secreted peptide signaling during defense response: insights from vascular and non-vascular plants https://bit.ly/4eAUnmZ

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝 We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors! We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

If you’re enjoying some calm while others are on holiday, here’s a #NEW #preprint to dive into — led by the brilliant @vbcscitraining.bsky.social student A. Abdrakhmanov: 👇 A quick thread + link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Uncertainty in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal interpretation of their fossil record royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Bacteria leverage a secretion system to kill and scavenge nutrients from nearby competitors. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/44y3iC6

Excited to share our #bioRxiv #preprint on HIR2, RLKs and membrane organisation in #Arabidopsis. We used many exciting techniques like #sptPALM, #AlphaFold and #BN-PAGE 🌱

📜 Plant cell wall structure and dynamics in plant–pathogen interactions and pathogen defence 🧑‍🔬 Kristina S. Munzert, Timo Engelsdorf 📔 @jxbotany.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #DarwinReview #PlantCellWalls