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PhD student at @JohnInnesCentre - growing bryophytes.
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2778-5680
pinned post!
I’m excited to share a new preprint from Carella group
#CarellaCapybaras
!
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In this study, we show molecular co-evolution of two popular nonhost resistance genes in plants, RAR1 and SGT1, in ferns. For a quick read before Christmas, here’s the thread:
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2 months ago
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Facundo Romani
3 days ago
Marchantia might seem an unlikely biotech crop, but it’s worth trying. In Aurore’s thesis, we pushed this concept by engineering the auronidins with MpMYB14 and using the pigments to dye cotton. It ended up giving a very unique and beautiful product.
#PlantScience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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PM Delaux
14 days ago
1/9 Our latest paper on immunity mechanisms in Marchantia just out
@pnas.org
! 🔽 Close collaboration between our former PhD students
@karimaelm.bsky.social
and
@chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social
! and the old gard
@jacquet-chris.bsky.social
@maximebonhomme.bsky.social
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123
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Jacquet-chris
14 days ago
What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!) Our latest paper is out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123
#Marchantia
#Colletotrichum
#EVOteam
#LRSV
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New Phytologist
20 days ago
Strain, procedures, and tools for reproducible genetic transformation and genome editing of the emerging plant model Spirodela polyrhiza Verónica Barragán-Borrero, et al. 📖
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sophien Kamoun
19 days ago
Crinkler proteins—first discovered in Phytophthora—can be fused to ADP-ribosyltransferases, acting as epigenetic parasitic elements in free-living eukaryotes.
#AACRNL
#Evolution
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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James Barrett
20 days ago
How does molecular valency shape condensate assembly and function? We used the CO2-fixing organelle in algae—the pyrenoid—to find out… 🧵 Preprint here!:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@cellarchlab.com
@phaips.vd.st
@biologyatyork.bsky.social
#Rubisco
#PhaseSeparation
#Condensates
#Pyrenoid
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Stefan A. Rensing
21 days ago
#MAdLand
Expression: adding sexual reproduction stages to the
#Physcomitrium
patens web tool. Great collaboration with
@noefpbio.bsky.social
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
Paper online in
@theplantjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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Hsuan Pai 白暄
23 days ago
Got my PhD yesterday! Had a great discussion during my viva and I'm truly grateful for the support from my supervisors + examiners + friends and peers at TSL. Where I am today has been shaped by all of you — and exciting journeys ahead! 🎓✨
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Biology Open
about 1 month ago
With non-seed plant research gaining momentum and a vibrant community emerging, Karima El Mahboubi and Facundo Romani highlight the growing impact of diverse model systems on key questions in plant evolution.
doi.org/10.1242/bio....
#MeetingReview
#NonSeedPlants
#EvoDevo
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John Innes Centre
28 days ago
VACANCY - We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the
@philcarella.bsky.social
Group, working in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions).
okt.to/yIlgTU
Closing date - 10 February 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - Full-time, 3 years
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Facundo Romani
about 1 month ago
Happy to share the pre-print on GEMMIFER, a novel ERF required for the initiation of gemma in Marchantia. One of the coolest phenotypes that I have ever seen. Congratulations to Yuki and Go, who led this research.
#PlantScience
@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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David Hoey
about 1 month ago
Come and hear me yap about the
#LiverwortHunt
, a citizen science project which we (
@slcuplants.bsky.social
) ran in 2021, and was published last year as a part of the Marchantia polymorpha pangenome paper
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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TULIP
about 1 month ago
TULIP Summer School 2026 Applications are OPEN ✅ “Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems” will take place from June 27 to July 3, in France 🏔️ Open to PhD, Masters students & Postdoc researchers in ecology, evolution and functional biology
www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul...
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Phil Carella
about 1 month ago
We’re looking for a postdoc to investigate Pseudomonas viridiflava virulence across diverse plant lineages. The 3yr position will combine plant and microbial molecular biology to understand core processes of infection - email for more info & apply online @
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Sophien Kamoun
about 1 month ago
Kamounia striata -- a 300 million year-old oomycete fossil! Thank you Christine Strullu-Derrien ☺️
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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Phil Carella
about 1 month ago
We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Carella Group) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Carella Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Evo-MPMI (Evolutionary Molecular…
https://www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-carella-group-3/
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Madeleine Baker
about 1 month ago
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Excited to share my first preprint from my PhD! 🎉 We introduce a novel Aeschynomene evenia – Aphanomyces euteiches pathosystem to explore links between quantitative resistance and symbiosis in legumes. 🌱🔬 🧾
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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A novel pathosystem between Aeschynomene evenia and Aphanomyces euteiches reveals new immune components in quantitative legume root-rot resistance.
Legumes are pivotal for sustainable agriculture, yet their productivity is hindered by soilborne pathogens such as Aphanomyces euteiches . This study introduces Aeschynomene evenia as a novel model to...
https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2026.01.11.698850v1
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova
about 1 month ago
⚡️Fully funded
#PhD
position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in
#lichens
,
#symbiosis
, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Hugues Renault
about 2 months ago
Evolution of protein domains and protein domain combinations provides insights into the origin and diversification of land plants
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Vandepoele lab
about 2 months ago
We are pleased to announce the official release of PLAZA 5.1, our plant genomics platform, which comes with a major front-end redesign. This results in improved performance, enhanced visualization tools, and refined Toolboxes. Src:
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PM Delaux
2 months ago
A beautiful example of how conserved pathways can diversify! Well done
@hynmn-jeong.bsky.social
@philcarella.bsky.social
et al. !!
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I’m excited to share a new preprint from Carella group
#CarellaCapybaras
!
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In this study, we show molecular co-evolution of two popular nonhost resistance genes in plants, RAR1 and SGT1, in ferns. For a quick read before Christmas, here’s the thread:
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2 months ago
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I started my PhD as a hesitant moss researcher and finished it as a confident bryophyte researcher. Huge thanks to my supervisory team
@philcarella.bsky.social
@kamounlab.bsky.social
for their guidance and support throughout this journey!
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Phil Carella
2 months ago
Celebrating the recent PhD success of
@hynmn-jeong.bsky.social
, who is now a very “confident moss researcher”! More good news to come soon too… 🌱 📄 🧬 Congrats again Dr. Jeong 🥳 🙌 🥂
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Phil Carella
2 months ago
New opportunity to join our
#EvoMPMI
group
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here:
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
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Silvia Ramundo
2 months ago
Very inspiring keynote talk by Stefan Rensing
@rensingstefan.bsky.social
at today’s UK NonSeed Plant Meeting. It was an inspiring day, and I am so glad I could be part of it! Thanks again for the invitation
@philcarella.bsky.social
💚
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Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant SIG
2 months ago
Fantastic closing keynote by
@rensingstefan.bsky.social
. Thanks for joining us and telling us about all of the great
@watertoland.bsky.social
outputs 👍
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Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant SIG
2 months ago
The 4th annual non-seed plant flash talk showcase extravaganza didn’t disappoint
#nonseedUK25
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Phil Carella
2 months ago
It’s a pleasure to have
@rensingstefan.bsky.social
join our UK NonSeed Plant Group Meeting in Norwich! Happy to see a very popular cartoon in the slides ☀️ 🌱 🧴 🍄
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Genetics Society Non-Seed Plant SIG
2 months ago
@philcarella.bsky.social
opens up the 4th
#nonseedUK25
meeting. An exciting day of science lies ahead…
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Facundo Romani
2 months ago
Looking forward to Friday's Non-seed plant meeting in Norwich. Together with
@karimaelm.bsky.social
, we wrote a Review about the last year meeting. We discuss about the latest advances and the importance of using in models. Thanks
@biologists.bsky.social
and
@biologyopen.bsky.social
.
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Non-seed plant research in the spotlight
Summary: With non-seed plant research gaining momentum and a vibrant community emerging, this Meeting Review highlights the growing impact of diverse model systems on key questions in plant evolution.
https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/14/12/bio062139/370055/Non-seed-plant-research-in-the-spotlight
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Hiro Nakagami
2 months ago
MarpolBase
#Marchantia
academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...
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Phil Carella
3 months ago
PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
3 months ago
MpNPR modulates lineage-specific oil body development and defence against gastropod herbivory in Marchantia polymorpha
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688000v1
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Arseniy Belosokhov
3 months ago
#Lichens
form their complex thalli through a partnership involving at least a fungus and an alga. But can these living structures be rebuilt in vitro? For more than a century, people have tried. With
@spribille.bsky.social
we revisited 150 years of
#lichen
#resynthesis
to ask: has anyone succeeded?
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Sebastian Schornack
3 months ago
Plz RP. Come join us at
@slcuplants.bsky.social
@cam.ac.uk
to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...
www.schornacklab.net
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Jean-Michel Ané
4 months ago
Very nice work -> Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis
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Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis
Receptor signalling determines cellular responses and is crucial for defining specific biological outcomes. In legume root cells, highly similar and structurally conserved chitin and Nod factor receptor kinases activate immune or symbiotic pathways, respectively, when chitinous ligands are perceived1. Here we show that specific amino acid residues in the intracellular part of the Nod factor receptor NFR1 control signalling specificity and enable the distinction of immune and symbiotic responses. Functional investigation of CERK6, NFR1 and receptor variants thereof revealed a conserved motif that we term Symbiosis Determinant 1 in the juxtamembrane region of the kinase domain, which is key for symbiotic signalling. We show that two residues in Symbiosis Determinant 1 are indispensable hallmarks of NFR1-type receptors and are sufficient to convert Lotus CERK6 and barley RLK4 kinase outputs to enable symbiotic signalling in Lotus japonicus.
https://sco.lt/5LCyv2
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Michael Raissig
4 months ago
1/ Preprint alert: 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution 👉
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues.
@cerealcell.bsky.social
@lbmountain.bsky.social
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Leo Castanedo
4 months ago
🛑Exciting update from our work with
@pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
team on the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis❗❗ 🔥New results support a conserved three-gene module and master regulator for nutrient-responsive intracellular accommodation of fungal symbionts🤯 Check the nice thread below👇🏼
#plantscience
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Katharina Melkonian
4 months ago
1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses! A thread ...
#PlantScience
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Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants
Symbioses have been fundamental to colonization of terrestrial ecosystems by plants and their evolution. Emergence of the ancient arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis was followed by the diversification o...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.01.646537
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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
4 months ago
🌟 We celebrate Dr. Mung Hsia Foo from Hirofumi Nakagami’s lab
@mpipz.bsky.social
for completing her PhD! 🎓👏 Best of luck for the exciting journey ahead! 🌱
#PhDSuccess
#PlantScience
#PhDone
#ScientificAchievement
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
4 months ago
@cellevol.bsky.social
@turbokraken.bsky.social
et al. used comparative genomics and experimental biology to investigate the evolution of mitochondrial and plastid import mechanisms in land plants. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf240
#evobio
#molbio
#PlantSky
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Evolutionary Refinement of Mitochondrial and Plastid Targeting Sequences Coincides with the Late Diversification of Land Plants
Abstract. Plastids and mitochondria are key to plant survival and adaptation. The evolutionary progress of land plants (embryophytes) witnessed gene and ge
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf240
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
4 months ago
@farleykvdg.bsky.social
et al. investigate the importance of translation-enabling RNA editing in ferns, suggesting an adaptive role, in contrast to the prevailing view of RNA editing as a neutral evolutionary process. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf241
#evobio
#molbio
#PlantSky
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
4 months ago
Wei et al. present chromosome-scale genomes for three ecologically divergent ferns, demonstrating how regulated genomic dynamism enables adaptive diversification while sustaining morphological conservatism. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf247
#evobio
#molbio
#PlantSky
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Resolving the Stasis-Dynamism Paradox: Genome Evolution in Tree Ferns
Abstract. The paradox of evolutionary stasis and dynamism—how morphologically static lineages persist through deep geological periods despite environmental
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf247
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Ricard Solé
4 months ago
What if we could chart all cell types across the tree of life? In
@nature.com
,
@arnausebe.bsky.social
and colls launch the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, a global effort to map eukaryotic cell diversity using single-cell & genomic data.
drive.google.com/file/d/1G4zZ...
@crg.eu
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
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Sternberg Lab
4 months ago
1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase
Defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) employ diverse and distinctive mechanisms of cDNA synthesis to protect bacteria against viral infection. However, much of DRT family diversity remains ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682844v1
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Baptiste Castel
4 months ago
1\
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
🌿🌿Our article on fern immunity has been peer-reviewed 🌿🌿 Thanks to
@madeleinebaker.bsky.social
@kellerjeanphd.bsky.social
@maximebonhomme.bsky.social
@pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
and
@jacquet-chris.bsky.social
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Exploring fern pathosystems and immune receptors to bridge gaps in plant immunity - BMC Biology
Land plants include angiosperms, gymnosperms, bryophytes, lycophytes, and ferns, each of which may deploy distinct strategies to resist pathogens. Here, we investigate fern-pathogen interactions by characterizing novel pathosystems and analyzing the diversity of fern immune receptors. A collection of fern species was inoculated with a diverse set of filamentous microbes, and disease symptoms were assessed. We further leveraged published genome mining tools to analyse the diversity of receptor-like kinases, receptor-like proteins (RLKs/RLPs) and nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeats (NLRs), along with key immune signalling components, in ferns. Our results reveal that ferns exhibit a range of responses to pathogens, including putative non-host resistance and more specific resistance mechanisms. Among ten ferns tested, Pteris vittata displays the broadest spectrum of pathogen compatibility. Genome mining indicates that ferns encode a diverse repertoire of putative immune receptors, antimicrobial peptides, and mediators of systemic acquired resistance. Ferns possess numerous RLKs/RLPs, resembling those required for cell-surface immunity in angiosperms. They also encode diverse NLRs, including sub-families lost in flowering plants. These findings provide insights into disease resistance evolution and open promising perspectives for crop protection strategies.
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-025-02413-6
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Jacquet-chris
4 months ago
Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to
@baptistebio.bsky.social
@madeleinebaker.bsky.social
@kellerjeanphd.bsky.social
@maximebonhomme.bsky.social
@pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
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Stefan A. Rensing
4 months ago
Very happy and proud to share the
#Spirogyra
genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
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Phil Carella
4 months ago
New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
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Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...
https://biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/understanding-host-compatibility-in-the-marchantia-phytophthora-system-carella_j26dtp/
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