A broad-host-range Rhizobium rhizogenes strain enables transient expression across diverse crops and establishes functional assays in faba bean https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.20.719558v1

Proud to share this preprint from Freddie_King and Juan Carlos @AdamWu9527 & @lderevnina labs! AS109-mediated agroinfiltration enables transient expression across non-model plants and positions faba bean as a tractable system for studying disease-resistance

Finally out! A follow-up to our Rhizobium rhizogenes story with @tolgaboz.bsky.social and Lida. We hope this work will make it easier to study many other plant species. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our preprint using Rhizobium rhizogenes AS109 for agroinfiltration, facilitating strong transient expression across non-model plants including sweet potato, mustard, Medicago and faba bean! doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/7

I finally got around to publishing my MPMI poster on 'Developing broad bean as a new model system for studying plant immunity'! We show that you can do HR assays, transient RNAi, and confocal microscopy in this legume species 🌱🫘 Check it out: zenodo.org/records/1631... #2025MPMI

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...