Yi-Chang Sung （宋宜璋）
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Postdoc scientist at UC Davis. Working on molecular plant microbe interaction.
Our review on disease resistance gene diversity in Triticeae is finally online 🌾🌾! Gained so many insights writing it with Yinghui Li & Liubov Govta and from the guidance of
gittacoaker.bsky.social
& Tzion Fahima. Fascinated by plant resistance gene diversity—excited to share!
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Peter Solomon
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Registrations are rolling in for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology meeting in Canberra (Nov 27–28)! Secure your spot! Speakers:
@yasukadota.bsky.social
, Cecille Segonzac,
@thamlab.bsky.social
,
@yichangsung.bsky.social
, Tek Tay &
@danielsyu.bsky.social
. Register at
tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2
#strompath25
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10th Stromlo Plant Pathology Conference | wheatbiosecurity
https://tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2
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Submitted my first NIH grant proposal ! 🤞🤞🤞
3 months ago
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Gitta Coaker
4 months ago
Excited this MS is out! Here, we genome edited Pire in tomato, a conserved E3 ligase controlling NADPH oxidase accumulation in Arabidopsis. Edited lines exhibited enhanced resistance to foliar bacterial pathogens, but not two root colonizing pathogens.
#PlantImmunity
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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Gene editing of the E3 ligase PIRE1 fine-tunes reactive oxygen species production for enhanced bacterial disease resistance in tomato
An E3 ligase helps control plant immune responses and regulates reactive oxygen species production, offering a strategy to boost disease resistance in leav
https://academic.oup.com/plcell/article/37/5/koaf049/8154058?utm_source=etoc&utm_campaign=plcell&utm_medium=email
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Ching-Jung Lin
5 months ago
👀 EFR-mediated PTI restricts transient transformation and genome editing, but not T-DNA integration. This study combines floral stage targeting 🌷, immune evasion 🛡️, and Agrobacterium engineering 🔧 to boost plant genome editing efficiency.
#Agrobacterium
#GenomeEditing
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Floral Stage Optimization and Immune Evasion Enhance Agrobacterium-Mediated Genome Editing in Arabidopsis
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation via floral inoculation (AMT-FI) enables genetic engineering without tissue culture. It is widely used in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, yet its efficiency ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.07.652770v1
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Gitta Coaker
5 months ago
Paper submitted! One of the last in
@jerrytli.bsky.social
’s stellar PhD.
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Phoebe Sinner and
@yichangsung.bsky.social
presented their work on vector borne effectors and Tandem Kinase Proteins
@ucdavis.bsky.social
host microbe interactions meeting. Great job by both!!
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Our Research Briefing on the tandem kinase proteins paper is online now! Curious about the story behind our TKP paper? 📄 Research Briefing:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄 Research article:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A plant dual-kinase protein traps a pathogen effector to trigger immunity - Nature Genetics
Tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) are key regulators of plant immunity. We found that RWT4, a wheat TKP, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly recognizing the effector A...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02176-4
5 months ago
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Yi-Chang Sung （宋宜璋）
Gitta Coaker
5 months ago
Story behind our recent paper on tandem kinases is out! Written by
@yichangsung.bsky.social
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#MPMI
#PlantBiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A plant dual-kinase protein traps a pathogen effector to trigger immunity - Nature Genetics
Tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) are key regulators of plant immunity. We found that RWT4, a wheat TKP, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly recognizing the effector A...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02176-4
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🌾 Excited to share our research on plant tandem kinase proteins (TKPs)! It’s been fascinating to explore how TKPs interplay effectors to activate plant immunity. Big thanks to my supervisor
@gittacoaker.bsky.social
, my undergrad student Suji Baik, and our collaborators—it's truly a team effort!
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Wheat tandem kinase RWT4 directly binds a fungal effector to activate defense - Nature Genetics
This study shows that RWT4, a wheat tandem kinase, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly binding to the pathogen effector AvrPWT4 and activating host defense.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02162-w
5 months ago
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Yi-Chang Sung （宋宜璋）
Gitta Coaker
5 months ago
I'm very excited our most recent work on plant tandem kinases (TKPs) has finally been published! TKPs are a fascinating protein family conferring disease resistance to fungi. Originally in bioRxiv. Many thanks to
@yichangsung.bsky.social
for leading this work. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Wheat tandem kinase RWT4 directly binds a fungal effector to activate defense - Nature Genetics
This study shows that RWT4, a wheat tandem kinase, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly binding to the pathogen effector AvrPWT4 and activating host defense.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02162-w?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nonoa_20250414&utm_content=10.1038/s41588-025-02162-w
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