Hydathodes are tiny plant organs that form an interface between the leaf surface and xylem vasculature. They facilitate excretion of xylem fluid under…

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

Cleavage by pathogen-derived proteases of an engineered chimeric protein activates its plant immune receptor component, enabling broad-spectrum resistance to pathogens in plants.

Author summary Black rot disease, caused by the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc), is an economically important disease of cabbage crops. Xcc is unique in that it enters t...

SOAK1-SOBIR1 module fine-tunes receptor-like protein (RLP)–mediated plant immunity.

Exogenous messenger RNAs (mRNAs) require cellular machinery for delivery and translation but also encounter inhibitory factors. To investigate their regulation, we performed genome-wide CRISPR screens...

Nature Microbiology - Single-cell gene expression analysis reveals phenotypic heterogeneity to enable bacterial specialization over the course of plant colonization.

Most phenotype-associated genetic variants map to noncoding regulatory regions of the human genome, but their mechanisms remain elusive in most cases. We developed a highly efficient strategy, Perturb...

Liu is honored for the development of base editing and prime editing, two gene editing technologies transforming medicine.

Tandem kinase proteins underlie the innate immune systems of cereal plants, but how they initiate plant immune responses remains unclear. This report identifies wheat protein wheat tandem NBD 1 (WTN1)...

Development of a non-invasive high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to visualise and quantify progression of bioluminescent bacterial pathogens in Arabidopsis rosettes over time.