Natural variation in Brachypodium distachyon reveals that maintaining or reinforcing lignin-containing secondary cell walls is a major, but not universal, leaf resistance strategy against Rhizoctonia....

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The conservation of immune systems from prokaryotes to eukaryotes can guide discovery of immunity genes across the tree of life. Most studies to date have focused on metazoan systems, while the extent...

What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.

Proposed model for the stepwise evolution of DELLA functions in the green lineage.

PhD positions: Rapid evolutionary genomics in plants Moi Exposito-Alonso Lab — www.moilab.science Assistant Professor, Freeman Hrabowski Scholar HHMI · Department of Integrative Biology · Innovative G...

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Towards a quantitative view of the NLR gene family evolution in the genome space - Volume 7

Angiosperm seed formation requires the coordinated development of the products of double fertilization—the embryo and the endosperm. The endosperm mediates efficient nutrient transfer from surrounding...

Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

Plants perceive external and internal signals via receptors to modulate their growth, development, and defenses. Leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like-kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like-proteins (RLPs) are t...

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Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs) are conserved molecular switches that regulate innate immunity across diverse domains of life. While best known for their roles in i...

This Community Page presents the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, which aims to sequence the genomes and transcriptomes of 100 diatom species across major lineages, life forms and ecological strategies. Th...

This paper reframes plant thermotolerance as a temporally stratified, interconnected system of physiological responses centered on preserving photosynthetic carbon gain under heat stress. Consequentl...

TUM researchers in Freising are discovering how steroid hormones regulate plant immunity—leading to high-yielding, disease-resistant crops.

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Plants use a deeply conserved chemical modification, dihydrouridine, to mark mRNAs for rapid degradation, particularly under abiotic stressors such as heat

Microbial pathogens require nutrients and water to support their growth and proliferation. Pathogen-mediated resource acquisition is orchestrated by the secretion of virulence factors that have evolve...

How morphological complexity evolves is still enigmatic. While there is evidence in algae and plants as well as animals that diversification of the repertoire of transcription factors (TF) is causativ...

Professor Dame Caroline Dean FRS has been given a lifetime achievement award by the international Arabidopsis research community...

The wheat powdery mildew avirulence effector AvrWTK4 is recognised by the integrated HMA-like domain of the tandem kinase resistance protein WTK4. Wheat powdery mildew evades from WTK4-mediated recogn...

The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been a workhorse of plant biology since the 1950s, when the Columbia-0 (Col-0) accession was widely adopted by the research community as a reference genotype. ...

Molecular evolution of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) effector function.

To promote disease resistance, plant nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR) immune receptors often require paired co-receptors. In many cases, paired NLRs comprise one NLR to perceive effectors...