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Tora Økland 🌱

@receptora.bsky.social
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Plant receptor enthusiast in the Parys group @LMU Munich. Interested in root symbioses, immunity and how they evolve 🍄‍🟫🦠 | 🇳🇴➡️🇩🇪

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Hiro Nakagami @grandpahiro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy to share the results of our first attempt at single-cell proteomics using Arabidopsis protoplasts, led by @sara-stolze.bsky.social, with support from @brukercorporation.bsky.social and Cellenion. doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
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Advances in single-cell proteomics: label-free quantification of over 3500 protein groups from individual Arabidopsis thaliana seedling cells
Sara Christina Stolze, Anne Harzen, Christoph Krisp, Hirofumi Nakagami; Advances in single-cell proteomics: label-free quantification of over 3500 protein
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Gal Ofir @galofir.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new plant-bacteria immunological connection in the first preprint of our group at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social! Straight from the top of Mt. Olympus ⛰️🦅 Led by Eirik @eiriklag.bsky.social, in collaboration with @geminiteamlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our preprint with the view from the top of the Olympus in the background
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Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exciting findings by Yiheng Hu @kemenlab.bsky.social on microbial interactions in phyllosphere www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thiamine cross-feeding drives microbial coexistence in the leaf microbiome - Nature Microbiology
Evolution of nutrient cross-feeding between a yeast and oomycete mediates microbial coexistence and leaf microbiome stability.
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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Science - always and particularly in the 21st century - is a collaborative human enterprise. IceCube is another example, with LIGO, of a successful long-term investment by the National Science Foundation, which has been subject to vicious attacks and recissions since 2025.
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Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Developed with input from @c-spirit.org & PCA, The BAR Single Cell Data Portal is now in beta, feat. curated scRNA-seq datasets, interactive data exploration, & the new SUPeR Viewer! Explore the portal: bar.utoronto.ca/single_cell_... #SingleCell #PlantScience
Promotional graphic announcing the BAR Single Cell Data Portal. The image features a six-panel visualization of single-cell data, with yellow, orange, and red cells representing different water and salinity conditions. Text highlights curated scRNA-seq datasets, CellxGene exploration, and a new single-cell portal viewer. Logos for BAR, Center for Sustainable Plant Innovation and Resilience, and Plant Cell Atlas appear along the bottom.
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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐑-𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🌱 Edited by @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @elwirasmakowska.bsky.social 📖 Read the Editorial 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71135 🔎 Explore the complete Special Issue 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Understanding and engineering receptor–ligand interactions
Click on the article title to read more.
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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Man kan være woke eller man kan bruke en betydelig del av kronikken sin på å forklare hva motte-og-bailey betyr (med irrelevante eksempler )
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
KI-språk bruker lister i stedet for kausalitet. Det endrer også måten vi skriver. Det legger arbeidet over på leseren og gjør tankene surrete. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRs...
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The dangers and prescriptions of orbital reasoning #aistories #erc
YouTube video by Center for Digital Narrative, UiB
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David Hoey @davidjhoey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Introducing PhyloDig: a small command-line tool I am developing to make comparative phylogenetic analyses easier. github.com/davidjhoey/P...
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GitHub - davidjhoey/PhyloDig: PhyloDig is a command line pipeline for automated homology mining across collections of protein and coding sequence databases. It combines HMMER searches, optional Pfam d...
PhyloDig is a command line pipeline for automated homology mining across collections of protein and coding sequence databases. It combines HMMER searches, optional Pfam domain filtering, and sequen...
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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A big thank you to @julien-gronnier.bsky.social , @isabelmonte.bsky.social , @kpkinase.bsky.social , Sonja Denk and everyone else involved in the organisation 🌱 And to everyone who shared their input and own research
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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's a wrap on #PPRM2026 ! Had a lot of fun with a community of researchers I really admire and appreciate, and was happy to have the chance to show what we work on. You can read the preprint on some of what I presented here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Evolutionary diversification of the SymRK receptor family in land plants
Plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are involved in diverse processes, ranging from growth and reproduction to interactions with microbes. Variation in the extracellular domains delineates several RLKs...
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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@receptora.bsky.social from the Parys group shares aspects of their recently published analysis on SymRK-like receptors #PPRM2026
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Eamon Duede @eduede.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Nature did a nice, accessible write up of a recent piece I wrote with @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and @carlbergstrom.com. Also, check out Carl's more detailed thread (with link to the paper in both). "Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts
Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 15/09/2026
Xu Wang (Schaller's lab), giving a talk at #PPRM2026 about new systemins in tomato, reminds us of the 1991 Science paper from Clarence Ryan's lab that basically started the whole field: 2 kg of tomato leaves to finally extract 1 ug of systemin. Amazing biochemistry. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Mariana Schuster @marischuster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#PPRM2026 starts now! Thanks to @julien-gronnier.bsky.social et al for organizing! I look forward to 3 days with this lovely community!
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 14/09/2026
At Peptide Receptor Meeting #PPRM2026. A theme that came back twice is re-evaluation of old published results. We know about ABP1 and the systemin receptor, but there were two other examples today: WAK1 perception of OGs, and BSU1 Tyr dephosphorylation of BIN2 in BR signalling. #PlantScience
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Live confocal imagining of cellular touch responses upon local quantifiable mechanical stimulation in plant cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Mariana Romeiro Motta @mromeiromotta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
PhD position available (start 2027) in my group at TUM! We study how mechanical stress controls cell cycle progression and cytoskeletal dynamics in plants, combining cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics. CV + cover letter to mariana.romeiro-motta@tum.de. RTs welcome! #PlantSciJobs
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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New preprint! There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)... We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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PlantLRR-PRR:A Reproducible Annotation Pipeline Reveals Contrasting Evolution of Developmental and Defense Receptor-Like Proteins in Tomato
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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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congratulations!!!
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Super excited of obtaining a ERCstg to support our project MORPHEUS 🎉🎉 Receiving this grant is a pivotal moment for my lab at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as will allow to extend the scope of our research in cellular reprogramming using ribosome dormancy as entry point 😴🌱❄️🔬 @erc.europa.eu
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 27/08/2026
“Norway’s politicians and companies seem increasingly confident that the EU’s green rhetoric will be submerged by the commercial reality for decades to come. It is for the EU to try to prove it wrong.”
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Dolf Weijers @dolfweijers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It took some time, but we are thrilled to present the first major outcome of our @erc.europa.eu ERC DIRNDL AdG project: Evgeniya Pukhovaya @epukh.bsky.social and others in our team describe the discovery of a mechanism for polar protein targeting in plants (1/13) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Systematic proteomics identifies a conserved mechanism for polar targeting of plant cortical proteins
Multicellular development is tightly coupled to the polarization of individual cells, which partitions polar proteins along the cell cortex and can control asymmetric cell division, anisotropic growth...
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Katharina Melkonian @katharinamel1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Please check out our latest preprint from the team @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and many more! Happy to have contributed to this really cool story!
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Lars Sund @lasse2.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Danske författaren Carsten Jensen har tillbringat sommaren i hettan och skogsbrändernas Frankrike och skriver om det världskrig som pågår - kriget om klimatet och om hur vi ska tala om det. En text som pulserar av vrede och desperation.
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KRÖNIKA: En sommar i södra Frankrike är som att mötas av en eldsprutande drake
En gång längtade vi efter värmen – nu drömmer vi om duschar och svalkande vindar. Författaren Carsten Jensen har…
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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! Have a cool timelapse
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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
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Mauricio Contreras @mpcontreras.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New in @embojournal.org from @birgitkemmerling.bsky.social's lab: HIR2 assembles into giant ring-like complexes at the plasma membrane, shaping receptor dynamics and immune signalling. Genetics + biochem + super-res imaging + AF3 modelling, all in one! Check it out👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Arabidopsis SPFH protein HIR2 modulates receptor signaling and plasma membrane organization - The EMBO Journal
Plant plasma membrane proteins are organized into distinct domains; however, the principles that govern this spatial organization are not fully understood. HYPERSENSITIVE-INDUCED REACTION (HIR) protei...
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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 29/07/2026
New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications
Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...
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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
større enn VM
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Facundo Romani @fromani.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#plantbio2026 the half-time show is my talk at the Cell Biology concurrent symposium.
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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Deadline extended 📢 Submit your abstract for the #PPRM2026 by July 29th! Check our fantastic lineup of invited speakers and come join us discuss all things #plant peptide receptors 🌱 Please spread the word and see you in Freising (Germany) from September 14 to 16 😊 www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...
Flyer of the Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2026 (September 14-16, Freising, Germany) showing cell-surface receptors on the plasma membrane against a background showing Freising. The QR code will lead to the PPRM2026 website where you can register and submit your abstract by July 29th.
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jasper-lamers.bsky.social @jasper-lamers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This also indicates that plants have a two-geared cytoskeletal mechano-response system, with actin responding quickly (eg drought or infections) and microtubules, rearranging in the course of hours, for slower developmental responses.
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jasper-lamers.bsky.social @jasper-lamers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our work on the mechanoresponsiveness of actin is out! While plant microtubules have been extensively studied for their role in mechanobiology, actin has very much been ignored. Here we show that actin responds to cellular deformations within minutes and observed it in Marchantia and Arabidopsis!
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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New favorite way to color code microscopy data: this is a real 3D confocal image of an unidentified larvae stained for actin (muscles fibers here). Looks like a watercolor painting! #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Hormone-dependent receptor docking controls calcium channel activity in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🌾 Every grass leaf shares the same repeating short-long cell pattern in its epidermis. Our new #preprint identifies the protein that builds it. 🔬🧬 📄 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵⬇️ 1/11
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Jen McGaley @jenmcgaley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Very happy this is now published in full! Symbiotic phosphate transporter dynamics in rice expose functional plasticity of the arbuscules www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread of some of our findings (and timelapses) below 🧵🔬🎥
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Jessica Lee Erickson @ericksonlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New Preprint! We identified 20 new type II-secreted effectors from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria and show that they help bacteria feed and remodel plant cell walls during infection. Proud of my team at #ZMBP and collaborators for making this possible! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Defining the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria type II-secreted effector arsenal: core nutritional functions and effector diversity
The type II secretion (T2S) system is conserved across the Xanthomonas lineage, yet its contributions to pathogenicity and secreted protein repertoires are poorly defined. We demonstrate that T2S syst...
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚
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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🥹🥹🥹 So happy to see @naturogungdom.bsky.social and @naturvernforbundet.no celebrate this win after many years fighting hard to protect our fjords. Congratulations and thank you for everyone who has helped make this possible
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Per-Erik Schulze @pererikschulze.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
3/ Nå kom dommen også til @naturvernforbundet.no ! Og ligger ute offentlig. JA. VI HAR VUNNET. Enstemmig Høyesterett. FULLE SAKSKOSTNADER DEKKES. Takk for all støtte. Dette ruler! Staten må gå i tenkeboksen. Dumpinga bør stoppes straks! www.domstol.no/no/hoyestere...
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Charlotte Kirchhelle @ckirchhelle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Incredibly proud of this paper showing how plants couple vesicle delivery and phragmoplast expansion during division. This project started in the lab of the great and late Ian Moore, and it was a joy to finish it with @liamelliottplants.bsky.social et al! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A Rab/Kinesin-12/kinase module couples vesicle delivery and phragmoplast dynamics during plant cell cytokinesis - The EMBO Journal
Cytokinesis is a key process in the development of multicellular organisms, through both formative and proliferative divisions. In land plants, successful cytokinesis requires precise targeting of Gol...
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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#Microscopyfriday Phytophthora palmivora (in yellow) and Nicotiana benthamiana chloroplasts (in magenta, autofluorescence).
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]
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Nathan German @nathan-german.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
What is an edge? Why is this geometrical domain so crucial during plant morphogenesis? Read our review, co-written with Antoine Chevalier and @ckirchhelle.bsky.social to find out! authors.elsevier.com/c/1nAnf4tPF4...
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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When you open the (previously AI-free) research software you use every day and there is a mandatory update that is supposed to be their "biggest upgrade ever" 🧪
a meme of a person looking nervously around, completely soaked in sweat trickling down their face
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José Dinneny @josedinneny.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
So proud to share our latest publication @CellCellPress! Yue Rui reveals that the same enzyme that makes the wall, cellulose synthase complex (CESA), also tethers the plasma membrane to the wall during water-deficit stress, providing resilience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Marion Clavel @thevirusmc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Our work is out now! (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). We discover a selective autophagy pathway that protects plants from the mess caused by RNA viruses. Intrigued? Follow the spaghetti trail for a summary of our findings🧵-->
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Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection
RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...
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