Reposted by Sabrina Gauthier
New preprint from @s-gauthier.bsky.social and @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social in collaboration with the labs of Xuifang Xin, @gittacoaker.bsky.social and Laurent Noël
Water immunity:
Yesterday's preprint: Dampness is a DAMP...
today's: ...but it also dampens defense
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
biorxiv.org
Extracellular water withdrawal drives disease resistance in the phyllosphere
A central question in immunity is how hosts arrest pathogen growth. Diverse plant pathogens create a water-soaked niche in host tissue essential for pathogenesis, yet how water shapes infection outcom...