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Yasuhiro Kadota

@yasukadota.bsky.social
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Senior Research Scientist @ RIKEN CSRS Plant Immunity Research Group. I study how plants recognize pathogens and rapidly induce immune responses. scholar.google.com/citations?user=n…

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great to see our former #ECR Budding Editors doing so well in their independent careers! 🤩 Revisit Anuphon's earlier Commentary here: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
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Wound-Induced Rooting in Plants—A big BIG ROle Emerges for Calcium and Auxin
As a graduate student, I would root a supermarket-bought basil plant in water to propagate it in order to satisfy my herb-craving needs. In fact, many plan
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🌱🧬 Three structural studies reveal how receptor NUT reads a disulfide-locked cyclic SCREW peptide and recruits BAK1. The cyclic region, not the C-terminus, forms the co-receptor interface—a distinct recognition mode for LRR-RKs. #plantscience @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How SCREW finds its NUT - Nature Plants
Three complementary structural studies show how the plant receptor NUT perceives a disulfide-locked loop in SCREW phytocytokines and recruits a SERK co-receptor. These studies reveal a distinct mode o...
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Prof. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am proud to share my No-AI-assisted perspective review "Plant Peptide Hormones: Three Decades of Discovery and Emerging Paradigms" for the Centennial issue of @plantphys.bsky.social 🌱🍅. It's OA, so everyone can access! 1/ academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
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Akifumi Sugiyama @akisug.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy to share that our collaborative work with Aoki and Shirasu Labs on the tomato rhizosphere has been published! Model-guided design of defined microbial community reveals interactions underpinning plant growth and stress tolerance academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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Model-guided design of defined microbial community reveals interactions underpinning plant growth and stress tolerance
Abstract. Defined microbial communities (DMCs; also known as SynComs) offer a promising strategy to enhance plant growth and stress tolerance by harnessing
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Jack Rhodes @jackrhodes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Diverse phytocytokines derived from conserved subtilase scaffolds co-evolved with clustered receptors to confer defence responses in legumes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Diverse phytocytokines derived from conserved subtilase scaffolds co-evolved with clustered receptors to confer defence responses in legumes - Nature Plants
This study identifies SubPEP variants in soybean that confer tissue-specific immunity via GmSubPEP Receptors. Their precursor genes and receptor genes are colocalized in genomic clusters, revealing th...
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Keiko Sugimoto @keikosugimoto.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New publication from the lab! Winter cold doesn't just make plants flower. Long cold also primes them to regenerate🌱❄️. We show cold-induced CBFs recruit HAG1 to switch on key regeneration genes like WOX5. Many congrats to @fu-yu-h.bsky.social! www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at ANU to help strengthen Australia's preparedness for wheat blast. The project spans plant pathology, genetics, breeding and biosecurity, with collaborators in Australia and Brazil. Apply here: tinyurl.com/25zcj9yy #PlantScience #Postdoc #Biosecurity
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full-Time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) Note: This position will be primarily based at the N...
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The receptor kinase NILR1 confers nematode resistance through developmental rather than canonical immune signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The receptor kinase NILR1 confers nematode resistance through developmental rather than canonical immune signaling
### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
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Lin-Jie Shu @linjieshu.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A new "LORE" paper is out from Ranf lab at TUM in Germany and University of Fribourg in Switzerland: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fatty acid-sensing receptors were previously only described in Arabidopsis. Do they function the same way in other plants?
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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CARD1 cryo structure now on Nature Comm. Well done, Nobu and Anu! rdcu.be/fjrIq
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New review out! This might be the most up-to-date textbook on plant surface receptors and signaling. Great job, @brunongou.bsky.social ! dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
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Plant cell surface receptors
Plant cell surface receptors have evolved to perceive peptides, proteins, glycans, lipids, and small molecules through diverse ectodomains, integrating these inputs into distinct physiological output...
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Thomas Spallek @thomas-spallek.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Big news from our lab: we can now stably edit the genome of a parasitic plant! Transgene-free, genome-edited P. japonicum in one generation! This will transform how we study #parasiticplants and other hard-to-transform plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We have published a methods paper describing how to identify cell surface receptor complexes by immunoprecipitation and map their phosphorylation sites. We hope this protocol will be useful to the community. link.springer.com/protocol/10....
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Identification of Phosphorylation and Protein Interactions of Plant Pattern Recognition Receptors Through Immunoprecipitation
Plasma membrane-localized pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) play a crucial role in detecting pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). Among them, leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptor-like kina...
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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岡山県などの特許技術をつかった微生物農薬 2026年春に販売予定(KSB瀬戸内海放送) - Yahoo!ニュース
岡山県が民間企業と共同開発した特許技術を使った微生物農薬が販売されることになりました。
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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A guide to designing cell-surface receptors in plants
Cell-surface receptors perceive environmental cues and trigger appropriate responses. In plants, these receptors comprise ectodomain, juxta-membrane, …
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Well done, Bruno!!!
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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植物の“センサー”を探る研究者が目指すもの
2025年9月に科学雑誌『Science』に発表された、植物の免疫受容体「SCORE」の発見。SCOREは85%以上の細菌やカビ、昆虫に共通する「低温ショックタンパク質(CSP)」を検知し、免疫反応を誘導します。
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
And we’re off with Professor Cecile Segonzac opening Stromlo meeting! #strompath25
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
And next up we have @yichangsung.bsky.social from @gittacoaker.bsky.social lab talking about tandem kinases … #strompath25
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Privileged to have @yasukadota.bsky.social present at the Stromlo conference on the SCORE receptors … brilliant story. #strompath25
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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Pomelo on tatami as the cover of RIKEN Research www.riken.jp/medialibrary...
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs (Science) @shirasulab.bsky.social @brunongou.bsky.social @yasukadota.bsky.social @BrunoNgou (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/JlJKjJE #PlantaePSRW
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Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs | Plantae
Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are abundant genes that have diversified and expanded throughout plant evolution, with most plants having hundreds or more RLKs. In this exciting new paper, Ngou et al.
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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants
Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.
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I’m in love with modern moonlight @lively.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
this research is potentially also interesting to botanical industries (herbalist, food, cosmetics, cannabis, etc.) and maybe even to pharma, because a lot of the botanically derived extracts those industries use come from plant immune systems and their structure and function against pathogens.
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs plantae.org/discovery-an...
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Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs | Plantae
Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are abundant genes that have diversified and expanded throughout plant evolution, with most plants having hundreds or more RLKs. In this exciting new paper, Ngou et al.
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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
BIK1-RIN4 complex links plant immunity and pathogen virulence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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BIK1-RIN4 complex links plant immunity and pathogen virulence
Plants deploy receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCKs) and the immune hub protein RIN4 to coordinate PAMPs-triggered immunity (PTI). Here, we show that BIK1, but not its close homolog PBL1, dynamical...
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
理研、植物が病原体からの「危険サイン」を検知するセンサーの役割を持つ免疫受容体をさまざまな種から探索する方法を開発 - 日本経済新聞 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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理研、植物が病原体からの「危険サイン」を検知するセンサーの役割を持つ免疫受容体をさまざまな種から探索する方法を開発 - 日本経済新聞
【プレスリリース】発表日:2025年09月05日病原体を見分ける植物のセンサーをデザイン―免疫受容体を人工設計し新たな病原体の認識を可能に―【概要】理化学研究所(理研)環境資源科学研究センター植物免疫研究グループの白須賢グループディレクター(環境資源科学研究センター副センター長)、ブルーノ・ポクマン・ゴウ基礎科学特別研究員、門田康弘専任研究員らの国際共同研究グループは、植物が病原体から
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Game-changing biotech for engineering pathogen-resistant crops | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Game-changing biotech for engineering pathogen-resistant crops
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have identified an ancient protein, which they have named SCORE, that has the potential to help defend plants against t...
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病原体を見分ける植物のセンサーをデザイン | 理化学研究所 www.riken.jp/press/2025/2...
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Excited to announce that our latest paper has just been published in Science! ttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx2508
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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants
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...
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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
With this approach, we aim to characterize more PRRs against different pathogens & pests in the future.
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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I am very grateful to Michele & Marc, Takehiro & Dohmae-san, Markus, @yasukadota.bsky.social & @shirasulab.bsky.social for their support. Also big thanks to the reviewers and editors for improving our manuscript!
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Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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
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UCDavisPlants @ucdavisplants.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🌱 From Nature Plants: Phosphorylation of NLR immune receptors by a cell wall–associated kinase limits resistosome assembly, fine-tuning plant immune responses. (Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar) ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantBiology #PlantScience
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A cell wall-associated kinase phosphorylates NLR immune receptor to negatively regulate resistosome formation - Nature Plants
The discovery of the resistosome was a milestone in plant immunity. Here, Zhong et al. identify a kinase that phosphorylates the NLR, and reveal how this kinase regulates resistosome assembly to fine-...
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Keiko Sugimoto @keikosugimoto.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Our new work uncovering how WIND1 promotes somatic embryogenesis as a bifunctional chromatic regulator!!!! We knew WIND1 promotes new fate acquisition and now we show WIND1 also helps repressing existing identity!
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Conor McClune @cmcclune.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A truly enabling new approach by @taralowensohn.bsky.social Will Cody and @sattelylab.bsky.social to probe plant genetics at scale. Single-gene-per-cell delivery coupled to an effective transcriptional selection system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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植物は「危険サイン」で寄生線虫を察知 糸状菌や昆虫も同じ仕組みで認識か 理研×農研機構×JST
理化学研究所(理研)環境資源科学研究センター植物免疫研究グループの白須賢グループディレクター(環境資源科学研究センター副センター長)、門田康弘専任研究員、飯野絵里香研修生(研究当時)、農研機構植物防疫研究部門基盤防除技術研究領域の植原健人研究領域長らの国際共同研究グループは、植物が植物寄生線虫のような動物型の病原体を分子レベルで認識する仕組みを初めて明らかにした。
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Yukihisa Goto @yukihisag.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Chitin Soil Amendment Triggers Systemic Plant Disease Resistance Through Enhanced Pattern‐Triggered Immunity - Makechemu - Plant Biotechnology Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Chitin Soil Amendment Triggers Systemic Plant Disease Resistance Through Enhanced Pattern‐Triggered Immunity
Chitin triggers localised and systemic plant immune responses, making it a promising treatment for sustainable disease resistance. However, the precise molecular mechanisms underlying chitin-induced ...
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Exciting preprint! CryoEM structure of plant ROS & quinone receptor CARD1 (also known as HPCA1) reveals it is a copper dependent redox sensor (and cys residues not essential). CARD1 is a member of LRR-RLK clade VIII-1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A copper-dependent, redox-based hydrogen peroxide perception in plants
Redox-related molecules, such as quinones and reactive oxygen species (ROS), are important signaling molecules for all living organisms. A plant-specific leucine rich-repeat receptor-like kinase (LRR-...
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
植物が寄生線虫や昆虫を認識するメカニズムを解明しました! 植物は“危険サイン”により寄生線虫を察知する www.riken.jp/press/2025/2...
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植物は“危険サイン”により寄生線虫を察知する
理研らの国際共同研究グループは、植物が植物寄生線虫のような動物型の病原体を分子レベルで認識する仕組みを初めて明らかにしました。
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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🎉 Our new paper is out in Science Advances! Plants can detect parasitic nematodes. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Hiro Nakagami @grandpahiro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Here comes the final version. Congratulations Erika, Yasu, Ken, and all others involved! @yasukadota.bsky.social @shirasulab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A trehalase-derived MAMP triggers LecRK-V–mediated immune responses in Arabidopsis
Trehalase-derived peptides trigger LecRK-V-mediated plant immunity, potentially enabling broad detection of pathogenic organisms.
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering - Nature Plants
Receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope of bacterial flagellin. Here the authors identify key residues on FLS2’s concave surface that enable expanded perception of flg22 variants, allowing the ...
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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Cryo structure of CARD1 from N. benthamiana transiently produced protein.
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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Our new work lead by Anuphon. Cryo Structure of CARD1 reveals copper in the ecodomain, required for sensing H202. The phenotype of card1 is same as rbohd, suggesting ROS produced by RBOHD is sensed by CARD1.
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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
BTW, he is not my PhD student.
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Kenichi Tsuda @kenichitsuda.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I'm very happy that this paper is now published in PNAS! Isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis appears to have emerged in the Brassicales after the divergence of C. papaya, likely within the timeframe between the divergence of B. maritima and R. odorata. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Emergence of isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis within Brassicales | PNAS
Salicylic acid (SA) is a major defense phytohormone. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the isochorismate (IC) pathway is the primary route for pathogen-indu...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Songyuan Zhang - what can we learn from natural variation that can inform receptor engineering? Combined observed sequence variation with AlphaFold3 prediction to model and engineer the pattern recognition receptor FLS2, and then the pathogen peptide agonist flg22. #2025ISMPMI
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