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🔥Super excited to share our latest work out now in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… This paper describes the discovery of "glycosyrin" a small molecule produced by the bacterial pathogen P. syringae to manipulate glycobiology inside host plants during infection.🧵1/20

New paper out in PNASNews by lab member Yongxing Cui et al. w/ Dr. Jim Elser, PhD 🇺🇸, ManuDelgadoBaquerizo & many others 🍾🧪 Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We are delighted to announce that TSL group leader, Professor Wenbo Ma Dr. Wenbo Ma, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This honour celebrates her groundbreaking research in molecular plant pathology.

We are proud to continue our journey of scientific excellence with CEPLAS! Thank you to everyone who was involved in the preparation and evaluation.

Sleep hormone keeps fruits and veggies fresh much longer Leafy vegetables and fruits are start to go bad pretty quickly, unless they’re kept cold. That’s a big reason why roughly 30% of our food ends up wasted and thrown in the garbage to rot. earth.com/news/microneed…

The PR1-derived CAPE1 peptide confers resistance in tomato to Ralstonia solanacearum, the causing agent of bacterial wilt. Check our new publication academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

A synthetic biosensor for tracking rice strigolactone signaling Li et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

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Davide Bulgarelli opened Day 2 of #Rhizosphere6 with a great plenary talk, highlighting how domestication and plant breeding shape the rhizosphere microbiota — and how these insights translate from lab to field. 🌱

Now online! Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms dlvr.it/TLR195

We are excited to share our new story with you! We show how losing a binding domain can flip an antimicrobial effector into a host immune suppressor, highlighting functional specialization across the saprotrophy–symbiosis spectrum. Read more: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today is my first day as an Assistant Professor NTU Singapore NTU School of Biological Sciences, after ten rewarding years working with my wonderful mentors Nick Talbot Dr. Wenbo Ma and colleagues The Sainsbury Laboratory

I’m excited to share our latest preprint on the cell biology of plant hypersensitive cell death! 🌱💥 We used live-cell imaging to unravel what happens after resistosome activation—one of the least understood phases of plant immune responses. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

An effluent pump family distributed across plant commensal bacteria conditions host- and organ-specific glucosinolate detoxification nature.com/articles/s4146…

Generalizability of machine learning models for plant traits using hyperspectral reflectance data: The case of maize biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants

New online! Coordinated action by individuals orchestrates infection through the division of labour nature.com/articles/s4157…

A truly inspiring day at the Host-Microbe Interactions mini symposium at Max Planck Tübingen Grateful to witness engaging talks from MPI, ZMBP, and IPMB scientists Thorsten Langner KaWaiMa@lab

I'm very happy that this paper is now published in PNAS! Isochorismate-based SA 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. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…