New preprint out! We studied the unstable sex determination system in a tuber crop, white Guinea yam🌱
White Guinea yam has a ZZ/ZW sex determination system: ZZ individuals are consistently male, whereas ZW individuals can be female, male, or monoecious.
https://t.co/QelAoUagJ8
Inspiring overview of how to generate novel forms of wheat and rice blast resistance through understanding effector-NLR interactions from Ryohei Terauchi - here quoting Haldane's far-sighted comments on immunity #PPATH2026
Super excited to share our latest work! We cloned Rwt3.6.8, a novel wheat NLR/MLKL resistance gene pair that recognizes three distinct AVR effectors (PWT3, PWT6, and PWT8) from the blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae.
https://t.co/3UQwq2gnmE
#Blast#Wheat#KFP#phytopathogenetics
From #TSLSummer2015@TheSainsburyLab to leading a delegation of Early Career Scientists from Japan 🇯🇵
Welcome back Aki @HiroakiAdachi3 and thank you for your dedication to mentorship 🙏
Briefly, we found that the barley immune receptor MLA3 confers resistance to the blast fungus by setting a cheeky trap! It poses as a pathogen effector host target by mimicking its binding interface to trip the wire and activate immunity.
https://t.co/upUEwVf3Fy
Super excited to share our work on a broad-host-range strain AS109 that enables efficient transient expression across diverse plant species, opening new opportunities for both fundamental and translational plant research. @Freddie_King00@Tolga_Bzkrt@lderevnina
Join us on March 10, 2026 at Kyoto University 🇯🇵 for a day celebrating my long-time friend and collaborator Prof. Ryohei Terauchi @ryoheiterauchi
"Kyoto Mini-Symposium on Plant–Microbe Interactions"
Excited to share our new paper available on bioRxiv!
We cloned Rmo2 and Rwt7, genes for resistance to the blast fungus, from barley and wheat. Both genes are orthologs encoding TKPs with an integrated N-terminal HMA domain.
https://t.co/0hJHYF5wEN
#Blast#TKPs#Barley#Wheat
The Pik NLR pair does more than just wait for activation!
Adding to the known modes of action for NLR proteins: from monomer/dimer to a novel pre-activation heterocomplex 🤜🤛
Get the full mechanism in our new preprint!
Get a First Look 🔍: "STT3A Is Required for Recognition of Pathogen-Derived Sphingolipids in Arabidopsis," by Seowon Choi et al. https://t.co/2LpiYWaqIG