Maxim Prokchorchik

Lecturer in Plant Pathology at the University of Sydney. Interested in all aspects of plant-microbe interactions. Former @UniBonn, @postech2020, @MasseyUni.

[Chih-Hang Wu @AdamWu9527]

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

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

Roger Innes is a legend in our plant-microbe interactions field. make sure to join 👇🏼

[Heisler Lab @heisler_lab]

Please re-circulate. New postdoc position available to study organ positioning in the flower at the University of Sydney. Cell polarity, auxin etc etc! Join our multidisciplinary RESYDE (https://t.co/N5lMQrAfng) team! Apply here: https://t.co/5ZvkT5twPd

[Rafa Morcillo @MorcilloRafa]

Really happy and excited to share our new paper on how plants perceive bacterial quorum sensing signals and activate a multilayered immune response 🌱🦠

Link here: https://t.co/RoOHmsFaql

[Molecular Cell @MolecularCell]

Online Now: A phosphorelay circuit drives extracellular alkalinization in receptor kinase-mediated immune and cell-wall damage signaling https://t.co/nN8iRMzguf

[Edel Pérez-López @Edel_PLopez]

🚨 New from the lab!

In this preprint, we show how the clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae uses a PBS3-like effector (PbGH3) to hijack plant hormone signalling and reshape root development during infection 👏

We found that PbGH3 acts as a structural and functional mimic of the immune enzyme AtPBS3 (GH3.12), evidence of the evolutionary relationship between the clubroot pathogen and Brassicas 🥦

This study is now under review 🤞

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

kallisto sped up RNA-seq quantification by 50x. Now another 50x speedup... quantify hundreds of millions of reads in a few seconds.

This seems too good to be true. But it's true!
Incredible accomplishment by @pmelsted.

[Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture @PCTOCjournal]

Agrobacterium strain, promoter of selection marker gene, medium for co-cultivation and regeneration, and culture vessel were important for efficient transformation in carnation

https://t.co/BAr21jwbJC

[🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk]

OrthoSNAP v1.6.0 is out. If you process large phylogenomic datasets, this release is built for your workflow.

- bootstrap-aware consensus subgrouping:
- --bootstrap-trees
- --consensus-min-frequency
- --consensus-trees
- --resume for interrupted or repeat analyses (1/2)

[Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture @PCTOCjournal]

Localized vacuum agroinfiltration: expanding transient gene expression to large woody perennials

https://t.co/VMFATqRrZo

[Plant Cell Reports @PlantCellRep]

NEW ONLINE: MdNF-YB14, an apple NF-Y transcription factor, acts as a positive regulator of drought tolerance https://t.co/h1oGK9gz3k

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Letter: "High-efficiency, transgene-free plant genome editing by viral delivery of an engineered TnpB" https://t.co/DRGVLQh0wP

Viral vectors to deliver engineered smaller RNA-guided endonucleases eTnpBc, achieving high levels of somatic and heritable editing in plants.

[Ming "Tommy" Tang @tangming2005]

Want to master bioinformatics data visualization? Learn ggplot2! 🧵👇

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Letter: "New alleles of Arabidopsis BIK1 reinforce its predominant role in PTI and caution interpretations of other reported functions" https://t.co/J463P6iOBI

Summary: be careful with legacy T-DNA mutants.

[On the importance of BIKs in science, including @MicrobiomDigest]

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New OA Resource: "Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity" https://t.co/ws1TxHX41Z

...define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.

[Chris LB Graham @ChrisLBGraham]

We finally released a little coevolution pipeline, so you can add coevolution to predicted structures. With this you can understand more how proteins may genetically interact, as heteromers, homomers or hypothetical networks (or perhaps not) https://t.co/20LWdjO2mh

[Satoshi Kawato 川戸 智 @KawatoSatoshi]

Visualizing pairwise genome comparisons? No need to run BLAST separately anymore! 🧬
​#gbdraw has implemented #LOSAT, a WASM-powered Rust reimplementation of BLASTN/TBLASTX.
​✅ No local installation
✅ No data transfer (Serverless)
​Try it here: https://t.co/ahqoRxbDHT

[Maxim Prokchorchik @MaximProhorchik]

I am happy to share that I am starting a Lecturer position at the University of Sydney @Sydney_Uni. Looking forward to contributing to outstanding teaching and great research happening at our School of Life and Environmental Sciences @SydneySOLES.

[MPMI Journal @MPMIjournal]

Just Published: "The TALE PthA4 of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri Indirectly Activates an Expansin Gene CsEXP2 and an Endoglucanase CsEG1 via CsLOB1 to Cause Citrus Canker Symptoms," by @RikkyRai2 and @NWangUF. Learn more: https://t.co/El3VC5RSyT

[Mohammed AlQuraishi @MoAlQuraishi]

OpenFold3-preview (OF3p) is out: a sneak peek of our AF3-based structure prediction model. Our aim for OF3 is full AF3-parity for every modality. We now believe we have a clear path towards this goal and are releasing OF3p to enable building in the OF3 ecosystem. More👇