A misleading paper in @ScienceMagazine just came out talking about how a single gene can increase rice yield by 41-68%. As a (wanna-be) plant breeder, I’m here to tell you why this study is misleading, and we can’t “solve” yield through single genes 🧵
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The receptor-like cytosolic kinase RIPK activates NADP-malic enzyme 2 to generate NADPH for fueling the ROS production|Molecular Plant| https://t.co/ljR6dy2o1R
Here it is: freshly printed PhD thesis of @Jinbin_Wu on the role of SOBIR1 in plant immunity, supervised by #WU_PHYTO Matthieu Joosten, to be defended in public on 3 Feb 16:00 hr @WURplant@EPSGradSchool
Another cool story on plant immunity! Glycosidase and glycan polymorphism control hydrolytic release of immunogenic flagellin peptides https://t.co/BR3sgpGiz9
Excited our phosphoproteomics analyses of NLR activation is out! A great collaborative effort with @KenShirasu, @Thomas_Liebrand, @Yasu0407, @Frank_Menke & more. Also check out the commentary by @Kenichi_Tsuda and Hiroaki Adachi. https://t.co/fuWL5ZUDbp
New Phytol: Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis reveals common regulatory mechanisms between effector‐ and PAMP‐triggered immunity in plants. Well done Yasu and Thomas! https://t.co/joXplHPCwA
Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis reveals common regulatory mechanisms between effector‐ and PAMP‐triggered immunity in plants. https://t.co/2yAAy9bKPh
Very excited our work on SIK1 and plant immunity is out! Great work from Meixiang Zhang, Yi-Hsuan Chiang, @TYToruno, DongHyuk Lee and collaborations with Jian-Min Zhou, Dinesh-Kumar, Katie Dehesh, @MSUDayLab. https://t.co/Rj78Nh0oFZ
Very proud of our first paper on bacterial effector function in citrus Huanglongbing! https://t.co/IbGNtdAo6k
Great collaborations with @GittaCoaker, Nian Wang, Veronica Ancona and Renier van der Hoorn!