Harrold van den Burg

Preprint in which we identify a novel R gene in Arabidopsis against Xanthomonas and show that it restricts initial bacterial proliferation in the hydathodes, the bacterial entry point, rather than vascular immunity.

Elicitin recognition confers enhanced resistance to Phytophthora infestans in potato nature.com/articles/nplan… ♻️

A plant virus manipulates both its host plant and the insect that facilitates its transmission. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A highly efficient and environmentally friendly strategy to obtain transgene-free genome-edited progeny in flowering plants #correspondence #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plan…

New Article: "A cell wall-associated kinase phosphorylates NLR immune receptor to negatively regulate resistosome formation" rdcu.be/eeRhG A kinase that phosphorylates the NLR, and how this kinase regulates resistosome assembly to fine-tune immune responses.

#TansleyInsight Unlocking the potential of genome editing in agriculture with tissue culture-free techniques Hu and Liu 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

🥒Selective degradation of cucumber mosaic virus RNA3 by nonsense-­mediated decay benefits viral early infection: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Potato type I protease inhibitor mediates host defence against potato virus X infection by interacting with the viral RNA silencing suppressor P25: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Structure determinants of DANGEROUS MIX 3, an alpha/beta hydrolase, for triggering NLR-mediated genetic incompatibility in plants @EunyoungChae biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

nature.com/articles/s4158… "Balanced plant helper NLR activation by a modified host protein complex" Fine tuning of immune responses

💡🎇Technical advance: bioluminescence-based visualisation and quantification of bacterial infections in Arabidopsis: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Hey plant/microbe science world!🌱 We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate in the Green Life Sciences in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Are you interested in plant microbiomes and how they help alleviate stress? Apply here👇 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p… @SILS_UvA @MiCRop_research

Tissue culture-free gene editing breaks transformation bottleneck. Simpler, faster, avoids somaclonal variation. #CropImprovement #GeneEditing @OxfordJournals Details:doi.org/10.1093/hr/uha…

A common immune response node in diverse plants | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

"A type II secreted subtilase from commensal rhizobacteria cleaves immune elicitor peptides and suppresses flg22-induced immune activation" cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Please check our latest paper on using @GoogleDeepMind AlphaFold 3 to study NLR immune receptors. Here we use AI-guided structural modelling to distinguish between sensor and helper NLRs! 👇🧵 (1/10) #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Our latest paper @cellhostmicrobe, @sfb_1403, @ceplas_1 is online: "A nucleoside signal generated by a fungal endophyte regulates host cell death and promotes root colonization". Many thanks to @armadill0guy and the fantastic team of scientists involved. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#Turnip mosaic #virus selectively subverts a PR-5 thaumatin-like, plasmodesmal protein to promote viral #infection He et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

New Article: "The complete genome assembly of Nicotiana benthamiana reveals the genetic and epigenetic landscape of centromeres" rdcu.be/d0h6Q ...revealing the structure, epigenetic landscape and evolutionary dynamics of its centromeres following allotetraploidization.

A single phosphorylatable amino acid residue is essential for the recognition of multiple potyviral HCPro effectors by potato Nytbr: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Have you ever seen Arabidopsis lighting up like a Christmas tree🎄? – it’s always the right season for this! Try our new imaging setup to follow bioluminescent bacteria💡inside plants over time. Great work by our group @NanneTaks @HAvandenBurgLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…