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gbdraw: a genome diagram generator for microbes and organelles biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Reduced nutritional quality of plants due to climate change biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_plants

Coevolution of plant–microbe interactions, friend–foe continuum, and microbiome engineering for a sustainable future April featured review article from #MolecularPlant (@MPlantPCom) hubs.li/Q049Pm_v0

The forest service does lots of things, but they're the frontline in fighting wildfires. There is literally no issue Republicans aren't maximally evil on. You cannot hate them enough.

thrilled to share our joint work on the amplification of virulence in tan spot & ToxB @GourlieRyan @McdonaldMeganc @hafez_mnm answering to 25+ yrs old Q on multicopy virulence gene | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.109…

Microbial single-cell omics in situ cell.com/cell-genomics/…

Our @newphyt article made the High-Impact Research Collection: Top 10 Most Read of 2025 Meta-analysis: globally sourced commercial mycorrhizal inoculants often fall short nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Spatial organization of plant defense at the infection front biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_plants

In lieu of an Easter message, I guess.

Excited to share our #MethodsMolBiol paper on LC-MS-based quantification of plant immune signals salicylic acid, pipecolic acid & N-hydroxyPip! This was an excellent collaboration with Lingya and Xiufang. Thanks to @SMukhtarlab for editing this volume! link.springer.com/protocol/10.10…

The SAG101–NRG1 branch of TIR signaling activates phenylalanine-derived SA biosynthesis in Nicotiana benthamiana onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ji… ♻️

Broomrapes of the World, published by Kew, out now. Years of fieldwork, collaboration, observation and passion went into these 600 pages. We hope it will inspire others to enjoy these beautiful plants:

BacDoc: A database-driven assisted platform for media prediction and microbial profiling sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We sequenced the genome of 'desert ginseng' (Cistanche deserticola)- a leafless parasitic plant that gave up photosynthesis & found it lost huge chunks of its own genome…but started stealing genes from its host! dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70… Thanks collaborators Prof Huang + team👏🏻

Formation and maintenance of genome gigantism dlvr.it/TRkvqg

New paper in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment- Integration of Nanobubble Technology With Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Enhances Both Host and Herbivore Traits in Cotton‐Tarnished Plant Bug System - George et al from @UArkansas @USDA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sa…

Thermosensory reconfiguration of the auxin transcriptional pathway to drive root cell growth nature.com/articles/s4146…

In back-to-back papers, our lab and the Casal lab tackle the question: How does temperature reshape auxin-driven growth? Together, we reveal that temperature directly rewires ARF behavior. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Exciting to see the Integrated Decoy Model —pioneered in @jonathandgjones' lab (Sarris et al., Cell 2015)—now identified in Shigella flexneri. A major step forward in understanding conserved mechanisms in animal-microbe interactions! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A fungal effector targets the chloroplast to support biotrophy by balancing disease and plant health biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_plants