CDK8 coordinates jasmonate-induced immunity with sulfur-responsive defense in Arabidopsis www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

CDK8 coordinates jasmonate-induced immunity with sulfur-responsive defense in Arabidopsis | PNAS

Plant immunity draws heavily on carbon-, nitrogen-, and sulfur-based precursors for the deployment of specialized defense compounds. The jasmonate ...

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Dual role of the receptor kinase FERONIA in regulating tissue mechanics and growth | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dual role of the receptor kinase FERONIA in regulating tissue mechanics and growth

The receptor kinase FERONIA mediates a double feedback from tissue mechanics on growth rate.

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AI-redesigned starting points and outcomes enhance protein evolution @nature.com @nicholaskrasnow.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI-redesigned starting points and outcomes enhance protein evolution - Nature

A workflow using artificial intelligence-redesigned starting points to evolve enzymes with improved properties compared with those evolved from natural proteins is established.

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AlphaFold3 predictions of the molecular contacts made by a genome-editing enzyme have been used to improve the enzyme’s selectivity for target DNA sequences @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Outstanding talk by @laurierbiology.bsky.social colleague Prof. Jenn Baltzer on post-wildfire dynamics and the unexpected twist involving a deadly fungal pathogen! Excellent session chaired by Prof. @plantdrlauren.bsky.social. #PlantBio2026 @cspbscbv.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Had the most fun I think I’ve ever had in a concurrent session at #PlantBio2026 today. It was truly a privilege to chair a session on wildfire ecology & smoke biology with the most incredible group of speakers. Together we told the story of fire from the field to the cell 🔥 @cspbscbv.bsky.social

👏 👏 👏 thank you for continuing to be an amazing advocate for plant biology research & training @danvec.bsky.social

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It was our great pleasure to meet with the Philippine Ambassador to Canada (His Excellency Jose Victor Chan-Gonzaga) this morning! Quick side trip while attending #PlantBio2026. Hoping for increased 🇨🇦🇵🇭 research partnerships in the coming years! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

It was our great pleasure to meet with the Philippine Ambassador to Canada (His Excellency Jose Victor Chan-Gonzaga) this morning! Quick side trip while attending #PlantBio2026. Hoping for increased 🇨🇦🇵🇭 research partnerships in the coming years! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Don't miss TODAY the concurrent session at 3.45 pm at the #PlantBio2026 You have the opportunity to engage with cool plant science and plant scientists 🌱 @cspbscbv.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Happening now: Calcium Transporters: Gatekeeps of Environmental Responses in Plants! Featuring talks by: Jian Hua, Myriam Charpentier, Alex Costa, Keiko Yoshioka, and Jian Hua. #PlantBio2026 #PlantScience

Happening now: Biotic: Plant Defense at Host Interfaces: Integrating Environmental Microbe Interactions! Featuring talks by: Sebastian Schornack, Tamar V. Av-Shalom, Veronika Berkova, Hannah McMillan, and Mark Belmonte. #PlantBio2026 #PlantScience

#plantbio2026 the 3 min thesis competition was fantastic. The science, the clarity, the enthusiasm. All four presenters are winners in science communication. 🎉 i encourage @aspbofficial.bsky.social to make this a permanent part of the annual meeting. #nextgenscientists #scicomm

Catch up with our lab's students Vanessa (#300-063) at 5:30 PM and @rossichristina.bsky.social (#700-044) at 6:15 PM during the 2nd #PlantBio2026 Poster Session today! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social 🌱🦠🧬

Happening now: Biotic: Plant Immunity Receptors, Signals, and Subcellular Programming! Featuring talks by: Jean T. Greenberg, Christian Danve M. Castroverde, Philip Carella, Janani Kalaivani Sivakumar, and Sara Shakir. #PlantBio2026 #PlantScience

Session features talk by: Jean T. Greenberg, Christian Danve M. Castroverde, Philip Carella, Janani Kalaivani Sivakumar, and Sara Shakir The University of Chicago | Wilfrid Laurier University | John Innes Centre | Koc University | INRAE, University of Bordeaux

📣#PlantBio2026 daily highlight: Biotic: Plant Immunity Receptors, Signals, and Subcellular Programming Concurrent Session!🌱 plantbiology2026.eventscribe.net/index.asp #plantscience #plantsci

Check out the #PlantBio2026 posters of Vanessa (#300-063) and @rossichristina.bsky.social (#700-044) to learn more about current research projects in our lab! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues! 🌿😻🧬

A cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase–like scaffold organizes monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase–like scaffold organizes monoterpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis

Biosynthesis of ~3,000 monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs), including the anticancer drug vinblastine, involves the highly unstable intermediate strictosidine aglycone. Its formation by strictosidin...

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Our AI-guided design of RNA-guided nucleases is now out in @science.org 💻🧬 We used structure and evolutionary data to generate minimal, active and divergent gene editors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to @petrskopintsev.bsky.social @isabelesain.bsky.social @evandeturk.bsky.social & team!

Structure and evolution-guided design of minimal RNA-guided nucleases

The design of RNA-guided nucleases with properties not limited by evolution can expand programmable genome-editing capabilities. However, generating diverse multidomain proteins with robust enzymatic ...

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Plant roots can sense and grow away from decaying plant material through a newly described response called saprotropism, which is triggered by pH changes during decomposition! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CAMTA5 suppresses blossom-end rot in tomato by regulating the expression of the functional CBP60A variant academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

CAMTA5 suppresses blossom-end rot in tomato by regulating the expression of the functional CBP60A variant

Abstract. Low-calcium (Ca) stress induces blossom-end rot (BER), a physiological disorder that seriously reduces the yield and quality of tomato (Solanum l

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Canonical ETI‐Dependent and ‐Independent Pathways Mediate Autoimmunity Caused by Loss of CBP60b Clade Function - Li - 2026 - Molecular Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Canonical ETI‐Dependent and ‐Independent Pathways Mediate Autoimmunity Caused by Loss of CBP60b Clade Function

A CBP60g point mutant (CBP60gD252N) with reduced transcriptional activity rescues the autoimmunity of the cbp60b mutant. Introducing CBP60gD252N in the cbp60b;c;d;e;f mutant background fails to compl...

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Nature research paper: Universal cell embedding provides a foundation model for cell biology go.nature.com/3T4PJGX

Universal cell embedding provides a foundation model for cell biology - Nature

The universal cell embedding foundation model learns to capture the organization and variation of cells by training on 36 million cells from hundreds of experiments, dozens of tissues and eight species.

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Dynamic Patterns of Nuclear Transcription Factor Abundance in Plant Basal Immunity Revealed by Spatial Proteomics of Arabidopsis Nuclei www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dynamic Patterns of Nuclear Transcription Factor Abundance in Plant Basal Immunity Revealed by Spatial Proteomics of Arabidopsis Nuclei

### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 400681449/GRK2498, 514901783/CRC1664 Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, http...

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Selective autophagy promotes bacterial immunity under warming through NBR1-dependent regulation of ABI5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Selective autophagy promotes bacterial immunity under warming through NBR1-dependent regulation of ABI5

Elevated temperatures compromise plant immunity and increase susceptibility to bacterial pathogens through extensive reprogramming of hormone signaling pathways. Although autophagy contributes to both...

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bZIP54 (GBF2)-SARD1 module regulates salicylic acid–mediated resistance to Pst DC3000 in Arabidopsis academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

The bZIP54 (GBF2)-SARD1 module regulates salicylic acid–mediated resistance to Pst DC3000 in Arabidopsis

The transcription factor bZIP54 directly activates SYSTEM ACQUIRED RESISTANCE DEFICIENT 1 to form a module that coordinates salicylic acid-mediated defense

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Surface immune signaling unlocks NLR activation through mRNA alternative splicing www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Surface immune signaling unlocks NLR activation through mRNA alternative splicing

Plants activate pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) to combat pathogens. However, how these systems coordinate immune activation while preventing autoimmunity remain...

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Heat-triggered phospholipid flipping stabilizes plasma membrane fluidity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heat-triggered phospholipid flipping stabilizes plasma membrane fluidity - Nature

In rice, the P4-ATPase complex OsALA5–OsALIS2 rapidly stabilizes membrane fluidity in response to high temperature by flipping saturated phosphatidylcholines to the cytosolic leaflet of the plasma mem...

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Lariat RNA debranching prevents harmful siRNA burst in plants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lariat RNA debranching prevents harmful siRNA burst in plants

Lariat RNAs are formed from introns during pre–messenger RNA splicing, after which they are degraded by the debranching enzyme DBR1. Impairment of DBR1 leads to developmental arrest, yet the mechanism...

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Antibiotics stimulate protein transfer to persister cells | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Antibiotics stimulate protein transfer to persister cells

The exchange of biological matter between bacterial cells drives adaptation and evolution. However, whether bacteria can exchange functional proteins remains unclear. In this work, we found that antib...

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