J. Bose

Shifted levels of sleep and activity under darkness as mechanisms underlying ectoparasite resistance

This study shows that mite-resistant Drosophila melanogaster lines exhibit reduced sleep, increased activity, and metabolic gene expression, but decreased starvation resistance under darkness.

Heritability and pre-adult survivorship costs of ectoparasite resistance in the naturally occurring Drosophila-Gamasodes mite system

This study shows that ectoparasite resistance in Drosophila can be selectively improved, but comes with a cost in pre-adult survivorship under stress.

The wheat multi-pathogen resistance gene, Lr67res, confers a novel gain-of-function phenotype involving anion fluxes

The paper identifies a gain-of-function in the wheat Lr67res protein variant, associated with anion fluxes, which contributes to multi-pathogen resistance.

Zoom in on Ca2+ pattern and ion flux dynamics to decode spatial and temporal regulation of cotton fiber growth

The paper uses confocal imaging and ion flux measurements to show that cotton fiber growth is diffusive, not tip growth, and responds to H2O2 with increased ion efflux.

A single nucleotide substitution in TaHKT1;5-D controls shoot Na+ accumulation in bread wheat

The paper identifies a single nucleotide substitution in TaHKT1;5-D that causes high shoot Na+ accumulation in a salt-tolerant wheat landrace without affecting its salinity tolerance.

GmSALT3 confers shoot Na+ and Cl- exclusion in soybean via two distinct processes.

This study identifies GmSALT3 as a functional ion transporter in soybean that improves salt tolerance by enabling root-based Na+ xylem exclusion and shoot-based Cl- exclusion via phloem recirculation.