M. Vickers

A Necrotizing Toxin Promotes Pseudomonas syringae Infection Across Evolutionarily Divergent Plant Lineages

This study identifies syringomycin as a key necrotizing toxin that enables Pseudomonas syringae to infect diverse plant lineages, including non-flowering species.

Gene expression profile of the developing endosperm in durum wheat provides insight into starch biosynthesis

The paper generates a transcriptomics dataset of developing durum wheat endosperm to study starch biosynthesis and provides insights into gene expression patterns during grain development.

The N-terminal executioner domains of NLR immune receptors are functionally conserved across major plant lineages

A histone variant condenses flowering plant sperm via chromatin phase separation

This study identifies H2B.8 as a histone variant that mediates chromatin condensation in flowering plant sperm through phase separation, enabling nuclear compaction without transcriptional inhibition.

The Development of a Novel Nanobody Therapeutic for SARS-CoV-2

This paper develops a potent, low-cost nanobody therapeutic, Nanosota-1C-Fc, that effectively blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro and in vivo with high affinity and stability.

Natural depletion of H1 in sex cells causes DNA demethylation, heterochromatin decondensation and transposon activation

The paper shows that H1 depletion in Arabidopsis thaliana vegetative cells allows DNA demethylation and transposon activation through DEMETER access.

Sexual lineage specific DNA methylation regulates Arabidopsis meiosis

This study identifies sexual lineage-specific DNA methylation in Arabidopsis that regulates meiosis by controlling gene expression through RNA-directed DNA methylation.