Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

This study investigates how high pH stress affects garden pea transcriptomes and microbiomes, identifying key gene expression changes and microbial shifts that contribute to stress resilience.

This study examines the interactions between Nostoc and Agrobacterium under carbon limitation, revealing competition for iron and mutualistic dependency for carbon.

This study identifies diazotrophs in sorghum aerial root mucilage that supply 40% of the plant's nitrogen, offering a sustainable alternative to synthetic fertilizers.

This study identifies two distinct signalling modules in Arabidopsis that mediate different aspects of effector-triggered immunity, with implications for improving disease resistance in crops.

The paper compares small secreted peptide (SSP) signaling in vascular and non-vascular plants during infection, identifying differentially expressed families and validating their roles in immune response and growth.

The paper identifies a ubiquitination-deubiquitination cycle regulating the stability and function of the paired NLR receptor complex RRS1/RPS4 in Arabidopsis.

The paper characterizes endophytic bacterial communities in alpine Rosaceae plants and identifies psychrotolerant isolates that improve freezing stress tolerance in strawberries.

This study shows that CDP-DAG synthases in Arabidopsis regulate plant growth and disease resistance by modulating PA metabolism and immune signaling pathways.

This study investigates elicitor-specific defence priming in oak seedlings against powdery mildew, identifying distinct molecular responses to salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, and BABA.

This study shows that reducing nutrients increases beneficial bacteria in tomato roots, improving growth through microbial interactions.

This study shows that immune signaling induced by plant TIR domains is thermostable, while full-length TNLs are not, highlighting the importance of TIR domains in maintaining immune responses under elevated temperatures.

This study uses MYCroplanters to identify how host, microbiota, and pathogen factors interact to influence host health in an Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas system.

This study shows that nitrogen availability influences BcPNL1-mediated pectin degradation in Arabidopsis, increasing susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea through jasmonic acid repressor gene expression.

This study identifies early miRNA expression changes in Arabidopsis infected with Fusarium graminearum, including novel miRNAs with potential for improving fungal resistance.

This study examines seed endophytic microbiomes of malting barley from different locations, finding that host genotype, location, and their interactions shape microbial communities and are associated with malt quality traits.

This study investigates the localization and interaction of the wheat NLR protein PM3b with its effector AVRPM3b2/c2, revealing distinct sub-cellular localization and interaction dynamics compared to other NLRs.

The paper examines how seed banking affects the composition and function of seed microbiomes, finding reduced diversity and beneficial traits in stored seeds compared to fresh ones.

Cold exposure temporarily boosts Arabidopsis resistance to Botrytis cinerea through ROS regulation and cell wall changes.

The paper investigates how soil microbes influence plant plasticity under stress and suggests they may affect the evolution of plant traits.

The paper identifies diverse RNA species on Arabidopsis leaf surfaces that are distinct from apoplastic RNA and may influence microbial communities.

This study shows specialists are more affected by community complexity than generalists in Arabidopsis leaf microbiota.

The paper shows that PPFMs use MtpA chemoreceptors and FliC flagellins for methanol-driven movement, enabling their spatial colonization on plant surfaces.

This study identifies a multispecies inoculum that enhances wheat growth under drought by directly promoting plant growth traits and indirectly altering root-associated microbial communities.

The paper shows that natural changes in the plant microbiome enhance plant tolerance to land-use changes by affecting phenotype and performance, outperforming direct environmental manipulations.

The paper investigates how Arabidopsis distinguishes between plant growth promoting and pathogenic bacteria, showing CYP71A27 plays a regulatory signaling role rather than a metabolic one in this process.

This study constructs a bacterial wilt-suppressive synthetic community in tomato that reduces disease under axenic and soil conditions by enhancing plant defense mechanisms.

The paper identifies STT3A as a gene required for recognizing pathogen-derived sphingolipids in Arabidopsis, showing its role in plant immunity through post-translational modifications.

This study identifies Pantoea as a core endophytic bacterium vertically transmitted through wheat seeds, demonstrating its intergenerational transfer and specificity.

This paper develops a high-throughput method to assess biofertilizer persistence in synthetic soil communities and evaluates its ecological impact on native microbial consortia.

The paper identifies a key residue in barley Mla NLR genes that enables effector binding through in vitro shuffling and yeast-two-hybrid screening.