Recently expanded clonal lineages of the rice blast fungus display distinct patterns of presence/absence of effector genes. bioRxiv preprint Jan 13, 2020 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.09.900308
Genomic rearrangements generate hypervariable mini-chromosomes in host-specific lineages of the blast fungus. bioRxiv preprint Jan 11, 2020 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.10.901983
Cleavage of a pathogen apoplastic protein by plant subtilases activates immunity. bioRxiv preprint Dec 17, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.16.878272
An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species. eLife 2019;8:e49956 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.49956
NRC4 gene cluster is not essential for bacterial flagellin-triggered immunity. Plant Physiol. 2019 Nov 11. pii: pp.00859.2019. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00859.
Protein engineering expands the effector recognition profile of a rice NLR immune receptor. Elife. 2019 Sep 19;8. pii: e47713. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47713.
N-terminal β-strand underpins biochemical specialization of an ATG8 isoform. PLoS Biol. 2019 Jul 22;17(7):e3000373. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000373.
Cross-reactivity of a rice NLR immune receptor to distinct effectors from the rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae provides partial disease resistance. J Biol Chem. 2019 Jul 11. pii: jbc.RA119.007730. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007730.
A CRISPR/Cas9 mediated 53 kb deletion of the NRC4 gene cluster of tomato does not affect bacterial flagellin-triggered immunity. bioRxiv preprint Jul 10, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/697425
An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species. bioRxiv preprint Jul 04, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/693291