🌾 💥 In this #OpenAccess report, Wang et al. reveal the roles of OsMAPKKK72 in #rice blast resistance and uncover a mechanism by which AvrPib suppresses blast resistance by interfering with #MAPK activation.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70072
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A TALE of two OsWRKY TFs!
Im et al. report that #transcription activator-like effectors of Xanthomonas oryzae hijack host transcriptional #regulation through OsWRKYs to create a favorable #environment for #bacterial survival.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13940
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#PlantSci #JIPB #botany #MPMI

First reading is this #MPMI paper from 2008––since it's historical, not bad to cite an older paper, plus it's #OpenAccess (thank goodness since I don't have any library access). https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10.1094/MPMI-21-8-1015

A short intro for #sciencemastodon migrants and pioneers. I’ve worked in #cropscience for the last decade and until very recently ran an impact-focussed multidisciplinary lab working in the area of #mpmi - mostly pathogens with some work on symbionts. Some offshoots in the area of modelling and microbial fermentation. Always trying to make biology more quantitative. I was at NIAB (Cambridge and East Malling), but recently moved to #wageningen to be their MD of Plant Sciences which is great!