Auxin accumulation in cereals after infection by Fusarium graminearum: putative biosynthetic pathways and preferences - Stress Biology Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is a major naturally occurring auxin that shows extensive accumulation in cereal plants during the first few days of infection by the phytopathogen Fusarium graminearum. Apa...

Auxin accumulation in cereals after infection by Fusarium graminearum: putative biosynthetic pathways and preferences

Huanzhang Shang, Bo Ji ... Xiulin Chen, Kun Luo

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#PlantImmunity #Effectors #Fusarium #Auxin

#JJC2026 @jmaidment.bsky.social (@phimresearch.bsky.social) on structural characterisation of the interactions between #Magnaporthe oryzae MAX #effectors and their #virulence targets in #rice

Big thank you to @cbsmwa.bsky.social for letting me waffle on about my work on Pf2 and it's role in effector regulation! #effectors #CBSMWA #CBSM @theccdm.bsky.social @karchuntan.bsky.social

Happy to announce #Effectidor II, which uses #machine_learning to predict #T3SS #effectors in #pan_genomes. Thanks a lot to Naama Wagner, Tal Pupko & all the other collaborators! We hope you will find it useful for your research.
Web server: effectidor.tau.ac.il
Publication: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

Polymorphic residues in rice NLRs expand binding and response to effectors of the blast pathogen - Nature Plants NLR immune receptors recognize pathogen effectors and activate a response that leads to resistance. The specific interactions between five rice receptor variants and their cognate effectors are studie...

The structural basis of the arms race between a blast effector and a rice immune receptor (2018)
#Immunity #Effectors #BlastOFF

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Excited to be at #ECFG17! If you’re here, stop by my poster to chat about immune suppression by Zymoseptoria tritici effectors. Looking forward to great discussions! #PlantPathology #Zymo #Effectors

Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is essential for life, and plant cells monitor Pi availability by sensing inositol pyrophosphate (PP-InsP) levels. In this work, we describe the hijacking of plant phosphate s...

🍾Big Congratulations to my dear colleague Uli Schaffrath
@rwth.bsky.social and collaborators!
Beautiful work showing that plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantSci #effectors #immunity #MolPlantPhys

A human gut bacterium antagonizes neighboring bacteria by altering their protein-folding ability Antagonism shapes microbiomes. Lim et al. identify a mechanism used by human gut commensals to antagonize related bacteria. The secreted effector Bte1 alters the protein-folding machinery of targeted ...

Interesting study: human gut microbes alter the protein-folding capacity of neighboring cells by targeting their chaperone complex (useful implications for manipulating community dynamics) #microbiology #effectors #microbiome ➡️ www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Bacterial survival, top marks for maths and a mystery solved: News from Imperial | Imperial News | Imperial College London From the crossbow-like tactics used by bacteria, to top marks for homework and a research mystery solved, here is some quick-read news from Imperial.

Latest out from the lab. Amazing amounts of #diversity in #T6SS #effectors #pseudomonas
@imperialnhli.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/260613/...

www.evolbio.mpg.de/3804447/same...

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Left panel shows a circular phylogeny with different clusters highlighted by different colors. The highlighted clusters are: Gamma-crystallin-like, Ribotoxin/ribonuclease, Match to Zymoseptoria effector 8acx, CFEM-like, NTF2/SnoaL-like, Thaumatin-like, Lectin-like, Match to Trichoderma effector Tsp1. Right panel shows structural models of two proteins from the lichen aligned to the models of two effectors (one from Zymoseptoria, one from Trichoderma) that are quite similar.

In the lichen secretome, we identified a large group of KP4-like proteins, many symbiosis-upregulated. These and other secreted proteins are similar to known #effectors from plant pathogens, suggesting that similar mechanisms are used in lichen symbioses 5/7

In the lichen secretome, we identified a large group of KP4-like proteins, many symbiosis-upregulated. These and some other secreted proteins are similar to known #effectors from plant pathogens, suggesting that similar mechanisms are used in lichen symbioses 5/7

Dear colleagues! A 2-year postdoctoral position is available in our team @INRAE_Bioger to work on ‘Molecular functions and cellular processes targeted by effectors from a plant pathogenic fungus’.Please RT. #PlantSciJobs #Effectors

www6.versailles-grignon.inrae.fr/bioger/Actuali…