Title slide of Thomas Kroj's (INRAE Plant Health Institute Montpellier) presentation. The title is "Insight into the molecular dialogue between plants and pathogenic fungi from the investigation of rice blast disease".
The background shows fungal mycelia in turquoise fluorescence, the outline of plant cells can be seen in magenta. At the interface of the two, fungal hyphae growing into a plant cell can be seen in yellow.
A slide with the title "The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae - a multihost and polyspecialist pathogen". Below are images of several plants, including Oryza rice, Wheat triticum, Oat avena, Setaria foxtail millet, Barley hordeum, Bromus, but also Ryegrass Lollium. Since the latter, Ryegrass, is the main grass used for soccer pitch turf, this image doesn't show the grass itself, but soccer players from the Team 1. FC Köln, apparently celebrating a goal or victory.
Yesterday we had Thomas Kroj here for our regular #PlantScience Lecture. Fantastic talk on his teams recent advances in understanding the effector-repertoire of #Magnaporthe oryzae, as well as NLR-design work. Can you spot the tribute to the Town he started his PhD in on slide 2? 🙂
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