In MBE: North American Arabidopsis
Multiple Sources of Introduction of North American Arabidopsis thaliana from across Eurasia
Gautam Shirsekar et al., Molecular Biology and Evolution, published September 9, 2021
Large-scale movement of organisms across their habitable range, or migration, is an important evolutionary process … Read the rest
In Nature: collaborative paper on immunity
The EDS1–PAD4–ADR1 node mediates Arabidopsis pattern-triggered immunity
Rory N. Pruitt et al., Nature 598, 495–499 (2021)
Plants deploy cell-surface and intracellular leucine rich-repeat domain (LRR) immune receptors to detect pathogens1. LRR receptor kinases and LRR receptor proteins at the plasma … Read the rest
In eLife: How to measure microbial load and community
Host-associated microbe PCR (hamPCR) enables convenient measurement of both microbial load and community composition
Derek S Lundberg et al., eLife 10:e66186 (2021)
The ratio of microbial population size relative to the amount of host tissue, or ‘microbial load’, is a … Read the rest
