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With wonderful colleagues, talking about plants walking through the beautiful greenhouses @thebotanics.bsky.social! couldn't ask for a better Away day @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A stage-resolved map of dynamic septin interactions required for infection by the rice blast fungus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.02.716073v1
Last week, to celebrate Prof. Andrew Hudson’s new Emeritus status, members of @instmolplantsci.bsky.social competed in a friendly cricket match: the Snapdragons 🌸 vs. the Tomatoes 🍅. The Snapdragons, fittingly Andrew’s team, were determined to be the best model system of the match!
Check out our latest pre-print on the evolution of TIR activity/signalling: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Hee-Kyung Ahn
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TIRs are key regulators of plant immunity, but the role of conserved TIR-only proteins has remained unclear.
Here, we compare TIR-only proteins from Arabidopsis and barley and show that they share a conserved role in plant immunity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences (SBS) - U. of Edinburgh
