Aphid Saliva fans, happy news, this amazing story is now out in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... congrats @qunliu07.bsky.social @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social et al @johninnescentre.bsky.social 24h after a triumphant presentation at #ismpmi2025
Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.
We're happy to present a pre-print from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social), describing how a family of proteases in aphid oral secretions suppress plant immunity.
Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624400v1
Qun Liu
Aphids are small insects that have developed specialized mouthparts and unique proteins to establish
