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📣NEW DISCOVERY: Plant immune receptors can evolve by mimicking effector targets & that insight enables us to engineer a disease-resistance gene that can recognise two major crop pathogens 🌾
www.tsl.ac.uk/news/plants-...
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Effector recognition by molecular mimicry of its target by an NLR - enabling multiple disease resistance specificities to be generated- first seen on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social - great work led by @dianagdlc.bsky.social and Matt Moscou
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
These efforts support further exploration of these wheat landraces, strengthening national plant health systems
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This is particularly vital in Bhutan, where the National Plant Protection Centre in collaboration with JIC have just generated the first genomic data for Bhutanese wheat landraces
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Our researchers have had an incredible, productive time at the Wheat Genomics and Bioinformatics Training Workshop at the National Plant Protection Centre, Bhutan 🌾
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Supported by @cimmyt.bsky.social, this workshop provided participants with knowledge and skills important for characterizing genetic resources and identifying disease-resistance traits
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Great team effort from @mjbanfield.bsky.social lab, Matt Moscou lab and my lab, plus all the support teams @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and USDA-Minnesota
