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.
Qun Liu
Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624400v1
Aphids are small insects that have developed specialized mouthparts and unique proteins to establish