Research Project: Enhancing Crop Resilience to Biotic and Abiotic Stress Through Understanding the Microbiome and Immune Signaling Mechanisms

Location: Plant Gene Expression Center

Publications (Clicking on the reprint icon will take you to the publication reprint.)

Clathrin light chains negatively regulate plant immunity by highjacking the autophagy pathway - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Lan, H., Ran, J., Wang, W., Zhang, L., Wu, N., Zhao, Y., Huang, M., Ni, M., Liu, F., Cheng, N., Nakata, P.A., Pan, J., Whitham, S.A., Baker, B.J., Liu, J. 2024. Clathrin light chains negatively regulate plant immunity by highjacking the autophagy pathway. Plant Communications. 5. Article 100937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2024.100937.

Phylogenetic distribution and experimental characterization of corrinoid production and dependence in soil bacterial isolates - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Alvarez-Aponte, Z., Govindaraju, A., Hallberg, Z., Nicolas, A., Green, M., Mok, K.C., Fonseca-Garcia, C., Coleman-Derr, D.A., Brodie, E.L., Carlson, H.K., Taga, M.E. 2024. Phylogenetic distribution and experimental characterization of corrinoid production and dependence in soil bacterial isolates. Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Article wrae068. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae068.

Molecular dissection of the pseudokinase ZED1 expands effector recognition to the tomato immune receptor ZAR1 - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Diplock, N., Baudin, M., Xiang, D., Liang, L., Dai, W., Murphy, J.M., Lucet, I.L., Hassan, J.A., Lewis, J.D. 2024. Molecular dissection of the pseudokinase ZED1 expands effector recognition to the tomato immune receptor ZAR1. Plant Physiology. Article kiae268. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae268.

Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Zhao, Q., Bertolli, S., Park, Y., Tan, Y., Cutler, K., Srivivas, P., Asfahl, K., Garcia, C.F., Gallagher, L., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Coleman-Derr, D.A., DiMaio, F., Zhang, F., Peterson, S.B., Veesler, D., Mougous, J.D. 2024. Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species. Nature. 629:165–173. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07298-z.

High-quality assembled and annotated genomes of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana benthamiana reveal chromosome evolution and changes in defense arsenals - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Wang, J., Zhang, Q., Tung, J., Zhang, X., Liu, D., Deng, Y., Tian, Z., Chen, H., Wang, T., Yin, W., Li, B., Lai, Z., Dinesh-Kumar, S.P., Baker, B.J., Li, F. 2024. High-quality assembled and annotated genomes of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana benthamiana reveal chromosome evolution and changes in defense arsenals. Molecular Plant. 17(3):423-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2024.01.008.

Conserved transcription factors NRZ1 and NRM1 regulate NLR receptor-mediated immunity - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Zhang, Q., Wang, J., Li, Y., Tung, J., Deng, Y., Baker, B.J., Dinesh-Kumar, S.P., Li, F. 2024. Conserved transcription factors NRZ1 and NRM1 regulate NLR receptor-mediated immunity. Plant Physiology. 195(1):832-849. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae054.

Sorghum bicolor INDETERMINATE1 is a conserved primary regulator of flowering - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
De Riseis, S., Chen, J., Xin, Z., Harmon, F.G. 2023. Sorghum bicolor INDETERMINATE1 is a conserved primary regulator of flowering. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. Article 1304822. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1304822.

Drought shifts sorghum root metabolite and microbiome profiles and enriches for pipecolic acid - (Peer Reviewed Journal)
Caddell, D.F., Pettinga, D., Louie, K., Bowen, B.P., Sievert, J.A., Hollingsworth, J., Rubanowitz, R., Dahlberg, J., Purdom, E., Northen, T., Coleman-Derr, D.A. 2023. Drought shifts sorghum root metabolite and microbiome profiles and enriches for pipecolic acid. Phytobiomes Journal. 7(4):449-463. https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-02-23-0011-R.