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Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina (2025)
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Tagirdzhanova, G., Scharnagl, K., Sahu, N., Yan, X., Bucknell, A., Bentham, A. R., Jégousse, C., Ament-Velásquez, S. L., Onuț-Brännström, I., Johannesson, H., MacLean, D., & Talbot, N. J. (2025). Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina. Current Biology, 35(4), 799-817.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.041

Lichens are composite, symbiotic associations of fungi, algae, and bacteria that result in large, anatomically complex organisms adapted to many of the world's most challenging environments. How such intricate, self-replicating lichen architectures d... Read More about Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina.

Bioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface toward a conserved fungal pathogen effector (2024)
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Zdrzałek, R., Xi, Y., Langner, T., Bentham, A. R., Petit-Houdenot, Y., De la Concepcion, J. C., Harant, A., Shimizu, M., Were, V., Talbot, N. J., Terauchi, R., Kamoun, S., & Banfield, M. J. (2024). Bioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface toward a conserved fungal pathogen effector. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(28), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2402872121

Bioengineering of plant immune receptors has emerged as a key strategy for generating novel disease resistance traits to counteract the expanding threat of plant pathogens to global food security. However, current approaches are limited by rapid evol... Read More about Bioengineering a plant NLR immune receptor with a robust binding interface toward a conserved fungal pathogen effector.

The WY Domain of an RxLr Effector Drives Interactions with a Host Target Phosphatase to Mimic Host Regulatory Proteins and Promote Phytophthora infestans Infection (2024)
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Bentham, A. R., Wang, W., Trusch, F., Varden, F. A., Birch, P. R. J., & Banfield, M. J. (2024). The WY Domain of an RxLr Effector Drives Interactions with a Host Target Phosphatase to Mimic Host Regulatory Proteins and Promote Phytophthora infestans Infection. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 37(3), 239-249. https://doi.org/10.1094/mpmi-08-23-0118-fi

Pathways to engineering plant intracellular NLR immune receptors (2023)
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Zdrzałek, R., Stone, C., De la Concepcion, J. C., Banfield, M. J., & Bentham, A. R. (2023). Pathways to engineering plant intracellular NLR immune receptors. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 74, 102380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102380

Accelerated gene evolution is a hallmark of pathogen adaptation and specialization following host-jumps. However, the molecular processes associated with adaptive evolution between host-specific lineages of a multihost plant pathogen remain poorly un... Read More about Pathways to engineering plant intracellular NLR immune receptors.