Publications

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A transcription factor-pair work in concert to regulate gene expression across the life cycle of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Date: 29 June 2026

Contributors: Madalena Mendonça, Anika Damm, Chongjing Xia, Cláudia S. L. Vicente, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Margarida Espada

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4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs

Date: 24 June 2026

Contributors: Min-Yao Jhu, Jo Heffer, Chongjing Xia, Thiago Alexandre Moraes, Claire M. Mulvey, Dario Bressan, Chen Liu, Jin-Peng Gao, Philip Poole, Katharina Schiessl, Giles E. D. Oldroyd

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Antagonistic action of a nuclear hormone receptor pair coordinates a switch from lytic to biotrophic effector production in a plant-parasitic nematode

Date: 12 June 2026

Contributors: Anika Damm, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Anna Dickinson, Priya Desikan, Alexis L. Sperling, George Harpum, Paul Brett, Beth Molloy, Clement Pellegrin, Chongjing Xia, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

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Better late than never: the impact of hatching time on Heterodera schachtii parasitism

Date: 2 June 2026

Contributors: Mason Rugen-Hankey, Priya Desikan, George Harpum, Chongjing Xia, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Unnati Sonawala, Lida Derevnina, Beth Molloy, Anika Damm, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

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Cross-kingdom communication between plants and parasitic nematodes

Date: 14 May 2026

Contributors: Christopher A. Bell, Lida Derevnina, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: New Phytologist Foundation

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Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution

Date: 11 May 2026

Contributors: Tania Chancellor, Gabriel Ferreras Garrucho, Garo Z. Akmakjian, Héctor Montero, Sarah Bowden, Matthew S. Hope, Emma Wallington, Samik Bhattacharya, Christian Korfhage, Julia Bailey-Serres, Uta Paszkowski

Journal: The Plant Cell

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Symbiotic phosphate transporter dynamics in rice expose functional plasticity of the arbuscules

Date: 22 April 2026

Contributors: Jennifer McGaley, Martina Orvošová, Ben Schneider, Chai Hao Chiu, Ronelle Roth, Sarah Bowden, Matthew S. Hope, Jayne L. Davis, Warda Khalif, Emma J. Wallington, Uta Paszkowski

Journal: Nature Communications

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Strand-seq and the future of personalized genomics

Date: 25 March 2026

Contributors: Vincent C. T. Hanlon, Peter M. Lansdorp

Journal: Nature Genetics

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Virus-mediated, heritable gene editing in groundcherry (Physalis grisea)

Date: 20 March 2026

Contributors: Redeat Tibebu, Evan E. Ellison, Sydney R. Winecke, Lynn E. Prichard, Nick Klejeski, Lilee I. Donahue, Jon P. Cody, Can Baysal, Colby G. Starker, Joyce Van Eck, Daniel F. Voytas

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Sciences

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Gibberellin biosynthesis in Lotus japonicus regulates arbuscule distribution, but not overall colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Date: 20 March 2026

Contributors: Edwin Jarratt-Barnham, Giles E. D. Oldroyd

Journal: Frontiers in Plant Science

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Virus-induced gene editing of stomatal regulators in Nicotiana benthamiana enables rapid functional genomics

Date: 20 March 2026

Contributors: Redeat Tibebu, Maria Elena Gamo, Evan E. Ellison, Erik A. Myers, Rishika Sahoo, Sydney R. Winecke, Grace D. Tan, James M. Fischer, Andrew D. B. Leakey, Daniel F. Voytas

Journal: The Plant Journal

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Secret Weapons in Aphid Saliva: Discovery of a Novel Chitinase-Like Effector Family

Date: 28 February 2026

Contributors: Sandra V. Gomez-Gutierrez, Unnati Sonawala

Journal: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

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An NSP2-MYB module orchestrates flavonoid biosynthesis and nodule symbiosis

Date: 23 February 2026

Contributors: Jin-Peng Gao, Chongjing Xia, Chai Hao Chiu, Qingchao Chen, Suyu Jiang, Xiaotian Wu, Wenjie Liang, Jongho Sun, Min-Yao Jhu, Jiangqi Wen, Ertao Wang, Jeremy D. Murray, Giles E.D. Oldroyd

Journal: Current Biology

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The Five Senses: How Do Plant Pathogens Know They Found Their Host?

Date: 9 February 2026

Contributors: Rachel Hammond, Anna Dickinson, Anika Damm, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

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The Five Senses: How Do Plant Pathogens Know They Found Their Host?

Date: 9 February 2026

Contributors: Rachel Hammond, Anna Dickinson, Anika Damm, and Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

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Shared Shapes, Shared Signals: Structural Similarity Underlies Both Multimerization and NLR Recognition of a Powdery Mildew Effector Family

Date: 8 January 2026

Contributors: Unnati Sonawala

Journal: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

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Hidden gradients before form: a spatial transcriptomic atlas of wheat spike patterning

Date: 1 January 2026

Contributors: Min-Yao Jhu, Travis A Lee

Journal: The Plant Cell

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CDCA7 facilitates MET1-mediated CG DNA methylation maintenance in centromeric heterochromatin via linker histone H1

Date: 10 December 2025

Contributors: Shuya Wang, Tong Li, Matthew Naish, Russell Chuang, Evan K. Lin, Christian Fonkalsrud, Yan He, Suhua Feng, Ian R. Henderson, Steven E. Jacobsen

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America