Publications

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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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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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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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The host range paradox of Meloidogyne incognita: a physiological and transcriptomic analysis of nine susceptible interactions across six plant orders

Date: 29 September 2025

Contributors: Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Clement Pellegrin, Vincent C.T. Hanlon, Chongjing Xia, Olaf P. Kranse, Unnati Sonawala, Priya Desikan, Beatrice Senatori, Etienne G.J. Danchin, Lida Derevnina, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

Journal: bioRxiv

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The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity

Date: 7 August 2023

Contributors: Chih-hang Wu, Lida Derevnina

Journal: Current Opinion in Plant Biology

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Resurrection of plant disease resistance proteins via helper NLR bioengineering

Date: 3 May 2023

Contributors: Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Muniyandi Selvaraj, AmirAli Toghani, David M Lawson, Yasin Tumtas, Cian Duggan, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Clare E M Stevenson, Adeline Harant, Abbas Maqbool, Chih-Hang Wu, Tolga O Bozkurt, Sophien Kamoun, Lida Derevnina

Journal: Science Advances

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Sensor NLR immune proteins activate oligomerization of their NRC helpers in response to plant pathogens

Date: 1 March 2023

Contributors: Mauricio P Contreras, Hsuan Pai, Yasin Tumtas, Cian Duggan, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Angel Vergara Cruces, Jiorgos Kourelis, Hee-Kyung Ahn, Kim-Teng Lee, Chih-Hang Wu, Tolga O Bozkurt, Lida Derevnina, Sophien Kamoun

Journal: The EMBO Journal