Muhammad MH

For anyone interested in the history of molecular biology, I cannot recommend Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation highly enough. One of the great book on the history of science.

I have two copies because a actually wore out the first one (paperback)

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Fortifying the frontier: cell wall modifications during plant immunity The plant cell wall (CW) was long thought to be a rigid barrier encasing the plant cell and protecting it against biotic and abiotic stressors. Differ…

Recently, I read a nice mini review on cell wall modifications during plant immunity — there are some really interesting open questions in this area!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Periodic Table of Monosaccharides!

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#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

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Happy to have contributed to the discovery of the role of the GELP53 gene in plant cell wall remodeling and defense. Congratulations to all the contributors, and thanks to Dr. Aline Voxeur for including me.

14.08.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An insightful review shedding light on the differences and commonalities among diverse cell wall types.

10.07.2025 11:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fig. 2.Schematic representation of the main components of plant cell walls. Minimal representative structures are shown according to the most accepted models. Suspended dots indicate the continuation of the pattern. Monosaccharides, monolignols, and other possible constituents are included in the box on the right.

🧬🌿 DARWIN REVIEW 🧬🌿

🧱 Fuertes-Rabanal et al. compare the cell surfaces of plant, algae, and microbial cells, known as cell walls, which, despite being different, also share designs and functionalities 🧱

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#PlantScience 🧪

09.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹

Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT

01.05.2025 18:05 — 👍 91    🔁 32    💬 0    📌 10

A wheat tandem kinase activates an NLR to trigger immunity The role of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptors in plant immunity is well studied, but the function of a class of tandem kinases (TKs) that confer disease resistance in wheat and ba...

2 papers in @science.org this week uncover wheat tandem kinase function. Working in parallel, the authors of each paper show that two different tandem kinases converge to activate the same NLR!
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30.03.2025 15:18 — 👍 53    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0

New OA Letter: "Septoria tritici blotch resistance gene Stb15 encodes a lectin receptor-like kinase" rdcu.be/ed0YU

The 3 Stb genes, effective against different pathogen isolates, encode diverse RLKs with extracellular domains potentially involved in sugar binding.

18.03.2025 10:31 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

The plant immune system: From discovery to deployment Plant diseases significantly impact human and environmental health. This review encompasses the last 50 years of research in the plant immune system, an overview of the pathogen virulence proteins, an...

And here is a link to a recent review of the field by these three giants of plant immunity www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

10.03.2025 17:04 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

An interesting review!

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