Nanne Taks

Hydathodes at the forefront of plant immunity against vascular pathogens Hydathodes are tiny plant organs that form an interface between the leaf surface and xylem vasculature. They facilitate excretion of xylem fluid under…

We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research.

📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our paper in PLOS Pathogens!

This work adds to the limited understanding we have on immunity in specialized plant organs like hydathodes.

Big thanks to everyone involved at the University of Amsterdam!

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Evolution of a vascular plant pathogen is associated with the loss of CRISPR-Cas and an increase in genome plasticity and virulence genes Paauw et al. report on the evolution of a plant pathogenic Xanthomonas pathovar and show that the gain of mobile genetic elements and virulence factors coincided with the loss of the CRISPR-Cas genome...

➡️ New insights into the evolution of the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris involving the genome defense system CRISPR-Cas! www.cell.com/current-biol... Our data wizard 🪄@mpaauw.bsky.social sequenced almost 100 genomes and this is what he found … /

Non‐Invasive, Bioluminescence‐Based Visualisation and Quantification of Bacterial Infections in Arabidopsis Over Time Development of a non-invasive high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to visualise and quantify progression of bioluminescent bacterial pathogens in Arabidopsis rosettes over time.

Lighten up your life! We built a “darkbox” with a CCD camera to image bacterial infections across entire trays of Arabidopsis plants. Our technical advance with Python image analysis pipeline out now! @havandenburg.bsky.social @nwtaks.bsky.social bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...