Charles Copeland

A fungal root endophyte functionally complements host immunity and mitigates natural immune variation in Arabidopsis Beneficial root-associated microbes can enhance plant resilience by complementing aspects of host immunity. The fungal root endophyte Serendipita indica (Si) is known to promote plant growth and confe...

A fungal root endophyte functionally complements host immunity and mitigates natural immune variation in Arabidopsis

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Potential and challenges for application of microbiomes in agriculture Abstract. The plant microbiome can promote plant health and productivity through a multitude of mechanisms. Our understanding of plant–microbiome interacti

Our review article on the "Potential and challenges for application of microbiomes in agriculture" is published
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨

Microbial drivers of root plasticity
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(🧵 1/6) Plant roots have evolved mechanisms to adjust their development within the highly heterogeneous soil matrix, integrating local environmental conditions into their endogenous developmental programs.

I’m writing now, so hopefully a paper soon! And at least a preprint

MetaFlowTrain : A Highly-Parallelized and Modular Fluidic System. YouTube video by Guillaume Chesneau

🚨Excited to share our new publication! MetaFlowTrain, a highly parallelized and modular fluidic system to study exometabolite interactions between microbes-microbes-plants 🌱
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Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana hosts diverse microbial communities collectively known as the microbiota. The plant microbiota is generally taxonomically structured. Some of the members can promo...

‼️we are pleased to share the first work coming from my lab on biorxiv.

Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota Nature Plants - The authors show that immunosuppression is highly conserved in the bacterial order Xanthomonadales. This feature, which preceded their specialization as host-adapted pathogens,...

Congratulations to Jana Ordon and all coauthors!!! Our new study is published in @natureplants.bsky.social
"Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota" (0/n)
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Check out our new study! We show that Arabidopsis uses the EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 node to trigger rapid yet contained cell death. Key finding: NRG1C variant regulates this process by competing with functional NRG1s. Amazing collaboration between Jijie Chai and Parker Labs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...