Shaokang Zhang
@ShaokangZhang4
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PhD candidate | Plant Virology @aafc_Canada @WesternU | he/him
London, Ontario, Canada
Joined April 2021
Collection: Plants!!! Browse our collection of recent reviews and articles on how microbes influence plant health, acting positively through beneficial interactions or negatively by causing disease. https://t.co/aerhG1y8rU
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Nature research paper: Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants https://t.co/pJAZLHieVb
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Nature - Cleavage by pathogen-derived proteases of an engineered chimeric protein activates its plant immune receptor component, enabling broad-spectrum resistance to pathogens in plants.
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H2O2-driven plant immunity requires post-translational modification as a switch https://t.co/FkGw4BQJj3
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Here is some exciting progress on HLB published by Science by the team of Dr. Jian Ye from Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. https://t.co/LsBjj9CoDU
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Now online! A natural variant of COOL1 gene enhances cold tolerance for high-latitude adaptation in maize
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📢 Applications now open! New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 #npnextgen 4–7 August 2025 @unibirmingham, UK Applications close on 27 January 2025. Early career researchers – apply now! 👇 https://t.co/Vbvp150Vy2
@wileyplantsci @BIFoRUoB
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Online now: The plant signal peptide CLE7 induces plant defense response against viral infection in Nicotiana benthamiana
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Such a wonderful journey at ASV 2024 @AmerSocVirol in Columbus, Ohio. Heading back to Toronto! Look forward to seeing you in Montreal in 2025.
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While Ca2+ is an essential nutrient and signalling molecule, too much of it can be toxic inhibiting plant growth. An @nature study describes two signalling pathways that converge to regulate cytosolic Ca2+ homeostasis, balancing plant growth and immunity. https://t.co/VAjfX0RvoT
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Pls RP! Asian Plant Pathology conference 2024 in Changchun, China August 3-7! Welcome to join from all over the world!
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ER-associated ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme: a key regulator of grain yield and stress resistance in crops https://t.co/Xhomrhgato
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A Novel Tiled-Amplicon Sequencing Assay Targeting the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) Genome Reveals Widespread ... https://t.co/T7bLOFjBnF
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Want to design genetically encoded inhibitors of your favorite protein? Thrilled to announce our latest work w/ @SassSeabass, @keating_lab, & @GeneWeiLiLab, where we leverage massively parallel AlphaFold predictions to discover peptide inhibitors. https://t.co/1ij3s3ZkCw (1/n)
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My review "#Jasmonates and SA: #evolution of defense hormones in land plants" is out! Please check also the other reviews in this Biotic Interactions issue edited by @PierreMarcDelau and @jacquimonaghan. Happy to see lots of #EvoMPMI 😍 🌱🍄 https://t.co/bdWNsXIkDU
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Online Now: NPR1, a key immune regulator for plant survival under biotic and abiotic stresses https://t.co/fLFHXwVGSQ
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Plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection
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Exchange of small RNAs between host plants and their pathogens modulates gene expression in the interacting partners during host-pathogen interactions. Wang et al. show that the model plant Arabido...
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Late to the party, just to say that this is changing biology as we know it. Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer
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While the vast majority of well-structured single protein chains can now be predicted to high accuracy due to the recent AlphaFold [[1][1]] model, the prediction of multi-chain protein complexes...
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Reducing brassinosteroid signalling enhances grain yield in semi-dwarf wheat | Nature
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Nature - A strategy that depends on attenuated brassinosteroid signalling is described for the design of semi-dwarf wheat varieties with improved grain yield compared with that of green revolution...
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Rapid intracellular acidification is a novel plant defense response countered by the brown planthopper
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The brown planthopper (BPH; Nilaparvata lugens ) is the most destructive insect pest in rice. Through a stylet, BPH secrets a plethora of salivary proteins into rice phloem cells as a crucial step of...
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