Research lead, Plant pathology and host plant resistance group at IRRI, expertise in new breeding technologies, plant genome editing & microbiome
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The ZmBBM2-BBIP1-RCC1-4 module enhances callus growth and genetic transformation efficiency in maize (Qinghui Fu , Qianhan Wei , Chunlai Qi , Anqi Zhao , Xiaojie Yuan , Yuan Yuan , Yunjun Liu) doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiag4… @ASPB #PlantSci
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High-resolution reconstruction of cell-type-specific transcriptional regulatory processes from bulk sequencing samples nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ Max Marin & @lh3lh3
Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers for helpful feedback.
Link: rdcu.be/famFj
High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm - @lh3lh3 go.nature.com/3PBEwvR
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The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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PlotGDP: an AI Agent for Bioinformatics Plotting
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gcMeta 2025: a global repository of metagenome-assembled genomes enabling cross-ecosystem microbial discovery and function research | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
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PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Code: github.com/nf-core/pathogens…
Nextflow nf-core pipeline: nf-co.re/pathogensurveillanc…
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Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap.
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Call for Papers on Rice Genomics!
As IRRI celebrates 65 years of rice science and 20 years since the first rice genome was sequenced, we invite research contributions to a special issue of The Plant Genome to commemorate these milestones.
🗓 Deadline: 31 December 2025
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Our President Elect, Saskia Hogenhout, discusses her lab's work on aphid effectors, which are secreted during feeding and suppress plant immunity by recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies. #PPATH2025
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Prof Evans Lagudah @lag002 Chief Research Scientist from @CSIRO gives the first @BS_PP Peter Scott Memorial lecture on durable rust resistance genes in wheat at the #PPATH2025. Very informative and lots of great work. Acknowledged the great contribution of wheat wild relatives.
Published annualreviews.org/content/jo…
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Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author @Jukgan_Chan and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen).
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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🚨I have a fully funded 4-year #PhD opportunity in my lab on 'Tuneable multi-input genetic logic circuits for designer probiotics'.🦠 We'll be throwing all the tech we have at this one to make reliable engineering of diverse microbes a reality. Applicants must be UK national...
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Application of microbial inoculants significantly enhances crop productivity: A meta-analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020.
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🔬 History of IRRI–JIRCAS Bacterial Blight and Blast Near-Isogenic Lines: Cornerstones of Global Rice Pathology 🌾
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