Alga Zuccaro
@Team_Zuccaro
Interested in molecular plant-microbe interactions, symbiosis, cell death, immunity and metabolism, effector biology, microbiota, CEPLAS, views are my own.
Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture Our new review is now online @NatureBiotech nature.com/articles/s4158… Great team work from @Richalynn1 Xin, Bob @Toshi_666666 & Jorge A full-text view-only is accessible via…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Finally published. A big thank you to all contributors: Barley resistance and susceptibility to fungal cell entry involve the interplay of ROP signaling with phosphatidylinositol‐monophosphates - Weiß - 2025 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…
Undruggable ‘disordered’ proteins become druggable with new AI techniques from David Baker. @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Our paper on Pseudomonas intra-genus competition in SynComs on Arabidopsis roots is now out in @PLOSBiology ! 🎉 If you want to chat about the story, visit poster 374 tomorrow, Thursday #2025ISMPMI journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
We are pleased to present our latest preprint. A comprehensive study by Mathias Brands et al. on the deconstruction of acetylated xylan by the activity of cooperative enzymes from the beneficial fungus Serendipita indica. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan enables mutualistic colonization of monocot roots biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants
Please check the latest preprint from our lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We show that the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis hijacks components of the lateral root initiation pathway to induce gall formation in maize leaves. Big thanks to everyone involved!
Pathogenic fungus exploits the lateral root regulators to induce pluripotency in maize shoots biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants
Proud to see this story out! Here we show how the biotrophic gall inducing fungus Ustilago maydis uses molecular signaling components of the lateral root initiation pathway to induce gall formation in the maize shoot. Many thanks to all involved.
Please check the latest preprint from our lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We show that the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis hijacks components of the lateral root initiation pathway to induce gall formation in maize leaves. Big thanks to everyone involved!
Happy to share our work on a recombinant interspecific hybrid of two fungal maize pathogens which helped us to understand how the regulation of effector genes determines infection style and tumor formation. Thanks to @gun_doe, Weiliang Zuo & Tom Winkler! cell.com/cell-reports/p…
We are excited to share our new story with you! We show how losing a binding domain can flip an antimicrobial effector into a host immune suppressor, highlighting functional specialization across the saprotrophy–symbiosis spectrum. Read more: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
It is a duty for mentors to recognize the strengths of mentees and share those with them frequently.
🎤 Excited to announce: Prof. Kenichi Tsuda from Huazhong Agricultural University, China will speak at our satellite meeting at #ISMPMI2025! 🌱🌍 🗓️ 13 July 2025 🧠 “Tailoring Mentorship: Communication, Compatibility, and the Individual” 📍 Cologne, Germany #PlantScience
Janine Haueisen et al. investigated host specificity in Zymoseptoria tritici and two related species that form compatible and incompatible interactions with wheat. Through comparative microscopy, transcriptomics, and functional analyses, the researchers found a largely conserved…
Stimulating morning session by Cyril Zipfel, Jane Parker, and Paul Schulze-Lefert 🌱🦠
It’s on! Jonathan Jones Celebratory Symposium — Plant immunity; looking back to look forward
We are proud to continue our journey of scientific excellence with CEPLAS! Thank you to everyone who was involved in the preparation and evaluation.
Spread the word! We are looking for a lab technician to join our emerging group at @CBGP_Madrid. Please check here: tinyurl.com/bdev9y6t. Essential to have a FP/technical degree diploma, regardless of having higher degrees.
The race is really tight, but I will testify based on personal experience that Wenbo @wenboEffector is actively contributing to the MPMI committee, an advocate for diversity and a supporter for early career scientists including me. She has my full support ismpmi.org/members/Pages/…
If you are member of the IS-MPMI society, you will have received the option to vote for the next president and members of the board of directors. This is an encouragement to vote. Also, I am running for one of the two director positions. ismpmi.org/members/Pages/…