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Thiosulfinate Tolerance Gene Clusters Are Common Features of Burkholderia Onion Pathogens​

Burkholderia gladioli pv. alliicola, B. cepacia, and B. orbicola are common bacterial pathogens of onion. Onions produce organosulfur thiosulfinate defensive compounds after cellular decompartmentalization. In this MPMI Editor's Pick, Sujan Paudel et al. used whole-genome sequencing and in silico analysis to identify putative thiosulfinate tolerance gene (TTG) clusters in multiple onion associated Burkholderia species similar to those​ characterized in other Allium-associated bacterial endophytes and pathogens.

​Read the commentary by Assistant Feature Editor Amelia Lovelace.​


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NAS Inductees and Royal Society Fellows Named​

​Congratulations to 2024 U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) inductees Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar and Richard Michelmore and to Maria Harrison, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.



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The 2025 MPMI Focus Issue on Fine Grain will draw together reviews and original research papers on contemporary developments in understanding staple cereal crops and their pathogens. Submit your manuscript by September 30, 2024.

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InterFaces: Spotlight on Early-Career Researchers: Danielle Stevens and Alba Moreno Perez

Join us for the first in our series highlighting early-career scientists and their recent discoveries. Graduate student Danielle Stevens and postdoctoral scientist Dr. Alba Moreno Pérez from the Coaker lab at UC Davis answer questions about their advice for choosing and navigating graduate school and their scientific inspirations. Learn about their paper on the natural variation of immune epitopes recently published in PNAS.

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