My first hairy root!

4. And the crown jewel: We took our NILs to a field in Mexico where we observed a 40% reduction in wasp attacks to caterpillars pinned to inr-1/inr-1 lines in an In11-specific manner.

3. We generated common bean near-isogenic lines with INR/INR or inr-1/inr-1 genotypes and demonstrated reduced direct antiherbivore defenses .

2. We leveraged natural variation in response to the HAMP inceptin (In11) in common bean to identify a non-responsive landrace with a L.O.F deletion in the INR gene that we termed inr-1.

Maria Harris closing #2025ISMPMI with the "most important plant-microbe interaction on earth".
CKL1 and CKL2 kinanses locate to the periarbuscular and plasma membranes during AMF symbiosis and their kinase activity is key for regulating downstream lipid biosynthesis.

Po-Yuan Shih on aphid salivary protein Ap4 targeting PsBPL1/2 to increase aphid fecundity on a biotype-specific manner. She also highlights the pain of transient expression on legumes and using our well established N. bethamiana system to get at some mechanism #2025ISMPMI

Desalegn Etalo and The WeEVIL legacy: Fusarium TR4 is transmitted from infected females to eggs, perpetuating the disease in African banana fields #2025ISMPMI

Loving all the peptide talks #2025ISMPMI Martin Stegman and grafting experiments to probe CEP peptide mobility to modulate nitrogen starvation and immune responses. CEPR1, CEPR 2 and RLK7 all contribute to the response to CEP4

Yasuhiro Kadota thanks the millions of C.elegans that gave their life 😂 so he could identify a secreted trehalase that acts as conserved MAMP across free-living and plant parasitic nematodes (TreCe24) #2025ISMPMI

Day 3 morning session of ##2025ISMPMI closes strong with a herbivore story. BPH salivary protein BISP binds the highly variable LRR domain of Bph14. Although there is a cost to immunity due to hyper activation (small restaurant rice plants)!