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Danve Castroverde
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Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research interests: Plant immunity | Hormone signaling | Plant stress resilience

Funded by NSERC, CFI, ORF and NFRF
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our lab to yours! πŸŽ„πŸŽ…πŸŒŸπŸŽβ„οΈ

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Pathogen-inspired engineering of plant protease enhances late blight resistance

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January 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Rapid local and systemic jasmonate signalling drives the initiation and establishment of plant systemic immunity

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January 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Small-scale deforestation accounts for over half of carbon losses in tropical rainforests, highlighting the need for local-level strategies to address climate impacts and support forest regeneration. doi.org/hbh3zp
Small-scale rainforest clearing drives majority of carbon loss, study finds
Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through enormous swaths of the Amazon, releasing masses of planet-warming carbon dioxide.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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The team published its findings today in the journal @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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RNA-triggered Cas12a3 cleaves tRNA tails to execute bacterial immunity - Nature
Cas12a3 nucleases constitute a distinct clade of typeΒ V CRISPR–Cas bacterial immune systems that preferentially cleave the 3β€² tails of tRNAs after recognition of target RNA to induce growth arrest…
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January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Evolutionary transcriptomics unveils rapid changes of gene expression patterns in flowering plants

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Evolutionary transcriptomics unveils rapid changes of gene expression patterns in flowering plants
Evolutionary transcriptome analysis of seven angiosperm (flowering plant) species uncovers rapid evolution of gene expression patterns, particularly for genes involved in the responses to endogenous a...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae

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The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae
Abstract. The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae has an effector protein that can methylate the plant defense compound salicylic acid (SA), and the
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January 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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bZIP factors of the Unfolded Protein Response interact with PIF4 to promote thermomorphogenesis

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bZIP factors of the Unfolded Protein Response interact with PIF4 to promote thermomorphogenesis - Nature Communications
UPR-derived bZIP factors interact with PIF4 to boost plant growth at moderately elevated temperatures, linking ER stress signaling with temperature-responsive pathways.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Humidity-driven ABA depletion determines plant-pathogen competition for leaf water

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Humidity-driven ABA depletion determines plant-pathogen competition for leaf water - Nature Communications
Bacterial pathogens exploit humidity to promote leaf water-soaking and infection. Here Yasuda et al. show that plants counter this by triggering CYP707A3-mediated ABA depletion, yet bacterial effector...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our lab to yours! πŸŽ„πŸŽ…πŸŒŸπŸŽβ„οΈ

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December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Xanthomonas coordinates type III–type II effector synergy by activating fruit-ripening pathway

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Xanthomonas coordinates type III–type II effector synergy by activating fruit-ripening pathway
Plant cell walls harbor vast carbohydrate reserves, yet how pathogens unlock them remains unclear. We show that the citrus canker pathogen Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc) mobilizes cell wall suga...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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A bacterial nutrition strategy for plant disease control

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A bacterial nutrition strategy for plant disease control
Xanthomonas spp. cause serious diseases in more than 400 plant species. The conserved AvrBs2 family effectors are among the most important virulence factors in xanthomonads, but how AvrBs2 promotes in...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Thank you very much to our lab members for another meaningful year and a successful End-of-Semester Lab Cleaning! #CleanLabHappyLab @laurierbiology.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome

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An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome - Nature
The 4D Nucleome Project demonstrates the use of genomic assays and computational methods to measure genome folding and then predict genomic structure from DNA sequence, facilitatin...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Coping with stress: Transcriptional regulators linking cell wall integrity maintenance with primary-wall metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Coping with stress: Transcriptional regulators linking cell wall integrity maintenance with primary-wall metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana
Cell wall damage (CWD) and hyperosmotic stress elicit both distinct and overlapping transcriptional programs in plants. Responses to these stresses involve cell wall integrity (CWI) maintenance, which...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Phytophthora effector exploits WY module truncation to manipulate Nt-acetylation–mediated AtMBP-1 turnover and suppress plant immunity

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Phytophthora effector exploits WY module truncation to manipulate Nt-acetylation–mediated AtMBP-1 turnover and suppress plant immunity
Plastic pathogen effectors hijack an unrecognized host immune regulator to disrupt its modification balance for invasion.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Some Like it Hot: Efficiency of the Type III Secretion System has Multiple Thermosensitive Behaviours in the Pseudomonas syringae Complex

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Some Like it Hot: Efficiency of the Type III Secretion System has Multiple Thermosensitive Behaviours in the Pseudomonas syringae Complex
We characterised the role of temperature on T3SS efficiency in P. syringae, showing that bacterial behaviour in response to temperature is highly variable among strains, even among very closely relat...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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ARF3-mediated auxin signaling is essential for sex determination in cucumber

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ARF3-mediated auxin signaling is essential for sex determination in cucumber
Sex determination underpins genesis of male and female flowers with particularly important implications in plant breeding. Auxin and ethylene regulate femaleness in cucurbits. Here, we identified an a...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI

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A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI
With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help
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December 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate

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Hot droughts in the AmazonΒ provide a window to a future hypertropical climate - Nature
Thirty years of forest demographic data, combined with recent ecophysiological measurements, reveal that intense Amazon droughts sharply increase tree mortality once soil moisture falls below a thresh...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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A direct role for a mitochondrial targeting sequence in signalling stress

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A direct role for a mitochondrial targeting sequence in signalling stress - Nature
Cells can sense mitochondrial damage through signalling via an unimported mitochondrial targeting sequence.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Feeding from the sunβ€”Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security

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Feeding from the sunβ€”Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security
This review explores how recent advances in bioengineering photosynthesis can enhance crop productivity and address global food security challenges.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: β€˜growth versus defence’ or β€˜growth versus risk mitigation’?

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Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: β€˜growth versus defence’ or β€˜growth versus risk mitigation’?
Abstract. The concept of a β€˜growth versus defence’ antagonism is sometimes applied as a framework to explain plant responses to drought and other abiotic s
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December 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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SnRK2.5-mediated phosphorylation of PIN2 links osmotic stress signaling with auxin-dependent root adaptive growth in Arabidopsis

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SnRK2.5-mediated phosphorylation of PIN2 links osmotic stress signaling with auxin-dependent root adaptive growth in Arabidopsis
As an ABA-independent kinase, SnRK2.5 bridges osmotic stress signaling and auxin transport in Arabidopsis via phosphorylating PIN2 at Ser237/259, regulating its activity to optimize growth under osmot...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Versatile molecular tools enabling customizable DNA methylation editing in Arabidopsis

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Versatile molecular tools enabling customizable DNA methylation editing in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications
Targeted DNA methylation editing is critical for establishing the causal relationship between DNA methylation and its function as well as for epigenetic crop breeding. Here, the authors develop a CRIS...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Salicylic Acid and the unique TGA transcription factor controls plant immunity against Pseudomonas syringae in Marchantia polymorpha

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Salicylic Acid and the unique TGA transcription factor controls plant immunity against Pseudomonas syringae in Marchantia polymorpha
ABSTRACT. Land plants have co-evolved with microorganisms since its transition to a terrestrial habitat around 500 million years ago. In angiosperms, salic
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December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM