Ekkachai Khwanbua
@ekkachaikhwanbua.bsky.social
PhD in Plant Pathology at Iowa State University | Plant-microbe interaction 🌱🦠 | Plant genome editing 🧬
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Variation in herbivore defense strategies among plant species differing in elevational distribution and the role of temperature in defense
Dorey et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dorey et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Variation in herbivore defense strategies among plant species differing in elevational distribution and the role of temperature in defense
Dorey et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dorey et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New preprint from the Whitham lab!
This is part of my PhD work on how elevated atmospheric CO2 affects maize immunity and disease susceptibility. We also discuss how plant CO2 sensing pathways may intersect with the early signaling immune components.
Hope you have a good read!
#PlantScience
This is part of my PhD work on how elevated atmospheric CO2 affects maize immunity and disease susceptibility. We also discuss how plant CO2 sensing pathways may intersect with the early signaling immune components.
Hope you have a good read!
#PlantScience
Effects of atmospheric CO2 levels on the susceptibility of maize to diverse pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.31.697224v1
January 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
New preprint from the Whitham lab!
This is part of my PhD work on how elevated atmospheric CO2 affects maize immunity and disease susceptibility. We also discuss how plant CO2 sensing pathways may intersect with the early signaling immune components.
Hope you have a good read!
#PlantScience
This is part of my PhD work on how elevated atmospheric CO2 affects maize immunity and disease susceptibility. We also discuss how plant CO2 sensing pathways may intersect with the early signaling immune components.
Hope you have a good read!
#PlantScience
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Excited to share our latest preprint on the conservation of RAR1-SGT1 across plants and their unexpected divergence in ferns! @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @michaelwebster.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @yusugihara.bsky.social. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Excited to share our latest preprint on the conservation of RAR1-SGT1 across plants and their unexpected divergence in ferns! @hynmn-jeong.bsky.social @michaelwebster.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @yusugihara.bsky.social. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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How do plants fight disease? 🌱 #NASmember Jane Parker studies NLR proteins that help plants sense attackers and launch powerful immune defenses. She shares her latest findings on how these proteins signal plants to resist disease in a new @pnas.org QnAs: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How do plants fight disease? 🌱 #NASmember Jane Parker studies NLR proteins that help plants sense attackers and launch powerful immune defenses. She shares her latest findings on how these proteins signal plants to resist disease in a new @pnas.org QnAs: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants
Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Finally! Translon: A term for the sequence that actually gets translated. ORF or CDS just won't do when you work with viruses that break the rules by frameshifting, readthrough, non-AUG starts, etc. Thank you Pavel Baranov et al! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Translon: a single term for translated regions - Nature Methods
Nature Methods - Translon: a single term for translated regions
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September 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Finally! Translon: A term for the sequence that actually gets translated. ORF or CDS just won't do when you work with viruses that break the rules by frameshifting, readthrough, non-AUG starts, etc. Thank you Pavel Baranov et al! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Today we report how plant immune preparedness against future infections is negatively intercepted by elevated temperatures! @theplantjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess
This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. @laurierbiology.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. @laurierbiology.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Warm temperature suppresses plant systemic acquired resistance by intercepting N‐hydroxypipecolic acid biosynthesis
Elevated temperature impacts plant immunity at the primary infection site, but how it affects immune preparedness for future infections remains unclear. Here we report that warm temperature suppresse...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today we report how plant immune preparedness against future infections is negatively intercepted by elevated temperatures! @theplantjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess
This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. @laurierbiology.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. @laurierbiology.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Ekkachai Khwanbua
Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering - Nature Plants
Receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope of bacterial flagellin. Here the authors identify key residues on FLS2’s concave surface that enable expanded perception of flg22 variants, allowing the ...
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July 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...