Nanne Taks
@nwtaks.bsky.social
University of Amsterdam — Plant pathologist 🌱🧫 Xanthomonas 🥬
Reposted by Nanne Taks
We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research.
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hydathodes at the forefront of plant immunity against vascular pathogens
Hydathodes are tiny plant organs that form an interface between the leaf surface and xylem vasculature. They facilitate excretion of xylem fluid under…
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November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research.
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Excited to share our paper in PLOS Pathogens!
This work adds to the limited understanding we have on immunity in specialized plant organs like hydathodes.
Big thanks to everyone involved at the University of Amsterdam!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@pfeilmeier.bsky.social @havandenburg.bsky.social
This work adds to the limited understanding we have on immunity in specialized plant organs like hydathodes.
Big thanks to everyone involved at the University of Amsterdam!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@pfeilmeier.bsky.social @havandenburg.bsky.social
Hydathode immunity 🌱 - the discovery journey continues ... ⏩ Today: Immune receptor SUT1 confers resistance against #Xanthomonas pathogens in hydathodes. In the latest version, we contrast the tissue-specificity of SUT1 with the well-known ZAR1 resistance.
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Arabidopsis CNL receptor SUT1 confers immunity in hydathodes against the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris
Author summary Black rot disease, caused by the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc), is an economically important disease of cabbage crops. Xcc is unique in that it enters t...
journals.plos.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Excited to share our paper in PLOS Pathogens!
This work adds to the limited understanding we have on immunity in specialized plant organs like hydathodes.
Big thanks to everyone involved at the University of Amsterdam!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@pfeilmeier.bsky.social @havandenburg.bsky.social
This work adds to the limited understanding we have on immunity in specialized plant organs like hydathodes.
Big thanks to everyone involved at the University of Amsterdam!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@pfeilmeier.bsky.social @havandenburg.bsky.social
Reposted by Nanne Taks
➡️ New insights into the evolution of the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris involving the genome defense system CRISPR-Cas! www.cell.com/current-biol... Our data wizard 🪄@mpaauw.bsky.social sequenced almost 100 genomes and this is what he found … /
Evolution of a vascular plant pathogen is associated with the loss of CRISPR-Cas and an increase in genome plasticity and virulence genes
Paauw et al. report on the evolution of a plant pathogenic Xanthomonas pathovar and
show that the gain of mobile genetic elements and virulence factors coincided with
the loss of the CRISPR-Cas genome...
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February 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
➡️ New insights into the evolution of the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris involving the genome defense system CRISPR-Cas! www.cell.com/current-biol... Our data wizard 🪄@mpaauw.bsky.social sequenced almost 100 genomes and this is what he found … /
Reposted by Nanne Taks
Lighten up your life! We built a “darkbox” with a CCD camera to image bacterial infections across entire trays of Arabidopsis plants. Our technical advance with Python image analysis pipeline out now! @havandenburg.bsky.social @nwtaks.bsky.social bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Non‐Invasive, Bioluminescence‐Based Visualisation and Quantification of Bacterial Infections in Arabidopsis Over Time
Development of a non-invasive high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to visualise and quantify progression of bioluminescent bacterial pathogens in Arabidopsis rosettes over time.
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February 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Lighten up your life! We built a “darkbox” with a CCD camera to image bacterial infections across entire trays of Arabidopsis plants. Our technical advance with Python image analysis pipeline out now! @havandenburg.bsky.social @nwtaks.bsky.social bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...