#phytoplasma — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #phytoplasma, aggregated by home.social.
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How a #parasite plays matchmaker
https://elifesciences.org/digests/98992/how-a-parasite-plays-matchmaker paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/98992"The parasitic bacterium #phytoplasma helps male and female #leafhoppers find each other so they can breed and increase the population of #insects that spread the #parasites to new hosts... Protein SAP54 attracted female leafhoppers to the leaves, but only when males were also present. SAP54 also suppressed the plant’s defences when males were on the leaves, making the plant more inviting to females."
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This pine tree forest harboured a surprise:
Phytoplasma pini, a bacterium (!!?!?) that makes enormous structures, over half a meter in diameter, known as pine-witches’ broom:
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/236496606
#iNaturalist #bacteria #Phytoplasma -
Happy to be able to share more of my work conducted during my PhD program at Wageningen University! In this paper, we investigated the network of protein interactions that phytoplasma, a pathogen that manipulates plant development, establishes with host proteins. Our findings revealed a strong preference of phytoplasma effectors towards targeting transcription factors associated with plant development.
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From infamy to ingenuity—#bacterial hijack mechanisms as advanced #genetic tools.
#phytoplasma #biotechnology #SAP05 #26S_proteasome #ubiquitin
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-infamy-ingenuitybacterial-hijack-mechanisms-advanced.html
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For those of you interested in host-pathogen interactions or #phytopathology, we have updated our preprint on #phytoplasma - Arabidopsis protein-protein interactions. Published manuscript hopefully coming soon!
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Photographs from Smith Rock State Park in Oregon. #spiders #insects #galls #lichens #phytoplasma #nature #photography #Oregon https://colinpurrington.com/2023/06/misery-ridge-nature-walk/