Danve Castroverde
@danvec.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Research interests: Plant immunity | Hormone signaling | Plant stress resilience
Funded by NSERC, CFI, ORF and NFRF
Research interests: Plant immunity | Hormone signaling | Plant stress resilience
Funded by NSERC, CFI, ORF and NFRF
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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
Humidity-driven ABA depletion determines plant-pathogen competition for leaf water
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December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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
Xanthomonas coordinates type III–type II effector synergy by activating fruit-ripening pathway
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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
Thank you very much to our lab members for another meaningful year and a successful End-of-Semester Lab Cleaning! #CleanLabHappyLab @laurierbiology.bsky.social
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
An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome
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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
Coping with stress: Transcriptional regulators linking cell wall integrity maintenance with primary-wall metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana
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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
Phytophthora effector exploits WY module truncation to manipulate Nt-acetylation–mediated AtMBP-1 turnover and suppress plant immunity
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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
Some Like it Hot: Efficiency of the Type III Secretion System has Multiple Thermosensitive Behaviours in the Pseudomonas syringae Complex
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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
ARF3-mediated auxin signaling is essential for sex determination in cucumber
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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 Amazon 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
Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate
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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
A direct role for a mitochondrial targeting sequence in signalling stress
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Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security
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Feeding from the sun—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
Feeding from the sun—Successes and prospects in bioengineering photosynthesis for food security
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Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?
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Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?
Abstract. The concept of a ‘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
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?
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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
SnRK2.5-mediated phosphorylation of PIN2 links osmotic stress signaling with auxin-dependent root adaptive growth in Arabidopsis
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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
Versatile molecular tools enabling customizable DNA methylation editing in Arabidopsis
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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
Salicylic Acid and the unique TGA transcription factor controls plant immunity against Pseudomonas syringae in Marchantia polymorpha
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A fungal root endophyte functionally complements host immunity and mitigates natural immune variation in Arabidopsis
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A fungal root endophyte functionally complements host immunity and mitigates natural immune variation in Arabidopsis
Beneficial root-associated microbes can enhance plant resilience by complementing aspects of host immunity. The fungal root endophyte Serendipita indica (Si) is known to promote plant growth and confe...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A fungal root endophyte functionally complements host immunity and mitigates natural immune variation in Arabidopsis
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Beyond execution: Metacaspases emerge as master switches in plant immunity
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Beyond execution: Metacaspases emerge as master switches in plant immunity
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December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Beyond execution: Metacaspases emerge as master switches in plant immunity
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The unique architecture of umbrella toxins permits a two-tiered molecular bet-hedging strategy for interbacterial antagonism
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The unique architecture of umbrella toxins permits a two-tiered molecular bet-hedging strategy for interbacterial antagonism
Umbrella toxin particles produced by Actinobacteria contain five spokes tipped with
variable lectin domains. Here, Zhao et al. show that these lectins mediate species-specific
binding to a previously ...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The unique architecture of umbrella toxins permits a two-tiered molecular bet-hedging strategy for interbacterial antagonism
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Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties
The structure and interaction networks of molecules within biomolecular condensates are poorly understood. Using cryo–electron tomography and molecular dynamics simulations, we elucidated the structur...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Extended Plant Immune System | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
The Extended Plant Immune System | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
When disease resistance was still viewed as a vague physiological response rather than a genetically defined process, Flor laid the foundation for our modern understanding of plant immunity with his g...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis
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Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis
Defense-inducing Ca2+ waves in leaf epidermis are stimulus specific.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis
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