Gail Preston
Gail Preston
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✨RNA-binding proteins orchestrating immunity in plants 🧬🌿🦠
✍️ Marcel Bach-Pages et al

RBPs govern plant immunity, but pathogens hijack them
🔎 This review explores the role of RBPs in defense & how this knowledge could boost resistance

📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70433
RNA‐binding proteins orchestrating immunity in plants
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play a central role in plant immunity by controlling the form, function and fate of RNA and are directly targeted by pathogens to promote susceptibility. This review exami...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Considering a return to study in the life/environmental sciences at Masters/PhD level after time away? Working and wondering if full/part-time study is the next step for your career? Our RePOWER workshop on 13th June in Oxford/online will provide advice and support. iles.web.ox.ac.uk/repower-retu...
RePOWER: Returning to Postgraduate Study in the Life and Environmental Sciences
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May 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Important so please help spread the word...

Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD?

Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds

Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring...

Deadline 21 Feb

www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
January 15, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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A plant's microbiome can provide benefits like drought or disease resistance.

But new research shows crop domestication impacts the microbes which live in plants; this could open opportunities to increase resilience and improve productivity ⬇️
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Domesticating plants impacts their microbiome
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January 17, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota
#Phaseolus

Current Biology from Gail M Preston

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January 17, 2024 at 8:16 AM