Thank you, Heike!

Thanks, Sagar! I'm looking forward to the fall!

I am incredibly proud of this work that was the result of collaborative science with chemical ecology experts Betty Benrey and Ted Turlings at @UniNeuchatel!

5. We conclude that INR is required for the emission of In11-induced volatile blends that attract natural predators to plants experiencing herbivory!

4. And the crown jewel: We took our NILs to a field in Mexico where we observed a 40% reduction in wasp attacks to caterpillars pinned to inr-1/inr-1 lines in an In11-specific manner.

3. We generated common bean near-isogenic lines with INR/INR or inr-1/inr-1 genotypes and demonstrated reduced direct antiherbivore defenses .

2. We leveraged natural variation in response to the HAMP inceptin (In11) in common bean to identify a non-responsive landrace with a L.O.F deletion in the INR gene that we termed inr-1.

First, work from Chang-Bao Li and Chuanyou Li (Shandong Ag U) on regulation of SYR1 receptor.

The paralog SYR2 is an induced negative regulator w/ lower binding affinity.

@nataliagupa.bsky.social highlighted that the module is only found in Solanoideae

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Also unpublished single nuclei and spacial transcriptomics data showing cool candidate genes important for the interaction!