#SUGR1
Drs Kaihuai Li, Daowen Wang, Fengquan Liu & Zhengqing Fu highlight @sebastianevda.bsky.social‬ & colleagues’ ‪@pnas.org‬ article on #plant #effectostimulins & #nematode SUbventral-Gland Regulator #SUGR1 promoting parasitism. @sc.edu@camplantsci.bsky.social

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May 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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We think nematodes break open plant cells, sense small molecule signals (termed effectostimulins), which switch on a master regulator SUGR1, which switches on effectors, which break cells.

Looks like a feed-forward loop driving infection.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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