B. P. M. Ngou

This study traces the evolutionary trajectory of pattern recognition receptors in plants, revealing ancient origins and modular evolution of immune and developmental functions.

This study shows that helper NLR NRG1 forms oligomeric complexes with EDS1 and SAG101 at the plasma membrane upon co-activation of intracellular and cell surface receptors.

The paper examines immune receptor gene repertoires across 208 plant species, finding that cell-surface and intracellular receptor gene families co-evolve through concerted expansion and contraction.

The paper uses RNA-seq and ATAC-seq to show that both SRMI and IRMI increase chromatin accessibility at defense genes, revealing overlapping transcriptional regulatory mechanisms.

This study shows that plant immune pathways activated by cell-surface and intracellular receptors mutually enhance each other to provide effective resistance against pathogens.

The paper develops a method to assess differential gene expression of selected genes during plant immune activation using sequence capture and RNA-seq.

The paper induces AvrRps4 expression in Arabidopsis to study RRS1/RPS4-mediated immunity without pathogen presence, revealing downstream immune responses.