K. Tsuda

Leaf- and diverged shoot meristem programs shape the stem in rice

This study identifies how leaf and shoot meristem gene programs regulate node-internode patterns in rice stems, revealing interactions between KNOX1 and YABBY genes.

Commensal lifestyle regulated by a negative feedback loop between Arabidopsis ROS and the bacterial T2SS

The paper shows that Arabidopsis ROS inhibits the T2SS of commensal bacteria, preventing their harmful effects and promoting plant health.

Structural polymorphisms within a common powdery mildew effector scaffold as a driver of co-evolution with cereal immune receptors

This study reports the structures of powdery mildew effector proteins and shows how structural polymorphisms within a common scaffold drive co-evolution with cereal immune receptors.

Heat-shock inducible clonal analysis reveals the stepwise establishment of cell fates in the rice stem.

This study uses a heat-shock inducible clonal analysis system to show that cell fates in the rice stem are established stepwise, with the internode being the last to commit.

Overexpression of NDR1 Leads to Pathogen Resistance at Elevated Temperatures

The paper shows NDR1 overexpression enhances pathogen resistance at elevated temperatures by maintaining immune signaling during ETI.

Machine-learning-guided library design cycle for directed evolution of enzymes: the effects of training data composition on sequence space exploration

This study shows that ML-guided directed evolution can lead to different enzyme variants depending on the presence of a highly positive variant in training data, achieving similar activity improvements.

Dissecting the co-transcriptome landscape of plants and microbiota members

This study profiles co-transcriptomes of Arabidopsis and its associated bacteria to understand molecular interactions and bacterial adaptation mechanisms.

Gene expression evolution in pattern-triggered immunity within Arabidopsis thaliana and across Brassicaceae species

The paper identifies genes under purifying selection and species-specific expression signatures in PTI responses across Brassicaceae species using comparative transcriptomics.

Solution structure of Gaussia Luciferase with five disulfide bonds and identification of a putative coelenterazine binding cavity by heteronuclear NMR

This paper determines the solution structure of Gaussia Luciferase using NMR and identifies a potential coelenterazine binding cavity involved in bioluminescence.

In planta bacterial multi-omics analysis illuminates regulatory principles underlying plant-pathogen interactions

The paper integrates transcriptome and proteome data from Pseudomonas syringae in Arabidopsis to reveal gene regulation patterns influenced by plant immunity.

A machine-learning-guided mutagenesis platform for accelerated discovery of novel functional proteins

The paper introduces a machine-learning-guided mutagenesis platform that accelerates discovery of functional proteins by using two rounds of mutagenesis informed by a trained model.