R. A. L. van der Hoorn

The paper enhances late blight resistance in tomato by engineering an immune protease insensitive to a pathogen inhibitor.

The paper uses Alphafold-Multimer to predict cross-kingdom interactions between plant pathogens and host hydrolases, identifying several SSPs that inhibit key defense enzymes.

The paper introduces a photoaffinity labeling assay to study GST activation in plants, showing safener-induced activation in wheat and BTH-induced activation in Arabidopsis independent of NPR1.

This paper shows that silencing NbCORE in older Nicotiana benthamiana plants significantly increases agroinfiltration productivity by improving transient protein expression.

The paper uses activity-based proteomics to analyze hydrolase activity in plant leaves infected with Pseudomonas syringae, identifying suppressed and activated enzymes and a neo-functionalised antibacterial enzyme.

Agromonas is a rapid and robust method to monitor Pseudomonas syringae growth in agroinfiltrated leaves expressing immune components and their suppressors.

This study shows that cleavage of a pathogen protein by plant proteases activates immunity, while pathogens counteract this with inhibitors.