Hannah Rae Thomas

Salicylic acid (SA) overaccumulates in tomato-pepper graft rootstocks alongside suppressed auxin; exogenous SA phenocopies failed xylem reconnection, while SA-deficient nahG tomato self-grafts also fail.

This study shows that extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) acquired through grafting can be transmitted to the germline in Brassica plants, leading to heritable trait changes.

This study shows that plasmodesmal closure triggers stress responses in plants, including gene expression changes and altered susceptibility to pathogens.

The paper shows that leaf age affects immune response execution in plants, with sink leaves prioritizing growth over defense by maintaining open plasmodesmata.

This study re-analyzes mobile mRNA datasets and finds that many annotated mobile transcripts lack support from RNA-Seq data due to technical and biological factors.

The paper identifies genetic incompatibility between tomato and pepper as the cause of graft rejection, characterized by hyperimmune responses and prolonged cell death.

Stand-alone, point-and-click Java toolkit bundling over 100 sequence, BLAST, GO/KEGG enrichment and interactive plotting functions, so wet-lab biologists can analyse sequencing-scale data without the command line.