Peter Thorpe

The paper evaluates sampling methods for root exudates and rhizosphere microbiota in barley, finding comparable microbiota and exudation patterns across approaches.

The paper identifies Acinetobacter sp. as a dominant bacterium in tomato plant microbiota and shows its functional role in nutrient mobilization and stress adaptation, while decoupling its presence from antimicrobial resistance genes.

This study shows that disrupting the mRNA m6A writer complex in Arabidopsis triggers autoimmunity, with temperature-dependent effects on gene expression and pathogen resistance.

The paper identifies a novel aphid-specific effector family, CHL, associated with avirulence through differential expression and structural analysis.

The paper uses multi-omics approaches to identify aphid effector candidates linked to virulence and avirulence in pea aphids on Medicago truncatula.

This study identifies and characterizes the effectorome of the plant-parasitic nematode Heterodera schachtii, revealing 659 effector gene loci and providing insights into their origin, deployment, and evolution.

The paper discovers unprecedented allelic variation in HYP effectors of plant-parasitic nematodes, revealing a novel mechanism of programmed genetic variation called HVD-editing.

THAPBI PICT is a metabarcoding pipeline that processes Illumina paired-end reads, reduces noise, and classifies sequences using a curated database, providing interpretable outputs for non-specialists.

The paper identifies susceptibility genes involved in trans-kingdom vitamin B synthesis between a plant-parasitic nematode and its host, revealing a horizontal gene transfer critical for parasitism.

The paper develops a method to generate comprehensive genome sequences of Plasmodium knowlesi from clinical isolates and provides insights into the evolution of gene families associated with antigenic variation.

The paper investigates light-induced left-right asymmetries in the chick retina, finding transient gene expression changes and links to vascular and extracellular matrix pathways.

The paper generates two new reference genomes for G. rostochiensis inbred lines and identifies effector family-specific diversification patterns that differ between pathotypes.

The paper analyzes the spatio-temporal gene expression of Meloidogyne incognita across its life stages and identifies a conserved promoter motif associated with effector genes.

This study examines transcriptional changes in Myzus cerasi aphids across different host environments, finding extensive plasticity with redox-related genes and differential exon usage.

The paper analyzes aphid genomes to understand gene evolution and horizontal gene transfer, finding shared transcriptional control of effector genes involved in parasitism.