Dmitry Lapin

This paper identifies the lettuce receptor LNR that recognizes the conserved heptapeptide motif in microbial NLPs, revealing convergent evolution of NLP recognition and potential for crop defense improvement.

The Lettuce Expression Browser provides a high-resolution gene expression atlas for cultivated and wild lettuce, enabling exploration of gene activity across development and stress conditions.

This study constructs a lettuce super-pangenome to reduce bias in reference genes, identifying novel QTLs for disease resistance and origins of non-reference resistance loci from wild relatives.