Jeremy D. Edwards

Receptor-ligand interactions in plant inmate immunity revealed by AlphaFold protein structure prediction

The paper uses AlphaFold to predict protein structures and identify direct receptor-ligand interactions in plant innate immunity involving R genes and avirulence genes.

Gene disruption by structural mutations drives selection in US rice breeding over the last century

The paper tracks structural mutations in rice over a century of breeding, showing exonic mutations are removed more rapidly than other mutation types during selection.