Isabel M. L. Saur

The paper identifies AVRA13's interaction with SRF3 in barley and shows its role in manipulating iron homeostasis to promote fungal growth, while also revealing MLA's detection of AVRA13's virulence features.

This study identifies a fungal effector that mimics plant immune receptors to suppress immunity, showing structural and functional similarity to host LRR-RLKs.

The paper determines the cryo-EM structure of the MLA13-AVRA13-1 heterodimer and shows how a single amino acid substitution in MLA7 expands effector recognition.

This study engineers the plant immune receptor Sr50 to recognize a pathogen effector variant, restoring immune responses against stem rust.