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Emma K Turley

John Innes CentreORCID 0000-0002-5664-9090Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:Arabidopsis· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Organism:plant (other)· 2 Assay:proteomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1

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Adam R. BenthamiD· 2 shared Daniel S. YuiD· 2 shared Lauren S. RyderiD· 2 shared Mark James BanfieldiD· 2 shared Nicholas J. TalbotiD· 2 shared Rafał ZdrzałekiD· 2 shared Abbas MaqbooliD· 1 shared Alexa S. TyszkaiD· 1 shared

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2024-2026 · peak 4/yr

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Immune surveillance at plasmodesmata restricts the movement of a fungal effector

Emma K Turley, Daniel S. Yu, Andrew Breakspear, Joanna Jennings, Mark Jave Bautista, Sally Jones, Barkha Ravi, Rafał Zdrzałek, Weibin Ma, Adam R. Bentham, Lauren S. Ryder, Nicholas J. Talbot, Mark James Banfield, Christine R. Faulkner

The paper identifies ChEC108 as a fungal effector that targets plasmodesmata in Arabidopsis, binds HIPP6, and induces plasmodesmal closure to restrict fungal spread.

bioRxiv · Oct 22, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology

An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis

Audrey Creff, Jack Rhodes, Camille Salaün, Julien Larive, Vincent Bayle, Maialen Garmendia-Calvo, Emma K Turley, Tatsuya Nobori, Duarte D. Figueiredo, Benoît Landrein, Cyril Zipfel, Gwyneth Christina Ingram

The paper identifies a peptide signal from the embryo that directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis through a molecular dialogue involving HAIKU2 and WRKY10/MINISEED3.

Science · Sep 3, 2026Peer-reviewedPlant Biology

Computational design of de novo integrated domains enables rational control of pathogen effector recognition in plant NLR immune receptors.

Yuxuan Xi, Angus Bucknell, Joseph L. Watson, Abbas Maqbool, J. R. Bennett, Inna Goreshnik, Dionne K. Vafeados, Michel Sanchez, G. L. Knight, Rafał Zdrzałek, Clemence A. Rodney, Indira Saado, Caroline E. Stone, Emma K Turley, Daniel S. Yu, , Adam R. Bentham

This paper designs de novo integrated domains using AI tools to enable plant NLR receptors to recognize non-cognate pathogen effectors, demonstrating functional immune responses and structural fidelity.

bioRxiv · Jul 21, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology

Novel repressors of cambium activity in Arabidopsis

Xing Wang, Jingyi Han, Emma K Turley, Riikka Mäkilä, Anne-Maarit Bågman, Julia M Kraus, Qing He, Hanan Alhowty, Joanna Edwards, Yuqi Li, Raluca Blasciuc, Wiktoria Fatz, Wenbin Wei, Miguel de Lucas, Siobhán M. Brady, , J. Peter Etchells

The paper identifies three homeodomain zinc-finger transcription factors that repress cambium activity in Arabidopsis by inhibiting auxin, cytokinin, and TDIF-PXY target genes.

bioRxiv · Jan 31, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology

A Necrotizing Toxin Promotes Pseudomonas syringae Infection Across Evolutionarily Divergent Plant Lineages

Kristina Grenz, Khong‐Sam Chia, Emma K Turley, Alexa S. Tyszka, Rebecca E. Atkinson, Jacob Reeves, Martin J. Vickers, Martin Rejzek, Joseph F. Walker, Philip Carella

This study identifies syringomycin as a key necrotizing toxin that enables Pseudomonas syringae to infect diverse plant lineages, including non-flowering species.

Cell Host & Microbe · Dec 19, 2024Peer-reviewedPlant Biology