Kamil Witek

The paper identifies two resistance genes from Solanum americanum that confer resistance to Phytophthora pathogens and shows their NLR cluster evolves in response to multiple pathogens.

The paper identifies Rladg, a potato TIR-NLR receptor that confers broad-spectrum resistance to poleroviruses by recognizing conserved protease structures.

The paper identifies structural features that confer heat tolerance in plant NLR immune receptors and enables in silico classification and engineering of temperature-tolerant variants.

The paper identifies functional NLR resistance genes in plants by combining high expression signatures with high-throughput transformation and phenotyping, confirming new resistance genes against stem rust in wheat.

The paper demonstrates that co-transferring sensor and helper NLRs from Solanaceae to rice, soybean, and Arabidopsis can extend immune receptor functionality across plant families.

This study identifies the Avr gene Avramr1 from Phytophthora infestans using long-read and cDNA pathogen-enrichment sequencing, revealing key insights into effector evolution and polymorphism.

The paper develops NLR-Annotator to identify NLR genes in wheat genomes and characterizes their structure, phylogeny, and expression, finding 3,400 NLR loci with 88% low basal expression.