Inmaculada Hernández‐Pinzón

This study engineers a barley NLR receptor to enhance resistance against rice and wheat blast pathogens by improving its interaction with effector molecules.

This study identifies SCAR genes in barley and shows that inactivating two of them enhances resistance to a pathogen while increasing mycorrhizal colonization, without affecting seed yield.

The paper uses live-cell imaging to show that simple-type starch granules in Brachypodium distachyon arise from multiple amyloplast initiations, challenging the one granule, one amyloplast model.

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 investigates the neofunctionalization of a Poales-specific EXO70 clade, showing HvEXO70FX12 lost exocyst complex association and may play a role in immunity.