Yasuhiro Kadota

Wow, that is a big breakthrough! Congratulations!

Big news from our lab: we can now stably edit the genome of a parasitic plant! Transgene-free, genome-edited P. japonicum in one generation! This will transform how we study #parasiticplants and other hard-to-transform plants.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Identification of Phosphorylation and Protein Interactions of Plant Pattern Recognition Receptors Through Immunoprecipitation Plasma membrane-localized pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) play a crucial role in detecting pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). Among them, leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptor-like kina...

We have published a methods paper describing how to identify cell surface receptor complexes by immunoprecipitation and map their phosphorylation sites.
We hope this protocol will be useful to the community. link.springer.com/protocol/10....

Huge congratulations to Akira on the launch of a microbial pesticide product! Turning fundamental science into real-world agricultural solutions is remarkable achievement — truly impressive work.

クミアイ化学工業、新規微生物殺菌剤「エコアーク」を販売 - 日本経済新聞 【プレスリリース】発表日:2026年01月13日 　新たな微生物農薬「エコアーク(R)」を販売開始！【クミアイ化学】 　 　クミアイ化学工業株式会社（代表取締役社長 : 横山 優、以下「当社」）は、新規微

www.nikkei.com/nkd/company/...

岡山県などの特許技術をつかった微生物農薬　2026年春に販売予定（KSB瀬戸内海放送） - Yahoo!ニュース 岡山県が民間企業と共同開発した特許技術を使った微生物農薬が販売されることになりました。

news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3f0...

A guide to designing cell-surface receptors in plants Cell-surface receptors perceive environmental cues and trigger appropriate responses. In plants, these receptors comprise ectodomain, juxta-membrane, …

We wrote a review on the mᴏdular properties of plant cell-surface receptors, and how this knowledge can be used to reprogram and engineer them:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Well done, Bruno!!!

植物の“センサー”を探る研究者が目指すもの 2025年9月に科学雑誌『Science』に発表された、植物の免疫受容体「SCORE」の発見。SCOREは85%以上の細菌やカビ、昆虫に共通する「低温ショックタンパク質（CSP）」を検知し、免疫反応を誘導します。

www.riken.jp/pr/closeup/2...

And we’re off with Professor Cecile Segonzac opening Stromlo meeting! #strompath25

And next up we have @yichangsung.bsky.social from @gittacoaker.bsky.social lab talking about tandem kinases … #strompath25

Privileged to have @yasukadota.bsky.social present at the Stromlo conference on the SCORE receptors … brilliant story. #strompath25

Pomelo on tatami as the cover of RIKEN Research www.riken.jp/medialibrary...

Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs | Plantae Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are abundant genes that have diversified and expanded throughout plant evolution, with most plants having hundreds or more RLKs. In this exciting new paper, Ngou et al.

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs (Science) @shirasulab.bsky.social @brunongou.bsky.social @yasukadota.bsky.social @BrunoNgou (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/JlJKjJE

#PlantaePSRW

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

this research is potentially also interesting to botanical industries (herbalist, food, cosmetics, cannabis, etc.) and maybe even to pharma, because a lot of the botanically derived extracts those industries use come from plant immune systems and their structure and function against pathogens.

Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs | Plantae Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are abundant genes that have diversified and expanded throughout plant evolution, with most plants having hundreds or more RLKs. In this exciting new paper, Ngou et al.

Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs

plantae.org/discovery-an...

BIK1-RIN4 complex links plant immunity and pathogen virulence Plants deploy receptor-like cytoplasmic kinases (RLCKs) and the immune hub protein RIN4 to coordinate PAMPs-triggered immunity (PTI). Here, we show that BIK1, but not its close homolog PBL1, dynamical...

BIK1-RIN4 complex links plant immunity and pathogen virulence

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

理研、植物が病原体からの「危険サイン」を検知するセンサーの役割を持つ免疫受容体をさまざまな種から探索する方法を開発 - 日本経済新聞 【プレスリリース】発表日:2025年09月05日病原体を見分ける植物のセンサーをデザイン―免疫受容体を人工設計し新たな病原体の認識を可能に―【概要】理化学研究所（理研）環境資源科学研究センター植物免疫研究グループの白須賢グループディレクター（環境資源科学研究センター副センター長）、ブルーノ・ポクマン・ゴウ基礎科学特別研究員、門田康弘専任研究員らの国際共同研究グループは、植物が病原体から

理研、植物が病原体からの「危険サイン」を検知するセンサーの役割を持つ免疫受容体をさまざまな種から探索する方法を開発 - 日本経済新聞 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Thanks!

Game-changing biotech for engineering pathogen-resistant crops Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have identified an ancient protein, which they have named SCORE, that has the potential to help defend plants against t...

Game-changing biotech for engineering pathogen-resistant crops | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

病原体を見分ける植物のセンサーをデザイン | 理化学研究所
www.riken.jp/press/2025/2...

Excited to announce that our latest paper has just been published in Science!

ttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx2508

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With this approach, we aim to characterize more PRRs against different pathogens & pests in the future.

I am very grateful to Michele & Marc, Takehiro & Dohmae-san, Markus, @yasukadota.bsky.social & @shirasulab.bsky.social for their support. Also big thanks to the reviewers and editors for improving our manuscript!

Registrations are rolling in for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology meeting in Canberra (Nov 27–28)! Secure your spot! Speakers: @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecille Segonzac, @thamlab.bsky.social, @yichangsung.bsky.social, Tek Tay & @danielsyu.bsky.social. Register at tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2
#strompath25

A cell wall-associated kinase phosphorylates NLR immune receptor to negatively regulate resistosome formation - Nature Plants The discovery of the resistosome was a milestone in plant immunity. Here, Zhong et al. identify a kinase that phosphorylates the NLR, and reveal how this kinase regulates resistosome assembly to fine-...

🌱 From Nature Plants: Phosphorylation of NLR immune receptors by a cell wall–associated kinase limits resistosome assembly, fine-tuning plant immune responses. (Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar)

▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PlantBiology #PlantScience

Our new work uncovering how WIND1 promotes somatic embryogenesis as a bifunctional chromatic regulator!!!!

We knew WIND1 promotes new fate acquisition and now we show WIND1 also helps repressing existing identity!

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669221v1