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Engineering climate stress resilience and pathogen resistance in plants. LSRF fellow in the Ronald lab @UC Davis. PhD in Wnt signaling @Stanford.
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Former USDA employee (and a UC Davis colleague) terminated days before her due date: "We wouldn't have food without our farmers. A lot of us working for the USDA, that's what we do, we support American farmers" abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...

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Stand Up for Science 2025 in Sacramento, March 7th Let's gooo www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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We're celebrating our 10th anniversary this year and remembering some great moments from the past decade! In February 2022, IGI's Pam Ronald won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for her “pioneering work on disease resistance and environmental stress tolerance in rice.” Read more: ow.ly/kAqe50UPW9s

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A tour de force starting with C. elegans juice that identified a nematode peptide MAMP-plant immune receptor pair

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I'm very excited to share my first graduate research project! Check out our preprint which describes how data generated with directed evolution can be used to model the phenotypic effects of naturally-evolved sequence variants. (1/11) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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This is wild. A fungal pathogen-secreted molecule can transdifferentiate bundle sheath into xylem, increasing water content of plant host under drought stress. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Review of CRISPR-edited crops - personal favorite is non-browning avocados!

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In her second paper Flor and team (collaboration with Lingdong Shi and Jill Banfield) showed that reduced methane emissions in transgenic rice genotypes are associated with altered rhizosphere microbial hydrogen cycling. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Flor and team also have two new papers! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kudos to Ellen Rim and team on their fantastic new paper describing a HTP approach for generating new immune specificities. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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