Key Projects Undertaken

Conserved effectors and plant responses during gall formation [Active]

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Secretome of gall forming microbes

We used AlphaFold2 to elucidate the structural landscape of the secretome of taxonomically distant gall forming microbes read paper

T2T genome of clubroot pathogen

We used a combination of short and long read sequecning technologies to get the complete T2T genome of Plasmodiophora brassicae which is currently designated as the reference genome of the species read paper

Identification of clubroot R gene

We conducted GWAS on Arabisopsis natural accessions to map and clone a non-NLR R gene named RPB1 which confers broad-spectrum resistance to various clubroot pathotypes read paper