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H Chhillar, H Schoonbeek, BPM Ngou, JDG Jones, P Ding*. Uncoupling hypersensitive cell death response and disease resistance activated by effector-triggered immunity. bioRxiv. (2025) DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.22.683861

Yuankun Yang, Christina E Steidele, Xianlong Huang, Birgit Löffelhardt, Lili Huang, Jonathan DG Jones, Thorsten Nürnberger, Pingtao Ding, Andrea A Gust*. Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance. Nature Biotechnology. (2025) DOI: 10.1038/s41587-025-02858-8

R Leong, X He, BS Beijen, T Sakai, J Goncalves, P Ding*. Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture. Nature Biotechnology. (2025) DOI: 10.1038/s41587-025-02727-4

H Chhillar, L Jo, A Redkar, K Kajala, JDG Jones, P Ding*. Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity. bioRxiv. (2025) DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.28.662111

H Chhillar, HH Nguyen, PM Yeh, JDG Jones, P Ding*. Modular mechanisms of immune priming and growth inhibition mediated by plant effector-triggered immunity. Cell Reports. (2025) DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115394

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Spatiotemporal transcriptional networks control the plasticity of chickpea root exodermis. bioRxiv. (2025) DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.03.631192

Zhijuan Tang, Shaosong Shi, Ruixia Niu, Yulu Zhou, Zhao Wang, Rongrong Fu, Rui Mou, Suming Chen, Pingtao Ding, Guoyong Xu*. Alleviating protein-condensation-associated damage at the endoplasmic reticulum enhances plant disease tolerance. Cell Host & Microbe. (2024) DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.07.013

Chen Liu, C., Ioannis H Hatzianestis, Thorsten Pfirrmann, Salim H Reza, Elena A Minina, Ali Moazzami, Simon Stael, Emilio Gutierrez–Beltran, Eugenia Pitsili, Peter Dörmann, Sabine D’Andrea, Kris Gevaert, Francisco Romero–Campero, Pingtao Ding, Moritz K Nowack, Frank Van Breusegem, Jonathan DG Jones, Peter V Bozhkov, Panagiotis N Moschou*. Seed longevity is controlled by metacaspases. Nature Communications. (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50848-2 [Open Access]

Sakai, T.*, Chhillar, H., Ding P* ATAC-seq dataset: Chromatin accessibility landscapes activated by cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors. Zenodo. (2024) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10867350 [Open Access]

Liu, C., Chatzianestis, I., Pfirrmann, T., Salim, R., Minina, E., Moazzami, A., Stael, S., Gutierez-Beltran, E., Pitsili, E., Dörmann, P., D'Andrea S., Gevaert, K., Romero-Campero, F., Ding P, Nowack M., van Breusegem, F., Jones,, J.D.G., Bozhkov, P., Moschou, P.* Seed Longevity is Controlled by Metacaspases. Research Sq. (2023) DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2836590/v1 [Open Access]

Zhou, Y., Niu, R., Tang, Z., Mou, R., Wang, Z., Zhu, S., Yang, H., Ding, P., Xu, G.* Plant HEM1 specifies a condensation domain to control immune gene translation. Nat. Plants (2023) DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01355-7

Tang B., Feng L., Ding, P., Ma, W.* Cell type-specific responses to fungal infection in plants revealed by single-cell transcriptomics. bioRxiv. (2023) DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.03.535386 [Open Access]

Jiang, Y.*, Ding, P.* Calcium signaling in plant immunity: A spatiotemporally controlled symphony. Trends Plant Sci. (2023) DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.11.001 [Cover Story]

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Ngou, P.-M.*, Ding, P.* & Jones, J.D.G.* Thirty years of resistance: Zig-zag through the plant immune system. Plant Cell (2022) DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koac041 [Open Access]

Mukhi, N., Brown, H., Gorenkin, D., Ding, P., Bentham, A.R., Stevenson, C.E.M., Jones, J.D.G.*, and Banfield, M.J.* Perception of structurally distinct effectors by the integrated WRKY domain of a plant immune receptor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118. (2021) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113996118

Ding, P.*, Sakai, T., Shrestha, R. K., Perez, N. M., Guo, W., Ngou, B. P. M., He, S., Liu, C., Feng, X., Zhang, R., Vandepoele, K., MacLean, D. & Jones, J. D.* Chromatin accessibility landscapes activated by cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors. J. Exp. Bot. 72 (22), 7927-7941 (2021) DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab373

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Ngou, B. P. M.*, Jones, J. D.* & Ding, P.* Plant immune networks. Trends Plant Sci. (2021) DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.08.012 [Cover Story]

Yuan, M.#, Ngou, B. P. M.#, Ding, P.* & Xin, X.* PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 62, 102030 (2021) DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102030

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Ngou, B.P.M., Ding, P., and Jones, J.D.G. (2021). Channeling plant immunity. Cell 184, 3358–3360 (2021) DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.05.035

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Ngou, B. P. M., Ahn, H.-K., Ding, P.* & Jones, J. D.* Mutual Potentiation of Plant Immunity by Cell-surface and Intracellular Receptors. Nature (2021) DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03315-7

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Duxbury, Z., Wu, C.*, Ding, P.* A Comparative Overview of the Intracellular Guardians of Plants and Animals: NLRs in Innate Immunity and Beyond. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 72, 155-184 (2021) DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-080620-104948

Bjornson, M.*#, Kajala, K., Zipfel, C. & Ding, P.*# Low-cost and High-throughput RNA-seq Library Preparation for Illumina Sequencing from Plant Tissue. Bio Protoc 10, (2020) DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3799

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Duxbury, Z., Wang, S., MacKenzie, C. I., Tenthorey, J. L., Zhang, X., Huh, S. U., Hu, L., Hill, L., Ngou, P. M., Ding, P., Chen, J., Ma, Y., Guo, H., Castel, B., Moschou, P. N., Bernoux, M., Dodds, P. N., Vance, R. E. & Jones, J. D. G. Induced proximity of a TIR signaling domain on a plant-mammalian NLR chimera activates defense in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 117, 18832–18839 (2020) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001185117

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Ding, P.*#, Ngou, B. P. M.#, Furzer, O. J., Sakai, T., Shrestha, R. K., MacLean, D. & Jones, J. D. G.* High-resolution expression profiling of selected gene sets during plant immune activation. Plant Biotechnol. J. 18, 1610–1619 (2020) DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13327

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Ding, P.* & Ding, Y. Stories of salicylic acid: A plant defense hormone. Trends Plant Sci. 25, 549–565 (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.01.004

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Guo, H., Ahn, H.-K., Sklenar, J., Huang, J., Ma, Y., Ding, P., Menke, F. L. H. & Jones, J. D. G. Phosphorylation-Regulated Activation of the Arabidopsis RRS1-R/RPS4 Immune Receptor Complex Reveals Two Distinct Effector Recognition Mechanisms. Cell Host Microbe 27, 769–781.e6 (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.03.008

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Ngou, B. P. M.#, Ahn, H.-K.#, Ding, P.*#, Redkar, A., Brown, H., Ma, Y., Youles, M., Tomlinson, L. & Jones, J. D. G.* Estradiol-inducible AvrRps4 expression reveals distinct properties of TIR-NLR-mediated effector-triggered immunity. J. Exp. Bot. 71, 2186–2197 (2020) DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz571

Castel, B., Ngou, P.-M., Cevik, V., Redkar, A., Kim, D.-S., Yang, Y., Ding, P. & Jones, J. D. G. Diverse NLR immune receptors activate defence via the RPW8-NLR NRG1. New Phytol. 222, 966–980 (2019) DOI: 10.1111/nph.15659

Ding, P.*# & Redkar, A.*# Pathogens suppress host transcription factors for rampant proliferation. Trends Plant Sci. 23, 950–953 (2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.08.010

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Ding, P.*, Guo, H. & Jones, J. D. G.* Deadlier than the malate. Cell Res. 28, 609–610 (2018) DOI: 10.1038/s41422-018-0042-6

Huh, S. U., Cevik, V., Ding, P., Duxbury, Z., Ma, Y., Tomlinson, L., Sarris, P. F. & Jones, J. D. G. Protein-protein interactions in the RPS4/RRS1 immune receptor complex. PLoS Pathog. 13, e1006376 (2017) DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006376

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Ding, P.* & Jones, J. D. G.* Mis-placed Congeniality: When Pathogens Ask Their Plant Hosts for Another Drink. Dev. Cell 40, 116–117 (2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.01.003

Ding, P.#, Rekhter, D.#, Ding, Y.#, Feussner, K., Busta, L., Haroth, S., Xu, S., Li, X., Jetter, R., Feussner, I. & Zhang, Y. Characterization of a pipecolic acid biosynthesis pathway required for systemic acquired resistance. Plant Cell 28, 2603–2615 (2016) DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00486

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Yang, Y., Zhang, Y., Ding, P., Johnson, K., Li, X. & Zhang, Y. The ankyrin-repeat transmembrane protein BDA1 functions downstream of the receptor-like protein SNC2 to regulate plant immunity. Plant Physiol. 159, 1857–1865 (2012) DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.197152

Germain, H., Qu, N., Cheng, Y. T., Lee, E., Huang, Y., Dong, O. X., Gannon, P., Huang, S., Ding, P., Li, Y., Sack, F., Zhang, Y. & Li, X. MOS11: a new component in the mRNA export pathway. PLoS Genet. 6, e1001250 (2010) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001250

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