Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Song Lab
Led by Wen-Yuan Song · Plant Pathology
What we study
The Song Lab studies how plants resist diseases like bacterial blight in rice and citrus canker. They study protein kinases, E3 ubiquitin ligases, and transcription factors to improve plant immunity.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Plants
- Bacteria & microbes
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Molecular mechanisms of the plant immune system
Investigating how rice Xa21 gene confers resistance against bacterial blight.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Polyploidy and plant resilience to environmental stresses: Molecular mechanisms and future applications
2026 · Plant Communications
Reviews how polyploidy enhances plant stress tolerance and epigenetic responses.
- Rhomboid-mediated cleavage of the immune receptor XA21 protects grain set and male fertility in rice
2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Finds OsRBL3b protease cleaves Xa21 rice gene, affecting fertility and grain set.
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- Jasmonic acid and abscisic acid compromise XA21-mediated immunity in rice to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
2025 · European Journal of Plant Pathology
- Systems Biology Applications in Revealing Plant Defense Mechanisms in Disease Triangle
2025 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Highlights systems biology in studying plant-pathogen-environment interactions.
- The immune receptor XA21 causes semi-male sterility and grain loss in rice
2025 · Frontiers in Plant Science
Shows Xa21 rice gene causes fertility defects and grain loss at low temperatures.
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