Kyle Bowler

TL;DR: These findings support the role of cell death-inducing proteins in establishing the infection of necrotrophic pathogens and highlight the recognition of fungal apoplastic proteins by the plant immune system as an important mechanism of resistance against this class of pathogens.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that rhamnose, although only a minor cell wall component, is essential for the pathogenicity of V. dahliae, and further analysis has revealed that VdNRS/ER deletion strains are impaired in the colonization of tomato roots.

TL;DR: An operon is identified and functionally characterized in Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ATCC 35646, which encodes seven different enzymes that together convert UDP-GlcNAc to CMP-pseudaminic acid, a precursor required for the O-glycosylation of flagellin in some pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the accumulation of a minor nucleotide sugar intermediate has such a profound and adverse effect on a fungus, that the ability to identify molecules that inhibit Er enzymes or mimic UDP-KDG may lead to the development of new antifungal drugs.

TL;DR: Gene knockouts of the Bacillus C-methyltransferase and the 4-reductase confirmed their involvement in the formation of cereose-containing glycan on B. cereus spores, and mutants lacking cereose germinated faster than the wild type, yet the mutants exhibited no changes in sporulation or spore resistance to heat.