In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be responsible for protein trafficking and secretion. In ...

The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the plant kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis. John Innes Centre researchers took a ...

It's the first known example of a direct interkingdom contact ... It was surprising to see the ER stably associating around the bacteria. As a cytosolic pathogen that exists freely in the cytosol ...