About the Authors

Federico G. Mirkin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Sam T. Mugford

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Vera Thole

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UH, Norwich, UK

Affiliation Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Mar Marzo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Saskia A. Hogenhout

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

saskia.hogenhout@jic.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SAH receives funding from industry on phytoplasma effector biology. Two patents based on the SAP05-mediated ubiquitin-independent degradation have been published (International Publication Numbers: WO2022/129621 and WO2024/256685). FGM, STM, VT, and SAH have also filed patent applications related to the work described in this manuscript.