With no disrespect intended to the authors – Takashi Yaeno et al. – who, at first glance, is able to tell me what the article entitled, ‘Phosphatidylinositol monophosphate-binding interface in the oomycete RXLR effector AVR3a is required for its stability in host cells to modulate plant immunity’  is about? I know, I struggled with it, [...]

Jessica Budke recently published an interesting blog post (Is the Title of your Scientific Publication Important?) about her travails with her second published article: I just had a manuscript accepted for publication with the caveat that I needed to change my title. The comment was that papers with ‘witty’ or ‘cute’ titles are cited less [...]