Claire Stoker is an author on a paper demonstraing that a plant hormone, jasmonate, drives time-of-day differences in susceptibility of Arabidopsis to the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea.

The research, done in collaboration with the University of Cape Town, discovered that plants show different levels of susceptibility to B. cinerea when infected at different times of the day. When plants were infected in the morning they were less susceptible than when they were infected at night. This difference is driven by the circadian clock and relies on the jasmonic acid signalling pathway.

You can read the full paper here and watch a video about this research.