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The Cantó-Pastor lab is dedicated to understanding how plants let some beneficial soil microbes into their roots while keeping pathogens at bay. We develop transcriptomics, single cell-omics, and imaging methods to explore fundamental questions in plant immunity and cell type-specific regulatory mechanisms. Our goal is to provide insight and tools that tackle the global challenges of food security and sustainable agricultural production. We are also interested in questions related to the role of tissue-specific immune responses in hosting beneficial microbes, and the preparedness for pathogen attack that these interactions confer.