Was great visiting Ka-Wai @kawaima.bsky.social at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Thanks for having me and for all the joyful, fruitful, and productive discussions!!

Are you expecting a new age of microbiome engineering Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evolution of One Species Increases Resistance to Invasion in a Simple Synthetic Community Microbial Ecology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Discovery of a chromatin-associated complex (CACG) of ~16 proteins that negatively regulates the expression of nutrient-starvation-induced gene. CACG is of course controlled by TOR! #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super cool Pseudomonas-Bacillus interaction paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from Yun Chen with @gabrieleberg.bsky.social Phenazines shape Gram+ abundance & influence Bacillus cell biology Phenazines contribute to microbiome dynamics by targeting topoisomerase IV www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our review article on the "Potential and challenges for application of microbiomes in agriculture" is published @theplantcell.bsky.social [1/n] doi.org/10.1093/plce...

To my friends of the MPMI community, is there a way to minimize microbial aggregation e.g. Streptomyces during the culturing step?

Adaptive pangenomic remodeling in the Azolla cyanobiont amid a transient microbiome | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismejo/wraf154/8216778?login=true

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eBN14

New paper in @nature.com! With @kiseokmicro.bsky.social , Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, Jojo Wang, Mikhail Tikhonov & Madhav Mani — a massive dataset and simple model reveal a few conserved regimes that capture how soil microbiome metabolism responds to perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📜 Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture 🧑‍🔬 Richalynn Leong, Xin He, Bob Sebastiaan Beijen, @dinglab.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @natbiotech.nature.com 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Agronomy #PlantStress #PlantGenomics

Do you know bacteria also have 'fight and flight' responses. I wrote an article summarizing the beautiful work of Carmen Beuzon. rdcu.be/eu8be If you find more interest after reading this short summary, the original article is here rdcu.be/eu8ng

Friends from the MPMI committee. Your vote matters. The race is really tight, but I will testify based on personal experience that Wenbo is actively contributing to the MPMI committee, an advocate for diversity and a supporter for early career scientists including me. www.ismpmi.org/members/Page...

Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant Science Research Weekly -- A broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptide identified from Burkholderia bacterium (Plant Biotechnology Journal) (Summary by Yee-Shan Ku) plantae.org/a-broad-spec... #PlantaePSRW

‼️we are pleased to share the first work coming from my lab on biorxiv. Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

Now online! Crop root bacterial and viral genomes reveal unexplored species and microbiome patterns

Great review from @angelakent.bsky.social and @sierrathescientist.bsky.social on the nitrogen problem in agriculture and microbial solutions sco.lt/5Xwiu0

🌱Announcing 3 More Keynote Speakers for #PMS2025! 🌱 🔬 Manuel Delgado Baquerizo – IRNAS-CSIC 🌱 María J. Pozo – Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC) 🌍 Lucas William Mendes – University of Sao Paulo Join us at #PMS2025 in Malaga in November. Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com

Plant growth promotion through repression of defenses by leaf microbiota @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social Preview by Benjamin Gourion on the recent (below) publication from Gabriel Castrillo www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Congratulations to Jeff Dangl, Jonathan Jones & Brian Staskawicz, winners of the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture! Well done, my friends! www.youtube.com/live/gU8VBaR...

📢 The deadline to submit your abstract for #Rhizosphere6 has been extended to this Friday March 14! Looking forward to see you there!

#PlantScienceClassics #7: The ZigZag Model. 15 years ago @jonathandgjones.bsky.social & Jeff Dangl published their review integrating Pattern/PAMP-Triggered Immunity (PTI) & Effector-Triggered Immunity (ETI) into one unified model of ‘The plant immune system’. doi.org/10.1038/natu...

Deadline extended! You wanted more time, and we heard you. The #2025ISMPMI Congress abstract submission deadline is now March 26. Don’t miss your chance to present your research and connect with top scientists! Submit now: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

This is cool. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Streptomyces are not even in the top 50 most studied and yet they provide so many important molecules including >50% of clinically used antibiotics. Same for TB, the most deadly human pathogen. Do most scientists take the easy route?

PhD on Plant-Microbe interactions with Olga Lastovetsy at @ucddublin.bsky.social

Preprint alert: Here we report MMF1 - "a microbiota receptor” - through which Arabidopsis plants perceive their soil microbiome. Perception optimises root microbiome composition, immune status and ultimately leads to better growth. Happy reading... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Loved this article 😍 Make your own definition of success; don't let others define it for you: www.science.org/content/arti...

Congratulations to Jana Ordon and all coauthors!!! Our new study is published in @natureplants.bsky.social "Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota" (0/n) rdcu.be/eauzt

Something exciting is in line. Stay tuned!

Finally I am here. For old and new friends, please add me if I have not done so!