NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫 Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all! Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wounding activates the HSFA1 transcription factors to promote cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679115v1

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(Part 2) “From my first visit, I was struck by the energy and excitement...It feels like being a graduate student again, chasing curiosity wherever it leads." @hhmi.org Investigator David Stern will join the Stowers Institute in Feb. 2026 from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

(Part 1) Hear from @hhmi_news Investigator David Stern about his research program and what he's uncovering in the lab. Stern will join the Institute in February 2026, bringing his lab and HHMI appointment to Kansas City. @hhmi.org Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

It's official! We are moving to Stowers! Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs (Science) @shirasulab.bsky.social @brunongou.bsky.social @yasukadota.bsky.social @BrunoNgou (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/JlJKjJE #PlantaePSRW

We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Meet #NASmember Kyoko Nozaki, a pioneer in homogeneous catalysis, polymerization, and CO₂ activation. Her work melds deep mechanism with bold synthesis for sustainable materials and precision chemistry. Read more in a @pubs.acs.org profile: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share this review on the diversity of resistance in Triticeae. I learned a lot writing it. Heavy lifting by Yinghui Li, Liubov Govta, and @yichangsung.bsky.social with our long-time collaborator Tzion Fahima. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

And now it’s Saskia @SaskiaHogenhout on insect-vectored plant pathogens #SIPaV2025 Saskia is President-elect of the British Society for Plant Pathology @BS_PP

I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 👇

#PlantScience Research Weekly Sept 12 plantae.org/plant-scienc.... How RLKs shape the microbiome; Engineering synthetic RLKs; Plastid-localized amino acid transporter; Tunable mechanics of development through cell walls (1/2)

We are pleased to announce that @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social has been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026 by the @bspp.bsky.social. “I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.” buff.ly/VvoR27Q

I finally sat down to read this and WOW! Fantastic work, congratulations to you and the team.

I am very grateful to Michele & Marc, Takehiro & Dohmae-san, Markus, @yasukadota.bsky.social & @shirasulab.bsky.social for their support. Also big thanks to the reviewers and editors for improving our manuscript!

With this approach, we aim to characterize more PRRs against different pathogens & pests in the future.

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to announce that our latest paper has just been published in Science! ttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx2508

Game-changing biotech for engineering pathogen-resistant crops | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Beautiful work! Well done, Hanna, Haruko, Kiwamu and Co ! rdcu.be/eD6k4

During Brassicales evolution, plants changed their way to synthesize salicylic acid from PAL pathway to IC pathway. The time of IC pathway evolution nicely matches our previous publication. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The >1000 lipid species found in eukaryotic cells have vital functions. Using a combination of microscopy, spectroscopy and modelling, authors report @nature the first quantitative map of retrograde flux of individual lipids in cells.

📣 Massively proud of this ⬇️ great study, led by the brilliant @mesny.bsky.social surprisingly uncovering that many pathogen effectors stem from ancient antimicrobials 🤯 #EffectorWisdom #EvoMPMI

Out in @science.org The crazy sequence of events from planting maize in dense fields. Density-dependent linalool release triggers release of compounds into the soil affecting microbes and plants. Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

Well done, Akira and Co.!

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669221v1

"We resubmitted the paper elsewhere, and for the next 10 years, it was the most cited publication of my career." Dr Juliane Ishida on the importance of perseverance in publishing papers botany.one/2025/08/juli... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Here comes the final version. Congratulations Erika, Yasu, Ken, and all others involved! @yasukadota.bsky.social @shirasulab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exciting preprint! CryoEM structure of plant ROS & quinone receptor CARD1 (also known as HPCA1) reveals it is a copper dependent redox sensor (and cys residues not essential). CARD1 is a member of LRR-RLK clade VIII-1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Well done, Erika and Yasu and co!

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...

Cool one from Anuphon, again Ken's lab @shirasulab.bsky.social former colleague! "Our work reports the first copper-dependent redox receptor" "successfully determined how CARD1 uses Cu+ in CARD1 to perceive ROS ... CARD1 can discriminate between quinone and H2O2" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cryo structure of CARD1 from N. benthamiana transiently produced protein.

Explore the latest research on the molecular battles between plants, nematodes, and parasitic plants in the #2025ISMPMI concurrent session, “Plant Interactions with Nematodes & Parasitic Plants.” bit.ly/3SmrAZ1 Registration closes 7 July! #Nematology #ParasiticPlants

My postdoctoral advisor, Professor Fumiaki Katagiri, will retire this May. My time in his lab was foundational to my career. He was exceptionally intelligent, kind, and patient—and without his guidance, I would not be who I am today.

Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

I'm very excited our most recent work on plant tandem kinases (TKPs) has finally been published! TKPs are a fascinating protein family conferring disease resistance to fungi. Originally in bioRxiv. Many thanks to @yichangsung.bsky.social for leading this work. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have identified a fungal transcription factor, CtBOT6, as a key regulator of the diverse lifestyles exhibited by the root-associated endophyte Colletotrichum tofieldiae along the mutualism–parasitism continuum. Congratulation on @rujimatsu.bsky.social‬! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Cocktail Menu at Insect Bar in Tokyo

Stand up. Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

2 papers in @science.org this week uncover wheat tandem kinase function. Working in parallel, the authors of each paper show that two different tandem kinases converge to activate the same NLR! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

This position may be filled at any time. If you're interested but haven't applied yet, we encourage you to submit your application this week!

#PlantScience in this week's @science.org: A link between the Casparian and establishment of bacterial nodules for N fixation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social

It is real! 🤩 I can touch it (after I printed it). Huge Congrats to everyone involved! 😀

important work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Proud to share our must-read preprint, where we unveil a novel MAMP-immune receptor pair and pioneer the design of synthetic receptors to expand plant immune surveillance. Huge congratulations to @brunongou.bsky.social. I couldn’t be prouder of this breakthrough. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First post on Bluesky!! ☀️ Very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The full story is summarized here:

We cloned 181 from the Pomelo cultivar "banpeiyu" (晩白柚; Citrus maxima). Banpeiyu produces the world’s largest citrus fruits. Here's a photo of me holding a farm-grown banpeiyu from Kumamoto, versus the only single banpeiyu produced by my home-grown baby tree🍊