Enhancing NLR activation by endophytes carrying recognized effectors that are expressed in the presence of ROS. #plantimmunity www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Our editors write: - "Plant immunity: Engineering RLP receptors from the C side" rdcu.be/ePaS1 A brief highlight of this Article in @natbiotech.nature.com : "Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance" about swapping C-term domains rdcu.be/ePaTW

We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research. 📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... www.schornacklab.net

Cool new paper on receptor specificity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱 Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

🚀 New preprint! We introduce K-PROB, a k-mer–based Bayesian framework that mines pangenomic promoter and expression diversity to predict cis-regulatory elements driving gene expression variation in crops 🌽🌱 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684862v1 #Genomics #GeneRegulation #Maize #Soybean

The work is led by @weiweibio.bsky.social, a talented postdoc looking for faculty positions now and conceptualized both computational prediction and in lab validation. Computational implementation is a collaboration with Xing Wu, postdoc with @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social Qs - contact us 💻🌱🧬

N-hydroxy-pipecolic acid-mediated signal transduction and resistance requires DAWDLE url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Excited that our paper was just published! It's a revised version with new insights compared to the preprint. Thanks everyone from the @carahaney.bsky.social Lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Simon's mutant finally published! Well done, Satoko' lab with Harro, Tobimatsu, Tohge collaborations. Glucosylation of endogenous haustorium-inducing factors underpins kin avoidance in parasitic plants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Humbly share our latest work led by @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social my phd student And thanks to all collaborators Henk-jan @brunongou.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social

Some of my favourite research from my PhD was submitted today... I feel very lucky to have worked on this project with such wonderful scientists (and lovely people!) Please check it out on bioRxiv here👇🌱🦠

📣 New @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint, another joint-venture of @wolki95.bsky.social & @antonkraege.bsky.social, co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social. Here’s a 🧵

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Uncovering Convergent Pattern Recognition Receptors Recognising Phytophthora Across Plant Lineages doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

Recognition of a phytocytokine by the DEPR1-SERK2 receptor complex confers multi-pathogen resistance in wheat #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱 #EvoMPMI #MPMI Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱

Nataliia Rybchenko from @kwsgroup.bsky.social Ukraine presented her 'Sunflower' documentary at the #KWSScienceSlam. Ukraine is the global leader in sunflower oil production, but amid the war, the sunflower has also become a symbol of freedom for Ukraine. Documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u2U...

🌽 Maize vs. Fusarium 🌽 Overexpressing a maize lipoxygenase (ZmLOX4) boosts resistance to Fusarium infection. Glad that our maize Gene editing & transformation platform, at @rdplab.bsky.social, contributed to this research, led by the Lanubile's Lab. ▶️ doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680679v1

💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡 Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @marischuster.bsky.social @aciattoni.bsky.social

Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Have you noticed someone new here? 👇 Welcome @mpcontreras.bsky.social, our new junior group leader at the ZMBP! #newPI #plantscience #MPMI

🧵How does a pathogen know it has entered its host? New preprint!🎉It’s a pleasure to share my first first-author preprint from my PhD journey! We uncover a novel co-evolved peptide–GPCR system in the fungus Ustilago maydis that senses host entry and triggers infection (doi.org/10.1101/2025...) (1/5)

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...

A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Couldn’t make it to Cologne? No problem—IS-MPMI Rewind is here! Get access: https://bit.ly/4mDryZg Members: $49 | Nonmembers: $79 Congress attendees can access Rewind as part of their registration. #2025ISMPMI #ISMPMIrewind

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

Now published in Plant Pathology. 'Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors' - Talbi - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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...

Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases mediate Wall Teichoic Acid perception in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677107v1

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

New: ‘Kronos’ #wheat genome preprint • PacBio+Hi-C; 99.9% BUSCO • 2.3k curated NLR loci (1,089 high conf) • 3k EMS datasets re-mapped; 📈 new mutations • Curated smallRNA atlas 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... zenodo.org/records/1021... #genomics #openscience team effort led by Dr Kyungyong Seong 💫

Just 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

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...

Happy to share our pre-print!

An apoplastic fungal effector disrupts N-glycosylation of ZmLecRK1, inducing its degradation to suppress disease resistance in maize doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Resistance gene enrichment sequencing refines the Brassica napus NLRome url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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/...

More fruits of studying natural variation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): an interesting genetic basis for insensitivity to caterpillars' In11 elicitor 🐛 Our new bioRxiv preprint from star technicians Brian Behnken and Wesley George below 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations @brunongou.bsky.social @shirasulab.bsky.social and colleagues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

EFSA just released their first scan of new scientific data on #NGTs, confirming that no new hazards or risks were identified beyond those previously considered. Fulll report accessible via the link 👇