A tomato MIK2-clade receptor is involved in the perception of a Fusarium-derived elicitor Maroschek et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

With a bit of delay, but my latest work on engineering a sensor for plant proteolysis was published online in The Plant Cell (1/5).

Today, the European Parliament voted in favour of new regulations for NGT-derived plants! 🌱💚🧬 This is a huge success, since these technologies can help accelerate plant breeding for increased stress resistance and contribute to more sustainable agriculture. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Damage limitation... van Wüllen et al. @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social explore the role of #phytohormones during the various stages of parasitism, expose knowledge gaps in the field, & propose novel strategies to help limit agricultural damage by parasitic plants doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

Developmental diversification re-patterns basal antiviral immunity across plant cell types. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725958v1

CARD1 cryo structure now on Nature Comm. Well done, Nobu and Anu! rdcu.be/fjrIq

Excited to share our latest piece in Trends in Plant Science! 🌱🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We highlight how single-cell laser ablation reveals plant development, wound responses, and root defenses. @TrendsPlantSci @KAUST_BESE @ESNematologists @umeaplantscie ncecentre.se #PlantScience

Breakthrough discovery in the field of peptide-receptor kinase signaling in stomatal development🌱. Six partially-redundant subtilases producing mature EPF1/EPF2 pepetide to enforce stomatal patterning @natplants.nature.com 🥰 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not only will heat harm crop plants, but farmers and livestock (animals) and fish too. I know you know, but articles like this help raise awareness of the coming challenges and why it's imperative that we act yesterday, today, and tomorrow to prepare. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This is WILD (& microbes rock 🎸) “These findings […] revealing a protein-templated mechanism for sequence-specific DNA synthesis.” Take that, central dogma! 🧪 “Protein-templated synthesis of dinucleotide repeat DNA by an antiphage reverse transcriptase” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant-parasitic nematodes produce functional mimics of plant PSK peptides to facilitate parasitism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.04.713059v1

🍅 Miao et al. characterize FolCP1b, a cerato-platanin effector secreted by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. 🛡️Find out how this intracellular virulence factor disrupts host defenses & protects other Fol effectors. 💥 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci

Professor Luis A. del Río: a life devoted to understanding ROS and RNS in plant peroxisomes - José Palma & Francisco Corpas 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 🍅 RALF peptides & CrRLK1L receptors shape fruit ripening Read how these networks coordinate cell wall remodeling, hormones, and pathogen susceptibility ➡️ biotech opportunities ✍️Montano et al @veroglez.bsky.social @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70766

#ImageOfTheMonth March 2026 Dividing Arabidopsis epidermal cells imaged by confocal microscopy after expansion. Microtubules guided cell plate formation revealed in 3D with depth-code. Image: Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @gtexm.bsky.social #Microscopy #PlantScience #CellBiology

The trans-Golgi network adaptor protein 4 complex contributes to basal defense and immunity mediated through plasma membrane and intracellular immune receptors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

metaRLK 2.0: an updated database of plant receptor-like kinases developed with structure- and deep learning-based functional annotation and classification #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

⚙️Technical Advance How are plasmodesmata distributed across tissues? 🌱 Davis et al. developed a 3D quantitative imaging pipeline to map pit fields at cell-type resolution in Arabidopsis roots. They’re developmentally reallocated and spatially patterned by BR signaling. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70726

🌱📊 RESEARCH 📊🌱 GOLVEN10 increases Medicago lateral root branch angle and reduces the gravity setpoint angle. A GWAS identified causal SNPs and that GOLVEN10 signaling interacts with ethylene to control root waving – Parmar et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

An apoplastic Lasiodiplodia theobromae effector triggers plant immunity through a lectin receptor-like kinase in peach (Jian Meng , Dongmei Zhang , Siwei An , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

📷⚙️ TECHNICAL INNOVATION ⚙️📷 Ohad & Meroz developed a modular camera-based system to measure weak forces generated by freely moving plant organs. It measures the force projected on two axes, is cost-effective, modular & accommodates a wide range of organism scales. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

New OA Resource: "Motif-based substrate mapping of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase BIK1 reveals novel components and regulatory nodes of plant immunity" rdcu.be/e29Ro ...define and use the phosphorylation motif of BIK1 to find novel substrate candidates.

Ubiquitin recognition integrates plant immune signaling by cell-surface and intracellular receptors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.703835v1

Multi-omics analyses of mutants for Marchantia polymorpha FERONIA and MARIS reveal a link between cell wall integrity and abscisic acid responses url: academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...

Identification of a putative RBOHD-FERONIA-CRK10-PIP2;6 plasma membrane complex that interacts with phyB to regulate ROS production in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.23.689998v1

Smoking...! Xu et al. present Nicotiana multi-dimensional omics database - NMOD biodb.com.cn/NMOD/index.h..., a user-friendly database integrating tools useful for research into disease resistance mechanisms & molecular breeding in #tobacco 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #DatabasePaper💻 #PlantScience🌱

Great to see past, current and future work from @danielvandamme.bsky.social today in Zürich. Big things ahead!

Preprint from @dfg.de #GoPMF. All 🌱 scientists love to get their hands on pure protein, quickly produced in 🪴. However, purification can take too long, involve many steps or requires pricey reagents. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social , we established Catch & Release. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An elevated environmental temperature impairs accumulation of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683271v1

The CAPE1 peptide confers resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

The immune NIK1/RPL10/LIMYB signaling module regulates photosynthesis and translation under biotic and abiotic stresses. https://rdcu.be/eoaYf