The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Midst of the labs Genetics publish-athon from @ccaseys.bsky.social. Infecting a population on host genotypes spread across 8 dicots we could show that a generalist pathogen has both generalist and specialist genes url:https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/doi/10.1093/genetics/iyaf079/8158657

Really neat paper out in @nature.com on an efficient way to produce doubled haploids in sunflower, thanks to the serendipitous discovery of spontaneous haploid parthenogenesis. That might be the least intelligible sentence I have ever written - great science communication Marco! tinyurl.com/yxwc2a5v

Recruitment time! You're a junior postdoc and want to discover and produce bioactive fungal metabolites that are involved in the chemical warfare between fungi and plants? Then apply here! jobs.vib.be/j/108923/pos...

📜 Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation 🧑‍🔬 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social, Amanda Agosto Ramos, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social 📔 Current Opinion in Plant Biology 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMetabolites #Glucosinolates

📝 Fungal Friends Help Young Trees Thrive in Mixed Forests 🧵 https://doi.org/n249 Young spruce trees grow better with pine neighbours thanks to underground helpers. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

Fantastic opportunity: 🚀 Calling early-career scientists! Apply for the 2025 ELISIR Scholar at EPFL. From outstanding PhD straight to group leader. Join an interdisciplinary research community to conduct independent research in any area of #lifesciences in Lausanne, CH 👉 go.epfl.ch/ELISIR

New preprint! I always wondered: How much diversity do pathogens have within a single field? This important to assess the risk of resistance breakdown or spread of fungicide resistance . Together with colleagues from BASF we looked into this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meet the fungi that live in the sea

Cool, elegant paper. Inverted repeat transposon near EFR affects chromatin organization and gene expression to fine-tune immune responses. #MPMI #plantimmunity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I feed plants to a eat-it-all fungus

New! @jenncoughlan.bsky.social kindly shared their MIRA NIH award with our github repo. If you have a successful grant app you're willing to share, please contribute! github.com/RILAB/statem...

Could fungi actually cause a zombie apocalypse? https://buff.ly/49XzsrR #CuriousKids

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE TO ALL WHO OBSERVE! (Happy summer solstice to the rest of you.)

🌱 Tamera Taylor, Jiregna Daksa, Alexander Chen, Siobhan Brady and Dorota Kawa collaborated on a discussion of how #microbiomes offer hope against Striga in #sorghum. This study explores how soil microbes suppress this parasitic weed in Sub-Saharan crops. ▶️ bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...

🍇 Dario Cantu, Mélanie Massonnet and Noé Cochetel collaborated on ways wild grape #genomics unlocks climate resilience for viticulture. Advances in pangenomics & haplotype analysis reveal traits for disease resistance, adaptability, & sustainability. ▶️ www.cell.com/trends/genet... #ClimateAdaptation

Important piece by @mikegrunwald.bsky.social. Food systems convos can get polarized between “boost yields” vs “reduce env. harms” vs “change consumption patterns.” The reality, as this piece describes, is that the 🌎 needs to do it all to feed 9-10 billion people while protecting nature & climate.

HI old friends! Finally took the leap here to say I have several open positions going in my lab at the moment (and more to come). 1) PhD studentship in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (genomics) 2) Biochemistry Postdoc to understand how Starships move Check out the links below!

It's online! If you missed yesterday's Plant Physiology focus issue webinar on Root Development, don't worry, you can watch the recording here. @hhtormar.bsky.social @idane.bsky.social youtu.be/1q_Z9PI8_Is?... #PlantSci academic.oup.com/plphys/issue...

"Sit down and enjoy the coffee" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🔬 Maeli Melotto, Brianna Fochs and, Zachariah Jaramillo explore stomata: a plant’s frontline defense against pathogens. Learn how plants & pathogens battle for survival at this critical gateway. ▶️ www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #PlantImmunity #CropScience #PlantPathology

Our first Bluesky post contains some good news for #fungi! After a long history of being unprotected, COP16 marked a huge advancement in the conservation of fungi. 🍄🥳 Thanks to work led by our partners at Fungi Foundation, The Fungal Conservation Pledge was introduced at #COP16. bit.ly/3Vl9GHL

What scares me about natural disasters like #earthquakes is how unreliable the notification system seems to be. Why are half of the people notified and the other half get no messages? Is it about phone brands, networks? Is it about settings on the phones? Is it about authorizing localization?

new preprint from the lab! Elli Cryan, coadvised but the inimitable @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, does a deep dive into the GA incompatibility loci in maize, finding complex haplotypes, overturning evolutionary origins, and discovering a paramutation system! A 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I have been in North America for 10 years but I don't have #thanksgiving traditions nor family to share a full meal with. However, I really love pumpkin pie. Here is how it is starting this morning. Thankful for this beautiful butternut squash

What helped during the last admin was a slack for international scholars across institutions, so that we knew pretty fast what was going on. Also exchanged names of immigration lawyers, advices, news. Made things a bit easier, removed a tiny bit of the burden and it felt less alone

So, #AcademicSky, are you telling international students/other mentees not to travel after Jan 20th? I have a postdoc from China I am worried about, trying to figure out what to put into place in case she is deported. Based on this article and others: wesleyanargus.com/2024/11/18/u...

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Hi 👋 I’m Anna, a PhD candidate at UC Davis. I work on interactions between plants and Botrytis cinerea with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social. I am interested in what generalist pathogens can tell us about diverse host chemical defenses, and how one pathogen can take them all on 🥊

Plant biologists! We need you! We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science. Please check here and shared widely: forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3... #PlantSci

First steps on Bluesky. Let's see how much enthusiasm I can raise to send contributions to our upcoming focus issue on Metabolism in Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social

I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RE-POST + SHARE!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/pla...

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Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

My work on a pangenome for the hexaploid oilseed crop Camelina sativa is now out early access in Genetics! This young polyploid genome has a small pangenome to match it's low SNP diversity, but regained lost diversity by packing in all the unique genes from its 3 diploid progenitors.