Anthropic’s AI for Science Program Apply by 15 July www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Important news! The new ISMPMI website is live! Visit the site to get society news, watch posted videos, listen to our podcasts, become or manage your membership and more. ismpmi.org

Registration is now open for our next Road to Jeju Webinar featuring Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. lnkd.in/gMeN7F94 Join us on July 29. Speakers will be announced soon. Thanks to our sponsors GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences, and the British Society for Plant Pathology.

‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...

Attention ECRs: Deadline for self nominations to present in the next Rising Stars of IS-MPMI @ismpmi.bsky.social webinar is TODAY! PhD students and postdocs — don't miss your chance to share your research with the global MPMI community! Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How plants form their stomata – and are thereby able to save water, was described in May by a team of plant scientists around Christopher Grefen and Khushbu Kumari , from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koag150 news.rub.de/english/pres...

Very happy this is now published in full! Symbiotic phosphate transporter dynamics in rice expose functional plasticity of the arbuscules www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread of some of our findings (and timelapses) below 🧵🔬🎥

Defining the Xanthomonas euvesicatoria type II-secreted effector arsenal: core nutritional functions and effector diversity @ericksonlab.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...

This Wednesday: Roger Innes opens the Road to Jeju webinar series! "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?" Decades of foundational work on plant immunity. Road to Jeju is supported by @getgenome.bsky.social, with this seminar sponsored by @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱 Register 👇

Conserved symbiosis-associated genes in the cycad Encephalartos natalensis suggest co-option for cyanobacterial symbiosis nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Marchantia has two RBOHs. Double mutant = disorganized cell mass. Conditional mutant analyses show they are required to sustain morphogenesis via cuticle-cell-wall integrity. Clever study. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Homology of the dark cells of Paleozoic liverworts with the specialized oil body cells of modern liverworts (Marchantiophyta) Tremblay and Mercadal nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BWYYSE...

🛡️🦠 RESEARCH PAPER 🦠🛡️ The defense-inducing compound N-hydroxy pipecolic acid is a major substrate for the methyltransferase PbBSMT of Plasmodiophora brassicae - Benade et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

At day 2 of the New Phytologist workshop in Angers, several cool talks on symbiotic regulation between land plants and different fungi. Impressive that mucoromycotina fine root endophyte seems to be different from AMF, according to Sebastian Schornack. @dromius.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social

I am quite excited about this new Agro strain AS109: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... I am just wondering if anyone has tried transient expression with this in A. thaliana?

#ISMPMI members, please read the president's letter about changes to becoming self managed and opportunities to volunteer. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#IS-MPMI members- our new temporary website is up while our new one is under constructions. Visit our site to renew or become a member, donate,and find out about events. ismpmi.org

#IS-MPMI Interested in how discoveries in the plant-microbe field have been translated to the real world? Check out our YouTube channel. We’ve just posted the ISMPMI Translational Science Workshop from 2021. Available to the public for the first time. www.youtube.com/@is-mpmi3587

Hoheneder F, Steidele CE, Gigl M, Dawid C, Hückelhoven R ( 2026) Transcriptome and hormone regulations shape drought stress-dependent Fusarium Head Blight susceptibility in different barley genotypes. PC&E 70566 doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Very proud to share our new paper led by Mathias Brands from my team at @UniCologne! With Markus Pauly team @HHU. Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan limits immune activation and facilitates mutualistic colonization of monocot roots: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Cell-type-resolved transcriptional reprogramming in resistant soybean roots reveals cambial activation and early syncytium initiation upon nematode infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717279v1

New Preprint! Engineering quantitative root disease resistance in barley by targeting conserved SCAR susceptibility genes without compromising seed yield or mycorrhizal symbiosis. This work has been led by @binebrumm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧵1/X 🚨New Preprint🚨 Root pathogens are hard to manage, and we know little about plant genes enabling infection (susceptibility genes). Here, we show that SCARs are susceptibility factors in barley roots - and their loss affects pathogens/symbionts in distinct ways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

Orto Botanico Padova - the oldest botanic garden

The Leibniz University Hannover/Germany has an open position for a Professor for Molecular Phytopathology (W2TTW3)! Apply before April 27. Please forward this! Contact me for questions. See you in Hannover! 😃🎓🪴🌾🌱🌽🥬🦠🧪🧫🧬🔬🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👍 www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/8410/ (EN) www.uni-hannover.de/de/jobs/8410/ (DE)

New Opinion with @iamjawaharsingh.bsky.social @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social No Phosphate, less nitrogen fixing symbiosis and nodules, regardless of nitrogen status. PHR-L7 represses NIN in Common bean under phosphate starvation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment. (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New paper from the lab. Important insights into the compartmentalisation of terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia oil body cells. #PlantScience #SynBio www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A wonderful, friendly, productive and dynamic network 100 percent recommended. 😀😀

LIN oppositely affects Phytophthora infection in Medicago. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The LIN and LINL E3 ligases redundantly regulate AM symbiosis and nodulation Lu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3MJMQK...

Plants do not just turn red when stressed: pathogen-induced red pigmentation actively boosts disease resistance through protective anthocyanins in Asteraceae #FlavonoidFriday (doi.org/10.64898/202... & shorturl.at/TolZT)

Rhizoid‐mediated phosphate uptake and internal transport in the non‐vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

🍃 BRIEF COMMUNICATION 🍃 Pathogens infect plants to access their nutrient resources and reproduce. Here, Prior, Weidauer et al. find that a transporter for neutral amino acids constitutes a susceptibility factor for the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

#SchoBozKa 2026

Today’s seminar @slcuplants.bsky.social by @pdchristine.bsky.social is on the cell-to-cell communication upon biotic stress - a crucial aspect of plant multicellular life.

Rooting for roots? #PlantScience Join us online for the Mini Symposium of the International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social Register here for free: tinyurl.com/yzeddrjx Programme👇

Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)

Project Name: DIY Plant Walls: Engineering Plant Cell Size and Material Strength using Fungal Proteins Supervisors: @dromius.bsky.social & @robinsonsci.bsky.social Application Deadline: 5pm Monday 19 January 2026 Start Date: 1 October 2026 More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 2/3🧵

🚨Two fully-funded #PhD positions🚨 Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬 Find out more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/PhD Pls share #plantscijobs 1/3🧵

New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Check out amazing confocal images by @alexguyon.bsky.social, former member of @dromius.bsky.social lab and now postdoc in Maria Harrison’s group. He managed to image haustoria from a pathogen and arbuscules from a symbiont in the same cell! 🤩

Thanks for highlighting our work @marywilliams521.bsky.social

Plant Science Research Weekly -- New tools to study an old mycorrhiza (PNAS) @chistinesd.bsky.social @dromius.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/a36EjVv #PlantaePSRW

A SABATH family enzyme regulates development via the gibberellin-related pathway in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693594v1

Non-seed science is accelerating forwards at a truly impressive rate. Thanks to @philcarella.bsky.social and Kayla Robinson for an awesome #nonseedUK25 meeting, and to @justingoodrich.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social for agreeing to organise #nonseedUK26 in Edinburgh - looking forward to it 👍