Thank you all for coming! It was great to have you in Osnabrück this year. Have a safe trip home and we hope to see you all next year in Göttingen. Stay tuned 🌱 #MAdLand2025 #Plantsci

Next, Hannah Lepper from @franzificht.bsky.social lab in Düsseldorf is investigating the enigmatic role of trehalose 6-phosphate during land plant evolution #MAdLand2025

A warm welcome to MAdLand2025, this year taking place in the beautiful botanical garden in Osnabrück 🌱. We are starting with a welcome talk by Sabine Zachgo, introducing us to Osnabrück and the bontanical garden 🌿 Looking forward to exciting talks about #plantsci #MAdLand2025

🌱 Franziska Fichtner (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) presenting: “Trehalose 6-phosphate coordinates sugar status with hormone signalling and plant development” 🌿 Franziska also shared work that was just accepted at JXB, so watch this space! #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

🌱 Part 2 of Session 1: Beginnings & Roots Moritz Göbel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) presenting: “Trehalose 6-phosphate regulates root growth by nutrient allocation towards sink tissues” 🌿 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

🚨 More on FFAT motifs in effector biology 🚨 Pseudomonas effector HopN1 interacts with ER tethering proteins (VAPs) via a FFAT motif. Furthermore, HopN1 interacts with a plant RHO-GTPase, mirroring YopT from the mammal pathogen Yersinia. @igzleibniz.bsky.social #PlantScience doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway Credit : @xkcd.com

TPS Proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 Kinase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670254v1

Happy to meet you at poster no. P-405 and to talk about my project at #2025ISMPMI this afternoon! 🌿

Here, we dissect the processing and release mechanism of the maize phytocytokine Zip1. Our results reveal a two-step mechanism of phytocytokine processing, translocation, activation and clearance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.

Wow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome

"We show that carbon-fixing APs are the most promising candidates to replace native photorespiration in major crop species." Alternatives to photorespiration: A system-level analysis reveals mechanisms of enhanced plant productivity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Check out our new study! We show that Arabidopsis uses the EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 node to trigger rapid yet contained cell death. Key finding: NRG1C variant regulates this process by competing with functional NRG1s. Amazing collaboration between Jijie Chai and Parker Labs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

➡️ New insights into the evolution of the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris involving the genome defense system CRISPR-Cas! www.cell.com/current-biol... Our data wizard 🪄@mpaauw.bsky.social sequenced almost 100 genomes and this is what he found … /

Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet. From the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

It is with great pleasure that I inaugurate my Bluesky account sharing our last @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social at @theustunlab.bsky.social, about pathogen-mediated modulation of host P-bodies and translation. 🆕 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 (1/14)

Happy to share our latest @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social “Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation via ER stress responses and autophagy upon bacterial infection” #proteostasis #plantimmunity 🧵(1/16) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Get a First Look! 👇 🌱🌾Technical Advances Drive the Molecular Understanding of Effectors from Wheat and Barley Powdery Mildew Fungi doi.org/10.1094/MPMI... @izzysaurlab.bsky.social

Here is a preprint with potential interest to those fascinated by host-microbe interactions, abiotic stress adaptation, xylogenesis, P bodies & mRNA turnover, and extended phenotypes induced by microbial effectors: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... (1/5)

Opinion: Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... "politics made distrust for scientists the collateral damage of the half-century-long attack on regulation."

Scientists are starting to study—and debate—how the unique features of Bluesky might affect discussions of research and workplace culture, and efforts to engage with the public. scim.ag/428RTYG

Hey guys, I made a starter pack containing all the @ceplas.bsky.social researchers I could find on Bluesky. Let me know who's missing! go.bsky.app/Uzg3Jg3

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

Great to be able to comment with Jeff Dangl on a couple of important papers published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o... Don’t agree with everything, but it’s a really interesting read.

Happy to share our latest small contribution (we did the cell biology) where we show how an effector targets ER-PM contact sites: XopM, An FFAT Motif‐Containing Type III Effector Protein, Suppresses MTI Responses at the Plant Plasma Membrane bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

So animals aren’t so different from bacteria when it comes to stress induced (random) mutagenesis (e.g., elifesciences.org/articles/22939). What about plants or fungi?

Hey guys, I made a starter pack containing all the @ceplas.bsky.social researchers I could find on Bluesky. Let me know who's missing! go.bsky.app/Uzg3Jg3

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

...and, of course, "activists" destroyed the trial field of the first CRISPR-edited crops grown in Italy. mycrispr.blog/2024/06/21/s... It's always the same with these people, and exactly what orgs like #GreenPeace promote. 🤮 #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs

📢 We have an open #PhD position available to study "Processing bodies as a target of pathogenic bacteria". If you're interested in #proteostasis, processing bodies, plant-microbe interactions apply ♻️🌱🦠🔬 Please share 📢 More info in the ad and here theustunlab.com

📜 Unlocking protein–protein interactions in plants: a comprehensive review of established and emerging techniques 🧑‍🔬 Alvaro Furones Cuadrado, Daniël Van Damme 📔 @jxbotany.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #️⃣ #PlantScience #ProteinInteractions #PlantProteins #PlantProteomics

The newest on #Xanthomonas research from the IGZ in Großbeeren feat. @suaybuestuen.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantimmunity #plantscience