Nottingham Uni's plans to dicontinue Plant Biology, Agriculture, Food Science & Microbiology courses come at a time when only 9 UK institutions offer genuinely plant-focused courses (doi:10.1002/jsf2.70001) Please read + sign the Open Letter asking the University to reconsider: tinyurl.com/bdeueuuu

Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham: Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy

Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very exciting to see this out in the world! @tcheaven.bsky.social did some excellent work and I'm happy to have played a (small) supporting role on this project

We are excited to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@matteogravino.bsky.social @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social , @johninnescentre.bsky.social ) on plant-aphid interactions, showing that the aphid effector Mp10 balances suppression of DAMP responses and activation of ETI via EDS1.

🌱 Is UK higher education keeping pace with the critical need for plant scientists? Our new study reveals a concerning gap between national priorities and university curricula. doi.org/10.1002/jsf2... #PlantSciEd #plantscience #plantsci #horticulture #botany #HigherEducation

“unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted”. Sign this statement and make sure that our voices are heard. www.aitrainingstatement.org

Our preprint is now live! We have sequenced the genomes of three psyllid species. These insects pests transmit devastating plant diseases like 'zebra chip' in potatoes and 'carrot yellows' in carrots. 🥕 #MolecularEntomology #MPMI #PlantPathology #psyllids #liberibacter

If you'd like a condensed version of this story, and also another recent preprint from the @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social lab here's a talk I recently gave at the Tulip graduate school in Toulouse youtu.be/9EoC6Zd6f_k?...

We're happy to present a pre-print from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social), describing how a family of proteases in aphid oral secretions suppress plant immunity.

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

Genome dynamics across the evolutionary transition to endosymbiosis. #GenomeDynamics #Endosymbiosis #CurrentBiology #Genomics #Genomics #BioSky #SciSky 🧪🧬 www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is terrifying.