The hybrid origin of potato tuberization. From: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re excited to share a new CRISPR-Cas12 genome editing system, highly efficient across multiple brown algae species! Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years. We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #CRISPR #Algae

🪱 Calling all Early-Career Nematologists: Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉 If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract. Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z ⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Excellent visualisation of slime molds reaching for food 🧀🫜🥒🍗 Loving the picky one! 🧪 #science #biology

Insects pressed on herbarium sheets...I'm looking for a paper I know exists on the topic, a short essay in a relatively narrow audience bulletin, ca. 1970s-1980s perhaps. Going nuts trying to locate it again.

Congratulations to Professor Julian Hibberd on his election to the @embo.org announced today! tinyurl.com/4b3mnsru @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @jmhibberd.bsky.social 🧪#PlantSci

New paper @natgenet.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... Our most recent thinking on HYP effectors involves programmed shuffling of the parasite genome. This prompted us to review how and when organisms edit their own genomes In so doing, Vincent made two important discoveries... (1/3)

Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. - And the roots are more resistant!

🌱 New review out with @minyaojhu.bsky.social and Dr. Katharina Schiessl. Plants form unique organs, and here, we dive into signal perception, hormone regulation, and organ development of three structures: root-knot gall, rhizobia nodule and haustorium Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.tp...

I am excited to announce I will be starting my lab at IRNASA-CSIC in Spain. Investigating the rhizosphere microbiota and its role in crop nutrition. There are two positions openings: a technician and a postdoc deadline 30th June! www.irnasa.csic.es/postdoctoral... www.irnasa.csic.es/en/technicia...

Japanese researchers unveil how potatoes and microbes outsmart the potato cyst #nematode www.potatonewstoday.com/2025/06/04/t...

Two exciting papers from Shirasu Lab utilizing the *juice* of my favorite biological players—Agrobacterium and nematodes—to investigate receptor profiles! 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🪱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats to the authors! 🥳🤩

We’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM

Check out amazing MPhil plant science student @karenuchida.bsky.social and here lab week in 360° @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk youtu.be/l9-m_JlG6cE?...

Check out these exciting opportunities for a dual award PhD in plant and soil sciences 🤩 at @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... each PhD project will involve at least 1 year spent at each institution - pls repost 🙏

Congratulations to Uta Paszkowski from @cropscicentre.bsky.social - elected to the National Academy of Sciences, USA in recognition of her significant contributions to understanding symbiotic relationships between plants & fungi. @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @paszkowskilab.bsky.social

📻Tune in to the Soil Matters podcast: bit.ly/4jGSLtu to hear Prof Lynn Dicks and Dr Anna Krzywoszynska @unioulu.bsky.social on sustainable soil management in the UK. Missed their paper? You can read it here: bit.ly/4iLnMLI

Congratulations to Hailing Jin, who was elected to @nasonline.org. Interkingdom RNAi is one of the most fascinating discoveries in biology in the last decades. profiles.ucr.edu/hailing.jin

Very happy to see my friend Uta Paszkowski from @cropscicentre.bsky.social elected to @nasonline.org. Improved plant-microbe symbioses are a key puzzle piece in the fight against the #climatecatastrophe (yes, it hasn’t gone away). www.cropsciencecentre.org/staff/uta-pa...

📜 Integrating Arabidopsis and crop species gene discovery for crop improvement 🧑‍🔬 Michael W. Bevan, Klaus F. X. Mayer, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #AppliedPlantScience #Crops #Agriculture #PlantBreeding #PlantGMOs #PlantGenomics

Figure 1. Custom Micro-Roses, engineered in Arabidopsis thaliana 🌹 Top: Visible light, Bottom: Fluorescence (a) White: no pigment (b) Magenta: betalains (c) Pink champagne: betalains + betaxanthins (d) Champagne: betaxanthins

🎉 Thrilled to share that our article on the discovery of MycFOLD effectors in symbiotic fungi ranks among the most viewed papers in @newphyt.bsky.social in 2023! Grateful for the interest - Let’s keep the momentum going! #TopViewedArticle doi.org/10.1111/nph....

This was such a nice surprise! Our review about Aphelenchoides besseyi is in the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the Plant Pathology in 2023! Please, check it out doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13829 @sebastianevda.bsky.social @uprogress.bsky.social

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 opportunity to become an independent researcher with some startup funds for research and travel. careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

I'm very excited our most recent work on plant tandem kinases (TKPs) has finally been published! TKPs are a fascinating protein family conferring disease resistance to fungi. Originally in bioRxiv. Many thanks to @yichangsung.bsky.social for leading this work. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

Have you ever wondered about NPQ in C4 plants? ☀️🪴 Check out the recent pre-print from Lucìa who used to be a PhD student/post-doc in our lab and now works for the @ripeproject.bsky.social in Illinois. She shows that C4 plants have faster NPQ than related C3 plants. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Some of the lab take great pleasure in using themed colour palettes for graphs. This is what @gojonnes.bsky.social chose, and it makes me smile whenever I look at the figures #circadian #totoro

Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello bluesky gang, I've been here for years but never actually posted- I'm a PhD student in Microbiology at the University of Birmingham, mainly looking at bacteriophage and AMR, especially in the gut microbiome! #PhDChat #MicroSky #PhD #BMSSky #AcademicChatter

coolors.co/palettes/tre... Loving this website for picking R colour schemes !! recommended if you are struggling to visualise many things at once!

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Neighbouring arbuscules formed by the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. Makes the rice root look like an apartment block full of fungal inhabitants 🌃🌇

I am happy to introduce this bioRxiv. Stomatal opening is crucial for gas exchange, but it unavoidably offers invasion by pathogens. We found that by coronatine (COR), Pto DC3000 exploits CYP707A1 activation in Arabidopsis thaliana, encoding an enzyme that degrades ABA, for stomatal invasion.

Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 4th of April! Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the PPN mini-symposium at the Hydra Helminths conference this September 🗒️🌱

Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24

Nematodes in potato fields: The silent yield killer – new insights into control strategies www.potatonewstoday.com/2025/03/26/n...

Job alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...

Very nice poster showing genetic engineering of Arabidopsis flowers @icips.bsky.social conference by @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social - great for teaching and outreach

If I target a nuclease to heterochromatin (say with affinity tag that binds heterochromatin marks), will the nuclease work? I heard Cas9 has a hard time getting to heterochromatic targets and MNase cannot access nucleosome bound DNA.

Really cool paper. A TF from soybean cyst nematode is activated by heat stable molecule(s) from root extract and activates effector genes for pathogenicity. From: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Plz RP. The Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network (OMGN) Meeting 2025 is now open for registration! Join us in Cologne to discuss the latest in oomycete biology, genomics & host interactions. Saturday 12 July, before MPMI conference #OMGN2025 #PlantPathology 🔗 omgn2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

important work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Exploring fern pathosystems and immune receptors to bridge gaps in plant immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.18.643875v1

I didn't see that Orthofinder v3 was released a few months ago! github.com/davidemms/Or... Adds --core/--assign, so you can make an initial run with a few diverse species and then add hundreds more later. SUPER useful for our larger fish genomics datasets

Excited to share the fruits of my PhD! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New MAMP from nematodes (derived from a peptide of trehalase), is also found in insects and fungi. Plant immune responses require lectin receptor kinases - LecRK-Vs. Cool! I like the old-school protein biochem for MAMP ID. 🙂 #PlantPathogenInteractions #PlantScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

WE’RE HIRING! Funded 3-year postdoc looking at the impact of chilling on maize 🌽 The project will be looking at chilling responses in roots and shoots 🌱❄️ including the role of ABA and photoinhibition. Applications close 28th March. More details below www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50591/