Very nice work from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social showing that challenging old assumptions with new technologies can broad our understanding of viral infection strategies. Pervasive splicing increases the protein repertoire of a plant DNA virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Enjoy reading it!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Color changing flowers 🧬🎨- attempt #2 Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..

Thanks Farid and @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social for inviting us from @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social this year! I had a great time listening to the great talks from my peers at ZMBP and enjoyed the discussions and feedback about my work ☺️ see you again next year!

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

Genomes of brown algae with different sex determination systems show that U/V sex chromosomes evolved 450–224 million years ago and show remarkable conservation of genes within the sex-determining region, despite independent expansions of the sex locus in each lineage www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n @natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to be able to finally share our NLR pangenome paper, out now in CHM. "Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution" www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... #plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr

Fascinating thread! You might enjoy my recent Science piece on AI "gaslighting": www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Super happy to share that I’ve passed my PhD defense! 🍾 It’s been an amazing journey doing my PhD in the Weigel World. Huge thanks to my supervisor, Detlef @plantevolution.bsky.social , even with your crazy schedule, you always made time to guide me. Couldn’t have done it without all your support!!!

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process. #plantscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seen a number of groups working on this, but impressive work to produce transgene free heritable genome editing that avoids tissue culture in monocots. Importantly has potential for a range of species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new preprint led by Sonomi Yamaguchi in our lab describes a bacterial anti-phage defense system named Clover that uses nucleotide signals to both activate and inhibit host immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cajal bodies are membraneless structures with fundamental roles across eukaryotes—but which proteins actually make them up? Using FAPS, Zhou et al. isolated 34 million plant Cajal bodies and profiled their proteome via LC-MS/MS. Curious? Check out our latest preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nature lovers at the #2025ISMPMI will be pleased to learn that earlier today, the Confex Hall Butterfly (apparently an Aglais io) was safely captured by me and released to the flowerbeds outside. Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.

In poster hall not very far away - check out today how the resistance prevents or supports tao opposing factions in their constant pursuit for nutrients. SCAR Wars! - P070 #2025ISMPMI

If you wanna dive into the world of #proteostasis and its role in plant immunity, visit @margotraffeiner.bsky.social poster (P-405) today. She discovered a novel proteotoxicity regulator (a protease with ubiquitin binding capacities) that plays a role in biotic and abiotic stresses! #2025ISMPMI

Excellent talk by So-Yon Park, Cuscuta is transformable! Through the RUBY marker they also show that cuscuta exchanges proteins, mRNA and siRNAs with the host plant! Great to see developments in this field, I loved working with cuscuta in the past. Little green(& red?) snakes⚕️ #2025ISMPMI

If you're interested in ancient conserved immune systems and plant-virus interactions, come chat today at my poster P-227! #2025ISMPMI #🧪 #🌾

Structural motif search across the protein-universe with Folddisco www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Code: github.com/steineggerla... Web app: search.foldseek.com/folddisco

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

Scihub stopped uploading new articles. SciDB is a continuing effort which has the entire scihub collection AND new papers. annas-archive.org/scidb

Just like the 2006 paper by Burch-Smith et al., TRV-VIGS in Arabidopsis is very uniform when infecting in the first 2 true leaves 😊 Hoping it works with my genes of interest!

Yay, vigs does in fact work in Arabidopsis! #plantscience #🌾 #🧪

Detlef Weigel- Max Planck Inst- Tubingen- honored for his lifetime of excellence in research, mentorship, and support of the Arabidopsis community #ICAR2025

Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659391v1

@galofir.bsky.social ancient and novel immune systems in plants 🌱 🧫 #TCTeAC

🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!❤️ LOVE IS LOVE.💙

How do plant viruses cause symptoms? Are these developmental alterations functionally relevant? Man Gao, Enmanuel, et al. found that TYLCV does so through a host-mimicking domain in its C4 protein, co-opting a plant protein family - to attract the insect vector! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Love that RUBY is such a nice reporter, but dislike that the ethanol promoter is suuuuper leaky 😭 at least my hairpin RNA works! Does anyone know of a tighter, systemically inducible promoter? 🙏🙏🙏 #PlantScience #🌾 #🧪

The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence, a joint venture of the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim, is now a reality!! For the next 7 years, we will investigate the principles underlying robustness to perturbations in plants. Stay tuned! greenrobust.de 🍾🥂💚🌱 @dfg.de

Found some wooly aphids, fascinating how they make the tree produce protective bundles of leaves! #plants

Funny to have Audun on the other side of the camera lens this time! Great shot.

A giant virus in the genome of Chlamydomonas - this week in @science.org #plantscience Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Not everything translates from Arabidopsis to crop plants. A group of us had fun considering aspects that have been Lost in Translation. An emerging theme was that still many insights can be gained through comparison with Arabidopsis. academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Abscission zones form at predictable spots in plants. When activated, they trigger structural and physiological changes that detach the organ and seal the exposed area. 🍂🌸🍅 (3/7)

Attended the Trends in Microscopy conference on Wednesday! Current microscopy methods are insane, I was especially impressed by the Huisken lab's Flamingo Lightsheet microscope. Impressive images and a great vision! #academicchatter #science #biology

Does the smell and flavor of strawberries depend on variations in gene-associated transposons? It seems so! Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please spread the word🙏: [PhD Position in Computational Evolutionary Transcriptomics] If you are interested in doing a PhD in gorgeous Scotland on 'Why embryo development goes wrong sometimes?', please consider applying and join our wonderful team in Dundee! www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/opportu...

I did an experiment on microplastic effects on soybean for my bachelor's thesis. Saddened to see that a meta analysis confirms the results I didn't want to believe.

PREPRINT OUT ✨ "hack" your microscope to work as a 3D printer! print micrometer sized features at cm scale. a method for easy and cheap microfabrication, with a focus on biological applications. THREAD ↓ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#plantcommunity I need some help with N. #benthamiana cell biology - what is the PM adjacent structure my protein localizes to in addition to the nucleus? Is it something autophagy related? Green is a GFP tagged gene and purple is chloroplasts

This research shows that cycling eggs in hot and cold temperatures improves texture and nutritional composition a bit compared to sous-vide. So basically thermocycler manufacturers should make block inserts that can fit one egg instead of PCR tubes 👍 nutritional enhancement 😎 rdcu.be/d89PW

Interested in antiviral immunity in plant stem cells? Finding new pathways that keep viruses out? We have an open PhD position in my lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social, follow the link below if the topic piques your interest! Contact me by email if you have questions. #IMPRS #plantvirus #plantPhD

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📜 One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium 🧑‍🔬 Vasili A. Balios, Kirsten Krause, et al. 📔 @annbot.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantParasitism #ParasiticPlants #Cuscuta #Haustoria

Happy to share our recent work about 🥔 pangenome. With HiFi and HiC together, we explore the 31 accessions genome of clonal propagation crops. Not surprisingly, large haplotype diversity hidden on the genome. Lots of breakpoints are TEs. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/7