A mechanistic framework for the recognition of chemically diverse brassinosteroids by BRI1-family receptor kinases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The sTDIF signaling peptide modulates the root stele diameter and primary metabolism to accommodate symbiotic nodulation: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

New alleles of Arabidopsis BIK1 reinforce its predominant role in pattern-triggered immunity and caution interpretations of other reported functions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us for the 🪴 🌵 Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2025 ☘️ 🪴 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8th-10th September #plantsignaling #PlantScience #plantsci pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk @pprm2025.bsky.social A thread 🧵 (1/n)

Multiplexed profiling of transcriptional regulators in plant cells

Very informative talk by @katherinedenby.bsky.social, EiC of @theplantjournal.bsky.social, on scientific publishing in the #PlantSciences. #MBP2025 Her points on how to choose a journal to publish in are below. Happy to see that my favorite journals fit the bill. 👌

PRESS RELEASE - Professor Uauy appointed as Director of the John Innes Centre Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Professor @cristobaluauy.bsky.social has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre. www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... @ukri.org

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

A trehalase-derived MAMP triggers LecRK-V-mediated immune responses in Arabidopsis

Endogenous RALF peptide function is required for powdery mildew host colonization

Immunity gene silencing increases transient protein expression in Nicotiana benthamiana

Lighten up your life! We built a “darkbox” with a CCD camera to image bacterial infections across entire trays of Arabidopsis plants. Our technical advance with Python image analysis pipeline out now! @havandenburg.bsky.social @nwtaks.bsky.social bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation

Transposon-triggered epigenetic chromatin dynamics modulate EFR-related pathogen response www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share our work on an unusual EXO70 clade unique to grasses and grass-like species 🌾! (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

We found that in addition to lacking structural requirements for exocyst complex formation, EXO70FX12 lacks exocyst subunit associations in yeast, Nicotiana benthamiana, and barley. (6/8)

An immune signalling holiday tale: A Poales-specific EXO70 clade doesn't fit in with the extended family. #PlantScience

Happy to announce that NWO funded a project in which @cornepieterse.bsky.social and my team will explore the ancient links between rapid #auxin signaling and immune responses. My first careful steps in the plant-microbe interactions community… www.nwo.nl/en/news/twen...

📣 NEW VACANCY: Predoctoral Internship in the Cyril Zipfel group For: ▶️ Students considering future PhD studies ▶️ ‘Year-in-industry’ undergrads 🌱🧬 with an interest in plant science research ⏳Apply soon! Application review already starts 6 Jan '25 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

📢 NEW VACANCY: Senior Laboratory Technician in the Cyril Zipfel group. 🌱 🛡️ Contribute to fundamental research on plant immunity 🧬 Conduct molecular biology experiments ⏳ Apply soon! Application review already starts 6 Jan '25 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

📣 NEW VACANCY: Postdoctoral Scientist in the Cyril Zipfel group. 🌿 Decipher the molecular mechanisms underlying plant immunity 🌱 Identify & characterise pattern recognition receptors ⏳ Apply soon! Application review already starts 6 Jan '25 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

CEP signaling coordinates plant immunity with nitrogen status

Are you interested in receptor kinase signalling and plant immunity? We have several positions open to join our team at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social in Norwich. #plantscience #mpmi #plantimmunity #sceincejobs Please get in touch if you have questions 1/5

A postdoctoral position is available in the team of Gwyneth Ingram @rdplab.bsky.social as part of a collaborative project with our group @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social #plantscience

A survey on why people want to study and work with plants: please participate and share <3 forms.gle/btg9GP1L3CTh...

#JobAlert Marcel Quint (Uni Halle) is looking for a #postdoc to establish her/his own research project in one of the following disciplines: • Abiotic stress responses • Developmental biology • Genomics Dont miss this unique chance! www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...

@jiaaawen.bsky.social talks about her work towards unravelling ethylene biosynthesis in Marchantia polymorpha #nonseedUK24 🌱

Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

I want this: Genome-edited Chardonnay grapes resistant or tolerant to mildew & powdery mildew! Did you know that grapes are grown on only ~5% of European agricultural land, but account for ~2/3 of all fungicide sprayed in Europe? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #plantscience

Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms

Beautiful Brassicaceae fruit-shape diversity. And here we tell you (part of) how it’s done! rdcu.be/d3i8x What a great collab it’s been! Thanks Yang Dong, @matmajda.bsky.social, Richard Smith and entire team. @natureplants.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Arabidopsis WALL-ASSOCIATED KINASES are not required for oligogalacturonide-induced signaling and immunity

My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990

the precarious food supply www.science.org/content/arti...

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....

I am attending! Join us in Lancaster. The event looks amazing and I am really looking forward to it! 🌱💚👩‍🏫📚

Chitin soil amendment triggers systemic plant disease resistance through enhanced pattern-triggered immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.08.627391v1

Our first annual lab Christmas/New Year dinner together with @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social lab. Amazing food, fantastic company, and a wonderful team. Excited for another year of great discoveries ahead!

Registration now open for the EMBO Workshop: Immune System of Bacteria !!!! www.sisb2025.conferences-pasteur.org/home Joins us in Institut Pasteur, Paris, April 8-10th.

Registration is now open for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria, taking place this year in Paris (April 8-10). We have a fantastic lineup of speakers! Register here: www.sisb2025.conferences-pasteur.org/home

We're looking for a predoc in molecular evolution. Basic computational skills desired. Minimum 1 year. Send me DM. Wanna know what a predoc is? Check👇 medium.com/age-of-aware...

Happy Friday everyone!

Delighted to present an updated version of our LysM-RLK/AM symbiosis story in Marchantia! @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

List of Keynote & Plenary speakers of 2025 IS-MPIMI Cologne. Looks quite interesting. I will be there! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

Antagonistic systemin receptors integrate the activation and attenuation of systemic wound signaling in tomato

Plant cell wall structure and dynamics in plant–pathogen interactions and pathogen defence