We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

11 years ago I did experiments which contribute to the cool story from @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @seinabnoura.bsky.social about how the ERAD machinery controls the conditional turnover of PIN-LIKES for acclimative growth. Science often requires quite some time: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ich suche eine*n TA für meine Arbeitsgruppe! Gern weitersagen 🤗🌾 #plantscijob

@mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social Whop!

NEWS & VIEWS: From peptides to patterning: Redox control of the master regulator PLT2 in Arabidopsis roots (Anna Moseler, Blanca Jazmin Reyes-Hernández) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

New Article! Purifying recombinant proteins from Nicotiana benthamiana for structural studies

I was recently interviewed by @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social for their Scientific Mobility series. I hope my 2 cents helped with your mobility ;) www.cell.com/trends/micro...

New Zealand had some of the most restrictive laws when it came to genetically engineered food crops. This move once again demonstrates how the NZ Government makes Science-based decisions. Take note, European Union! #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantScience #Agroculture #Sustainability #PlantBreeding

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

🚨 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...

Excited to announce that our latest paper has just been published in Science! ttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx2508

I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was! Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors. With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

Job Coordinator position: Science Communication #SciComm In Excellence Cluster @ceplas.bsky.social "SMART Plants for Tomorrow’s Needs" @hhu.de ‬ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱

Check out our new pre-print! ✨ We cloned AvrWTK4, the first wheat powdery mildew effector recognised by a tandem kinase protein, and show that an HMA-like integrated domain in WTK4 acts as pathogen decoy. Discover the whole story on bioRxiv ⬇️

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hybrid lineage of #Puccinia striiformis overlapping on #wheat, barley and wild barley hosts in #Uzbekistan, Central Asia doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social

Come join me. There is only one way out of this mess. I am glad that in an open democratic country we can Petition ANU Council to remove Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, and stop Renew ANU: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

🚨 New paper alert! Our work is published in PNAS! @junli-wang.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social In this study, we uncover how NLR-assembled and canonical Ca2+ ion channels cooperate to confer robust resistance against disease in plants. Check it out here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Joint #CallForProposals! Within the scope of their Cooperation Agreement, the Brazilian @cnpq-oficial.bsky.social and the DFG are pleased to announce a joint call for German-Brazilian research projects in the fields of agricultural sciences, forestry and veterinary medicine. Details: fcld.ly/ifdw69

Very nice @newphyt.bsky.social study on plant/pathogen evolution by @davidlowry.bsky.social and many others! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really happy this is out in preprint - Congratulations to @graemekettles.bsky.social @zymohaider.bsky.social, and everyone involved for their hard work completing this study! It examines a Z. tritici effector that is a molecular mimic of plant LRRs, and suppresses PTI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

🔬 Research Team Discovers Potential Treatment for Rare Childhood Disease 🧬 A team at @bccologne.bsky.social has made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of the STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI). The SAVI is a severe genetic disorder that is currently incurable.

Please RT: We are hiring 📣! We are looking for a coordinator of our CEPLAS Graduate School! If you are interested in working in an international and dynamic academic environment with highly motivated and talented ECRs, check out the details here: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...

Registrations are rolling in for the 2025 Stromlo Plant Pathology meeting in Canberra (Nov 27–28)! Secure your spot! Speakers: @yasukadota.bsky.social, Cecille Segonzac, @thamlab.bsky.social, @yichangsung.bsky.social, Tek Tay & @danielsyu.bsky.social. Register at tinyurl.com/3e3tx9j2 #strompath25

Researchers from ‪@w-u-r.bsky.social‬ & ‪@slcuplants.bsky.social‬ discovered that ENOD40 sequesters a miRNA that usually downregulates a positive regulator of nodulation. Dr Nadia Mohd-Radzman explains the findings at www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/scienti...

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝 We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors! We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

The genetic architecture of resistance to septoria tritici blotch in French wheat cultivars Researchers and breeders, studied 285 elite French wheat varieties. Their findings aid breeding for resistance. buff.ly/3QjBxW6 via INRAE #Agriculture #PlantScience

No way... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deadline approaching—submit to the forthcoming focus issue by September 1!

Our first wheat stripe rust Avr effector story. It is a short one that points to suppressors in this pathosystem while we could not link this Avr effector to a described R gene. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here comes the final version. Congratulations Erika, Yasu, Ken, and all others involved! @yasukadota.bsky.social @shirasulab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our latest article is now online! @PlantBiotechnologyJournal Expression of Arabidopsis FLS2 in N. benthamiana confers responsiveness to Ralstonia flg22 and activation of anti-bacterial immunity doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... By Meng Li, Yujiao Chen, and Yali Wei

Happy to share this work we did together with @yuankeliang.bsky.social in @romanulm.bsky.social lab. We looked in detail at UVR8-mediated UV-B signaling in Marchantia and found some conserved functions but also a few surprises! #plantscience #marchantia #UVR8

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social rdcu.be/exBSp

I am looking for a (bio)chemist to join the lab and help us making affinity-based probes for proteases! The project is truly interdisciplinary with a strong computational chemistry component, peptide synthesis and plant biochemistry! Text me if interested and please spread the word!

Warning: product placement….😬 Of course also thx to New Phytologist for the great sponsoring of the powdery mildew satellite meeting at #2025ISMPMI And thx to @proteintech.bsky.social , I think a lot of us use the products and also we do very much appreciate the goodies :-)

I'm very happy that this paper is now published in PNAS! Isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis appears to have emerged in the Brassicales after the divergence of C. papaya, likely within the timeframe between the divergence of B. maritima and R. odorata. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thx MPMI, thx powdery mildew crew! For me it had bern many years to again see this great community and theirs great science. Wow things are moving fast! Impossible to say bye to everyone bc it took 5 days already to say hello…. here a collective GOOD BYE #2025ISMPMI ! It was a blast (literally)

Our paper on Pseudomonas intra-genus competition in SynComs on Arabidopsis roots is now out @plosbiology.org ! 🎉 If you want to chat about the story, visit poster 374 tomorrow, Thursday #2025ISMPMI journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Final session at #2025ISMPMI: @algazuccaro.bsky.social studies how endophytic fungi colonize plant roots. Do these fungi act as microbial gatekeepers? Serendipita antagonizes barley pathogens while promoting plant growth. Key effectors from the fungus triggered by plants, but also other microbes.

#2025ISMPMI has been great, so many connections made and re-established. I found this on the railway bridge.

One more week to apply for this exciting Professorship in Plant Sciences at Uni Halle! Join our vibrant plant research community 🌱 Info 👉 wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php... @unihalle.bsky.social @snp2prot.bsky.social

Mary wildermuth #2025ISMPMI gives the best introduction to the Powdery mildew fungus :)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Up next at #2025ISMPMI @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social discussing work on protein language model for receptor engineering.