The header of the paper: PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, Vol. 15. 1962. The title “A Revised Medium for Rapid Growth and Bio Assays with Tobacco Tissue Cultures” is shown, followed by the author’s names Toshio Murashige, Folke Skoog. Their affiliation is Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 6, Wisconsin. The paper was received for publication on April 1, 1962. To the left of the paper header is a black and white headshot of a smiling Toshia Murashige, and to the right a black and white headshot of a serious looking Folke Skoog.

#PlantScienceClassics #21: MS Medium. In 1962 Toshio Murashige & Folke Skoog published their revised plant tissue culture medium @pplplantarum.bsky.social, arguably the most high-cited #PlantScience paper of all time.

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🧪 #PlantDevelopment #PlantMethods

A new study from our group, led by Iris Eisermann, of the septin interactome during appressorium development, revealing many new interactors and significantly widening the biological function of septins in fungal pathogenesis. 👇

@thesainsburylab.bsky.social

🧵1/X 🚨New Preprint🚨 Root pathogens are hard to manage, and we know little about plant genes enabling infection (susceptibility genes). Here, we show that SCARs are susceptibility factors in barley roots - and their loss affects pathogens/symbionts in distinct ways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Engineering quantitative root disease resistance in barley by targeting conserved SCAR susceptibility genes without compromising seed yield or mycorrhizal symbiosis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

FORGET SILICON: de.NBI Switches to 100% Organic Server Racks! 🧬🌿

We are phasing out traditional GPUs in favor of our new chlorophyll-powered compute clusters.
Please remember to water your allocated cloud partition every Tuesday.
#GreenIT #Bioinformatics #SustainableScience #DNAstorage #AprilFools

PPRM2026 Registration is now OPEN!
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You can book hotel rooms at the venue here 👇

#GiveGenesAChance in UK 🌾
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/rothams...

The fact that Americans thought Auxin was a “Hoax from Europe” rightfully got some attention in my latest #PlantScienceClassics post. But it’s actually even funnier if you learn about the context & consequence of White speaking these words to Went at the AAAS Meeting in Pittsburgh. #PlantScience 🧪
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It’s time to say farewell to ERC Research Group Leader Thorsten Langner after nearly 3 years at the institute. He reflects on his time here, key milestones, and what’s next: tinyurl.com/2vce2d6k
Congratulations on your new position—we wish you and your team all the best for the future!

Effector-triggered stomatal immunity prevents leaf invasion by bacterial pathogens www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬

Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools.
Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social

Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E
BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X

Happy Imaging!

For the fourth time in a row, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has won the nationwide “University of Excellence” award. For the fourth time in a row, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has been awarded the nationwide title of “University of Excellence.”

TUM remains a #UniversityofExcellence for the fourth time in a row! 🎉 With our new TUM Agenda 2030+, we realign our strategy in the excellence competition of the German federal and state governments: go.tum.de/662298

#ExcellenceStrategy #ExStra
@dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de

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Summary of the Plant Bioinformatics course. AI-generated image (ChatGPT) showing some of the central elements. Details: https://github.com/bpucker/PlantBioinformatics

Getting ready for “Plant Bioinformatics” 🌱

Big data, command line, cloud computing & reproducible research — plus replicating published studies.

Materials: github.com/bpucker/Plan...

Study in Bonn: www.biologie.uni-bonn.de/de/studium/b...

#Bioinformatics #OpenEducation @puckerlab.bsky.social

A working model delineating the function of NbLRRP1 in suppressing PTI responses and disease resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana.

A conserved extracellular LRR-only protein disrupts BAK1-mediated immune receptor formation to negatively regulate plant immunity

Zhu et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KJMN84...

In just two months, we’ll host our 4th yearly departmental symposium! We’re excited to welcome keynote speakers Malcolm Bennett (from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social) and Margot Smit (from @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social), alongside hands-on workshops, poster speed dating, and group talks.
👥🌱👥Can’t wait! 🎉

advice to early-career researchers
"Find a question that excites you, and make sure the field isn't overcrowded. Follow your passion, stay informed, and understand what others in the field are doing. Build strong networks and be open to collaboration. Science must be collaborative;"

Yes! Agree.

HHU - Forschung im Fokus: Nutzung von molekularen Genscheren in Pflanzen – Potential und Anwendungen Molekulare Genscheren, auch unter CRISPR/Cas-Technologie bekannt, haben die Grundlagen und angewandte Forschung in Medizin und Pflanzenforschung stark beschleunigt. Sie ermöglichen die gezielte Änderu...

Dr. Götz Hensel erklärt im Rahmen der Bürgeruni im Haus der Universität die Grundlagen der Technologie, während die Nachwuchswissenschaftlerin Susanne Vollmer Einblicke in ihre aktuelle Forschung gibt.
Wann? 5. Februar 2026, 19 Uhr
Wo? Haus der Universität oder im Livestream: t1p.de/n1fnq
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Bluesky for Plant Science Researchers Part 1 Join the conversation

🌿 Bluesky for Plant Science Researchers Part 1 starter pack go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7 ...

Diversify and conquer: How effector diversity is shaped by host–microbe co-evolution

Thank you
@marioncmueller.bsky.social, @binebrumm.bsky.social, Eric Kemen, Yiheng Hu and Thomas Lahaye for this nice common effort on effector diversity.

Diversify and conquer: How effector diversity is shaped by host–microbe co-evolution
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Median time under review (time intervened from submission to acceptance) of articles indexed in PubMed with a female first author (n = 2,562,262), a male first author (n = 3,405,821), a female corresponding author (n = 975,010), a male corresponding author (n = 1,946,469), a female first author and a female corresponding author (n = 757,878), a male first author and a male corresponding author (n = 1,357,835), all-female authors (n = 650,280), and all-male authors (n = 2,146,799)

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

Our new article is now online on @natplants.nature.com! ✨
We identified and characterised AvrPm4 and SvrPm4, a pair of powdery mildew effectors controlling avirulence on the wheat kinase fusion resistance protein Pm4 🌾 check it out ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Targeting of the barley cell-surface receptor SRF3 by the Blumeria hordei effector AVRA13 overlaps with AVRA13 recognition by MLA and the induction of NLR-mediated cell death. Pathogens secrete effector proteins to promote virulence. Despite their recognition by barley Mla resistance genes, the structurally-related Blumeria hordei ( Bh ) AVRA effectors are maintained in the...

Wei Shi @wshisky.bsky.social & Merle‘s work is online. Wei really pushed this work from scratch and Merle linked it to MLA diversification…3rd (co-)first author paper in her PhD. Very proud PI!
And only possible through collaboration with G. Döhlemann, @grandpahiro.bsky.social &, Matt Platre. (1/x)

Torte der Wahrheit von Katja Berlin: Was „eine Frau kann heute alles haben!“ beinhaltet. Verfügbar sind in der Legende drei Farben: schwarz für „Familie“, grau für „Karrierw“ und rot für „einfach mal ihre Ruhe“. Die Torte ist zu zwei Dritteln schwarz und zu einem Drittel grau.

@katjaberlin.bsky.social 😭 Danke, ich lasse mir Bettwäsche damit bedrucken.

Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the conserved phage proteome Recognition of foreign molecules inside cells is critical for immunity in all domains of life. Proteins of the STAND NTPase superfamily, including eukaryotic nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain ...

NLR-like immunity in bacteria

A new study from the Alex Gao lab. The scope of this work is incredible!!!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Working model for class II Topless (TPL)-interacting protein effectors in maize shoot reprogramming.

Read the paper by Mamoona Khan, et al. 👇
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How a Fungus Leads to Tissue Growths in Maize When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a…

A University of Bonn study shows how a maize pest hijacks the plant’s root-building function 🌽

www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/002-...

@unibonn.bsky.social @effectomics.bsky.social

#PlantScience

Transcriptional Response of Magnaporthe oryzae Towards Barley-Microbiome Derived Bacteria | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® The composition of the plant microbiome is shaped not only by the host plant and abiotic environmental factors, but also by inter-microbial cooperation and competition. Plant pathogens, therefore must...

CONGRATS to team @effectomics.bsky.social and @steidele.bsky.social . Transcriptional Response of Magnaporthe oryzae Towards Barley-Microbiome Derived Bacteria | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.

Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu

Small Molecule Binding to EDS1/PAD4 in LRR-RP-Mediated Pattern-Triggered Immunity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...