Very proud to share our new paper led by Mathias Brands from my team at @UniCologne! With Markus Pauly team @HHU. Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan limits immune activation and facilitates mutualistic colonization of monocot roots: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
Cell-type-resolved transcriptional reprogramming in resistant soybean roots reveals cambial activation and early syncytium initiation upon nematode infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
This is very sad news. Thinking of her lab and colleagues at this difficult time.
New Preprint! Engineering quantitative root disease resistance in barley by targeting conserved SCAR susceptibility genes without compromising seed yield or mycorrhizal symbiosis. This work has been led by @binebrumm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵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...
Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established?
In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience
▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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With beautiful old glass houses
Orto Botanico Padova - the oldest botanic garden
The Leibniz University Hannover/Germany has an open position for a Professor for Molecular Phytopathology (W2TTW3)! Apply before April 27. Please forward this! Contact me for questions. See you in Hannover! 😃🎓🪴🌾🌱🌽🥬🦠🧪🧫🧬🔬🧑🔬👩🔬👍
www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/8410/ (EN)
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New Opinion with @iamjawaharsingh.bsky.social @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social
No Phosphate, less nitrogen fixing symbiosis and nodules, regardless of nitrogen status. PHR-L7 represses NIN in Common bean under phosphate starvation.
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We are very excited to share a new resource from our team: spatial subcellular proteome maps in plants! We developed an MS-based method that registers localizations of about 8000 proteins in Arabidopsis roots in a single experiment.
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New paper from the lab. Important insights into the compartmentalisation of terpene biosynthesis in Marchantia oil body cells. #PlantScience #SynBio www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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LIN oppositely affects Phytophthora infection in Medicago. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Four panels. (a) Fluorescence micrographs of WGA AF488 stained arbuscules in lin-6/LINL1/2/3-RNAi, lin-6/EV and A17/EV roots. (b) Dot plot with letters (a,b,c) showing mycorrhizal colonisation rates. (c) Arbuscule morphology in wild type, single mutants, double mutant and complemented lines. (d) Corresponding colonisation dot plot.
The LIN and LINL E3 ligases redundantly regulate AM symbiosis and nodulation
Lu et al.
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Diversity of Asteraceae flower pictures. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asteracea_poster_3.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0
Plants do not just turn red when stressed: pathogen-induced red pigmentation actively boosts disease resistance through protective anthocyanins in Asteraceae #FlavonoidFriday (doi.org/10.64898/202... & shorturl.at/TolZT)
Rhizoid‐mediated phosphate uptake and internal transport in the non‐vascular plant Marchantia polymorpha nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com
Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵
Fig. 2.UmamiT20–GUS accumulation in veins surrounding lesions caused by B. cinerea. Images were taken 4 d post-infection (left) and magnified post-X-Gluc staining (blue product; right) of a representative B. cinerea-infected leaf. Shown is the result from UmamiT20–GUS fusion line 2. Comparable data were observed in three independent experiments for a total of nine leaves, one leaf per individual plant. UmamiT20–GUS line 1 displayed comparable induction patterns. Additional images are available in Supplementary Fig. S1E–G.
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Pathogens infect plants to access their nutrient resources and reproduce. Here, Prior, Weidauer et al. find that a transporter for neutral amino acids constitutes a susceptibility factor for the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea.
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#SchoBozKa 2026
A presenter talking in front of slides in an auditorium
Today’s seminar @slcuplants.bsky.social by @pdchristine.bsky.social is on the cell-to-cell communication upon biotic stress - a crucial aspect of plant multicellular life.
Bean root system, text: "Dig into the latest in root and rhizosphere science: Mini Symposium of the ISRR, January 28th 2026"
Rooting for roots?
#PlantScience
Join us online for the Mini Symposium of the International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social
Register here for free:
tinyurl.com/yzeddrjx
Programme👇
Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)
How similar are these tubular structures to the highly complex branched arbuscules of AM fungi?
Detection of gene activity of a FOLD gene (black spots) specifically in the structures formed by the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis (labelled in yellow) within legume root cells. Image by Edouard Evangelisti.
Project Name: DIY Plant Walls: Engineering Plant Cell Size and Material Strength using Fungal Proteins
Supervisors: @dromius.bsky.social & @robinsonsci.bsky.social
Application Deadline: 5pm Monday 19 January 2026
Start Date: 1 October 2026
More details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Montage of microscopy images of plant organs and cells in tissues.
🚨Two fully-funded #PhD positions🚨
Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬
Find out more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/PhD
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New opportunity to join our #EvoMPMI group @johninnescentre.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the mechanistic basis of immunity in diverse plants. Please spread the word, reach out by email, and/or apply if interested! More details here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Check out amazing confocal images by @alexguyon.bsky.social, former member of @dromius.bsky.social lab and now postdoc in Maria Harrison’s group. He managed to image haustoria from a pathogen and arbuscules from a symbiont in the same cell! 🤩