📢 LE NOUVEAU SERVICE D’INFORMATION EST DISPONIBLE!

📖 Découvrez les dernières actualités phytosanitaires pour la région OEPP.

🔓 Lire en français ici - gd.eppo.int/media/data/r...

📖 Have you seen last month's reporting service is online? Read about the latest phytosanitary updates for the EPPO region in October's reporting service.

🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...

The initiative @peercommunityin.bsky.social propose an alternative way with review of BioRxiv preprints by researchers for researchers (and not the profit of few shareholders of companies). It is supported by public institutes and is free for all. In that case, it is far easier to find reviewers 😌

🌍 Interested in the EPPO Jens Georg-Unger Plant Health fellowship but unsure what you could do?

📰 Read Félix's testimony of his time here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s...

‼️ Don't forget to apply for a fellowship by 15th September: shorturl.at/jHRKd

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

EPPO is celebrating International Day of Plant Health 2025 YouTube video by OEPP / EPPO

At EPPO we are wishing our member countries a Happy International Day of Plant Health 🌱🎉

See the message from our Director General here: youtu.be/JgK3aF8RPjs

#PlantHealthDay

🆕 The latest EPPO Bulletin is now online!

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652338...

🔓 Many articles are now free to read!

EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025.
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io

🎥 Now Online!
🌱 EPPO Webinar on Communication – Plant Health in Focus:
Raising Awareness of Regulated and Emerging Pests for Professionals and the Public

🎬 Missed it live?
📺 Watch the recording here: shorturl.at/bY92L
📝 Read the full report: shorturl.at/oDSzs

Job alert for plant virologists (please share it)

We are recruiting a postdoc scientist to integrate our dynamic and international team in Belgium.

Improving the detection and characterization of plant viruses using MinION and greenhouse inoculations.

All information in attachement

Join our short course on High Throughput Sequencing starting May 13. Learn sequencing technologies, data analysis, and experimental design. Attend live or watch recordings.
 
Enroll now: bit.ly/3QVwfQG
 
#PlantDisease #HTS #Sequencing #PlantHealth #APSCourses

Ecological Connectivity of Plant Communities for Red Blotch Disease Dynamics Revealed by the Dietary Profiles and Landscape-Level Movement of Spissistilus festinus | Phytobiomes Journal The epidemiological relationship between arthropod dispersal and plant communities is poorly understood at the landscape level. We investigated the connectivity of natural and cultivated plants in vin...

Another great paper in the Phytovirome special issue! Ecological Connectivity of Plant Communities for Red Blotch Disease Dynamics Revealed by the Dietary Profiles and Landscape-Level Movement of Spissistilus festinus | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal

The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10..... Schönegger et al. (2025) found that wild carrots harbored a greater diversity of virus taxa relative to farmed carrots and documented key differences in the virus communities of each host type.

Short read sequencing

Pearl millet diversity at Icrisat

Sorghum diversity at Icrisat

Genetic diversity of virus isolates can be amazing!

… but visiting germplasm genebanks shows you the other side of the coin : the wonderful plant diversity 😀

It is time for our annual meeting of Germplasm Health Units @cgiar.org genebanks at Icrisat

Defining future challenges and collective actions for improving plant health and germplasm exchanges.

The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal

From Phytobiomes Journal: The phytovirome expands our view of viruses as drivers of plant health, ecology, and evolution. New HTS insights span crops to wild systems.(Joanne B. Emerson)
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantPathology #PlantScience

Training week on library preparation by Lavena and Lisa for Sri from @incavirus.bsky.social and Fran & Maaike from ILVO.
#virus #planthealth #sequencing
Which viruses will we harvest ?

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

A French scientist was denied entry to the U.S. for private messages criticizing Trump.
Nice way of protecting free speech, Vance…! 🤐
#FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Improvement of Nanopore sequencing provides access to high quality genomic data for multi-component CRESS-DNA plant viruses - Virology Journal Background Faced with the recrudescence of viral CRESS-DNA plant diseases, the availability of efficient and cost-effective tools for routine diagnosis and genomic characterisation is vital. As these ...

[ #phimscience ] 🎯 Discover all the potential of our new #RCA sequencing #diagnostic with #OxfordNanoporeTechnology #cassava #ACMV #fababean #FBNSV 💻🧬🦠 @cirad.bsky.social #WAVE #UFHB

Virome Scanning of Pear Germplasm Collections Identifies a New Velarivirus and Extends the Geographical Spread of Three Other Pear Viruses | Phytobiomes Journal In this study, an extensive virome investigation was performed on a germplasm collection of pear trees (Pyrus communis L.) from the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (Gembloux, Belgium). In total, ...

Virome scanning of pear germplasm collection: check our new publication in Phytobiome from @plantdisease.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1094/PBIO...

With a new velarivirus characterized

#planthealth #virusdiscovery #sequencing

Figure 2B from the paper in question, showing several Western blot panels (they look like light grey rectangles, some of which have a fat or thinner black horizontal stripe in the middle). I have marked some of these rectangles with boxes of the same color, highlighting those that look unexpectedly similar.

Figure panels from Figure S2, from the supplemental. On the left a blot or gel, showing dark background with white bands. On the right a more classical western blots showing light grey background with dark grey horizontal stripes. In both panels I have highlighted lanes that look remarkably similar, with colored boxes.

Retraction @plosone.org - paper with authors from Ghent University.
"All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached."
Does any journalist in Belgium want to write about this? It's so strange that none of the authors responded.
pubpeer.com/publications...

Let’s hear it for the UnEssay - two of my favorite things, plant pathogens & board games.

Students made a board game about Citrus Canker and it’s fun and well-researched! (Even though I managed to lose against @butlerjackson.bsky.social, per usual).

🎲 🧪

Gosh, you are right Adrian. Thank you so much
I will contact the journal, here is the one:
bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We just published a small appetizer from a large scale virome survey of saffron in Iran with Iranian colleagues: doi.org/10.1002/ndr2...

A new potyvirus species and new country for 3 know species.

Global virome picture will follow
#plantvirus #planthealth #sequencing

With Twitter down, perfect time to welcome all the Plant Virologists out there to follow your colleagues and join our Starter Pack!
🧪

go.bsky.app/426v1X8

📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...

How can I react in my job from insane behavior of Trump ?

Should I change molecular biology reagents providers (there are excellent EU, JP, KR providers)?
Should I adapt the targeted journals for my publications?

Complaining will not work, it is only about money at the end.
Any other idea ?

👍

The jetlag disappears when you start sampling in the field (and enjoy delicious meal).
Project meeting with Vietnamese colleagues. Financed by ARES-CDD (Belgium) @universitedeliege.bsky.social #PlantHealth #banana