New OA Article: "Membrane remodelling mediates lipopeptide-induced immunity in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/feoNF
Lipid-driven mechanism for immune activation by a bacterial lipopeptide. Perception at the cell membrane leads to deformation, mechanosensing and early signalling. #PlantScience
💡 #KnowledgeHighlight | Genome annotation with Helixer - @galaxyproject.bsky.social
tutorial
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Explore open-access training materials in the ERGA #KnowledgeHub ➡️ knowledge.erga-biodiversity.eu
#genome #annotation #helixer
That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...
Pathogen-inducible expression of autoactive NLRs confers multi-pathogen resistance in tomato
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere
Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social
#plantscience #microbiome #holobiont
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thrilled to share our paper now out in Nature Plants 🎉
We developed a genome-host association (GHA) approach to study pathogen adaptation directly from field metadata by using the originating host cultivar as phenotype.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A card announcing the call for papers stating 'Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction Guest Editors: Etya Amsalem, Tony D. Williams and Kathryn Wilsterman. Submission deadline: 30 June 2026' with the Journal of Experimental Biology logo and the logo for the Special Issue containing an egg cell surrounded by eight sperm cells. The eighth sperm, on the top right, is penetrating the egg.
We are calling for Reviews, Commentaries or research papers for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction, covering the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating and egg-laying or pregnancy through to parental care
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The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
New paper from Departmental Group Leader Patience Chatukuta and her African Plant Genomics team highlighting the diversity of crop wild relatives in Zimbabwe.
Check out our paper on the diversity of crop wild relatives in Zimbabwe!
#CropWildRelatives #PlantScience #Biodiversity #Conservation #ClimateResilience #Zimbabwe
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-pat...
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen und das Friedrich-Miescher-Labor bieten am 23. April wieder Girls’Day an. Für Mädchen ab 9. Klasse. Infos & Anmeldung: www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/max.... Noch Plätze frei – gern teilen!
Research Associate/Research Fellow on the discovery of resistance genes with effectoromics, with a focus on genes that lead to resistant plants for indoor farming systems for Brassica. #scijobs @VivianneTwit ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...
AlphaFold 3 captures oligomeric states and interaction dynamics of MLO ion channels www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Gymnosperm FLS2 orthologues mediate conserved flg22 perception and divergent responses to flg22 variants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
The compartmentalized activity of a legume subtilase SBT12a allows symbiosome stabilization www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
New pre-print from the lab! We show that the subtilase SBT12a is essential for symbiosome stabilization in Medicago. Using HUNTER proteomics, we even got some of its substrates. Have a look.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/ BRAKER4 hatched!
The Earth BioGenome Project is on track to sequence ~1.5M eukaryotic species. Every one needs a structural annotation. No Perl monolith was going to survive that. So we rewrote BRAKER from the ground up. github.com/Gaius-August...
Reconstructing plant beneficial bacterial consortia by integrating dilution-to-extinction microbiome perturbation with genome-resolved synthetic ecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
BRAKER4 is about to hatch. It now also covers functional annotation for protein sequences... #genomeannotation
Transition metal-triggered immunity via an Arabidopsis NLR pair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Various tissue cross-sections of Marchantia paleacea thalli and cartoon (top) showing site of cross-sections
It's good to talk...💬
Yoda et al. show that #strigolactones are synthesised in #Marchantia paleacea basal ventral tissues & secreted into the rhizosphere to facilitate effective communication with #AMfungi
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
#PlantScience
#Phytohormones
#PlantMicrobeInteractions
just want to thank again @grandpahiro.bsky.social & @huguesrenault.bsky.social for saving us from an embarrassment: “We thank Hirofumi Nakagami and Hugues Renault for their feedback on not defining Marchantia polymorpha as an early land plant.” www.cell.com/developmenta...
Preprint alert 🚨 (1/10) 🧵
𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺:
It can promote resistance, susceptibility, or restrict cell death 🤯
So what is its actual role?
We show it acts as a spatial organizer of immunity across cell types 🌱🦠 #proteostasis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Very honored to be a recipient. Many thanks for all the support! Excited for more cool science to come! 🔬
@gso-forresearchers.bsky.social
Genetic Diversity, Predictive Protein Structures, and Interaction Networks of Cysteine-Rich Receptor-Like Kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
Huge congrats to Dr. Eliza Loo! The associated MibiNet researcher has secured a "Klaus Tschira Boost Fund" grant to explore targeted programming of plant microbiomes. Fantastic news for @hhu.de and the MibiNet team!
#MibiNet #HHU
@elizaloopi.bsky.social
www.hhu.de/en/detail-re...
Great to see this paper in its final published form!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Spatial organization of plant defense at the infection front www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
I will probably be hiring either a PhD or a Postdoc in the near future. If you are interested in deep biochemical history or molecular mechanisms of evolution please get in touch.
