Congratulations Florian!!
@mibinet.bsky.social

Come to Bochum 🌱 — we’d love to host all #plantscience peeps!

From biotic interactions 🦠 to #proteostasis ♻️ and development 🌿, there’s something for everyone. Looking forward to inspiring science & great conversations ✨

More info here: botanik-tagung.de

Infection of maize by Ustilago maydis remodels the phyllosphere microbiome and requires the activity of antimicrobial effectors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan limits immune activation and facilitates mutualistic colonization of monocot roots This study identifies a monocot-specific enzymatic module in the beneficial root endophyte Serendipita indica, showing how ancestral saprotrophic enzymes have been repurposed into an immune-compatible...

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...

That is very very cool! I always thought that we should/could put autoactive NLRs or even CC domains unter a pathogen inducible promoter….only worried that may not be able to control the expression by a) non-pathogenic microbes and b) necrotrophs 🤔 anything here tested @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social ?

Pathogen-inducible expression of autoactive NLRs confers multi-pathogen resistance in tomato

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Inflammasome activation drives gasdermin-independent plasma membrane rupture by clustering ninjurin-1 in macrophages www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

AlphaFold 3 captures oligomeric states and interaction dynamics of MLO ion channels www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

New Article: "A fungal nuclease effector subverts the chloroplast genome and triggers cell death to promote infection" rdcu.be/fdgOE

MoNee6 is a chloroplast-targeted nuclease from Magnaporthe oryzae. Engineering OsClpP1 enhances Nee6 degradation and blast resistance.

Antimicrobial effectors of plant-associated fungi: multipurpose proteins with fast-evolving surfaces and structurally conserved cores Plants are exposed to a variety of devastating pathogens, causing significant yearly yield losses. In order to facilitate infections, plant pathogens …

So diverse and yet conserved. Check out opinion paper by Leonhard Pachinger @leopach.bsky.social on antimicrobial effectors produced by fungal pathogens: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cool, can I come 😅 (just kidding I have now time 😬)

And Congratulation!

Ha, excellent :-)

Cool

Fig. 1 Proposed mechanism of benzoxazinoid (BX) transfer from BX-producing rye plants (Secale cereale) to clover plants (Trifolium repens) in live, arable soil.

Transferred resistance – interspecific transfer of plant defence against soilborne pathogens

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👆 A #Commentary by Costa & Mathesius on this article by Hama et al.
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Published @newphyt.bsky.social. We identified peptide ligand-induced K63-linked Ub sites of ERECTA, required for endocytosis & signal attenuation for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, all authors🌱👍 @texasscience.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social
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Interested on the evolution of plant-microbe interactions?, the MoRE Lab is open to support MSCA applications. Please, check if you are eligible, send your CV and motivation letter including up to three possible references to ignacio.rubio@cragenomica.es

Logo-Schriftzug Walter Benjamin Programm mit Pfeil und Datumsangaben: Dienstag, 14. April 2026, 14:30 bis 16 Uhr. Außerdem Hinweis auf Kurzlink: www.dfg.de/prospects

Auf dem Weg zu früher unabhängiger Forschung?

Das Walter Benjamin-Programm bietet optimale Möglichkeiten, ein eigenständiges Profil zu entwickeln - an einer passenden (auch ausländischen) Einrichtung.

In unserer Inforeihe #Prospects stellen wir nächste Woche alles Wichtige zu dem Programm vor. 👇

Of course none of this is GMO 😀

The at home gardening season has started. Ready to catch some new mildew isolates in the greenhouse 😬😅 can’t wait to collect them -> will be sequenced this time!

🧵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...

Dissecting the RNA-binding capacity of the multi-RRM protein Rrm4 essential for endosomal mRNA transport Abstract. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) utilize multiple RNA-binding domains (RBDs) to engage with extensive messenger RNA (mRNA) networks. Understanding the

Breakthrough article 😊
Joint effort of teams Zarnack & König & Feldbrügge clarifies how multiple RNA-binding domains cooperate to identify functional important binding sites in vivo
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@könig-lab.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social
#EMBOrnaLocalization

Redox-dependent extracellular interaction networks of Cysteine-Rich Receptor-Like Kinases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

I used R markdown (based on Markus S. suggestion)......it works I guess and it is free.....but I dont like the mobile version, figures shuffle around weirdly. Could probably be fixed if I was more into it. Now I just accept it :-D

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers!
We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG

📅 Deadline - April 26

Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

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

Wenbo Ma from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social today in Cologne to talk about small RNAs in plant immunity in the frame of the @sfb1403.bsky.social cell death club family! Curious to see the newest results!

I heard somewhere that it is actually good 😬😅

Oh cool. Only it is 'Bh' these days :-)