🔬🌍 Concours chercheuses-chercheurs #IRD 2026 ouverts
37 postes pour s’engager dans une recherche internationale, partenariale et porteuse de sens.
Climat, biodiversité, santé, sociétés, transitions…
📅 Candidatures jusqu’au 10/03/2026
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Notre tribune de scientifiques pour alerter sur les dangers de la nouvelle loi d'urgence pour l'agriculture: la science montre que l'urgence est au contraire de transformer le système agricole pour préserver notre santé, la fertilité des sols, une eau disponible et non polluée, et la biodiversité.

Sophien Kamoun, the Google DeepMind team and Nick Desnoyer are pictured inside one of The Sainsbury Laboratory’s growth chambers, surrounded by growing plants.

Nick Desnoyer is pictured showing the Google DeepMind team growing plants inside one of The Sainsbury Laboratory’s growth chambers.

The Google DeepMind team alongside The Sainsbury Laboratory group leaders, GetGenome lead James Canham and members of the Kamoun group.

Fantastic hosting the @GoogleDeepMind team at TSL with @kamounlab.bsky.social 🌱

From AI in plant health to building scientific capacity, our missions clearly resonate!

Tools like AlphaFold can accelerate scientific breakthroughs in our field -holding real promise for global food security 🌍

Various ferns species inoculated with S. sclerotiorum.

Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phytohormone that orchestrates immune responses against pathogens, including Pseudomonas syringae bacteria. The timing and extent of SA accumulation are tightly controlled...

SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase AeRLCK2 mediates Nod-independent rhizobial symbiosis in Aeschynomene legumes Many plants interact symbiotically with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to enhance inorganic phosphorus uptake, and legumes also develop a nodule symbiosis with rhizobia for nitrogen acquisition. The establishment and functioning of both symbioses rely on a common plant signaling pathway activated by structurally related Myc and Nod factors. Recently, a SPARK receptor-like kinase (RLK)/receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (RLCK) complex was shown to be essential for arbuscular mycorrhiza formation in both monocot and dicot plants. Here, we show that in Aeschynomene legumes, the RLCK component of this receptor complex has undergone a gene duplication event and mediates a unique nodule symbiosis that is independent of rhizobial Nod factors. In Aeschynomene evenia, AeRLCK2 is crucial for nodule initiation but not for arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. Additionally, AeRLCK2 physically interacts with and is phosphorylated by the cysteine-rich RLK, AeCRK, which is also required for nodulation. This finding uncovers an important molecular mechanism that controls the establishment of nodulation and is associated with Nod-independent symbiosis.

Outstanding paper ! -> receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase AeRLCK2 mediates Nod-independent rhizobial symbiosis in Aeschynomene legumes | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic

Schematic representation of plant–microbe interactions and microbial metabolism that influence root development and nutrient uptake.

#TansleyReview: Microbial drivers of root plasticity

Dini-Andreote, et al.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

🚨New Preprint with Old Pals showing a PIF4-CAT2-H2O2 loop in thermomorphogenesis

Laure Garnero (Terre d'Agrumes)

📢🍊#Clementine 🫶🏻 #RejoignezNous ‼️Etudiant.e Ingénieur.e Master #EcologieMicrobienne #Corse #TerreAgrumes #LaureGarnero #maladie #microbiote #IRIS
👥 #MicroQuar @cirad.bsky.social
💻 #Metabarcoding #Nanopore #Biostatistique
📅 Entre octobre 2025 et juin 2026 - stage 4-6 mois
✍ herve.sanguin[at]cirad.fr

📢Recherche Ingénieur.e/Master en #bioinformatique - stage 6 mois avec #FrédéricMahé
💻Activités: mise en place méta-analyse sur #microbiote #agrumes 🍋 🍊 #Nextflow #bash, #git #python #R
👥 Lieu: #MicroQuar @cirad.bsky.social
📅 Période: octobre 2025 - juin 2026
✍ Contacts: herve.sanguin[at]cirad.fr

An NLP-inherited motif confers broad DNA-binding specificity to NIN in root nodule symbiosis | bioRxiv

The maintenance of plant cell wall integrity involves complex molecular interactions. In this review, preetmanchanda.bsky.social summarizes the pivotal roles of RALF, LRX, and FERONIA as well as their interactions in different cell and tissue systems.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Introducing the 1,000 Flower Collection 🧬🌹

I’m creating 1,000 genetically designed flowers each crafted with new colors, patterns, and shapes.

Here’s how I’m making it happen… and how you can join me on this journey 🧵(1/7)

Summer poster presentations today @cropscicentre.bsky.social with lots of students from @slcuplants.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social and NIAB - from our team Dylan Rees, Victor Schroeder, Anna Flynn

Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝

We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

Stories of Salicylic Acid: A Plant Defense Hormone Salicylic acid (SA) is a key plant hormone required for establishing resistance to many pathogens. SA biosynthesis involves two main metabolic pathways with multiple steps: the isochorismate and the p...

For those who are not familiar with SA research history, we humbly introduce a review we wrote years ago: www.cell.com/trends/plant... @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social

Last week’s #2025ISMPMI and #OMGN2025 were really fun! My first conference visit in the field of plant microbe interactions, so I learned a lot (brain is still achy)! I’m grateful to @dromius.bsky.social for this opportunity and to the rest of the Schornack batch for awesome company!

Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity at Imperial College London Apply for the Research Associate in Programmable Plant Immunity role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defense proteins to processing bodies Aphids hijack plant immunity via p-bodies, but plants fight back with a heat shock protein in an unexpected twist on defense.

Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social and all coauthors!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#2025ISMPMI
Huge congrats to Sebastian Eves-Van Den Akker @sebastianevda.bsky.social on earning the Early Career Achievement Award for his outstanding research on plant-parasitic nematode infection biology 🎉🏆

With over 800 posters at #2025ISMPMI it might be tricky to find me. But here’s a little helping video.

Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!

Fascinating talk by Dr. Talia Karasov (University of Utah) on how plant pathogens weaponize phage-derived tailocins to wipe out bacterial rivals.
Microbes fighting microbes—nature’s own biotech.
#ISMPMI2025 #Tailocins #MicrobialWarfare

Three ARID proteins involved in chromatin remodeling PEAT complexes are targeted by the Ralstonia solanacearum effector PopP2 and contribute to bacterial wilt disease The Ralstonia solanacearum effector PopP2 is a YopJ family acetyltransferase. PopP2 is known to dampen basal immune responses by acetylating defensive WRKY transcription factors, and probably by targ...

Love uncovering effector virulence strategies! 😀
Our work on PopP2 targeting core components of the PEAT chromatin-remodeling complexes is now out @theplantjournal.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

#2025ISMPMI
Benjamin Gourion elucidated the pathogenic molecular mechanism underlying a rare case of rhizobia transitioning from a symbiotic to a pathogenic interaction. Truly fascinating!

Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social kicks off the 'Microbial Infection Strategies' session with insights into symbiotic and pathogenic interactions in the vascular and non-vascular plants.
#2025ISMPMI

First batch of Team Schornack @dromius.bsky.social have just landed in Cologne for plant-microbe chat at #2025ISMPMI!
@ic416.bsky.social @matt-macleod.bsky.social

A masterclass in microscopy & cell biology from @alexguyon.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social - congrats on the pre-print!

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?