Glad to have participated in #PPATH2025 last week, sharing my work on proximity labeling in the apoplast as part of the ECPP talks, one last time before wrapping up my PhD 🎓🌱
🎉 Congrats to our #PPATH2025 winners!
🏆 Athira Menon – Poster: RNA-binding proteins in plant immunity
🏆 Vanja Milenkovic – Talk: Drought & disease in Acute Oak Decline
Inspiring plant pathology research! 🌱
We wrap up with the @BS_PP RKS Wood Prize Lecture 🎉 with Paul Birch @dundeeuni @JamesHuttonInst on the famous oomycete RXLR effectors #PPATH2025
Paul is at the lectern, not the bearded dude in the slide 😜
Now we have Chih-hang Wu @IPMBSinica Taiwan 🇹🇼 at #PPATH2025 — Fast and Furious: What happens after helper NLR immune receptors are activated to cause hypersensitive cell death.
See paper doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Helen Cockerton explores host and tissue specific interactions in powdery mildew of hops, apples & strawberries. Genomics, QTL mapping & RNA-seq reveal resistance mechanisms, guiding disease management & breeding for resilient crops. #PPATH2025 #PlantPathology #PowderyMildew
@kent.ac.uk
Now we shift to powdery mildew fungi #PPATH2025 with Helen Cockerton @MelonAmaranth
"You can only die once. And then Botrytis will infect you."
#HeardToday #PPATH2025 #JanVanKan
More on Botrytis—reemergence of crown rot by Andrew @ADArmitage #PPATH2025
A Shakespearean title for Jan van Kan our next speaker #PPATH2025 @WageningenUR 🇳🇱 #Botrytis
AI in Agriculture: John Doonan showcases how high-throughput phenotyping and AI help decode crop stress responses, from drought to heat, linking traits to genetics and metabolism for resilient, climate-ready crops. #PPATH2025
Lamya Majeed explores how BABA-induced resistance creates long-lasting immunity in tomato via epigenetic and developmental mechanisms. Understanding these molecular pathways could transform sustainable crop protection. #PPATH2025 #PlantPathology
Diana Vinchira-Villarraga is discussing the battle between Oak and AOD-associated pathogens. Looking at the Metabolic Responses to Host-Derived Compounds. #PPATH2025
Srikanth Rupavatharam shows how AI is reaching farmers at the frontlines of crop protection at #PPATH2025. Tools like AgriLLM, Plantix & Plant Health Detector deliver real-time diagnoses and crop advice, helping smallholders tackle pests & diseases. #PlantPathology #AIinAg
Can Pseudomonas spp. Biocontrols help us to tackle Kiwi Canker? Isabella Frost is finding out! #PPATH2025
Our President Elect, Saskia Hogenhout, discusses her lab's work on aphid effectors, which are secreted during feeding and suppress plant immunity by recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies. #PPATH2025
Kicking off the AI session at #PPATH2025! Adam Kleczkowski highlight how AI, ML & LLMs are transforming plant health research, turning decades of progress into years, but also raising new challenges. #PlantPathology #AI
End of Day2 #PPATH2025 dinner! Connecting with colleagues ahead of tomorrow's jam-packed programme: AI in Plant Health; farmer-level applications, 3D disease detection, leaf scale disease modelling, Induced Resistance & IPM and more!
It’s time for the P. H. Gregory session at #PPATH2025! Postgraduate students present cutting-edge research on plant pathology, from cereal rust surveillance to Fusarium and Botrytis interactions. The winner will be awarded the P. H. Gregory Prize, recognising excellence in presentations since 1991
Next up at #PPATH2025 is Erh-Min @erhminlai all the way from @IPMBSinica Taipei 🇹🇼 / optimising Agrobacterium for plant gene editing; cool use of a RUBY red readout assay
See the preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Apple canker is threatening our apple orchards!
Matevz Papp-Rupar investigates how the apple microbiome influences susceptibility to Neonectria ditissima, offering new perspectives for managing apple canker
#PPATH2025 @niab-uk.bsky.social
Ronnie de Jonge explores how root microbiomes assemble in Arabidopsis, Barley, and Lotus, identifying a functional backbone of plant-associated bacteria that could guide sustainable microbiome engineering. #PPATH2025
Jens Tilsner shows how viral RNAs can be visualised in vivo, even inside plasmodesmata, revealing new insights into viral replication and transport. Work funded by the BSPP Small Project Fund. #PPATH2025
Luca Cornetti on SPORNADO Early Alert System for Crop Disease spornadosampler.com @spornadosampler #PPATH2025
Next #PPATH2025 speaker is from University of Manitoba 🇨🇦 — Here is Reem Aboukhaddour @ReemWheat on cereal stripe rusts
Ruth Bryant explores biological fungicides for wheat and barley, focusing on defence activation, priming, and balancing efficacy with crop yields. Insights for sustainable crop protection. #PPATH2025
Leena Tripathi presents how genome editing is creating disease-resistant bananas and plantains, targeting BXW and Banana Streak Virus without introducing foreign DNA. A major step for food security and smallholder farmers. #PPATH2025
Next up #PPATH2025 is Leena @Leena_Tripathi all the way from @IITA_CGIAR Ibadan, Nigeria 🇳🇬 on biotech solutions to Banana Streak Virus 🦠 and Banana Xanthomonas Wilt
Exciting insights from Evans Lagudah presenting on durable resistance to rusts: how ‘muscle’ (strong, race-specific) & ‘backbone’ (multi-pathogen, partial) R genes combine for long-lasting protection. #PlantPathology #PPATH2025
The incredible tapestry of disease resistance breeding against wheat rust fungi—about half of them originate from other species and genera — #PPATH2025 Evans Lagudah @lag002