Akifumi Sugiyama
@akisug.bsky.social
Prof. Kyoto University. Rhizosphere Specialized Metabolites https://www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/lpge/en/index.html
Optimizing tomato plant growth with microbes | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Optimizing tomato plant growth with microbes
Kyoto, Japan -- Plants are home to a diverse array of microorganisms that support their growth and help them adapt to environmental stress -- of which there has been an abundance of late. High tempera...
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Happy to share that our collaborative work with Aoki and Shirasu Labs on the tomato rhizosphere has been published! Model-guided design of defined microbial community reveals interactions underpinning plant growth and stress tolerance academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Model-guided design of defined microbial community reveals interactions underpinning plant growth and stress tolerance
Abstract. Defined microbial communities (DMCs; also known as SynComs) offer a promising strategy to enhance plant growth and stress tolerance by harnessing
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What a wonderful meeting in Málaga! We enjoyed lots of science and social activities. Thank you @vcarryon.bsky.social and team! #PMS2025
What a nice surprise to receive a small appreciation (🇪🇸jamón&cheese 😋) for our social media activities at #PMS2025 together with @courtneyherms.bsky.social and @gstringlis.bsky.social
Tomoaki Sato on Oxidative Isoflavone Catabolism in the Soybean Root Microbiota and Its Role in Root Colonization #PMS2025
Finallly, the last chapter of my PhD thesis made it out as a preprint 🌽🧫🎉 In a community maize bacteria convert benzoxazinoids to different metabolites than when grown alone www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization
Plant roots are colonised by diverse microbial communities. These communities are shaped by root exudates including plant specialized metabolites. Benzoxazinoids are such secreted compounds of maize. ...
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Preprint alert: We investigated how maize root bacteria - alone vs in community - tolerate and metabolise antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. The capacity to metabolise such a toxin impacted community size, structure and importantly, fitness. Happy reading... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization
Plant roots are colonised by diverse microbial communities. These communities are shaped by root exudates including plant specialized metabolites. Benzoxazinoids are such secreted compounds of maize. ...
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Our latest research, "Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties," is now published online on Nature Microbiology! 🥔✨ Check out the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Let's connect and grow ideas together!
Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology
Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.
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Following up on our recent publication, I'm excited to share that the research briefing of @rlberendsen.bsky.social and I named “Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome.” is freshly online on Nature Microbiology🧬
Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2y agoShort on time? Read the Research Briefing for a short overview of the paper by @rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Registration for Phyllosphere12 is open! 12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology June 6-9 2025 at OIST, Japan Speaker slots will be available and given based on a rolling basis. Register early! www.oist.jp/conference/p...
Phyllosphere 12
The ‘phyllosphere meeting’ is a (typically) quinquennial event that brings together experts from around the world with a scientific interest in leaves (and other above-ground parts of plants and trees...
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Dear French and Japanese colleagues, mark your calendars! We are organising the bilateral France-Japan "Frontiers in Plant Biology" symposium. Date: November 19-21, 2025 Location: Strasbourg More information soon! #plantscience
