Great to see this work finally out! This study should serve as a helpful resource in better understanding the clubroot virulence. Cheers to @asimjaved.bsky.social and @edelplopez.bsky.social for leading this global effort.

Edel Pérez-López 🇨🇦@edelplopez.bsky.social · 20h ago

How does the clubroot pathogen evolve to overcome crop resistance? A global question needed a global collaboration 🌍🧬 Four years ago, this project started with a simple question: Could we bring isolates from other countries into our lab? Luckily, colleagues from over 20 countries said yes! 1/5

Farnesylated Ptr C-term negatively regulates the channel, and fungal effector AvrPita directly activates the channel by cleaving it off 🤯. Graphical abstract 👇

Wait, wait, what !!!!! Regulation of target gene expression by chromatin-associated protein-coding transcripts in plants 686 protein-coding transcripts that mediate cross-locus chromatin interactions in Arabidopsis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Regulation of target gene expression by chromatin-associated protein-coding transcripts in plants

Protein-coding transcripts are regarded as intermediates that mediate DNA-to-protein information flow, leaving their noncoding regulatory potential largely underappreciated. Genome-wide profiling of R...

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As genomes become easy, there is a definite need to really teach species and gene phylogenetic analysis to all molecular biologists and biochemists. If a paper/manuscript shows 1:1 orthologues between monocots and dicots for genes unique to the Brassicaceae, I think that is a major red flag.

AlphaFold Database is expanding into pandemic preparedness. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind, EBI et al. we exhaustively predicted ~1.7 million homo- & heterodimers across 2,812 viral proteomes, resulting in 8,028 high-confidence predictions. 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

Plants use the hormone salicylic acid (SA) to fight infection, but how it activates gene expression remained unclear. Two studies @nature show that the mechanism involves interaction between SA receptor NPR1 and a component of the transcriptional machinery. shorturl.at/7PymL & shorturl.at/Iy4oY

Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Salicylic Acid Receptors - Nature

Nature - Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Salicylic Acid Receptors

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New paper! Amphibious plant, H. difformis, reprograms C3 to potential C4 photosynthesis underwater, highlighting its amazing plasticity of carbon assimilation machineries for aquatic environment. Congrats, Hongwei & the team🥳🌿🐸! academic.oup.com/hr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hr/uhag230/8708086

Our latest views on deep ARF evolution are finally out in New Phytologist! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs: from transcription factors to auxin effectors

Molecular evolution of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) effector function.

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Plants can synthesize mimics of the insect molting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) to defend against pests. In this preprint, we discover that two plant families independently evolved biosynthetic gene clusters to make 20E. Amazing team effort by my lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Convergent biosynthesis of insect molting hormones in plants

Insect herbivores have driven plants to evolve complex chemical defenses, including mimics of the arthropod molting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E). Many distantly related plants produce 20E, suggest...

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👏🏼👏🏼 this is how it should be done

Rüdiger Simon@simonrdg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In 2021, we published an article in eLife on the role of CLE40 in Arabidopsis shoot meristem development ( see here: elifesciences.org/articles/70934 ). We recently found that one of the Arabidopsis lines used in that publication.....

The demonstration of a single origin for nodule evolution, with nodule engineering in a non-nodulating species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.728964v1

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

Excited to see the structurally conserved nucleoside hydrolase like fold that we found (elifesciences.org/articles/105...) to be conserved among biotrophs now being experimentally validated to target EDS1 !! Link to the preprint - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Proud to share our new paper on how prion-like fungal effectors target plastids and modulate host metabolism during root symbiosis. Exciting collaborative work uncovering PEPSI effectors and the interaction of one of them with DXR in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... bsky.app/profile/eell...

Ernesto Llamas@eellamas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Happy to share our latest work, now on bioRxiv! 🌱🍄 We explore how Serendipita indica effectors target root plastids and modulate plastidial metabolism through prion-like domains. bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #plastids #plantmicrobe #chloroplasts #plants

Check out our latest work! AlphaFold 3 revealed a transient immune receptor complex that eluded biochemical studies for almost a decade 🤯 We describe a conserved structural logic underlying sensor–helper communication in an NLR immune receptor network 🧵👇

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A conserved structural logic underlies sensor-helper NLR communication in the NRC immune receptor network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725810v1

We are excited to release the BAT!🦇🚨 We've used this phylogenetic analysis pipeline in our lab for years, and grad Ben Sheppard now presents a Github release and preprint. I run BAT analyses almost daily. It makes exploring gene families routine, customizable, and fun🧵

Hey #MPMI crowd, we are having trouble finding co-proteome papers looking into the host and pathogen proteome at the same time. I know they must exist but can’t find them. Any suggestions?

Resequencing hundreds or thousands of individuals from the same species has become routine... but processing all those genomes efficiently? Still a headache! Here's my solution that used to be lab-internal but that I am happy to share: crolllab.github.io/genomepanel_...

Home – genomepanel_nf

Nextflow pipeline for reference genome mapping, SNP calling and quality checks on large genome panels

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Very excited to see this work out today! Discovering viral immune antagonists directly from predicted protein structures. 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Huge thanks to the amazing collaborators! 🤗

Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling

Immune systems in animals, plants, and bacteria often rely on intracellular nucleotide signaling, which viruses can block by sequestering or degrading these signals. We identified structural and bioph...

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Sorek Lab@soreklab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Out today: We discovered new viral proteins that target immune signaling molecules, solely based on their AlphaFold-predicted shapes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats Nitzan Tal and coauthors! Thank you Kranzusch lab for the fun collaboration! Linking below previous thread on our findings

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Jean Greenberg@jeantgreenberg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#ISMPMI International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions members- read my letter about recent developments in the society- important changes to how we are managed. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Plant weirdness. After injecting agro rhizogenes into the stem of Kalanchoe, they start sprouting roots from stem after few weeks later.

Is the lesson from this that, if ones reasoning is freed from the pull of gravity, one can still publish with MDPI?

@thaisdalsasso.bsky.social is applying new tools to address the evolution and functional diversification of secreted proteins of fungal plant pathogen. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What we more recently learnt about Tiberius: the models trained on softmasked genomes are very sensitive to how the genome was masked for inference. It seems safer to use models trained on unmasked genomes. #genomeannotation #geneprediction github.com/Gaius-August...

GitHub - Gaius-Augustus/Tiberius: Tiberius is a deep learning gene finder.

Tiberius is a deep learning gene finder. Contribute to Gaius-Augustus/Tiberius development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Out in @NaturePlants. We discover that the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum secretes an apoplastic effector that disrupts the N-glycosylation of a maize immune receptor, thereby inducing its degradation via selective autophagy. Very proud of the team~ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Out in New Phytologist! The annotated blueprint: integrated functional genomic resources for a model tetraploid wheat cv. Kronos 🌾 chromosome-scale genome, high-conf annotations, manually curated 1000+ NLRs, ~3000 remapped datasets 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #Plants #Genomics #FunctionalGenomics

The annotated blueprint: integrated functional genomic resources for a model tetraploid wheat Triticum turgidum cv Kronos

Triticum turgidum cv Kronos is a tetraploid wheat cultivar that underpins one of the most widely used community platforms for functional genomics. Over the past decade, researchers have generated c. ...

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the estimated 1 billion biochemical reactions that occur every second in every cell of our bodies 🤯

Simone Reber@simonereber.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Density. Crowding. Tomato. Tomato 🍅 @gabepopkin.bsky.social kin.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social Thx for covering the debate! We promise we're all friends 🥰 @liamholt.bsky.social & @gwgl.bsky.social Nothing would have been possible without @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics

TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

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Out in @science.org this week, two fungal enzymes synthesise DHHA, which controls cell wall porosity and turgor in plant pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #mycology #plantscience

Dihydroxyhexanoic acid biosynthesis controls turgor in pathogenic fungi

Many plant pathogenic fungi penetrate host surfaces mechanically, using turgor pressure generated by specialized infection cells called appressoria. These appressoria develop semipermeable cell walls ...

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