📢 LE NOUVEAU SERVICE D’INFORMATION EST DISPONIBLE! 📖 Découvrez les dernières actualités phytosanitaires pour la région OEPP. 🔓 Lire en français ici - gd.eppo.int/media/data/r...

📖 Have you seen last month's reporting service is online? Read about the latest phytosanitary updates for the EPPO region in October's reporting service. 🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...

🌍 Interested in the EPPO Jens Georg-Unger Plant Health fellowship but unsure what you could do? 📰 Read Félix's testimony of his time here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s... ‼️ Don't forget to apply for a fellowship by 15th September: shorturl.at/jHRKd

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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At EPPO we are wishing our member countries a Happy International Day of Plant Health 🌱🎉 See the message from our Director General here: youtu.be/JgK3aF8RPjs #PlantHealthDay

EPPO is celebrating International Day of Plant Health 2025

YouTube video by OEPP / EPPO

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🆕 The latest EPPO Bulletin is now online! 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652338... 🔓 Many articles are now free to read!

EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025. Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️ More info at RdRp.io

🎥 Now Online! 🌱 EPPO Webinar on Communication – Plant Health in Focus: Raising Awareness of Regulated and Emerging Pests for Professionals and the Public 🎬 Missed it live? 📺 Watch the recording here: shorturl.at/bY92L 📝 Read the full report: shorturl.at/oDSzs

Job alert for plant virologists (please share it) We are recruiting a postdoc scientist to integrate our dynamic and international team in Belgium. Improving the detection and characterization of plant viruses using MinION and greenhouse inoculations. All information in attachement

Join our short course on High Throughput Sequencing starting May 13. Learn sequencing technologies, data analysis, and experimental design. Attend live or watch recordings.   Enroll now: bit.ly/3QVwfQG   #PlantDisease #HTS #Sequencing #PlantHealth #APSCourses

Another great paper in the Phytovirome special issue! Ecological Connectivity of Plant Communities for Red Blotch Disease Dynamics Revealed by the Dietary Profiles and Landscape-Level Movement of Spissistilus festinus | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Ecological Connectivity of Plant Communities for Red Blotch Disease Dynamics Revealed by the Dietary Profiles and Landscape-Level Movement of Spissistilus festinus | Phytobiomes Journal

The epidemiological relationship between arthropod dispersal and plant communities is poorly understood at the landscape level. We investigated the connectivity of natural and cultivated plants in vin...

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The Phytovirome | Phytobiomes Journal apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10..... Schönegger et al. (2025) found that wild carrots harbored a greater diversity of virus taxa relative to farmed carrots and documented key differences in the virus communities of each host type.

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Short read sequencing

Genetic diversity of virus isolates can be amazing! … but visiting germplasm genebanks shows you the other side of the coin : the wonderful plant diversity 😀

It is time for our annual meeting of Germplasm Health Units @cgiar.org genebanks at Icrisat Defining future challenges and collective actions for improving plant health and germplasm exchanges.

From Phytobiomes Journal: The phytovirome expands our view of viruses as drivers of plant health, ecology, and evolution. New HTS insights span crops to wild systems.(Joanne B. Emerson) ▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10.... #PlantPathology #PlantScience

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Training week on library preparation by Lavena and Lisa for Sri from @incavirus.bsky.social and Fran & Maaike from ILVO. #virus #planthealth #sequencing Which viruses will we harvest ?

A French scientist was denied entry to the U.S. for private messages criticizing Trump. Nice way of protecting free speech, Vance…! 🤐 #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

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[ #phimscience ] 🎯 Discover all the potential of our new #RCA sequencing #diagnostic with #OxfordNanoporeTechnology #cassava #ACMV #fababean #FBNSV 💻🧬🦠 @cirad.bsky.social #WAVE #UFHB

Improvement of Nanopore sequencing provides access to high quality genomic data for multi-component CRESS-DNA plant viruses - Virology Journal

Background Faced with the recrudescence of viral CRESS-DNA plant diseases, the availability of efficient and cost-effective tools for routine diagnosis and genomic characterisation is vital. As these ...

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Virome scanning of pear germplasm collection: check our new publication in Phytobiome from @plantdisease.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1094/PBIO... With a new velarivirus characterized #planthealth #virusdiscovery #sequencing

Virome Scanning of Pear Germplasm Collections Identifies a New Velarivirus and Extends the Geographical Spread of Three Other Pear Viruses | Phytobiomes Journal

In this study, an extensive virome investigation was performed on a germplasm collection of pear trees (Pyrus communis L.) from the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (Gembloux, Belgium). In total, ...

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Retraction @plosone.org - paper with authors from Ghent University. "All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached." Does any journalist in Belgium want to write about this? It's so strange that none of the authors responded. pubpeer.com/publications...

Let’s hear it for the UnEssay - two of my favorite things, plant pathogens & board games. Students made a board game about Citrus Canker and it’s fun and well-researched! (Even though I managed to lose against @butlerjackson.bsky.social, per usual). 🎲 🧪

We just published a small appetizer from a large scale virome survey of saffron in Iran with Iranian colleagues: doi.org/10.1002/ndr2... A new potyvirus species and new country for 3 know species. Global virome picture will follow #plantvirus #planthealth #sequencing

With Twitter down, perfect time to welcome all the Plant Virologists out there to follow your colleagues and join our Starter Pack! 🧪 go.bsky.app/426v1X8

📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏 eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...

How can I react in my job from insane behavior of Trump ? Should I change molecular biology reagents providers (there are excellent EU, JP, KR providers)? Should I adapt the targeted journals for my publications? Complaining will not work, it is only about money at the end. Any other idea ?

The jetlag disappears when you start sampling in the field (and enjoy delicious meal). Project meeting with Vietnamese colleagues. Financed by ARES-CDD (Belgium) @universitedeliege.bsky.social #PlantHealth #banana

🌳 Forests are vital for biodiversity and food security, and a focus for our work at EPPO. 📸 @fao.org are running the 2025 International Day of Forests photography competition. 👉 Find out more and submit your photos before the 12th March deadline: https://buff.ly/3Etu83L

ULiège's PhenoTram: A Game-Changer in Plant Research 🚋 This TraitFinder revolutionizes automated plant phenotyping, enabling high-precision imaging for genomics, climate resilience, and sustainable agriculture. 🌱 👉 www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_134282...

From research labs to regulatory agencies, this NEW course on #SeedAssay development and validation is tailored for professionals like you! 🌱 Dive into development, validation, and publishing tips for #SeedHealth tests. Enroll today to save your spot: bit.ly/3ZDIVAS #APSCourse