Happy to share that our new paper has just been published: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... We investigated how #ozone affects #AmbrosiaArtemisiifolia #pollen and show that plant stress responses can change pollen allergenicity.

Great discussions at #EGU26 this week, thanks to everyone who joined my talk and the poster of my PhD student #HaiAhnNguyen on #petrichor emissions from #drylands. #VOC #ClimateChange #PTRMS

Excited to present at #EGU26 (BG1.10)! I’ll show how dryland soil rewetting triggers bursts of VOCs (petrichor) with potential impacts on ozone & SOA formation. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... Happy to connect at EGU! #VOCs #AtmosChem #SoilMicrobes #Drylands #Petrichor

Happy that our paper is now out in Nature Plants: "Photorespiration is linked to DNA methylation by formate as a one-carbon source" led by @martingroth.bsky.social with @valentin-ha.bsky.social as first author. doi.org/10.1038/s414... #Epigenetics #ClimateChange #OneCarbonMetabolism

Photorespiration is linked to DNA methylation by formate as a one-carbon source - Nature Plants

This study reveals that Arabidopsis reassimilates formate produced during photorespiration via the cytosolic folate cycle to fuel DNA methylation, forming a metabolic–epigenetic bridge that links elev...

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Great news: our project on #chemodiversity #herbivorydiversity has been funded by @dfg.de and @snf-fns.ch Looking forward to starting this exciting collaboration with @MichaelEisenring @thorstengrams.bsky.social @func-metabo-lab.bsky.social Congratulations to everyone involved! @tum.de

Andrea Ghirardo@andreaghirardo.bsky.social · last yr.

I am excited to start our field campaign to study the interaction between herbivory, leaf phytochemicals and microbiome under a simulated drought forest experiment at KROOF 🌿🦋🔬 @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social #Grams #MichaelEisenring #MartinGossner #WLS #TUM

New paper out! 🎉 @mmader.bsky.social et al. show how oak trees mount distinct gene-expression defence responses to specialist vs. generalist herbivores. Great long-standing collaboration with Birgit Kersten, Hilke Schröder, and @jpschnitzler.net . Thanks to all coauthors! doi.org/10.1093/tree...

Modulation of the leaf transcriptome of Quercus robur by specialist and generalist herbivorous insects

Abstract. Plants deploy complex transcriptional responses to herbivores yet differences in the responses to generalist versus specialist insects, especiall

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Rajarshi Sanyal

Helpful to see their estimates. Great summary figure!

Global Change Biology@globalchangebio.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Fates of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Emissions From Polluted Regions 🔗 buff.ly/xK1viLd

Oaks can be extraordinarily beautiful in winter too. A picture near my home in #Andechs. Wishing everyone a peaceful and inspiring New Year 2026! 😊 #Oaks #TreeBeauty #WinterLandscape #ForestEcology #NewYear2026

So true, a year of chaos: the planned closure of the environmental institute #EUS at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social and the dismissal of scientists will severely hamper #climatechange research and jeopardize national funding projects supported by @dfg.de

Science News@scinews.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s deeply concerning to see climate science in danger these days! Save NCAR! @ncar-ucar.bsky.social

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Another paper published today 😊 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We discuss how #VerticalFarming and #Agrivoltaics can improve #SustainableFood production by coupling perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells together with light ‘recipes’. @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social

Integrating tunable LED‐induced plant responses with novel solar cell technologies for energy‐efficient agrivoltaic systems

The increasing demand for sustainable food production requires innovative solutions that balance productivity, resource efficiency, and environmental impact. Vertical Farming Systems (VFSs) offer a p...

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#Plant-Herbivore-Interactions #Oak tree #transcriptomes respond differently to attacks by generalistic or specialistic herbivores. A new paper from our long-term partnership with #BirgitKersten, #HilkeSchroder & #MalteMadee from @thuenen.de Institute #ForestGenetics, @andreaghirardo.bsky.social

Modulation of the leaf transcriptome of Quercus robur by specialist and generalist herbivorous insects

Abstract. Plants deploy complex transcriptional responses to herbivores, yet, differences in the responses to generalist versus specialist insects, especia

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Real-time estimates of #BVOC emissions with high resolution (10-30m) using #GEE-MEGAN model, which combines satellite data on land cover and vegetation. A great tool for studying the impacts of BVOCs in a rapidly urbanizing, warming world. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com

Improved modelling of biogenic emissions in human-disturbed forest edges and urban areas - Nature Communications

GEE-MEGAN, a cloud-native MEGAN2.1 extension on Google Earth Engine, uses multisource satellite data to generate near-real-time BVOC emission estimates at 10–30 m resolution, refining emission charact...

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EAACI guidelines on the impact of the green environment on allergies and asthma onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

EAACI Guidelines on the Importance of Green Space in Urban Environments for Allergy and Asthma Prevention

The allergy and asthma epidemic in urban societies following World War II is mostly caused by changes in the environment, diet and lifestyle. Disconnection of urban populations from the wider environ...

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In times of institutional restructuring, it’s often the youngest scientists who face the greatest uncertainty. Seeing PhD candidates lose supervision or access labs and facilities, while publicly funded projects may remain unfinished, might be frustrating, surely concerning.

Great work of #MirjamMeischner, congrats!

Physiologia Plantarum@pplplantarum.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Systemically induced production of VOCs in plant undamaged tissues under herbivore attack with respect to below/aboveground signaling put to the test. @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social @andreaghirardo.bsky.social @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4obw4jy

🚨 New Resource & Preprint Alert 🚨 This resource collected by the mFam consortiun led by Gerd Balcke and Steffen Neumann contributes >7000 mass spectra of 2,126 unique metabolites to the public domain through MassBank. Preprint: lnkd.in/eYcJMqYn Interactive plot: lnkd.in/egBaTTNH #CompMetabolomics

New paper out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Isoprene enhances disease resistance in neighboring Arabidopsis plants via LLP1-mediated immunity, demonstrated by a field study with transgenic birches. #PeiyuanZhu @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social #VOC #PlantScience

Volatile‐Mediated Plant Defense Networks: Field Evidence for Isoprene as a Short‐Distance Immune Signal

Transgenic silver birch (Betula pendula) with altered isoprene emission capacities enhanced pathogen resistance in neighboring Arabidopsis thaliana through a jasmonate-independent, salicylate-depende...

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Excited to share our latest publication originating from an Erasmus+ project with the University of Perugia and CNR! thericejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.... #sustainability #metabolomics #UniPerugia #CNR @euerasmusplus.bsky.social

Co-Cultivation with Azolla Affects the Metabolome of Whole Rice Plant Beyond Canonical Inorganic Nitrogen Fertilization - Rice

Azolla spp. are floating ferns used for centuries as biofertilizers to enrich the soil with inorganic nitrogen and improve rice yields. However, the molecular interactions between Azolla and co-cultiv...

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Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance

A new metabolomic strategy using mass spectrometry and stable-isotope tracing to uncover unknown metabolic reactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #metabolomics #stable-isotope @natcomms.nature.com

Drought is a growing issue in tropical rainforests. A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution revisits a long-term rainfall manipulation experiment in the Amazon to show that tree mortality was followed by community-level adjustments to reduced precipitation. go.nature.com/4kbQbfu 🧪

Rice JA oxidases control JA-Ile levels to balance growth and defense. Loss of JAO boosts blast resistance but reduces early growth and yield, by diverting metabolic flux upstream of JA-Ile formation. #Phytohormons @plantphys.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Rice JA oxidases control JA-Ile levels to balance growth and defense. Loss of JAO boosts blast resistance but reduces early growth and yield, by diverting metabolic flux upstream of JA-Ile formation. #Phytohormon @plantphys.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

DreaMS is a neural network able of learning molecular representations from raw unannotated mass spectra through self-supervised learning. An Atlas of 201 millions of MS/Ms data to unravel the unknown of our metabolomics data? doi.org/10.1038/s415... #metabolomics #AI #MassSpec

The human microbiota produces peptide and non-peptide secondary metabolites that have antibacterial properties vital to medicine and biotechnology. A Review in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes explores their structures and functions. go.nature.com/4kh26so #medsky 🧪

The meeting will take place on the 9th and 10th of October! #metabolomics #lipidomics Join us!

Michael Witting@metabomichael.bsky.social · last yr.

#ASMS2025 is around the corner, #MetSoc2025 is coming up soon... And if you don't have enough or you might missing out on these two, please consider this year's Munich Metabolomics Meeting. Registration is now open. We have @pluskal-lab.org as wonderful keynote speaker www.munichmetabolomics.com

Thank you @volt.bsky.social and @rikkarinnan.bsky.social for organizing the 1rst symposium on VOCs and interaction in Copenhagen. It was a great opportunity to present our findings on #VOC emissions of #Petrichor from the #Negevdesert. @ag-bonkowsky.bsky.social @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social

I am excited to start our field campaign to study the interaction between herbivory, leaf phytochemicals and microbiome under a simulated drought forest experiment at KROOF 🌿🦋🔬 @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social #Grams #MichaelEisenring #MartinGossner #WLS #TUM