New paper! Distribution and Shared Pathogenicity of Small-Spored Alternaria on Solanaceous Crops in Europe dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppa.... Marker analyses of small-spored Alternaria from Germany, Poland and Serbia finds 2 spp mixed. We need full genome sequencing to understand local or host adaptation.

Distribution and Shared Pathogenicity of Small‐Spored <fi>Alternaria</fi> on Solanaceous Crops in Europe

Phylogenetic and infection-assay data show that A. alternata and A. arborescens co-occur across regions and hosts with extensive haplotype sharing. Both species display comparable pathogenicity on mu....

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$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

Our science & scientists also becoming victims of climate change. A/C systems not designed to deal with consecutive heatwaves & continuing to fail. Nearly 50°C in the room with our plant growth cabinets (which couldn't cope) today. 3 rounds of failed experiments. #plantscience #climatecatastrophe

After a journey of roughly 12 years I am very happy to share with you that our manuscript on the spatiotemporal role of ethylene during nodule initiation has finally been published in @theplantcell.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Ethylene Biosynthesis Shape Infection and Nodule Initiation in Medicago Truncatula

Spatially reprogramming of the expression of ACS genes in Medicago truncatula coordinate localized changes in ethylene levels and response across root tiss

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Cf-4- and Cf-5-triggered plant immunity: Similarities and differences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.10.731257v1

Using tobacco rattle virus for somatic gene editing in tomato with the compact ISYmu1 TnpB endonuclease. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Am 17.06. steht die finale Abstimmung im EU-Parlament auf der Tagesordnung. Nach eigenen Angaben der Demeter-Kampagne wurden EU-Parlamentarier*innen bisher mit 200.000 E-Mails vollgespamt. Heute wurden Nummern veröffentlicht, um die MdEPs jetzt noch mit Telefonterror mürbe zu machen. Völlig irre.

Robert Hoffie@forscherrobert.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Angeführt von Demeter, haben viele Organisationen aus der Anthroposophie und Biolandbau-Bubble gerade eine neue Aktion gegen #Gentechnik gestartet. Anlass ist die letzte Abstimmungsphase zu einem jahrelang diskutierten EU-Gesetzentwurf zur Regulierung sog NGT-Pflanzen. Wir gucken uns das mal an: 1/

🌱 KPC featuring young plant scientists at CAU Kiel. See recent post on @lizflorez.bsky.social and learn about her research on plant pathogenic fungi: www.plant-center.uni-kiel.de/en/research/...

So cool to see that the wild tomato species we're doing our research on are now also on display at the Kiel Botanical gardens! Thanks to all staff for making this possible and @sev1panier.bsky.social for organizing this!

I am very happy to see that finally out. Great applause to Henriette Leicher and Martin Stegmann, the two leaders of this journey and thanks and congrats to everbody else who helped. #TRR356

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

RALFs, likely combining cell wall and signalling functions, support powdery mildew infection of #Arabidopsis 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Leicher et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

The U.S. government has recently convicted multiple postdocs from China for improper shipments of biological materials. Some see a replay of the 2018 China Initiative. https://scim.ag/4txj2hZ

Chinese postdocs in U.S. hit with a wave of prosecutions and deportations

The U.S. government has recently convicted multiple postdocs for improper shipments of biological materials. Some see a replay of the 2018 China Initiative

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In Kiel? Visit our plants at the botanical garden! (Can't miss it, right in front of glasshouse) As they grow and change, interpretive signs will explain why we're so passionate about this species. And what we are learning from them. We'll take you on this adventure through the season 😊🍅

Severin Einspanier@sev1panier.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Remember? Last year we released our wild tomatoes into northern Germany's wild habitats. 🌥️🍅 This year we're expanding! Scaling up field experiments + science communication together with SCTT 🇪🇺 First milestone: plants now at @uni-kiel.de Botanical Garden. Stay tuned! 🌱

Remember? Last year we released our wild tomatoes into northern Germany's wild habitats. 🌥️🍅 This year we're expanding! Scaling up field experiments + science communication together with SCTT 🇪🇺 First milestone: plants now at @uni-kiel.de Botanical Garden. Stay tuned! 🌱

Super excited to see our work on the Pm3e NLR that recognises two structurally diverse AVR effectors from powdery mildew out in @natcomms.nature.com Congratulations to @lukas-kunz.bsky.social, Beat Keller, and everyone involved! Check it out ➡️https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72199-w

New Comment: "On the importance of being powerful to detecting specific regulations in omics studies" rdcu.be/fgOZB Most studies use only a few biological replicates which generates low statistical power and sometimes misleading biological interpretations. #PlantScience

Woah www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Genome degradation in plant tissue culture | PNAS

Many plants, unlike most animals, can reproduce as clones [D. Kester, HortScience 18, 831&ndash;837 (1983), 10.21273/hortsci.18.6.831]. Cloning plants is...

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Professor in Epidemiology/Pathology for Agricultural Crop Plants at Aarhus University www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Professor in Epidemiology/Pathology for Agricultural Crop Plants - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Agroøkologi - Plantepatologi og Mikrobiologi, Aarhus Universitet

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My colleague and collaborator Nazgol Emrani is looking for a Research Assistant / Postdoc in Crop Genetics at the University of Rostock. www.b-ite.com/recruitingma...

Angeführt von Demeter, haben viele Organisationen aus der Anthroposophie und Biolandbau-Bubble gerade eine neue Aktion gegen #Gentechnik gestartet. Anlass ist die letzte Abstimmungsphase zu einem jahrelang diskutierten EU-Gesetzentwurf zur Regulierung sog NGT-Pflanzen. Wir gucken uns das mal an: 1/

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

Nandeesh Jalahalli Rangegowda from the Kile University Kiel on Lineage and Genotype-Specific Variation of Developmental and Defense RLPs in Wild and Cultivated Tomato #MBP2026

Thank you @sev1panier.bsky.social for the shoutout. I highly recommend reading their fantastic work on one of the most challenging areas in #plantsciences: quantitative disease resistance (QDR).An honour to cover this work as the @theplantcell.bsky.social AFE @aspbofficial.bsky.social

Severin Einspanier@sev1panier.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you dont have time to read the whole manuscript, make sure not to miss @pngsabrina.bsky.social 's commentary! tinyurl.com/49c2wazk

Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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@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...

Are you interested in @ceplas.bsky.social single cell data and spatial transcriptomic data analysis and inference? Then apply for this PhD position in our graduate school HDS-LEE in my group co-supervised by Prof Assent. www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j.... For questions don't hesitate to contact me.

CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗ CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

This week in @science.org, a celebration of plant pangenomes. A pangenome analysis for massively polyploid sugarcane species, and one for Brassica rapa giving insight into subspeciation. What's all the fuss about pangenomes? Pamela and Douglas Soltis explore this in an insightful Perspective(1/4)