How are we to argue with the likes of @PlantEvolution? 🌱 “Fantastic and important study” — we’ll happily take that 😊 The formatted PDF of our paper is now online! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾@plantevolution.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#transgenerational transmission of a core #microbiome that protects against downy mildew from soil to #phyllosphere Fantastic and important study by @jellespooren.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #plantscience

🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH

Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization, promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying Pseudomonas, sele...

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Registration is now open for the 2026 edition of our UU PhD summer school. Check out the not-to-be-missed speaker lineup 🤩🤩 signup now!! @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechtpmi.bsky.social @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social @mproveniers.bsky.social @kaisakajala.bsky.social

UU Plants@uuplants.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are beyond excited to reveal the full line-up for our Environmental Signaling in Plants summer school 2026! Registration is now open here eps.sites.uu.nl - we look forward to seeing you in Utrecht on 24th-26th August!

MiCRop co-PIs @rlberendsen.bsky.social and @vkokkoris.bsky.social on Dutch television

Harro Bouwmeester@harrobouwmeester.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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Super happy to have our work published in one of my favourite journals @newphyt.bsky.social Amazing effort by Jiayu Zhou and colleagues from @utrechtpmi.bsky.social and UvA. You can find it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cornepieterse.bsky.social

Arabidopsis root defense barriers support beneficial interactions with rhizobacterium Pseudomonas simiae WCS417

Plant roots interact with pathogenic and beneficial microbes in the soil. While root defense barriers block pathogens, their roles in facilitating beneficial plant–microbe associations are understud...

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Assistant Professor in Plant Science

Contribute to innovative Plant Science research using world-class facilities to unravel how plants cope with stressful abiotic environments.

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Really nice work from @jellespooren.bsky.social showing that disease-suppressive soils might sometimes be generated in the phyllosphere. Turning the concept of soilborne legacies upside down 🌱🦠 With @cornepieterse.bsky.social @svanwees.bsky.social and others @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Jelle Spooren@jellespooren.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to share our latest pre-print manuscript entitled 'Downy mildew disease-suppressive soils transmit a protective core microbiome to the phyllosphere' (lnkd.in/dBk28gnT). Super cool to see the final chapter of my PhD at the Plant-Microbe Interactions group of Universiteit Utrecht now online!

One more week to apply for an open PhD position in my team at Utrecht University. Interested in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, microorganisms and plant-microbiota interactions, don't hesitate and apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD Position on Decoding Plant Microbiota–Host Specificity Using AI

Join us to generate data and build AI-driven models to decode plant–microbiota host specificity!

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Dive into the plant root microbiome with Dr. Ronnie de Jonge (Utrecht Uni). His team uses high-dimensional ‘omics and AI to understand how plant roots recruit beneficial microbes. Don’t miss his talk at #PPATH2025 buff.ly/mJsUvUO #AIinBiology #PlantScience

📜 Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants 🧑‍🔬 @svbentum.bsky.social, @rlberendsen.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMicrobiome #Fusarium #Agriculture

Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants

The rhizosphere microbiome influences plant health by mediating plant-pathogen interactions. Plants can recruit protective microbes in response to disease, but the consistency of this process in field...

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@y-song.bsky.social doing a great job at explaining the importance of the potato microbiome at the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social microbiome day! Hoping the medical and veterinary microbiome scientists in the audience enjoy the change in perspective.

🔬 Exciting #JournalClub in our group today by @nielsaerts.bsky.social! We discussed the immense and multilayered complexity of hormonal cross-regulation in plant immunity, based on this preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🌿🧬A must-read for those fascinated by plant defense and signaling!

🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social is looking for a pre-doc intern to join our research on plant immunity. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com

The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · last yr.

VACANCY: Predoc Internship Nobori Lab, UK Plant immunity research at single-cell & spatial resolution Interested in pursuing a PhD or developing your research skills in plant & microbial science? Apply online, position may fill after 24/03 ➡️ www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social

@micropresearch.bsky.social starts the second phase in its journey to harness the plant microbiome for (a)biotic stress resilience. Stay tuned for PhD and Postdoc openings this spring! www.microp.org

It's not just PubMed. All NCBI services are down. This includes: - RefSeq - NCBI Gene Database - NCBI BLAST Server - NCBI Entrez If this becomes permanent (or if servers slow down), this is a debilitating blow to genome and genomics research.

What Trump miscalculates about American power - insightful www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/interna... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

What Trump miscalculates about American power

Central to Donald Trump’s approach to international relations is an inability to grasp the basis of America’s postwar power – a mistake Australia must confront for its own security.

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Excited to share my postdoctoral work from Basel! We discovered a “microbiota receptor” in Arabidopsis that optimises plant immunity, the root microbiome composition, eventually leading to enhanced plant growth.

Klaus Schlaeppi@kschlaeppi.bsky.social · last yr.

Preprint alert: Here we report MMF1 - "a microbiota receptor” - through which Arabidopsis plants perceive their soil microbiome. Perception optimises root microbiome composition, immune status and ultimately leads to better growth. Happy reading... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our newest research on plant-fungal trade published today in @nature.com. The work, led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF combines robotics, mycology & biophysics to reveal underground supply-chain dynamics. Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam! Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻 1/3 PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Candidate Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience

Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for plant science? Would you like to apply your enthusiasm to a highly relevant project in the field of plant-microbiome interactions? Then we have th...

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the mycorrhizal highways moves in waves with trade interests at the forefront flowing dynamically in both ways within hyphae. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade - Nature

Symbiotic fungi control network-level structure and flows to meet trade demands.

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The European federation of Academies of Sciences has posted a statement of concern about the developments in the US. They now have added the option to endorse this statement as an organisation. Would be great if this could go viral. allea.org/portfolio-it...

ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States

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And folks warn that Chinese GenAI are a risk and manipulative.

Andrew Dessler@andrewdessler.com · last yr.

grok 2 vs grok 3

Interesting journal club by @mpapadopoulou.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Evidence for the promotion of specific microbial ecological clusters to increase soybean plant fitness in response to nutrient deficiency. Also interesting for microbiomes4soy.eu

We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

🌱🔬 Exciting to see Yang Song explain our Nature Microbiology paper in this video! Her work shows how the microbiome of seed potatoes can predict plant growth potential—offering a new way to assess tuber quality before planting. Check it out here: www.microp.org/news/168/new...

Great talk by Heribert Hert on microbiomes in relation to drought resistance, regreening strategies and the orphan crop Fonio microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Great line up before the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social: now Ruben Garrido-Oter on experimental evolution on the plant

Maria Suarez Diez (WUR) about constraint-based modelling of SynComs: already complex with a SynCom of three!

Next up: Simon Radutoiu about the role of LysM receptors in symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia

@gijsselten.bsky.social demonstrated that plants select bacterial functions using a SuperSynCom (1000 strains)