🌽The road to nitrogen fixing maize is long, but important. A new modelling study by ENSA researchers suggests maize could grow much faster when partnering with two soil microbes – nitrogen fixing bacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.@meganlmatthews.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social Link👇

Gestern Dreh, heute online. Ein kurzer Bericht über unsere Arbeit hier in Freiburg im Rahmen des @ensa-research.bsky.social Projekts und in Kooperation mit @cibss.bsky.social. Danke an @henrietteruebsam.bsky.social und das ganze Team für die Koordination und Mithilfe. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

Weniger Erdgas und CO2: Wissenschaftler forschen an Bakterien-Pflanzen-Symbiosen

Kunstdünger braucht viel Erdgas und schadet Klima und Gewässern. Forschende in Freiburg wollen, dass Nutzpflanzen sich mithilfe von Bakterien selbst mit Stickstoff versorgen.

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Fabulous film about @jenmcgaley.bsky.social's work in the @paszkowskilab.bsky.social. Jen has captured arbuscular mycorrhiza in motion for the first time. Find out more 👉https://tinyurl.com/yc2brzcu 🧪 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

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What if one organism could copy itself and merge with others, weaving vast living networks? Meet the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi 🦠 Cambridge researcher Dr Jennifer McGaley from @camplantsci has filmed these fungi in action for the very first time. Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/4ghAynD

ENSA is hiring a postdoc in maize–microbe interactions. 🌽🦠 If you have expertise in maize molecular biology, physiology, or cell biology, apply to join Simona Radutoiu's lab at Aarhus University, Denmark. Deadline: 31 July 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

A new documentary on scientific approaches to replace industrial nitrogen fertilizers is now online @artefr.bsky.social (only in DE/FR). Among them is our and @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social's work @ensa-research.bsky.social further supported by @cibss.bsky.social. www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

Dünger der Zukunft: Die Stickstoff-Revolution - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Ohne künstlichen Stickstoffdünger wären die hohen Erträge der industriellen Landwirtschaft undenkbar. Doch der intensive Einsatz schädigt das Klima. Weltweit wird nach klimafreundlichen Alternativen g...

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We're delighted to announce Uta Paszkowski as the new Russell R. Geiger Chair in Crop Science - a prestigious academic chair at @cam.ac.uk that serves as a cornerstone for cutting-edge agricultural research, sustainability and global food security. 🌍🌱🧪 tinyurl.com/39k489sd

📢 Nos complace anunciar a los ganadores del I Premio Tesis Doctoral Tomás Ruíz Argüeso en esta primera edición de 2026: Primer Premio para @andrearesearch.bsky.social de la Universidad de León y Accésit a @itsmesamu.bsky.social de la Estación Experimental de Aula Dei. ¡¡Enhorabuena a los dos!! 🌱🧫👏🎉

New pre-print from the lab! We show that the subtilase SBT12a is essential for symbiosome stabilization in Medicago. Using HUNTER proteomics, we even got some of its substrates. Have a look. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New Opinion with @iamjawaharsingh.bsky.social @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social No Phosphate, less nitrogen fixing symbiosis and nodules, regardless of nitrogen status. PHR-L7 represses NIN in Common bean under phosphate starvation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats @ottlab.bsky.social and @pengbo10.bsky.social for leading this work!

ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture@ensa-research.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🔬 ENSA research uncovers SYFO2, a molecular gatekeeper that reorganizes actin in legume root hairs to allow rhizobial entry. The team showed that tomato can activate its own SYFO2 pathway, revealing deep evolutionary roots of symbiosis @science.org @ottlab.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants

Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

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Key Protein SYFO2 Enables ‘Self-Fertilization’ of Leguminous Plants • An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott, professor at the University of Freiburg and member of the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS – Centre for Integrat... weiterlesen

🔬 ENSA research uncovers SYFO2, a molecular gatekeeper that reorganizes actin in legume root hairs to allow rhizobial entry. The team showed that tomato can activate its own SYFO2 pathway, revealing deep evolutionary roots of symbiosis @science.org @ottlab.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

Role of molecular “gatekeeper” uncovered, allowing nitrogen-fixing bacteria to enter plant roots | ENSA

A new publication from ENSA researchers and international collaborators has uncovered role of SYFO2 protein that helps plants initiate partnerships with beneficial soil microbes.

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ENSA2 researchers Jens Stougaard & Jesús Montiel González share their journey in @theplantjournal.bsky.social. From pioneering Lotus japonicus to uncovering how bacteria infect plants, their work shows how collaboration drives global agricultural innovation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now out: The expansin EXPA1 is required for both inter- and intracellular infections of Lotus roots. The study was led by Jesús Montiel (UNAM, Mexico) and Jens Stougaard (Aarhus, Denmark) with @blace.bsky.social from our team doing lots of the imaging. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Lotus japonicus alpha‐expansin EXPA1 is recruited during intracellular and intercellular rhizobial colonization

The colonization of legume roots by rhizobia represents a critical phase in the establishment of root nodule symbiosis. In this study, we demonstrated that LjEXPA1, a plant protein involved in cell w...

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