A lettuce receptor-like kinase recognizes the highly conserved heptapeptide motif within microbial Nep1-like proteins | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Deadline extended 📢 Submit your abstract for the #PPRM2026 by July 29th! Check our fantastic lineup of invited speakers and come join us discuss all things #plant peptide receptors 🌱 Please spread the word and see you in Freising (Germany) from September 14 to 16 😊 www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...

‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...

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!

@rsasidharan.bsky.social pays tribute to Rens Voesenek for his major contributions to our field and #plantscience in general. 🌱🌊 Inspiring anectdotes and life lessons from Rens, who was a mentor to many of us. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

The latest paper from our work on DMR6. Genetic suppression of growth reduction in the Arabidopsis dmr6_dlo1 mutant. Results of the forward genetics screen by Tijmen van Butselaar💪🏻. Interested… read the paper😄. onlinelibrary.willen.com/doi/10.1111/...

Genetic suppressors of the growth‐immunity trade‐off in the Arabidopsis salicylic acid‐accumulating dmr6 dlo1 mutant

This study reveals genetic factors underlying the salicylic acid (SA)-mediated growth-immunity tradeoff in plants by identifying suppressor mutants with restored growth in the background of the highl...

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Ever wonder how flower petals can make such amazing patterns? Me too, and thanks to @nwonieuws.bsky.social, we will get to find out! www.uu.nl/en/news/biol... @petuniaplatform.bsky.social #plantscience #UtrechtUniversity #NWO #flowers #epigenetics

Biologist Jason Gardiner secures €1 million grant to study how flowers make patterns

A new project aims to build fundamental knowledge about flower pigmentation, with real-world applications. This may help breeders create more stable flowers, fruits, and vegetables. The grant is award...

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Check out the latest paper by the Snoek lab in @theplantjournal.bsky.social, a genetics study involving a large field trial with 200 lettuce genotypes phenotyped by a drone. Great work by Rens Dijkhuizen, Bram van Eijnatten, Sarah Mehrem, @guidopmi.bsky.social & others! doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

From aerial drone to quantitative trait locus: leveraging next‐generation phenotyping to reveal the genetics of color and height in field‐grown Lactuca sativa

Understanding the genetic basis of lettuce color is important because these traits correlate with metabolites such as anthocyanins, which are known to have strong antioxidant properties. Furthermore,....

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In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

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Save the date! The 2026 edition of UU Summer School in Environmental Signaling in Plants will be on 24th-26th August 2026! @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Our Translational Plant Biology Team from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social is well represented at #2025ISMPMI. Come and see our posters: P077 Inigo Banales, P095 Dmitry Lapin, P235 @scoolen.bsky.social, P412 Bart Schimmel. Too bad I cannot attend this year. Enjoy!

I’m honored to give a talk on ‘the role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions’ at the ‘International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions’ congress in Cologne (July). #MPMI @mrogowska.bsky.social, @cuwelte.bsky.social, @robertsjansen.bsky.social, @guidopmi.bsky.social

A strong showing from Utrecht at #ICAR2025! Catch us as speakers, session chairs and at posters #42, 50 and 240 tonight!

I thank all co-authors for this work. By combining phylogenetics, structural prediction, and functional assays, we demonstrate that the isochorismate-based SA biosynthetic pathway emerged during Brassicales evolution.

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · last yr.

Emergence of isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis within Brassicales https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.03.641121v1

🚨 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

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Alle media die dit beschrijven als ‘ruzie’, ‘a shouting match’ enz. geven Zelensky verantwoordelijkheid voor de onvoorstelbaar beschamende behandeling die hem ten deel viel. Hier zat een eervol mens tegenover de ergste bullies van het schoolplein. Verschrikkelijk.

In memoriam: John McDowell, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute news.vt.edu/articles/202... #PlantScience #Obituary

In memoriam: John McDowell, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Fralin Life Sciences Institute

McDowell, a global leader in the study of plant-pathogen interactions and professor, passed away Dec. 24 after a 19-month battle with cancer.

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Our latest research, "Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties," is now published online on Nature Microbiology! 🥔✨ Check out the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Let's connect and grow ideas together!

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology

Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

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New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very sad news. Great memories of my fellow downy mildew researcher across the Atlantic. He was a strong supporter of the Oomycete and MPMI communities. John passed away way too soon and will be missed.

Francis M. Martin@fmartin54.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sad news. John McDowell has passed away. He was not only a brilliant scientist, he was one of the kindest people I have ever met. He worked hard, did a tremendous job in plant pathology and was a wonderful colleague. He is gone way too soon. www.mccoyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/J...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology

Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

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What the world really needs is a vibe shift. Most people who don’t farm don’t think much about agriculture, & we’ve fallen into a trap of assuming there’s virtuous agriculture and evil agriculture. But we farm because we need to eat. Let’s use biotech and other tech to make less of a mess.

@nikogeldner.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o... Don’t agree with everything, but it’s a really interesting read.

We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social at Utrecht University. Please apply via: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

I am looking for a speaker for the "Plant Gene Expression Analysis" workshop at the PAG32 conference in January. There are no funds to support speakers unfortunately. Other confirmed speakers are @tralee-sci.bsky.social, Colleen Doherty and Ronan O'Malley. Please message me if you are interested!

This is a wonderful paper by @mfseidl.bsky.social and colleagues doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Pangenome graph analysis reveals extensive effector copy-number variation in spinach downy mildew

Author summary Plant pathogens are known to evolve rapidly and overcome disease resistance of newly introduced crop varieties. This swift adaptation is visible in the genomes of these pathogens, which...

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CropXR also moved to @bsky.app. We will post most messages on LinkedIn. For now we have our handle. Enjoy the blue sky over the field.

Hi Bluesky. Good to meet everyone here again in #plantscience

Just posted my last message on X. Wonder why I did not do that earlier :-)