Happy to share our work! 🍄🍇 Botrytis cinerea grapevine-specialized strains harbor a specific repertoire of transposons. While retrotransposon-derived small RNAs do not appear to play a significant role in virulence on grapevine, a new giant transposon—a #Starship— confers arsenic resistance.

bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Role of transposons in the specialization of Botrytis cinerea to grapevine: Insights into small RNAs and a new Starship https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.30.728154v1

The SFP's new Board of Directors met in Paris and elected its new Executive Committee: Congrats to Mathias Choquer (@mathiaschoquer.bsky.social), President; Maryam Khalili (@maryamkhalili.bsky.social), Treasurer; and Maël Baudin (@baudinmael.bsky.social), Secretary General. 📷 @mrmbuee.bsky.social

Today, we had the pleasure to welcome @carlmesarich.bsky.social and Ashleigh Mosen from Massey university @inrae-bioger.bsky.social to discuss projects and collaboration. Carl Mesarich gave a seminar on avirulence effectors of Venturia inaequalis and Fulvia fulva and on their switch to virulence

Nicolas Lapalu et al. developed a new method to improve the prediction of eukaryotic genes and demonstrate its utility using the genome of the fungal wheat pathogen #Zymoseptoria tritici. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-07-25-0077-TA

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

A permanent position as a research scientist is opened in our team! We look for a plant physiologist with expertise in plant / microorganism interactions to identify plant susceptibility factors to fungal disease. Please forward!

@inrae-bioger.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It’s now official! INRAE is recruiting: @inrae-bioger.bsky.social is offering a permanent position as a research scientist to identify #plant #susceptibility factors to #fungal diseases. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... before March 5, 2026 to apply!

Our first wheat stripe rust avirulence (?!) effector is published "Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat" apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/.... It is not what we expected but this is the most fun part about science. 1/n

Defence Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

Plant resistance (R) and pathogen avirulence (Avr) gene interactions are central to pathogen recognition and disease resistance in crops. Functional characterisation of recognised Avr effectors of Puc...

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Elza Neau's PhD defence is just starting on 'multiple roads to multidrug resistance in plant pathogenic fungi: the case of Zymoseptoria tritici'. A PhD supervised by Sabine Fillinger and Anaïs Laleve at @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and funded by @parissaclay.bsky.social

#TansleyReview: Unraveling complexity in #ClimateChange effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions Afkhami et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Congratulation @Camille Rabeau who defended her PhD today on innovative ways to identify new resistance sources to Leptosphaeria maculans in rapeseed. A great co supervision with Audren Jiquel @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and Sébastien Faure @innolea. Good luck Camille with your new position as breeder

Now published in Plant Pathology. 'Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors' - Talbi - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Molecular Investigation of Rlm3 From Rapeseed as a Potential Broad‐Spectrum Resistance Gene Against Fungal Pathogens Producing Structurally Conserved Effectors

AvrLm3 and structural analogues from the multipathogen LARS family trigger recognition by Rlm3 from rapeseed, that recognition being abolished by the presence of AvrLm4-7 or mutation of key amino aci...

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Isabelle Fudal@ifudal.bsky.social · last yr.

Could we identify broad-spectrum resistances able to recognize structural families of effectors? During her PhD, Nacera Talbi demonstrated proof of concept with the Rlm3 resistance protein, which can recognize members of the LARS structural family. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The first article of Camille Rabeau (CIFRE PhD student @inrae-bioger.bsky.social and @innolea) now on bioRxiv. Camille characterized Leptosphaeria maculans effector genes expressed during stem colonization of rapeseed and identified new resistance sources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms! rdcu.be/eG3vP We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres. Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

Check out our fungi-tastic special issue, full of marvels of mycology — and many articles accessible for free! 🍄🍄🍄 www.cell.com/current-biol...

#SFP2025 Anne Genissel from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the evolution of plasticity of Zymoseptoria tritici

#SFP2025 Amandine Le Ruyet from @inrae-bioger.bsky.social on the mode of action of a biocontrol molecule, the 4PBA

#SFP2025 is just starting. Lets talk about plant pathology!

Current methods for profiling #HistoneModifications require cell isolation & don't work with all tissue types. @jellevda.bsky.social &co adapt Targeted DamID (TaDa) to profile cell-type-specific #histone marks throughout the genome, in vivo, without cell isolation 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Dw8sUD

Stand up for Science

Really strong candidate for the coolest story of the year (I know it’s still just march)!!! Kudos @svenklumpe.bsky.social @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social & all involved 👏

Sven Klumpe@svenklumpe.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share our manuscript on the in situ visualization of the copia retrotransposon in its final form today published in @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... What’s new?

Have a look at the EPLM team posters today at #ECFG17 on the regulation of Leptosphaeria maculans effector gene expression (P2.409) and on the identification of rapeseed resistances triggered by late effectors (P2.138).

@INRAE_Bioger is well represented at the #ECFG17. See oral presentations CS1.3.7 and CS1.7.2 this afternoon, and posters P2.138 and P2.409 tomorrow.

@inrae-bioger.bsky.social is ready for a great @ecfg172025.bsky.social

New Publication: Live cell imaging of plant infection provides new insight into the biology of pathogenesis by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (2025) | @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social www.tsl.ac.uk/publications...

Could we identify broad-spectrum resistances able to recognize structural families of effectors? During her PhD, Nacera Talbi demonstrated proof of concept with the Rlm3 resistance protein, which can recognize members of the LARS structural family. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Molecular investigation of Rlm3 from rapeseed as a broad-spectrum resistance gene against fungal pathogens producing structurally conserved effectors

Recognition of a pathogen avirulence (AVR) effector protein by its cognate plant resistance (R) protein triggers immune responses that render the plant resistant, representing an efficient disease con...

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This year, our invited speaker is Jean Guy Berrin @jgberrin @BBFlab on Fungal carbohydrate enzymes #FungIDF

5th Symposium on Fungal Genetics Île de France is just starting. Thanks to our sponsors #Univ_paris_cite #IJMonod #SFGenetique #institutpasteur #cnrs