Ever had issues with contamination in #Marchantia or #liverwort tissue culture? We've developed a protocol that is simple and low-effort (albeit slow) to get rid of fungi and bacteria: dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro.... Work led by Isaac Coven and supported by Chetan Pandey, myself & @dromius.bsky.social.

How do transcription factors bind DNA strongly, and in a switch like manner, while remaining sequence specific? Our new paper on a canonical plant TF suggests the answer is a previously underappreciated assembly state: transcription factor nanoclusters. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nanoclustering of a plant transcription factor enables strong yet specific DNA binding

Transcription factor nanoclusters balance the DNA binding trade-off between weakly binding oligomers and nonspecific condensates.

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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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Preprint! How do "friendly" rhizobia build a legume nodule? @albinteulet.bsky.social found that some may carry hidden transcription factors - proteins that mimic DNA-binding folds to enter the plant nucleus and rewrite its developmental program. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

The 'heart' of the #Mycorrhiza #fungi #symbiosis is the arbuscule where plant and fungus exchange nutrients and carbon. Try the arbuscule growth simulator. Let me know how you adjust parameters to get the most beautiful arbuscules. schornacklabslcu.github.io/Arbuscule-Sim/

Dynamic Patterns of Nuclear Transcription Factor Abundance in Plant Basal Immunity Revealed by Spatial Proteomics of Arabidopsis Nuclei www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dynamic Patterns of Nuclear Transcription Factor Abundance in Plant Basal Immunity Revealed by Spatial Proteomics of Arabidopsis Nuclei

### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 400681449/GRK2498, 514901783/CRC1664 Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, http...

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If you want to learn a bit about our research in a different way!! ⬇️ Please. Do not comment the 'climbing the staircase' part 😅

Thomas Ott@ottlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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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Updated @theplantjournal.bsky.social guidelines: avoid the use of terms such as “basal”, “early diverging lineage”, “primitive”, “ancestral plant”, “lower and higher plants” [..] recommends the use of specific terms such as “bryophytes”, “vascular plants” [..] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The demonstration of a single origin for nodule evolution, with nodule engineering in a non-nodulating species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.728964v1

Are you excited about understanding the molecular underpinnings of arbuscular mycorrhiza? Then this PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/4...

1/ Motivated by a sub-optimal aequorin analysis pipeline, I spent some free time building Plöttr (evompmi.github.io/plottr)

Congrats @annamartyn.bsky.social et al. 🤗 Impressive work!

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The common symbiosis pathway controls plant root microbiomes in a host-specific manner https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723321v1

Karrikin and strigolactone signalling affect pattern-triggered immunity and resistance to specific pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.722863v1

We are very happy and proud to present a study led by @jorgehg.bsky.social (now PI in Madrid – keep an eye on him!) in our team @bic-wur.bsky.social. In this work, we discover how auxin-regulated ARF transcription factors learned to activate transcription. A 🧵…(1/17) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

MpERF14/GEMMIFER paper now published in Current Biology. Congratulations Go and Yuki for leading such a nice piece of research. #PlantSciences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Initiation of asexual reproduction by the AP2/ERF gene GEMMIFER in Marchantia polymorpha

Plants can propagate their own clones through asexual reproduction. Genetic and hormonal factors regulating asexual reproduction have begun to be eluc…

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Unequal requirement of KAI2 for AM symbiosis across angiosperms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.03.722480v1

Bacterial immune proteins have repeatedly evolved to become parts of eukaryotic immunity. But how? Our new preprint uncovers a recent horizontal transfer event & shows how eukaryotes co-opted a toxic bacterial immune protein 🦠🧪🧵 1/

"Horizontal gene transfer and diploidy illuminate evolution and stress adaptation in oleaginous Scenedesmaceae (Chlorophyta)" Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

The compartmentalized activity of a legume subtilase SBT12a allows symbiosome stabilization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.717438v1

In need of algal culture media to grow them all? Find them here: www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...

Three New Synthetic Algal Culture Media to Grow Them All †

Three new synthetic algal culture media are described that have been used to cultivate ~12,000 diverse strains of (micro)algae, one culture medium for marine and brackish-water algae (ASP-MEL (Artific...

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New Preprint! Engineering quantitative root disease resistance in barley by targeting conserved SCAR susceptibility genes without compromising seed yield or mycorrhizal symbiosis. This work has been led by @binebrumm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📣 Job opportunity: ERC-funded position as a Five-Year Postdoctoral Researcher (all genders welcome) in @jandevries.bsky.social lab in Göttingen, Germany. Find more info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... #plantsci

Effector-centred proximity-dependent labelling enables the discovery of cell-surface immune receptors in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.23.713615v1

📢 Preprint alert! We investigated how citrate loading into xylem vessels and nicotianamine (NA) compartmentation jointly regulate metal homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. doi.org/10.64898/202... A little thread...

Super nice read!! And what a pleasure to see three ECR I have had the chance to see grow up as fully accomplished scientists writting this piece together! Congrats @minyaojhu.bsky.social @fabianvanbeveren.bsky.social and Bruno !

The Plant Cell@theplantcell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Duplicated genes find their space: Spatial transcriptomics illuminates evolutionary fates (Min-Yao Jhu , Fabian van Beveren , Bruno Guillotin) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

TurboID-based proteomic profiling reveals proxitome of the IRT1 metal transporter and new insight into metal uptake regulation in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.712057v1

📢New paper alert: 🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots 👉 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @an-pocheng.bsky.social @carogutj.bsky.social