Wie schlimm war die #Hitzewelle Ende Juni hierzulande? Ich habe das Gefühl, die Berichterstattung wird dem bislang nicht gerecht. Vielleicht hilft dieses Diagramm? Das sind die Sterbefälle für jeden Tag seit Anfang 2020 – in Rot die Kurve für 2026. https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gvL9c/1/

Our work is out now! (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). We discover a selective autophagy pathway that protects plants from the mess caused by RNA viruses. Intrigued? Follow the spaghetti trail for a summary of our findings🧵-->

Selective autophagy fine-tunes plant immunity to promote cell survival during viral infection

RNA viruses co-opt host endomembranes to form replication complexes, often triggering cellular stress and immune responses. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana activates selective autophagy to res...

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Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Some hyphae, arbuscules and vesicles of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inside the root of a bramble, collected during a workshop at Wilburton Primary School, Cambridgeshire. And this was just the tip of the iceberg! #mycosky #microsocpy #fungi

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...

The award ceremony was followed by a celebratory dinner at the Rathauskeller at Vienna City Hall, supported by the @wien.gv.at – a fitting close to a stimulating two-day program! #Mendel_ECR_26 #PlantBiology #WhereKnowledgeGrows

Preprint alert! I am happy to share the first manuscript from my thesis project! We initially wanted an overview of how SymRK evolution compares to other receptors with a similar domain structure, and when we saw how dynamically a particular group of them behaves, we decided to dig deeper...

Evolutionary diversification of the SymRK receptor family in land plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723708v1

Its preprint season for #TRRPlantMicrobe and in the last weeks a flurry of great plant microbe papers were posted. It's been wonderful seeing these stories take shape over the last years amid a supportive community of young researchers, so I wanted to collect them all in one place. Take a look👇

Sequence adaptations in the intracellular domain of Symbiosis receptor-like kinase (SymRK) promoted infection thread progression in root nodule primordia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.07.723153v1

Can’t describe it better than @sebastian-dts.bsky.social did, with whom collaborating on this #TRR356 project has been a treat! Special thanks also to Martin Stegmann and @carogutj.bsky.social , and to all other co-authors! Find our manuscript at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sebastian Schade@sebastian-dts.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Born from the collaborative spirit of #TRR356, I’m excited to share my first first-author project! 🪴🦠 What started as a side project with @kbuhrman.bsky.social led us to discover that KAR/KL and SL signalling fine-tune the strength and timing of plant defense responses in a conserved manner!

The 2D and 3D ultrastructure of symbiosomes and associated vesicular structures in Lotus japonicus root nodule symbiosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.03.722514v1

And that’s a wrap for the #TRR356 “Plant-Microbe” PhD & PostDoc retreat at beautiful Frauenchiemsee 🌿 We enjoyed talks from within the TRR and from our fantastic invited speakers, along with an engaging poster session, workshop, and career development discussions. A truly great event!

📢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

Looking for a #PhDposition in #PlantScience ? Our #IMPRS @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social and Uni Potsdam is currently recruiting! 📅 Apply by February 28, 2025 👉 www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD #PlantSciJobs #PhDjobs #PlantPhysiology #epigenetics #PlantMicrobe #compbio #PlantBiology #PlantSci #plantPhD