Have a look at our latest review where we discuss the current knowledge on carbon transport and metabolism throughout the nodulation process. #PlantScience #Legumes #Rhizibia @psb-vib.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Unraveling carbon dynamics in legume–rhizobia symbioses: toward a single-cell resolution of symbiotic metabolism

This review explores carbon allocation and metabolism during legume nodulation, highlighting single-cell and spatial omics as emerging approaches to study

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Time for another preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social and @defengshen.bsky.social. We found some surprising secrets that connect and uncouple root barrier formation with systemic nitrogen signaling in shoots. see the thread below for more details

A tunable receptor separates root barrier formation from nutrient signaling through ligand-perception states

In roots, the endodermis controls nutrient entry by forming a barrier known as the Casparian strip. Yet how barrier-associated processes interface with systemic signaling remains unclear. Here, we sho...

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Check out our recent paper where we shed light on the AMF-tomato symbiosis. @bertderybel.bsky.social @vandepoelelab.bsky.social @vibtechnologies.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Decoding stage-specific symbiotic programs in the Rhizophagus irregularis-tomato interaction using single-nucleus transcriptomics

Stuer et al. use single-nucleus RNA-seq to resolve stage-specific transcriptional programs during arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization of tomato roots. Their analysis identifies candidate transcription...

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Exciting results from our PGPR work!

Plant Systems Biology@psb-vib.bsky.social · last mo.

PAPER from @therhizolab.bsky.social #plantscience www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/...

Awesome! 👏 Finally, science has convinced sufficient politicians to approve the new NGT-rules to enable CRISPR-based plant breeding! Time to celebrate!🎉🎊🥂🧬✂️🌱 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

New genomic techniques for plants to boost innovation in sustainable agriculture | News | European Parliament

Parliament has adopted new rules facilitating access to new plants that are climate and pest resistant, give higher yields and require fewer pesticides.

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Preprint: Plant pathogens cleave 2’cADPR to suppress TIR immune signaling Inspired by knowledge on how phages inhibit bacterial immunity, we now show that disease-causing bacteria inhibit plant immunity in a similar way. A 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Plant pathogens cleave 2'cADPR to suppress TIR immune signaling

Small molecules produced by TIR (Toll-interleukin-1 receptor) domains are essential for plant immune signaling. A central TIR-derived signal is 2'cADPR, a cyclic ADP-ribose (ADPR) molecule that is gen...

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Spotlighting #plantscience that pushes the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links. Inbox us a paper link or tag us to be featured. #plantsci

Lara Van Dijck@laravdijck.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Super excited to share that my PhD research paper is finally out! @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @parkergroup.bsky.social

🌱🧬Pathogens manipulate the apoplast by controlling pH, water & nutrients. Plants fight back with oxidative bursts, toxins & hydrolases. Adapted pathogens disarm these defenses & hide from detection Molecular arms race outside the cell @annualreviews.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Extracellular Antagonists: Offense and Counter-Defense in the Apoplast

Extracellular interactions are pivotal in the plant–pathogen arms race. Fungal, bacterial, and oomycete pathogens manipulate the apoplast to control pH, water soaking, sugar levels, and nutrient avail...

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PAPER from @danielvandamme.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Mechanistic Insight Into Clathrin‐Mediated Endocytosis in Plants

Mechanistic insight into plant clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

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TIRs are key regulators of plant immunity, but the role of conserved TIR-only proteins has remained unclear. Here, we compare TIR-only proteins from Arabidopsis and barley and show that they share a conserved role in plant immunity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conserved TIR-only proteins drive transcriptional defense and basal immunity in dicot and monocot plants

Toll/interleukin-1/resistance (TIR) domain NADase enzymes signal in plant immunity by producing ribosylated nucleotide second messengers which activate EDS1 dimer-helper NLR pathways to restrict patho...

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Proud to share our new paper on how prion-like fungal effectors target plastids and modulate host metabolism during root symbiosis. Exciting collaborative work uncovering PEPSI effectors and the interaction of one of them with DXR in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... bsky.app/profile/eell...

Ernesto Llamas@eellamas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ Happy to share our latest work, now on bioRxiv! 🌱🍄 We explore how Serendipita indica effectors target root plastids and modulate plastidial metabolism through prion-like domains. bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #plastids #plantmicrobe #chloroplasts #plants

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

🎉 📰 Very happy to share the journal publication of our manuscript "Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation"! #ScienceAdvancesResearch @science.org @teamthomma.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation

Fungal effectors may have evolved from ancient antimicrobials, shaping plant microbiota and immunity during infection.

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Review paper from our group. @Céline De Pessemier @Michiel Vandecasteele With @danielvandamme.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Licensed to protect: microbial biocontrol challenges and opportunities #Bacillus, #Trichoderma, and #Pseudomonas @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social from Sofie Goormachtig @therhizolab.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Very proud to share our new paper led by Mathias Brands from my team at @UniCologne! With Markus Pauly team @HHU. Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan limits immune activation and facilitates mutualistic colonization of monocot roots: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Host-adapted enzymatic deconstruction of acetylated xylan limits immune activation and facilitates mutualistic colonization of monocot roots

This study identifies a monocot-specific enzymatic module in the beneficial root endophyte Serendipita indica, showing how ancestral saprotrophic enzymes have been repurposed into an immune-compatible...

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#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Really proud of this work led by Ruben Eichfeld! We show how a CBM domain gain/loss can rewire fungal chitinases, turning them from antifungal enzymes into immune-suppressing effectors that support plant symbiosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Domain gain or loss in a fungal chitinase enables specialization towards antagonism or immune suppression - Nature Communications

Gain or loss of a particular domain contributes to functional specialization of a conserved chitinase in beneficial root endophyte towards microbial antagonism or host immune suppression.

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The group of @hildenelissen.bsky.social is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop multiplex genome editing systems in sorghum, tropical maize and rice, leading to the identification of gene combinations strengthening seedling vigor. Please spread the news! jobs.vib.be/j/129009/pos...

Postdoctoral Researcher - VIB

We are looking for a highly motivated and talented postdoctoral researcher to join our team at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology. The selected candidate will join the Nelissen lab to deve...

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REVIEW from @moritznowack.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...

Programmed cell death during plant development

Summary: This Primer provides an overview of the functional roles, molecular mechanisms and cellular events of programmed cell death processes during plant development.

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PAPER from @therhizolab.bsky.social in @jexpbiol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community

This article highlights strategies being used by various stakeholders (institutions, professional societies, community groups, educators, and individuals)

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If you're studying #Agriculture #PlantBreeding and would be interested in #IndustryPlacement experience, there is an opportunity at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Breeding Station in Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: jobs.kws.com/job/Thriplow... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceUK #outdoorclassroom

The main problem are the Scientists who continue to publish with such journals, using the lame cop-out that they need it to have a career. Nobody(!) needs a NatComs paper to have a career. They want the Nature logo on their paper to feed their ego. That's all. #scipub #scientificpublishing

Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nature Publishing Group finding more dastardly ways to lock us in, well beyond what I complained about in my letter declining reviewing for them

Another great article by @mastroianni.bsky.social on the current #SciencePublishing system. Don't publish with for-profit publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, et al. It's really simple. There are so many cool #PlantScience society journals. #SciPub See also: bsky.app/profile/soms...

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do

OR: the long overdue forest fire

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Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 3y ago

This is a really thoughtful and interesting article on our current #PeerReview system in #AcademicPublishing by Adam Mastroianni. Absolutely worth the read. And you can then spend even more time reading the really interesting follow-up articles. #Science #SciencePublishing #ResearchPublishing

We are looking for a Post-doctoral assistant!

Plant Systems Biology@psb-vib.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The @therhizolab.bsky.social is looking for a Post-doctoral assistant to work on nodulation and/or arbuscular mycorrhization, and assist in teaching activities. @viblifesciences.bsky.social Please spread the news jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Po...

This one has been a long time in the making. So many contributions and years of hard work went into bringing this project to the finish line. I’m really happy to finally share our new story. Thanks to everyone involved, and a very special thanks to @teamthomma.bsky.social and @lfaino.bsky.social

Team Thomma@teamthomma.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Pls RT‼️ @hanhtkvu.bsky.social lab @embl.org & we @cosheidelberg.bsky.social are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life. www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested.

RNA splicing generates a functionally specialized Rep protein isoform in geminiviruses — enabling timely control of the viral cycle. Strikingly, similar strategies might have evolved in DNA viruses infecting different kingdoms: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Spearheaded by @delphinem-p.bsky.social!

"… I realized that an environment where people would feel free to share their thoughts with me and think creatively, regardless of the power hierarchy, was exactly what I wanted in my lab." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4adQwdQ

My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA: 🔹 Bioinformatics / AI 🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics 🔹 Proteomics Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. 📅 Closing date: 27 February Apply via JIC website: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/ Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏

Postdoctoral Researcher (Charpentier Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Charpentier Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of plant calcium signalling.

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Promote brilliant plant science #ECRs 🌱 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Awards 2026 are open. monetary prize, a certificate & a plenary talk at Botanik-Tagung. Deadline: 26 Apr 2026. Pro tip: 👉 Self-noms welcome for Horst Wiehe Award Details: www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/u/3awards