Mango foliar black spots: how three bacteria fooled plant bacteriologists? 🌱🦠🧪 A "detective story" from our recent work at Badel’s lab. Spoiler: appearances can be very deceiving. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/jph.... [1/6] 🧵

Three Distinct Species Cause Bacterial Leaf Spots in ‘Ubá’ Mango in Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais, Brazil

‘Ubá’ mango is a fruit crop of great value for farmers in the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Organic farmers from this region recently reported a severe outbreak of foliar black s...

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Interested in working with the JGI and never led a proposal with us? Now is your chance! We are accepting submissions to our New Investigator call for first-time PIs. Deadline to submit is Sept. 9. jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov

CSP New Investigator Call | Joint Genome Institute

The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI proposals, and lead PIs cannot have been lead PI on any previous...

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

PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

Effector loss and gain drives host range at a fitness cost In PLoS Pathogens journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Effector loss and gain drives host range at a fitness cost

Author summary Pathogenic microorganisms emerge and adapt to new niches posing problems for host health, such as when disease outbreaks occur. Microorganisms may quickly adapt by modifying their genom...

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Sensing pectin damage: Rhamnogalacturonan-I as a ligand for receptor kinases and an immune elicitor #spotlight #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Eerie similarity between NodeGWAS and our gfa2bin tool. Uses same public data (curated by my lab), same comparison against previous method from my lab & even same programming language, Rust. gfa2bin preprint went online 5 months before NodeGWAS was submitted. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PlantMDCS: A code-free, modular toolkit for rapid deployment of plant multi-omics databases #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Crystal structure of the plant cell-surface hydrogen peroxide sensor HPCA1 #correspondence #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Our lates preprint!💃 Kudos to Jente and Judith for going above and beyond with CRK's biochemical and biophysical characterisation! Tour the collaborative effort! Fruitful and fun 🙏🙏🙏 Take a look if you want to know what it takes and what it means to make a dimmer! 🤝

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Structural and functional insights into the role of Cysteine-Rich Receptor-Like Kinase 18 (CRK18) in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741491v1

The receptor kinase NILR1 confers nematode resistance through developmental rather than canonical immune signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The receptor kinase NILR1 confers nematode resistance through developmental rather than canonical immune signaling

### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

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New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications

Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...

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Leaf hydraulics is a core component of plant immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.27.740543v1

Solanum americanum Bs2 and ZAR1 homologs recognize Xanthomonas euvesicatoria effectors essential for infection. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.27.741084v1

Another #PlantSciJob here at KWS. You can follow @kwsgroup.bsky.social for regular job postings. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs 👇

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Job opportunity! 🌱 At KWS Einbeck (Germany), we have an exciting opening for a Group Lead for Molecular Trait Analysis & Genomics. 👉 Read more & apply online: jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

Join us on August 19 for the Advances in Phytobacteriology Series webinar, "Insights and Engineering of Pattern Recognition Receptors Through the Decades." Register: https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/resources/Webinars/Pages/Phytobacteriology-August26.aspx #apswebinar #planthealth

Ein Meilenstein für das #NEULAND-Projekt: Elf Studierende der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle präsentierten ihre Prototypen, die im Austausch mit dem IPK entstanden sind. Wissenschaft und Design eröffnen gemeinsam neue Perspektiven auf die Pflanzenforschung. #IPK

The van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy (LCAM) organises the next edition of the "Functional Imaging" course at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands at Oct 5th-16th 2026. More info at: www.microscopycourse.nl?page_id=652

Join us on July 21 to discover how single-cell approaches have uncovered division of labor within 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘦 populations during the next Advances in Phytobacteriology webinar. Register: https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/resources/Webinars/Pages/Phytobacteriology-July26.aspx #apswebinar

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary buff.ly/SgDmMLH via @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social #PlantScience

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary

Biological processes are complex. Their behavior cannot be understood from the sum of their parts. Modeling, which allows for articulating hypotheses as equations and rules, has become indispensable…

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Evolution with Chris Packham premieres tomorrow on BBC Two and iPlayer! We have been working on this programme for nearly two years, and I am so excited for people to watch it. I am so proud of this project and of our team – here’s a short thread ahead of release! (1/14)

Job alert 🚨 Two (!!) postdoc positions in plant-virus interactions at University of Amsterdam! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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ALT: Cat's Plant Shenanigans

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Happy to share that we secured our first #NWO grant www.nwo.nl/en/news/56-g...

56 grants for the Open Competition Domain Science-XS package 26-2 | NWO

The topics range from developing an energy-efficient, brain-inspired computer chip that makes AI more efficient to developing a safe treatment that selectively destroys liver cancer cells without dama...

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Hey plant colleagues out there! 3 days to go to apply for the plant biotechnology professorship. Great colleagues @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social, amazing atmosphere @dompsfr.bsky.social, lovely city to settle. And great support by @cibss.bsky.social. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

W3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology - Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg (DE) job with University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | 12859402

The future position holder will lead an internationally recognized research program that combines excellent basic research with clear perspectives for

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Have a favorite European colleague who should be recognized for their work in non-medical biotechnology? Pls nominate them for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biotechnology. (Prior awardees at novonordiskfoundationprize.com/awardees). Thank you! novonordiskfoundationprize.com/nominate-bio...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize

Our prizes are awarded to researchers who have contributed to scientific breakthroughs or in other ways distinguished themselves within natural or medical science.

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Research Manager Job in Plant Pathology at Limagrain Vegetable Seeds, France (Permanent Position) Limagrain Vegetable Seeds is hiring a Research Manager in Trait – Pathology for a permanent position in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. This exciting R&D opportunity is ideal for PhD graduates in…

Research Manager Job in Plant Pathology at Limagrain Vegetable Seeds, France (Permanent Position)

Limagrain Vegetable Seeds is hiring a Research Manager in Trait – Pathology for a permanent position in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. This exciting R&D opportunity is ideal for PhD graduates in plant pathology who want to lead disease resistance research in tomato and pepper breeding.

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Synteny-aware microbial pangenome graphs reveal blueprints of genomic variation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.03.736256v1

A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

My Peer Review of The 1%

I wanted to like QED's new 1% ranking. I don't.

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