The hybrid origin of potato tuberization. From: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage

Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alter...

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Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unlocking expanded flagellin perception through rational receptor engineering - Nature Plants

Receptor kinase FLS2 detects the flg22 epitope of bacterial flagellin. Here the authors identify key residues on FLS2’s concave surface that enable expanded perception of flg22 variants, allowing the ...

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We’re excited to share a new CRISPR-Cas12 genome editing system, highly efficient across multiple brown algae species! Brown algae transformation has been challenging despite many thoughtful approaches over the years. We hope this one is kelpful 🌿😅 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #CRISPR #Algae

🪱 Calling all Early-Career Nematologists: Registration for #VNC2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉 If you are MSc student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in nematology, Register and submit your abstract. Register here👉 lnkd.in/dzTRsK7z ⏰ Registration closes September 10th!!!

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Excellent visualisation of slime molds reaching for food 🧀🫜🥒🍗 Loving the picky one! 🧪 #science #biology

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from www.instagram.com/yeweijun98 Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things! I wonder what's up with the peanut

Insects pressed on herbarium sheets...I'm looking for a paper I know exists on the topic, a short essay in a relatively narrow audience bulletin, ca. 1970s-1980s perhaps. Going nuts trying to locate it again.

Congratulations to Professor Julian Hibberd on his election to the @embo.org announced today! tinyurl.com/4b3mnsru @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @jmhibberd.bsky.social 🧪#PlantSci

New paper @natgenet.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... Our most recent thinking on HYP effectors involves programmed shuffling of the parasite genome. This prompted us to review how and when organisms edit their own genomes In so doing, Vincent made two important discoveries... (1/3)

How and when organisms edit their own genomes - Nature Genetics

This Review describes the changes that some organisms make to their own DNA sequences, linking many to common genetic mechanisms built around canonical DNA repair and to a set of functional circumstan...

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Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. - And the roots are more resistant!

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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?

🌱 New review out with @minyaojhu.bsky.social and Dr. Katharina Schiessl. Plants form unique organs, and here, we dive into signal perception, hormone regulation, and organ development of three structures: root-knot gall, rhizobia nodule and haustorium Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.tp...

I am excited to announce I will be starting my lab at IRNASA-CSIC in Spain. Investigating the rhizosphere microbiota and its role in crop nutrition. There are two positions openings: a technician and a postdoc deadline 30th June! www.irnasa.csic.es/postdoctoral... www.irnasa.csic.es/en/technicia...

Japanese researchers unveil how potatoes and microbes outsmart the potato cyst #nematode www.potatonewstoday.com/2025/06/04/t...

Triggering ‘suicide hatching’: Japanese researchers unveil how potatoes and microbes outsmart the potato cyst nematode

A Kobe University study reveals a crucial chemical relationship among potato plants, soil microbes, and potato cyst nematodes, potentially transforming pest control in agriculture. Scientists ident…

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Two exciting papers from Shirasu Lab utilizing the *juice* of my favorite biological players—Agrobacterium and nematodes—to investigate receptor profiles! 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🪱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats to the authors! 🥳🤩

We’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM

Check out amazing MPhil plant science student @karenuchida.bsky.social and here lab week in 360° @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk youtu.be/l9-m_JlG6cE?...

Running around the lab in 360° | A week of a plant science student

YouTube video by ren's slice of life

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Check out these exciting opportunities for a dual award PhD in plant and soil sciences 🤩 at @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... each PhD project will involve at least 1 year spent at each institution - pls repost 🙏

World class training - International dual award PhDs in Plant & Soil Science now open

These new studentships offer a unique opportunity to join a vibrant and collaborative research community spanning two world-class institutions in Sheffield, UK and Sydney, Australia.

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Congratulations to Uta Paszkowski from @cropscicentre.bsky.social - elected to the National Academy of Sciences, USA in recognition of her significant contributions to understanding symbiotic relationships between plants & fungi. @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @paszkowskilab.bsky.social

📻Tune in to the Soil Matters podcast: bit.ly/4jGSLtu to hear Prof Lynn Dicks and Dr Anna Krzywoszynska @unioulu.bsky.social on sustainable soil management in the UK. Missed their paper? You can read it here: bit.ly/4iLnMLI

Congratulations to Hailing Jin, who was elected to @nasonline.org. Interkingdom RNAi is one of the most fascinating discoveries in biology in the last decades. profiles.ucr.edu/hailing.jin

Very happy to see my friend Uta Paszkowski from @cropscicentre.bsky.social elected to @nasonline.org. Improved plant-microbe symbioses are a key puzzle piece in the fight against the #climatecatastrophe (yes, it hasn’t gone away). www.cropsciencecentre.org/staff/uta-pa...

📜 Integrating Arabidopsis and crop species gene discovery for crop improvement 🧑‍🔬 Michael W. Bevan, Klaus F. X. Mayer, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #AppliedPlantScience #Crops #Agriculture #PlantBreeding #PlantGMOs #PlantGenomics

Integrating Arabidopsis and crop species gene discovery for crop improvement

Summary. Genome sequence assemblies form a durable and precise framework that supports nearly all areas of biological research, including evolutionary biol

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Figure 1. Custom Micro-Roses, engineered in Arabidopsis thaliana 🌹 Top: Visible light, Bottom: Fluorescence (a) White: no pigment (b) Magenta: betalains (c) Pink champagne: betalains + betaxanthins (d) Champagne: betaxanthins

🎉 Thrilled to share that our article on the discovery of MycFOLD effectors in symbiotic fungi ranks among the most viewed papers in @newphyt.bsky.social in 2023! Grateful for the interest - Let’s keep the momentum going! #TopViewedArticle doi.org/10.1111/nph....

A pathogen effector FOLD diversified in symbiotic fungi

Pathogenic fungi use secreted effector proteins to suppress immunity and support their infection, but effectors have also been reported from fungi that engage in nutritional symbioses with plants....

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This was such a nice surprise! Our review about Aphelenchoides besseyi is in the top 10% of most-viewed papers published by the Plant Pathology in 2023! Please, check it out doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13829 @sebastianevda.bsky.social @uprogress.bsky.social

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 opportunity to become an independent researcher with some startup funds for research and travel. careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

I'm very excited our most recent work on plant tandem kinases (TKPs) has finally been published! TKPs are a fascinating protein family conferring disease resistance to fungi. Originally in bioRxiv. Many thanks to @yichangsung.bsky.social for leading this work. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wheat tandem kinase RWT4 directly binds a fungal effector to activate defense - Nature Genetics

This study shows that RWT4, a wheat tandem kinase, confers resistance to the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae by directly binding to the pathogen effector AvrPWT4 and activating host defense.

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Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

Have you ever wondered about NPQ in C4 plants? ☀️🪴 Check out the recent pre-print from Lucìa who used to be a PhD student/post-doc in our lab and now works for the @ripeproject.bsky.social in Illinois. She shows that C4 plants have faster NPQ than related C3 plants. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Faster relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) in C4 than in C3 species

Acceleration of photoprotective non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) responses to changes in light intensity has been suggested as a strategy to enhance crop yield. Despite many key crops utilising C4 ph...

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