How are we to argue with the likes of @PlantEvolution? 🌱 “Fantastic and important study” — we’ll happily take that 😊 The formatted PDF of our paper is now online! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

PlantEvolution 🌱🌾@plantevolution.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#transgenerational transmission of a core #microbiome that protects against downy mildew from soil to #phyllosphere Fantastic and important study by @jellespooren.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #plantscience

This nicely builds on our earlier Current Biology work with @keyu01.bsky.social @utrechtpmi.bsky.social @carahaney.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social @gstringlis.bsky.social , where we showed how acidification of the plant environment supports colonization by beneficial Pseudomonas.

🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH

Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization, promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying Pseudomonas, sele...

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Really nice work from @jellespooren.bsky.social showing that disease-suppressive soils might sometimes be generated in the phyllosphere. Turning the concept of soilborne legacies upside down 🌱🦠 With @cornepieterse.bsky.social @svanwees.bsky.social and others @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Jelle Spooren@jellespooren.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to share our latest pre-print manuscript entitled 'Downy mildew disease-suppressive soils transmit a protective core microbiome to the phyllosphere' (lnkd.in/dBk28gnT). Super cool to see the final chapter of my PhD at the Plant-Microbe Interactions group of Universiteit Utrecht now online!

@y-song.bsky.social doing a great job at explaining the importance of the potato microbiome at the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social microbiome day! Hoping the medical and veterinary microbiome scientists in the audience enjoy the change in perspective.

🔬 Exciting #JournalClub in our group today by @nielsaerts.bsky.social! We discussed the immense and multilayered complexity of hormonal cross-regulation in plant immunity, based on this preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🌿🧬A must-read for those fascinated by plant defense and signaling!

Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota - Nature Plants

The authors show that immunosuppression is highly conserved in the bacterial order Xanthomonadales. This feature, which preceded their specialization as host-adapted pathogens, probably contributes to...

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Interesting journal club by @mpapadopoulou.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Evidence for the promotion of specific microbial ecological clusters to increase soybean plant fitness in response to nutrient deficiency. Also interesting for microbiomes4soy.eu

We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

Great talk by Heribert Hert on microbiomes in relation to drought resistance, regreening strategies and the orphan crop Fonio microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

And so it was! Great defense, great thesis. #ProudSupervisor

Symposium in celebration of the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social is of course kicked off by @gijsselten.bsky.social following intro by @dejongepmi.bsky.social!

@gijsselten.bsky.social demonstrated that plants select bacterial functions using a SuperSynCom (1000 strains)

Next up: Simon Radutoiu about the role of LysM receptors in symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia

Maria Suarez Diez (WUR) about constraint-based modelling of SynComs: already complex with a SynCom of three!

Great line up before the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social: now Ruben Garrido-Oter on experimental evolution on the plant

Five years of hard work has paid off! 🎉 What a nice new year surprise—we made it to the cover of Nature Microbiology! 🌟 Acknowledgment to all co-authors and specially Elisa Atza for producing this cover image!

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2y ago

Our first issue of 2025 has gone live, featuring... 🥗microbial roles in diet and food insecurity 🛶freshwater microbial dynamics 📈SARS-CoV-2 spike evolution 🚨bacterial danger signals 🥔microbiomes forecasting spud vigor ...and more. Check it out here 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jelle Spooren on the cum laude defense of his PhD thesis, "Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes" 🌱🦠 🎓 Thanks to @jurriaanton.bsky.social and @algazuccaro.bsky.social for their thoughtful opposition in the defense and the great talks during the seminar!

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great journal club bij @gijsselten.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s42... showing how to get passed the linear limitations of traditional methods in microbiome research!

Agricultural practices influence soil microbiome assembly and interactions at different depths identified by machine learning - Communications Biology

Machine learning breaks through the linear limitations of traditional methods, providing deeper insights into the assembly, interactions, and mechanisms underlying microbiomes at varying soil depths u...

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Short on time? Read the Research Briefing for a short overview of the paper by @rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome - Nature Microbiology

A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the p...

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OUT NOW: The seed tuber microbiome can predict future growth of potato varieties in the field 🥔🦠🌱 @rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology

Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

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New RESEARCH BRIEFING - Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome By Yang Song & Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome - Nature Microbiology

A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the p...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🚜 Excited to see our paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Amazing effort by @y-song.bsky.social in collaboration with TU Delft (Neil Budko, Elisa Atza) and the Dutch potato breeding industry to harness the power of the microbiome! 🥔🔬@utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology

Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

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The plant microbiome starter pack is far from complete. Let us know if you want to be on it! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

We have a vacancy for a PhD position with our recently started PMI PI @arsheed-sheikh.bsky.social at Utrecht University. Please apply via: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Bioinformatics Postdoc at UU/WUR: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere

Contribute to plant health and our understanding of the metabolic interactions between microbes and plants in the rhizosphere by computational modelling!

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