Finally out! A long-standing question is how M incognita can infect representatives from most orders of flowering plants, covering > 3000 spp. Our data show that phylogenetic distribution does not explain the phenotypic distribution of parasitism. Check it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

The host range paradox of <fi>Meloidogyne incognita</fi>: a physiological and transcriptomic analysis of nine susceptible interactions across six plant orders

Phylogenetic distance of host does not explain phenotypic differences of Meloidogyne incognita parasitism at 25 dpi.

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The host range paradox of Meloidogyne incognita Moura de Souza et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another paper out! In this paper, we evaluated 10 melon cultivars for their response to M. incognita and tested three biocontrol agents - B. amyloliquefaciens, P.lilacinum, and P. chlamydosporia - for nematode suppression. 📄Please check the full paper here: doi.org/10.1590/3085...

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Read the full #OpenAccess article by Victor H.M. de Souza, Tiarla G. Souto, Aline M.G.B. Silva & Mário M. Inomoto: doi.org/10.1163/1568... 3/3

Host status of melon genotypes to Rotylenchulus reniformis and its biocontrol by fungal agents

Summary Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is one of the most widely consumed and exported fresh fruits of Brazil. Production is ∼257 thousand tonnes annually, mainly exported to Europe, the USA and China, repre...

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The reniform #Nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) can quietly reduce #Melon yields because infected roots often show few visible symptoms. With no resistant melon genotypes identified, controlling this pest remains a major challenge. 1/3 @andreaskantar.bsky.social

We’re excited to share our latest paper. We evaluated the host status of several melon cultivars to the reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) - all tested cultivars were susceptible. Regarding biocontrol, only P.chlamydosporia x5 suppressed Rr! Please check the paper here: lnkd.in/er4-5hHR

Exciting workshop at ESN organised by YNN: “Knot” what we expected: extracting value from negative results, organised by YNN. Dstnguished researchers @sebastianevda.bsky.social, Godelieve Gheysen, and Florian Grundler shared stories of research that didn’t go as planned but led to valuable insights.

Better late than never: the impact of hatching time on Heterodera schachtii parasitism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728720v1

NUNCA DUVIDEM DO PODER DO TRABALHADOR! ✊ Essa vitória é de quem enfrenta transporte lotado, humilhação e luta todo dia pelo sustento. O fim da escala 6x1 prova que o povo unido pode tudo. Estamos fazendo história e isso é só o começo!

Today I had the pleasure of speaking at UNESP (Brazil) about nematodes in agriculture, all thanks to the kind invitation from Profa. Dr. Candida Gasparotto. Many thanks to everyone who attended and the organising team! It was a great experience! @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social

GetGenome wiki A living, open science database of bacterial, fungal and plant genomes sequenced through the GetGenome programme for global genomic equity. getgenome-wiki.net/campaigns/

2️⃣ Plant–Nematode–Microbiome Networks in Sustainable Biological Control Deadline: 7 Sep 2026 Holobiont thinking applied to nematode suppression. globalplantcouncil.org/ecri/ecri-ou... (3/8)

Updated my textbook with a cleaner lay-out, better accessibility, and eight new interactive visualizations made completely in html (such as this illustration of the positive predictive value). lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough! 💚 In 2020, we were honoured to welcome him to the Garden while filming The Green Planet! Read more about his visit: https://bit.ly/48Fk5VI Watch the episode here: https://bbc.in/4d2qZpa 📸 BBC Studios

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Starting Monday: Python course at the University of Bonn 🚀 Teaching Plant Sciences master’s students how to handle big data with Python & apply AI to real-world problems 🌱💻 Slides & materials: github.com/bpucker/PyBo #Python #AI #DataScience #PlantScience @puckerlab.bsky.social

We are excited to announce our next Trends in Nematology Webinar on Nematode Systematics!🪱 When: 16th April, 2026 Time: 16:00-17:15 CEST Register here or using the QR code below -> forms.gle/qh5ZmA9MgqUb... Looking forward to seeing you there!!!

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, professor of Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Purdue University (my PhD advisor!), has published “Protocols in Root-Microbe Interactions" with Purdue University Press. www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan

The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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🌿 Plant Bioinformatics! 💻🧬 How do we turn massive plant data into biological insight? We cover genomics, transcriptomics, sequence analysis, phylogenetics, statistics, and reproducible research practices. Plant science is data science. 🌱 Materials: github.com/bpucker/Plan... @puckerlab.bsky.social

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics

TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

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I've been hearing from more and more people who received peer reviews that were clearly written by AI. It's frustrating, and no one knows what to do. I have some thoughts. blekhman.substack.com/p/so-your-pa...

So your paper was reviewed by AI. Now what?

A practical guide to handling the new reality of AI-generated reviews

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1/12 I'm ecstatic to share my preprint on legume NLR tissue expression! We investigated the NLRomes of 28 legumes + 4 outgroups, examining tissue expression across 7 legume species. Paper thread below 🧵👇 @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @itqbnova.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.25.701577

We invite you to submit your Database Articles! 💻 We welcome submissions of manuscripts describing new or updated #databases & online reference tools; this is a great opportunity to share your useful resource with the #PlantScience research community! More details: academic.oup.com/pcp/pages/da...

Db Call For Papers

Announcing New Changes to our Submission Policy: We currently accept database paper submissions all year round. Accepted database papers will be publis

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Excited to share this commentary on the work by Isaksson et al, now out in @mpmijournal.bsky.social, where they find that structural similarity underlies both multimerization and NLR recognition of a powdery mildew effector family doi.org/10.1094/MPMI... Original paper 👉 doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.

Cool kids of the nematology haha @anikadamm.bsky.social @youngnemas.bsky.social #vnc2025

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