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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 13h

The Spirogyra genome: signatures of shared and divergent division and differentiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681428v1

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Hiro Nakagami @grandpahiro.bsky.social · 5h

Very important add!
Congratulations to all!

Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 6h

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 6h

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 1d

Seeking ghosts www.science.org/content/arti...

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

www.science.org

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 1d

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

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Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢

The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

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Hiro Nakagami @grandpahiro.bsky.social · 1d

super nice one

Jacquet-chris @jacquet-chris.bsky.social · 2d

Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

Various ferns species inoculated with S. sclerotiorum.

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Jacquet-chris @jacquet-chris.bsky.social · 2d

Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

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Hiro Nakagami @grandpahiro.bsky.social · 2d

I just noticed that the first sentence of my PhD thesis started with 高等植物(higher plants). It was 2000.

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 3d

And last but not least, congratulations to all the winners of the best poster prize! 🏆 1st place: Lara Canovai (right) from Zachgo lab in Osnabrück, Diego Artigas Hernández from Müller-Schüssele lab in Kaiserslautern and Ellen Lorberg from @jandevries.bsky.social
lab in Göttingen #MAdLand2025

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Elena Lesch from the Ischebeck lab @uni-muenster.de for the best Postdoc talk and winning the @theplantjournal.bsky.social award 🎉 #MAdLand2025 #plantsci

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to the winners of best PhD talk @ #MAdLand2025! 🏆 1st place: @hannahlepper.bsky.social from @franzificht.bsky.social lab, who won @theplantjournal.bsky.social award! Christoph Kentrath (left) from Petersen Lab in Marburg
& Tim Ruder (right) from Pfannschmidt lab in Hannover #plantsci

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 5d

~12 years after we coined it EPP1 with @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social one afternoon when we were postdoc with @jeanmichelane.bsky.social!

Congrats @melaniekrich.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social et al. for the hard work!

EPP1 is the fourth member of the Common Symbiosis Pathway 🍄🌱!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄 @melaniekrich.bsky.social · 5d

So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 3d

Read about the earlier grounding-breaking work on Casparian strip mutants by Durr et al. providing the first clues that root exudates influence the rhizosphere microbial community composition, here:
doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 4d

New Review : "Cross-kingdom mechanisms of trained immunity in plant systemic acquired resistance" rdcu.be/eJONL

Plant systemic acquired resistance and mammalian trained immunity share striking similarities, which are explored in this Review.

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 4d

New Article: "Retrieval from vacuolar and endosomal compartments underpinning the neofunctionalization of SNARE in plants" rdcu.be/eJOWx

Retrograde trafficking route from the plant vacuole; sorting nexins retrieve the plant-specific SNARE VAMP727.

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 4d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 4d

Meet the 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐓𝐏𝐉-𝐏𝐒𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 🏆
This award recognizes outstanding postdocs and research scientists, with preference for early-career researchers ready to launch independent labs:
💠Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social
💠 Boaz Negin
CONGRATULATIONS!

@psna-official.bsky.social
⬇️

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Marco Trujillo @trujillolab.bsky.social · 4d

Big news! Our group has joined the University of Hamburg — we’re excited for the opportunities and collaborations ahead! #Hamburg

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oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social · 8d

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Great story in collaboration with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social and @jeanmichelane.bsky.social groups. EPP1 story continues after many years of collaborations with Pierre-Marc and Jean-Michel!!!

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years (Delaux and Schornack 2021). Because of their intracellular nature, the est...

www.biorxiv.org

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 8d

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

www.biorxiv.org

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Hiro Nakagami @grandpahiro.bsky.social · 8d

Good to end the @watertoland.bsky.social meeting by meeting M.polymorpha BoGa.

Thanks organizers for exciting three days!

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you all for coming! It was great to have you in Osnabrück this year. Have a safe trip home and we hope to see you all next year in Göttingen. Stay tuned 🌱 #MAdLand2025 #Plantsci

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 9d

The last talk of the session is given by Katrin Philippar from Saarbrücken, talking about the evolution of the plastid FAX (fatty acid export) proteins and the plants’ conquest of land #MAdLand2025

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