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IHSM La Mayora UMA-CSIC @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 Enhorabuena a todos los estudiantes que han conseguido una beca #JAEIntro del @csic.es 👏.
🚨 Ahora que llega el momento de elegir grupo, recordad que el IHSM La Mayora ofrece 11 proyectos diferentes para realizar estas prácticas 🌱🧬🦠

📚 Consulta los planes formativos que ofertamos 👇

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 2d

Our article "Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" is finally published @plantphys.bsky.social!
You can download the #OpenAccess PDF here:

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

But real connoisseurs of #AntimicrobialCompounds will want to get the vinyl boxset: #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

A vinyl box with six colored vinyl LPs sticking out of its right side. The Title "Guns in Rosettes" is on top, with the subtitle "The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" just below. Then there is an Arabidopsis plant with machine guns sticking out. Below is the statement "6-LP LIMITED EDITION COLORED VINYL BOX SET"

The back cover of the vinyl box set showing the tracklist:
1. Methionine-derived compounds
Aliphatic GSLs
2. Tryptophan-derived compounds (trptonites)
Indolic GSLs
Camalexin
Hycanite (4-OH-ICN)
3. Phenylalanine-derived compounds (phenylpropanoids)
Benzenic GSLs
Coumarins
Hydroxycinnamates
Flavonoids
4. Terpenoids
(E)-β-caryophyllene
α- and β-pinene
Thalianin, arabidin, and DMNT

And the statement "Recorded live in front of an audience in 2025"

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Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 3d

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology

As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...

www.fz-juelich.de

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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 5d

IN BRIEF: Division of labor in the nodule: Plant GluTRs fuel heme biosynthesis for symbiosis (Min-Yao Jhu, Raphael Ledermann) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Division of labor in the nodule: Plant GluTRs fuel heme biosynthesis for symbiosis

Legume nodules are specialized, pink symbiotic organs where root cells and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia collaborate to support plant growth without synthetic f

doi.org

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 5d

New preprint!

Ever wondered why only a fraction of genomes encode CRISPR immunity? 🧬 🦠

Turns out CRISPR is rarely beneficial against virulent phages, being most beneficial against those for which resistance mutations are rare!

An epic effort by Rosanna Wright

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resistance mutation supply modulates the benefit of CRISPR immunity against virulent phages

Only a fraction of bacterial genomes encode CRISPR-Cas systems but the selective causes of this variation are unexplained. How naturally virulent bacteriophages (phages) select for CRISPR immunity has...

www.biorxiv.org

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 6d

How to live a good life in difficult times??? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

www.theguardian.com

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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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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 8d

Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution

Directed evolution can rapidly generate genetic variants with new and enhanced properties, yet efficient platforms for performing such evolution directly in plant cells have been lacking. We developed...

www.science.org

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 9d

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

www.science.org

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pfeilmeier.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for the invitation! I had two fantastic days at the institute

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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 11d

Amazing work by the Santiago lab @unil.bsky.social. The malectin-LRR receptor kinase IGP1 senses cello-oligomers to alert the plant immune system & enhance disease resistance. Very nice discovery & mechanism.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 11d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Group Leader Position

Molecular Plant Sciences: Cell biology and biochemistry to unravel fundamental processes in plant development and biology

School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

Stellenangebote

Stellenausschreibungen in Pflanzenwissenschaften und Botanik

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de

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Matt Agler @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social · 19d

We are hiring! We are going to use some really, really cool new techniques to look at the chemical and spatial dynamics of how the plant micobiome takes shape and what it means. Join us! Apply online until 20th Oct here: www.microverse-cluster.de/files/conten...

www.microverse-cluster.de

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 20d

Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinases mediate Wall Teichoic Acid perception in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677107v1

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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 20d

Important read if you use LLMs for science knowledge discovery around plants "What Large Language Models Know About Plant Molecular Biology" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... As per usual LLMs appear to propagate biases.

What Large Language Models Know About Plant Molecular Biology

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly permeating scientific research, yet their capabilities in plant molecular biology remain largely uncharacterized. Here, we present MoBiPlant, the first compreh...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 23d

Tenure track Professorship Plant Biochemistry. Tübingen, Germany
#plantscience #plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/tenure-...

Tenure Track-Professur für Pflanzenbiochemie (m/w/d) - Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen bietet Stelle als Tenure Track-Professur für Pflanzenbiochemie (m/w/d) in Tübingen - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 23d

Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"?

With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 24d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 24d

This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Kaisa Kajala @kaisakajala.bsky.social · 25d

Starting in 3h or so - we will be discussing why and how we should be defining cell types and states - I expect really stimulating conversation and important suggestions for how to (not) use the terminology!

#PlantScience
@oli-wilkins.bsky.social @bas-bargmann.bsky.social @b-coli.bsky.social

Plant Cell Atlas @plantcellatlas.bsky.social · 26d

TOMORROW!

The final segment of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series, The Open Panel Discussion is tomorrow, Sept. 16, 2025.

To Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

@kaisakajala.bsky.social