Ralph Hückelhoven
huckelhovenr.bsky.social
Ralph Hückelhoven
@huckelhovenr.bsky.social
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Did you ever wonder how #Solanum plants evolved quantitative disease resistance/ #QDR?
I am really excited to share our recently published manuscript, where we tried to contribute to addressing this question!

🌱https://tinyurl.com/2vz23ck6
Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen
Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto
tinyurl.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We deeply analyzed barley double stress responses and discovered this:
Transcriptome and hormone regulations shape drought stress-dependent Fusarium Head Blight susceptibility in different barley genotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.23.689882v1
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Jana Sperschneider et al. reported a new, high-quality genome assembly of the flax rust fungus (Melampsora lini) resolved complex effector loci and confirmed 2 unusually large effector proteins, AvrM3 and AvrN. This challenges the standard idea that effectors must be small: https://bit.ly/3Jpr37O
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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BIG NEWS!! We will be hiring a new professor with 25 years of endowed funding at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch, focused on using biophysics and structural biology to explore climate-related fundamental science topics. Come start an innovative research cluster with us! 🧪🔬🧶🧬🌾🌍
August 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project '#PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress.
🧬 PhD 1 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🌱 PhD 3 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Christoph Ringli and collaborators identify a new regulator of the Arabidopsis extensin-mediated cell wall integrity sensing: phosphatase PP2C12 inhibiting receptor kinase FERONIA
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
TUM Offers a professorship in Crop Production. Geat opportunity!
portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess...
TUM - Professor in » Crop Production «
Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München
portal.mytum.de
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM