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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

Next, Hannah Lepper from @franzificht.bsky.social lab in Düsseldorf is investigating the enigmatic role of trehalose 6-phosphate during land plant evolution #MAdLand2025

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 8d

A warm welcome to MAdLand2025, this year taking place in the beautiful botanical garden in Osnabrück 🌱. We are starting with a welcome talk by Sabine Zachgo, introducing us to Osnabrück and the bontanical garden 🌿 Looking forward to exciting talks about #plantsci #MAdLand2025

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 19d

🌱 Franziska Fichtner (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) presenting:

“Trehalose 6-phosphate coordinates sugar status with hormone signalling and plant development” 🌿

Franziska also shared work that was just accepted at JXB, so watch this space!

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪

Franziska Fichtner (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) presenting her talk, “Trehalose 6-phosphate coordinates sugar status with hormone signalling and plant development,” with slides projected behind her at the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference. She shared that some of this work was just accepted at JXB, so watch this space!

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 20d

🌱 Part 2 of Session 1: Beginnings & Roots

Moritz Göbel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) presenting:
“Trehalose 6-phosphate regulates root growth by nutrient allocation towards sink tissues” 🌿

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

Moritz Göbel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) presenting his talk, “Trehalose 6-phosphate regulates root growth by nutrient allocation towards sink tissues,” with slides projected behind him at the conference centre in Edinburgh.

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Linus Börnke @linusboernke.bsky.social · Sep 7

🚨 More on FFAT motifs in effector biology 🚨
Pseudomonas effector HopN1 interacts with ER tethering proteins (VAPs) via a FFAT motif. Furthermore, HopN1 interacts with a plant RHO-GTPase, mirroring YopT from the mammal pathogen Yersinia.

@igzleibniz.bsky.social #PlantScience

doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Pseudomonas syringae HopN1 Binds Plant VAP12 and a Rho-GTPase, Suggesting a Role in Membrane-Associated Processes - Charlotte Brinkmann, Jennifer Bortlik, Frederik Börnke, 2025

Many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens deploy type III effector proteins (T3Es) to manipulate host cellular processes and suppress immune responses. Increasing ...

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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · Aug 27

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway

Credit : @xkcd.com

"Did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species as brocoli and kale ? it's just a different cultivar"

"Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it"

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

TPS Proteins coordinate plant growth with sugar availability via the SnRK1 Kinase https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670254v1

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margotraffeiner.bsky.social @margotraffeiner.bsky.social · Jul 16

Happy to meet you at poster no. P-405 and to talk about my project at #2025ISMPMI this afternoon! 🌿

Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you wanna dive into the world of #proteostasis and its role in plant immunity, visit @margotraffeiner.bsky.social poster (P-405) today. She discovered a novel proteotoxicity regulator (a protease with ubiquitin binding capacities) that plays a role in biotic and abiotic stresses! #2025ISMPMI

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Maurice König @maukoe.bsky.social · Jun 18

Here, we dissect the processing and release mechanism of the maize phytocytokine Zip1. Our results reveal a two-step mechanism of phytocytokine processing, translocation, activation and clearance.

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

www.biorxiv.org

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · May 9

It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · May 6

Wow

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

A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome

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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · Mar 29

"We show that carbon-fixing APs are the most promising candidates to replace native photorespiration in major crop species."

Alternatives to photorespiration: A system-level analysis reveals mechanisms of enhanced plant productivity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Alternatives to photorespiration: A system-level analysis reveals mechanisms of enhanced plant productivity

Computational modeling reveals how engineering plants with alternative pathways to photorespiration could boost crop yields.

www.science.org

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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · Feb 23

Geht wählen!

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parkergroup.bsky.social @parkergroup.bsky.social · Feb 13

Check out our new study! We show that Arabidopsis uses the EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 node to trigger rapid yet contained cell death. Key finding: NRG1C variant regulates this process by competing with functional NRG1s. Amazing collaboration between Jijie Chai and Parker Labs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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pfeilmeier.bsky.social @pfeilmeier.bsky.social · Feb 10

➡️ New insights into the evolution of the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris involving the genome defense system CRISPR-Cas! www.cell.com/current-biol... Our data wizard 🪄@mpaauw.bsky.social sequenced almost 100 genomes and this is what he found … /

Evolution of a vascular plant pathogen is associated with the loss of CRISPR-Cas and an increase in genome plasticity and virulence genes

Paauw et al. report on the evolution of a plant pathogenic Xanthomonas pathovar and show that the gain of mobile genetic elements and virulence factors coincided with the loss of the CRISPR-Cas genome...

www.cell.com

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · Jan 19

Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet.
From the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet

New research into the single-celled organism is providing clues about what the early planet looked like – and raising the prospect that we may not be alone in the universe

www.theguardian.com

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Linus Börnke @linusboernke.bsky.social · Jan 18

Hier der Link zur Aufzeichnung für Interessierte: www.videoportal.uni-freiburg.de/video/gruene...

Grüne Gentechnik (04) Dürnberger - Medien - Videoportal Universität Freiburg

Dr. Christian Dürnberger (Messerli Forschungsinstitut, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Österreich) Früchte des Zorns? Moderne Pflanze...

www.videoportal.uni-freiburg.de

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Manuel González Fuente @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social · Jan 15

It is with great pleasure that I inaugurate my Bluesky account sharing our last @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social at @theustunlab.bsky.social, about pathogen-mediated modulation of host P-bodies and translation. 🆕 🎉

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

🧵 (1/14)

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Suayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · Jan 14

Happy to share our latest @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social led by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social “Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation via ER stress responses and autophagy upon bacterial infection” #proteostasis #plantimmunity 🧵(1/16)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® (MPMI) @mpmijournal.bsky.social · Jan 13

Get a First Look!
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🌱🌾Technical Advances Drive the Molecular Understanding of Effectors from Wheat and Barley Powdery Mildew Fungi doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

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Technical Advances Drive the Molecular Understanding of Effectors from Wheat and Barley Powdery Mildew Fungi | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

Pathogens manipulate host physiology through the secretion of virulence factors (effectors) to invade and proliferate on the host. The molecular functions of effectors inside plant hosts have been of ...

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Volker Lipka @volkerlipka.bsky.social · Jan 14

Here is a preprint with potential interest to those fascinated by host-microbe interactions, abiotic stress adaptation, xylogenesis, P bodies & mRNA turnover, and extended phenotypes induced by microbial effectors: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... (1/5)

A single pathogen-secreted protein reprograms plants for drought resilience

Climate change-enforced drought stress conditions and diseases caused by pathogens often co-occur and represent one of the greatest challenges in plant science. Wilt pathogens that colonize water-cond...

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · Jan 6

Opinion: Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

"politics made distrust for scientists the collateral damage of the half-century-long attack on regulation."

The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists

Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science

www.scientificamerican.com

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Linus Börnke @linusboernke.bsky.social · Jan 9

Congrats 😌

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 9

Scientists are starting to study—and debate—how the unique features of Bluesky might affect discussions of research and workplace culture, and efforts to engage with the public. scim.ag/428RTYG

As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings

Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community

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