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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 2d

💡 SPECIAL ISSUE VIEWPOINT 💡

Immune proteases are promising targets for protein engineering 🛠️ to boost disease resistance in plants 🌾 - Schuster et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

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Fig. 1.Four classes of roles of immune proteases illustrated via examples. (i) Pathogen perception: Required for Cladosporium Resistance-3 (Rcr3) protease is inhibited by the fungal avirulence effector Avr2. The Rcr3-Avr2 complex is recognized by the immune receptor Cf-2, triggering a defence response (Kruger et al, 2002). (ii) Regulation of the immune response: METACASPASE 4 (MC4) is activated by calcium upon wounding or pathogen attack. MC4 cleaves tonoplast-located ProPEP1 releasing PEP1 to the apoplast where it is perceived by PEP RECEPTORS (PEPRs) thereby initiating defence responses (Hander et al, 2019). (iii) Counteracting pathogen effectors: soybean aspartic protease GmAP5, degrades the Phytophthora sojae virulence factor glycoside hydrolase family 12 (GH12) protein, XEG1 (Xia et al., 2020). (iv) Direct pathogen attack: secreted aspartic proteases (SAPs) cleave Pseudomonas syringae MucD protein thereby suppressing bacterial growth (Wang et al., 2019).

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 2d

🌍🌱 Abstract submissions are OPEN!

Join the 12th IUFRO WP 7.02.09 Meeting: Phytophthora in Forests & Natural Ecosystems

📍 Grabouw, South Africa
📅 13–18 Sept 2026

⏳Submit your abstract by 24 March 2026

👉 iufro-sa2026.carlamani.com

#Phytophthora #Forests #ForestScience #ForestResearch

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Jadwiga Śliwka @potato-science.bsky.social · 6d

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Populations of Phytophthora infestans in northern and eastern Europe - European Journal of Plant Pathology

Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary is an oomycete plant pathogen that causes late blight in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). This review documents the population structure of P. infestans in northern and eastern Europe, and aims to explain the differences between populations of P. infestans in this region and in western Europe. Populations of P. infestans are influenced by many factors, e.g., migrations related to the movement of potato seed tubers, possibility of sexual reproduction, changes in climate, and agricultural management practices. All the presented factors may have a significant impact on the P. infestans population structure. The knowledge on P. infestans populations varies strongly depending on country and time, even within the rather intensively studied region of eastern and northern Europe. Our review indicates some knowledge gaps, such as a lack of data for some countries and gaps in some years in population monitoring. This indicates the need to continue the monitoring of P. infestans populations.

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 5d

Microtubules in the coenocyte Phytophthora function in nuclear positioning and sustaining tip growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.679959v1

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · 6d

I am leading an effort to identify gaps in plant biosecurity? Please let me know your thoughts on what is currently missing?

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 7d

Isolation and proteomic analysis of intracellular vesicles from the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679036v1

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OptFORESTS @optforests.bsky.social · 21d

🌲 On 6–7 Nov 2025, @euforgen.bsky.social & #OptFORESTS will host a webinar on detecting genetic decline. Learn how to detect risks, preserve forest genetic diversity and strengthen climate adaptation.

👉 Register: www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

#Forestry #Genetics #Webinar #HorizonEU

Joint OptFORESTS-EUFORGEN webinar: Detecting genetic decline – from theory to practice

6 & 7 November 2025 (two hours each day). Online Day 1: 6 November, 13:00–15:00 CET Day 2: 7 November, 11:00–13:00 CET

www.optforests.eu

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 7d

Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 7d

This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

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

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 8d

❗Students of tropical forestry: interested in going for an MSc?

🍀You are in luck: there is a fully funded DAAD EPOS #scholarship to study #TropicalForestry at TU Dresden, Germany, during the academic intake 2026-28!

Apply by 30 October!

tropicalforestry.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/c...

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Helen Brabham @helenbrabs.bsky.social · 9d

Super excited to see our work on the NLRseek program finally published 🥳 Here we identify new NLRs against major wheat pathogens and present a pipeline for NLR identification. Huge thank you to all of the co-authors for bringing this work together! @matthewmoscou.bsky.social rdcu.be/eIGvv

Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping

Nature Plants - Rapid discovery of functional resistance genes is enabled by a high-expression signature and high-throughput transformation. This approach identified 31 new resistance genes for...

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EXCELLENTIA_HE @excellentia.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Join us on Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for our 🧪 #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Landsharing: can #agroforestry enhance #biodiversity?" by Martin Lukac @mtnlkc.bsky.social, University of Reading, UK. Zoom: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series. Free. Q&A via chat

INvitation poster for Join us on Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for our 🧪 #forest🍁#ecology seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Landsharing: can #agroforestry enhance #biodiversity" by Martin Lukac @mtnlkc.bsky.social, University of Reading, UK. Shows text in front of an agroforestry plantation photo and the Excellentia and EU logos

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Agristok @agristok.bsky.social · 11d

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

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Carlos Vila-Viçosa @cmmvv.bsky.social · 12d

At #EuroGard10 we present LusoQuercus project. Lusitanian dwarf-oak (Quercus lusitanica) projected models predict major habitat loss by 2100, with shifts to NW Atlantic refugia and upslope. Priorities: connect & innovate. lusoquercus.pt
#Biodiversity #ClimateChange #EcosystemRestoration #LaSapienza

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 14d

Trait‐mediated filtering of #Phytophthora pathogen invasions through global horticultural trade networks

📖https://buff.ly/3Pr9AkU
by Barwell et al.

@llewelyn68.bsky.social #PlantScience

Phytophthora risks from different source regions.

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Marília Horta Jung 🇵🇹🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @phytophthorarc.bsky.social · 13d

Join us today, at 16h00 in the Plenary - RED ROOM:
Thomas Jung (Mendel University in Brno) "Urgent need for EU regulation and nursery accreditation schemes to prevent spread of introduced #InvasivePlantPathogens via #RestorationActivities."

#EuroGard2025 #EuroGard10

#Oomycetes #PlantBiosecurity

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Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social · 13d

🚨Article collection OPEN🚨
🧪🍁 #Forest #Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience. Edited by Marian Schönauer and me at 🌲"Discover Forests". 🌳 APC currently waived, open till mid 2026 (tbd). link.springer.com/collections/... ... OA, reviews, welcome!

Article collection / special issue: Forest Soils: How Harvesting Methods and Management Shape Soil Properties, Functions, and Resilience

Journal: Discover Forests

Url: https://link.springer.com/collections/dgafjfgejh

Intensifying climate pressures and timber demands are refocusing attention on forest soils, the foundation of productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Harvesting methods can alter physical soil properties, hydrology, and nutrient cycles, while management incentives such as increased structural and species diversity, retention of deadwood and legacy trees, or the maintenance of refugia may buffer or reverse impacts.

Together, these practices govern soil carbon dynamics, greenhouse-gas fluxes, microbial and faunal communities, mycorrhizal networks, and erosion and water quality, yet the mechanistic links and context dependencies remain underexplored across forest types and pedoclimatic zones. This collection invites original research, perspectives and reviews that quantify how harvesting systems (e.g., reduced-impact logging, mechanized operations, continuous-cover forestry) and diversity/retention strategies (e.g., mixed-species stands, structural complexity, coarse woody debris) affect soil properties and functions.

We especially welcome studies that bridge scales, from plot to landscape and from short-term responses to long-term recovery, and that integrate physiology, biogeochemistry, soil ecology, and hydrology using field experiments, long-term trials, chrono sequences, remote sensing, geostatistical analysis, synthesis/meta-analysis, and/or innovative analytics (e.g., modelling, eDNA, isotopes). Submissions with regional to global scope and data-driven policy relevance (i.e., nature-based solutions) are encouraged.

Our goal is to draw attention to forest management practices that hinder or improve ecosystem functions and services by hampering or stewarding soil life and function.

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Ongoing
10° European Botanic Gardens Congress
Botanic Gardens in the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration
www.eurogard10.org
@fao.org
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
www.bgci.org
International Plant Sentinel Network
@ipsn-bgci.bsky.social
#EuroGard2025 #Biosecurity #PlantHealthMonitoring

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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · May 14

🪸 #RESTORESEAS ( #BiodivRestore) reports 1st local extinction of coral Phyllogorgia dilatata on Trindade Island. Models predict 63% habitat loss by 2100 due to climate change, with shifts in temperature, oxygen, & salinity. Urgent need for protected areas!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Redirecting

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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · May 23

🐟 Rhodolith beds off Brazil's coast boost fish density, biomass & richness, vital for marine ecosystems. But #RESTORESEAS ( #BiodivRestore) data from Costa das Algas Marine Protected Area shows threats from mining & trawling, calling for stronger protection.
doi.org/10.1007/s412...

Fish Assemblage Patterns in Rhodolith Beds of a Southwestern Atlantic Marine Protected Area: The Role of Habitat Complexity - Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences

Rhodolith beds are unique marine ecosystems composed primarily by calcified algae that provide essential habitat for diverse marine organisms and contribute to sediment stabilization, nutrient…

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Tiffany Lowe-Power 🌱🦠 @tlowepower.bsky.social · 16d

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist

Applications due Dec 1

Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic,
or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly
motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and
fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a
world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects
of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range
of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal
pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens,
plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to
fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving
pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also
encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with
faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to
addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems.
The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors.
Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on
departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional
facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 21d

Microscopical and molecular characterization of the infection cycle of Phytophthora betacei during disease development on tree tomato (Solanum betaceum). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675658v1

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Niklaus Grunwald @grunwald.bsky.social · Nov 17

Stop neglecting fungi and #oomycetes (sadly not explicitly mentioned) <a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol2017120" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol2017120

Stop neglecting fungi - Nature Microbiology

Fungal pathogens are virtually ignored by the press, the ...

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British Society of Plant Pathology @bspp.bsky.social · 28d

Ronnie de Jonge explores how root microbiomes assemble in Arabidopsis, Barley, and Lotus, identifying a functional backbone of plant-associated bacteria that could guide sustainable microbiome engineering. #PPATH2025

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British Society of Plant Pathology @bspp.bsky.social · 28d

Exciting insights from Evans Lagudah presenting on durable resistance to rusts: how ‘muscle’ (strong, race-specific) & ‘backbone’ (multi-pathogen, partial) R genes combine for long-lasting protection. #PlantPathology #PPATH2025

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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !

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

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants

Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

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