PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
@plantevolution.bsky.social
Weigel Lab aka WeigelWorld Repost≠endorsement
#OpenScience
COIs http://tinyurl.com/DWCOI2022 GoogleScholar http://tinyurl.com/DeWeScholar
#OpenScience
COIs http://tinyurl.com/DWCOI2022 GoogleScholar http://tinyurl.com/DeWeScholar
We also highlight the usefulness of mutants with altered leaf architecture to learn about immunity, in this case, using the cue1 mutant.
January 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM
We also highlight the usefulness of mutants with altered leaf architecture to learn about immunity, in this case, using the cue1 mutant.
Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social.
Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 8, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social.
Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More academics should follow opera singer Denyce Graves’ example
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 AM
More academics should follow opera singer Denyce Graves’ example
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
Towards a quantitative view of NLR evolution in genome space -- check out where we think the field of #NLR #evolution research is heading in this review led by Luzie Wingen and Aurélien Tellier.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#plantscience
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#plantscience
January 6, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Towards a quantitative view of NLR evolution in genome space -- check out where we think the field of #NLR #evolution research is heading in this review led by Luzie Wingen and Aurélien Tellier.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#plantscience
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#plantscience
New low for @deutsche-bahn.bsky.social: Email informs me that planned 9 hour trip from London to Berlin, with 2 transfers, no longer possible. New itinerary suggested by Deutsche Bahn: 24 hour trip with 12 transfers. Really?
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
New low for @deutsche-bahn.bsky.social: Email informs me that planned 9 hour trip from London to Berlin, with 2 transfers, no longer possible. New itinerary suggested by Deutsche Bahn: 24 hour trip with 12 transfers. Really?
Happy holidays to all!
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Happy holidays to all!
Motto of the day: “Carry on!” (Weitermachen!)
On the grave of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
On the grave of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Motto of the day: “Carry on!” (Weitermachen!)
On the grave of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
On the grave of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
Nice title for this mutation accumulation experiment: "Genes shielded, repeats exposed: mutation bias in the midge Chironomus riparius"
Key observation: Exon constitute 23% of callable sites but contain only 10% of observed mutations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Key observation: Exon constitute 23% of callable sites but contain only 10% of observed mutations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Nice title for this mutation accumulation experiment: "Genes shielded, repeats exposed: mutation bias in the midge Chironomus riparius"
Key observation: Exon constitute 23% of callable sites but contain only 10% of observed mutations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Key observation: Exon constitute 23% of callable sites but contain only 10% of observed mutations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Pseudomonas can make or break a happy phyllosphere microbiota"
Daniela Ramírez-Sánchez & I discuss a neat study from the Gu lab on how different Pseudomonas strains influence the success of Fusarium pathogens in wheat by altering host pH
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Daniela Ramírez-Sánchez & I discuss a neat study from the Gu lab on how different Pseudomonas strains influence the success of Fusarium pathogens in wheat by altering host pH
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Pseudomonas can make or break a happy phyllosphere microbiota"
Daniela Ramírez-Sánchez & I discuss a neat study from the Gu lab on how different Pseudomonas strains influence the success of Fusarium pathogens in wheat by altering host pH
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Daniela Ramírez-Sánchez & I discuss a neat study from the Gu lab on how different Pseudomonas strains influence the success of Fusarium pathogens in wheat by altering host pH
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Visited Instituto Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediteranea field station La Mayora in Agarrobo and got to see the only place where cocoa trees are being successfully cultivated in Europe!
www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarq...
www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarq...
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Visited Instituto Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediteranea field station La Mayora in Agarrobo and got to see the only place where cocoa trees are being successfully cultivated in Europe!
www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarq...
www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarq...
First time that the Earth moved during one of my seminars (today at Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea ”La Mayora” [IHSM ]) 😱
#Malaga #earthquake
#Malaga #earthquake
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
First time that the Earth moved during one of my seminars (today at Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea ”La Mayora” [IHSM ]) 😱
#Malaga #earthquake
#Malaga #earthquake
Good morning from La Doñana
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Good morning from La Doñana
Love this Insight by @steeltownworms.bsky.social on a series of @elife.bsky.social papers on what it takes to reproduce a phenomenon of transgenerationally transmitted learned pathogen avoidance in C. elegans. Thank you, Lesley!
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Love this Insight by @steeltownworms.bsky.social on a series of @elife.bsky.social papers on what it takes to reproduce a phenomenon of transgenerationally transmitted learned pathogen avoidance in C. elegans. Thank you, Lesley!
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
elifesciences.org/articles/109...
The quest (by Lana Sushko)
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The quest (by Lana Sushko)
Shout out for former postdoc @plant-trx.bsky.social, who just started his own lab at the Weizmann institute! Yoav is working on several awesome studies!
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Shout out for former postdoc @plant-trx.bsky.social, who just started his own lab at the Weizmann institute! Yoav is working on several awesome studies!
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voich...
2/2 Our lab pioneered the use of genome graphs already 16 years ago! Read this oldie-but-goldie from @labschneeberger.bsky.social and Jörg Hagmann: Simultaneous alignment of short reads against multiple genomes
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
2/2 Our lab pioneered the use of genome graphs already 16 years ago! Read this oldie-but-goldie from @labschneeberger.bsky.social and Jörg Hagmann: Simultaneous alignment of short reads against multiple genomes
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The “Art of Longevity” — is it by any chance left-handed DNA?
October 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The “Art of Longevity” — is it by any chance left-handed DNA?
So a we’ll-known scientist founds a company that has RNA-seq as its core tech. Publishes a paper on a new RNA-seq data set with this conflict of interest statement. What gives?
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
So a we’ll-known scientist founds a company that has RNA-seq as its core tech. Publishes a paper on a new RNA-seq data set with this conflict of interest statement. What gives?
Paris is beautiful — clean, few unhoused, limited car traffic. Is that because that’s what they are reading?
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Paris is beautiful — clean, few unhoused, limited car traffic. Is that because that’s what they are reading?
Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...
www.salk.edu/news-release...
October 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...
www.salk.edu/news-release...
Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Not mentioned in our 1990 letter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), but I noticed the similarity between Drosophila fkh and rat HNF3A while reading the paper from the Darnell lab in G&D and looking closely at fig. 5! No computer involved…
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Not mentioned in our 1990 letter (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), but I noticed the similarity between Drosophila fkh and rat HNF3A while reading the paper from the Darnell lab in G&D and looking closely at fig. 5! No computer involved…
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.
One of the coolest moments in my scientific career.