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RheeLab @rheelab.bsky.social · 2d

Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi

Open rank faculty positions available at MSU Plant Resilience Institute. Apply online at: https://tinyurl.com/yy2kvt3n

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of hard work from Gabriel Ferreras Garrucho, Chai Hao Chiu and Tania Chancellor @cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social .
Let us know what you think!

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Paszkowski Lab @paszkowskilab.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a busy time in the Paszkowski lab!

First, a pre-print on how rice distinguishes friend (AM fungi)🍄 from foe (pathogens)👾: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

And second, a review on single-cell omic approaches to understand the spatially and temporally complex AM symbiosis 🔬: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Defining the pre-symbiotic transcriptional landscape of rice roots

Plants interact with a plethora of organisms in the rhizosphere, with outcomes that range from detrimental to beneficial. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is the most ubiquitous beneficial plant ...

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 6d

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫

Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all!

Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!!

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

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 7d

Wounding activates the HSFA1 transcription factors to promote cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679115v1

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Michael Hothorn @structplantbio.bsky.social · 8d

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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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

(Part 2)

“From my first visit, I was struck by the energy and excitement...It feels like being a graduate student again, chasing curiosity wherever it leads."

@hhmi.org Investigator David Stern will join the Stowers Institute in Feb. 2026 from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social.

Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

(Part 1) Hear from @hhmi_news Investigator David Stern about his research program and what he's uncovering in the lab.

Stern will join the Institute in February 2026, bringing his lab and HHMI appointment to Kansas City. @hhmi.org

Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

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David L. Stern @gallseeker.bsky.social · 7d

It's official! We are moving to Stowers!
Very exciting opportunity to expand our studies of insect-plant interactions. We have many opportunities available in biochemistry, development, behavior, genetics, evolution, genomics, AI, and even pest control. Interested in any of these things? Reach out!

Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

NEWS🎉 We’re excited to announce @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Investigator David Stern will join the Institute from Janelia Research Campus. His lab studies how aphids transform plants at the genetic level, uncovering secrets of #evolution & new strategies for pest control. @hhmi.org bit.ly/4np96Fb

Stowers Institute recruits renowned developmental and evolutionary…

David Stern, Ph.D., brings groundbreaking research on insect–plant interactions for next-generation pest control to the Institute.

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 14d

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs (Science) @shirasulab.bsky.social @brunongou.bsky.social @yasukadota.bsky.social @BrunoNgou (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/JlJKjJE

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Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs | Plantae

Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are abundant genes that have diversified and expanded throughout plant evolution, with most plants having hundreds or more RLKs. In this exciting new paper, Ngou et al.

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Volker Lipka @volkerlipka.bsky.social · 16d

We proudly present a new preprint by Leon Pierdzig et al: Wall teichoic acids, glycopolymers specific to Gram-positive bacteria, trigger defense and cell death in Arabidopsis. Cysteine-rich RLKs act as key components in their perception. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 18d

Meet #NASmember Kyoko Nozaki, a pioneer in homogeneous catalysis, polymerization, and CO₂ activation. Her work melds deep mechanism with bold synthesis for sustainable materials and precision chemistry. Read more in a @pubs.acs.org profile: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 20d

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 21d

Happy to share this review on the diversity of resistance in Triticeae. I learned a lot writing it. Heavy lifting by Yinghui Li, Liubov Govta, and @yichangsung.bsky.social with our long-time collaborator Tzion Fahima.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Spectrum of Diverse Disease-Resistance Genes Cloned and Characterized in the Triticeae Tribe | Annual Reviews

The Triticeae tribe comprises species representing some of the world's largest food and forage crops, including common wheat, durum, barley, rye, and oat. Crop yields are continuously threatened ...

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 22d

And now it’s Saskia @SaskiaHogenhout on insect-vectored plant pathogens #SIPaV2025

Saskia is President-elect of the British Society for Plant Pathology @BS_PP

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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 22d

Well done, Alexandra!!!

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Alexandra Dallaire @alexdallaire.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A thread 👇

Reductive evolution of the DNA replication machinery in endosymbiotic fungi

The molecular machinery for replicating and repairing DNA accurately is critically important for life and highly conserved across the Tree of Life. Here we show that two major lineages of fungi, Glome...

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 26d

#PlantScience Research Weekly Sept 12 plantae.org/plant-scienc.... How RLKs shape the microbiome; Engineering synthetic RLKs; Plastid-localized amino acid transporter; Tunable mechanics of development through cell walls (1/2)

Diverse recognition specificity of SCOREs for CSP variants

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 28d

We are pleased to announce that @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social has been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026 by the @bspp.bsky.social.

“I am humbled to have been awarded the RKS Wood Prize 2026. I’d like to thank my research group and my TSL colleagues for their inspiration and support.”

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Nick Talbot, Executive Director and senior group leader at TSL, is pictured in a glasshouse surrounded by rice plants.

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 29d

I finally sat down to read this and WOW! Fantastic work, congratulations to you and the team.

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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am very grateful to Michele & Marc, Takehiro & Dohmae-san, Markus, @yasukadota.bsky.social & @shirasulab.bsky.social for their support. Also big thanks to the reviewers and editors for improving our manuscript!

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Bruno Ngou @brunongou.bsky.social · Sep 4

With this approach, we aim to characterize more PRRs against different pathogens & pests in the future.

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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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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to announce that our latest paper has just been published in Science!

ttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx2508

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Yasuhiro Kadota @yasukadota.bsky.social · Sep 5

Game-changing biotech for engineering pathogen-resistant crops | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Game-changing biotech for engineering pathogen-resistant crops

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have identified an ancient protein, which they have named SCORE, that has the potential to help defend plants against t...

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