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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 15h

Now with official press release. I'm very much looking forward to welcome @cbarragan.bsky.social in January

www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 5d

A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 5d

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

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David Biermann @davidbiermann.bsky.social · 7d

Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social !

Enjoy reading it!!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 7d

Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?

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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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Yves Venedey @yvesvenedey.de · 14d

Die direkt gewählte Abgeordnete aus Berlin-Mitte, @hanna-steinmueller.de, sorgt gerade für viel Aufsehen, weil sie ihr Baby mit in den @bundestag.de genommen hat. Das zeige, dass wir über die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie reden müssten, sagt sie.

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Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw @idw-online.de · 14d

Alte Pflanze, neue Erkenntnisse: IPK Team enthüllt „Mosaik-Abstammung“ der Gerste
Gerste zählt zu den ältesten Kulturpflanzen der Menschheit und wird seit mehr als 10.000 Jahren kultiviert. Lange Zeit wurde vermutet, dass sie an einem ein...
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Ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Führung des IPK Leibniz-Institutes hat herausgefunden, dass die heutige Gerste aus verschiedenen Wildpopulationen im Fruchtbaren Halbmond hervorgegangen ist. - Copyright IPK Leibniz-Institut/ D. Hirsz

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Freddy Boutrot @freddyboutrot.bsky.social · 15d

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis

Author summary To protect themselves against pathogens, plants have evolved a sophisticated and intricate immune system that allows pathogen detection and the activation of appropriate defense respons...

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Lamya Kaddor @lamyakaddor.bsky.social · 16d

Glückwunsch an unsere Sportlerinnen und Sportler zu den Medaillen bei der Leichtathletik-WM in #Tokio! Ich bin stolz auf unser großartiges Team - ein tolles Beispiel für die Vielfalt unseres Landes!

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Fantomaus 🎄 @fantomaus.bsky.social · 22d

Eine Weltklasseleistung 🥳

6,30 m übersprungen durch Armond Duplantis.

Habe ich gestern live im TV gesehen, aber diese Einstellung zeigt erst richtig, was für eine Leistung es war.

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Christina Steidele @steidele.bsky.social · 24d

Happy to share our pre-print!

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 26d

Multi-omics of barley Fusarium Head Blight converge on pathogen-triggered biosynthesis of aromatic amino acid derived chemical defense compounds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674812v1

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Gabriela Auge @gabyplantbio.bsky.social · 28d

🧬🌱 Excited to share our new preprint: "MoBiPlant - A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Plant Molecular Biology"

🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🔗 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/man...
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What Large Language Models Know About Plant Molecular Biology

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly permeating scientific research, yet their capabilities in plant molecular biology remain largely uncharacterized. Here, we present MoBiPlant, the first compreh...

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Sep 8

The discovery of genes underlying interesting traits for #PlantBreeding is one of the most important & difficult tasks here @kwsgroup.bsky.social.

We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist to help us with this!

#PlantScience #PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

Scientist (m/f/d) in Quantitative Genetics for Trait Discovery

jobs.kws.com

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Jul 22

🧬 Preprint alert!
Excited to share our latest work on the role of longitudinal gene expression dynamics in resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

Check it out here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Temporal Shifts in Gene Expression Drive Quantitative Resistance to a Necrotrophic Fungus in a Tomato Crop Wild Relative

Resistance breeding against generalist necrotrophic pathogens heavily relies on quantitative disease resistance (QDR). Lesion growth dynamics involve distinct phases (e.g., lag phase duration or lesio...

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Dani Stevens, Ph.D. @danimstevens.bsky.social · Jul 15

#2025ISMPMI 📣 In silico screening of PRR-epitope interactions is now possible!

Here, we developed mamp-ml to predict their immunogenic outcomes without structural context. Let's accelerate engineering plant receptors for robust resistance! 🚀🌱 Small 🧵

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

mamp-ml: A deep learning approach to epitope immunogenicity in plants

Eukaryotes detect biomolecules through surface-localized receptors, key signaling components. A subset of receptors survey for pathogens, induce immunity, and restrict pathogen growth. Comparative gen...

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Severin Einspanier @sev1panier.bsky.social · Jun 13

🌱 Back to the wild!
We’ve just started a field trial with Solanum chilense at the @uni-kiel.de Botanical Garden.
Can’t wait to watch our wild tomatoes tackle the Northern German summer. 🍅
Stay tuned for our next field-trial updates!
#SChilense #FieldTrial #PlantScience #Kiel

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leoniekraska.bsky.social @leoniekraska.bsky.social · Jun 9

Really happy to see my PhD work out. Big thanks to @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social and everyone involved. I hope you enjoy reading it :)

Tonni Andersen @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social · Jun 9

Time for another paper from our lab!
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning

In this study, Kraska et al. identify MYB68 as a novel regulator of endodermal suberization, linked to the formation of distinct identities in the xylem-pole-associated endodermis. The research uncove...

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jun 10

📜 Spatial and single-cell transcriptomics capture two distinct cell states in plant immunity

🧑‍🔬 Yuzhao Hu, Raeann Schaefer, Stéphane Deschamps, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...,

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #SpatialImmunity #PlantGenomics

Spatial and single-cell transcriptomics capture two distinct cell states in plant immunity

Unlike animals, plants are sessile organisms that must adapt to localized and fluctuating environmental stimuli, including abiotic and biotic stresses. While animals use mobile immune cells to elimina...

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jun 10

📜 Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition

🧑‍🔬 @laravdijck.bsky.social, @parkergroup.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMetabolites

Cooperation between a root fungal endophyte and host-derived coumarin scopoletin mediates Arabidopsis iron nutrition

### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jun 10

📜 A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots

🧑‍🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment

A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots

Apoplastic pH is a key regulator of plant development and environmental responses, influencing processes such as cell expansion, nutrient uptake, and intercellular signaling. Accurate tools for measur...

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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026.
Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.

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Alexander Förderer @alexanderforderer.bsky.social · Jun 3

Excited to share the first preprint from my lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social in Potsdam! Huge thanks to @o-sulkowski.bsky.social and the whole team for their hard work and dedication.

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Diversification of the "EDVID" packing motif underpins structural and functional variation in plant NLR coiled-coil domains

· Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) are critical in plant immunity and display remarkable allelic diversity. Coiled-coiled NLRs (CC-NLRs) are the most widespread group of these r...

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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · May 30

Listen to a new (me 🌱) and an experienced group leader (Dietmar Hutmacher) discuss interviewing and hiring new lab members.

Nature @nature.com · May 23

This week on the Nature Careers Podcast: How to delight your future boss at a science job interview

https://go.nature.com/3FvHRb0

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · May 30

Here's an overview Thread 🧵 on my own research while at...

𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟳 - 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱 @hhu.de with @simonrdg.bsky.social

𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲 - 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 UniMelbourne with the ARC CoE #PlantCellWalls

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 UniMelbourne Group Leader

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 @mpipz.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social

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