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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Jun 18

Really nice work from @jellespooren.bsky.social showing that disease-suppressive soils might sometimes be generated in the phyllosphere. Turning the concept of soilborne legacies upside down 🌱🦠 With @cornepieterse.bsky.social @svanwees.bsky.social and others @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

Jelle Spooren @jellespooren.bsky.social · Jun 17

Proud to share our latest pre-print manuscript entitled 'Downy mildew disease-suppressive soils transmit a protective core microbiome to the phyllosphere' (lnkd.in/dBk28gnT). Super cool to see the final chapter of my PhD at the Plant-Microbe Interactions group of Universiteit Utrecht now online!

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Mar 6

@y-song.bsky.social doing a great job at explaining the importance of the potato microbiome at the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social microbiome day! Hoping the medical and veterinary microbiome scientists in the audience enjoy the change in perspective.

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Mar 4

🔬 Exciting #JournalClub in our group today by @nielsaerts.bsky.social! We discussed the immense and multilayered complexity of hormonal cross-regulation in plant immunity, based on this preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🌿🧬A must-read for those fascinated by plant defense and signaling!

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Feb 19

You were already inluded...

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · Feb 19

Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota - Nature Plants

The authors show that immunosuppression is highly conserved in the bacterial order Xanthomonadales. This feature, which preceded their specialization as host-adapted pathogens, probably contributes to...

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Feb 18

Interesting journal club by @mpapadopoulou.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Evidence for the promotion of specific microbial ecological clusters to increase soybean plant fitness in response to nutrient deficiency. Also interesting for microbiomes4soy.eu

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Feb 17

Vooruit dan maar!

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Feb 17

We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Feb 12

Great talk by Heribert Hert on microbiomes in relation to drought resistance, regreening strategies and the orphan crop Fonio microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Feb 12

@eoghan-king.bsky.social @sohambio.bsky.social @shingomiyauchi.bsky.social @gozdemerveturksoy.bsky.social @amiposts.bsky.social Welcome to the club!

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Ronnie de Jonge @dejongepmi.bsky.social · Feb 7

And so it was! Great defense, great thesis. #ProudSupervisor

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Symposium in celebration of the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social is of course kicked off by @gijsselten.bsky.social following intro by @dejongepmi.bsky.social!

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Feb 5

@gijsselten.bsky.social demonstrated that plants select bacterial functions using a SuperSynCom (1000 strains)

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Next up: Simon Radutoiu about the role of LysM receptors in symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Maria Suarez Diez (WUR) about constraint-based modelling of SynComs: already complex with a SynCom of three!

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Great line up before the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social: now Ruben Garrido-Oter on experimental evolution on the plant

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Yang Song @y-song.bsky.social · Jan 11

Five years of hard work has paid off! 🎉 What a nice new year surprise—we made it to the cover of Nature Microbiology! 🌟
Acknowledgment to all co-authors and specially Elisa Atza for producing this cover image!

Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Jan 10

Our first issue of 2025 has gone live, featuring...

🥗microbial roles in diet and food insecurity
🛶freshwater microbial dynamics
📈SARS-CoV-2 spike evolution
🚨bacterial danger signals
🥔microbiomes forecasting spud vigor

...and more. Check it out here 👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Jan 10

👉https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-driven-assembly-of-disease-suppressive-microbiomes

Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Jan 10

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jelle Spooren on the cum laude defense of his PhD thesis, "Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes" 🌱🦠 🎓
Thanks to @jurriaanton.bsky.social and @algazuccaro.bsky.social for their thoughtful opposition in the defense and the great talks during the seminar!

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · Jan 8

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n)
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social · Jan 8

Great journal club bij @gijsselten.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s42... showing how to get passed the linear limitations of traditional methods in microbiome research!

Agricultural practices influence soil microbiome assembly and interactions at different depths identified by machine learning - Communications Biology

Machine learning breaks through the linear limitations of traditional methods, providing deeper insights into the assembly, interactions, and mechanisms underlying microbiomes at varying soil depths u...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Jan 2

Short on time? Read the Research Briefing for a short overview of the paper by @rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome - Nature Microbiology

A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the p...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Jan 2

OUT NOW: The seed tuber microbiome can predict future growth of potato varieties in the field 🥔🦠🌱
@rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social & co

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Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology

Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

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François Mayer @francoismayer.bsky.social · Dec 31

New RESEARCH BRIEFING -
Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome

By Yang Song & Roeland Berendsen

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Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome - Nature Microbiology

A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the p...

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