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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 5d

🌱 Using ‘compelling’ methods, including #CryoET, researchers mapped spinach thylakoid membranes at single-molecule precision, revealing how photosynthetic complexes are organised and settling long-standing debates on chloroplast architecture.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 6d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 5d

Fantastic work from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social annd col. expanding the basic genetic toolkit enabling symbiotic interactions in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years (Delaux and Schornack 2021). Because of their intracellular nature, the est...

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 7d

Cellular energy sensor SnRK1 suppresses salicylic acid-dependent and -independent defenses and bacterial resistance in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679707v1

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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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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats Dr. A. Abdrakhmanov for a fantastic PhD defence @vbcscitraining.bsky.social @gmivienna.bsky.social ! I am proud of you👏

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 7d

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

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Elia Stahl @eliastahl.bsky.social · Jun 16

We are recruiting!
A three year PhD position @iecb.bsky.social and @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social to study lipid recognition by plant receptor-like kinases. A collaborative project with the team of @pierre-maisonneuve.bsky.social. Join us in the beautiful city of Bordeaux!

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

career5.successfactors.eu

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Jul 31

The hybrid origin of potato tuberization.

From: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage

Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alter...

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Yan Ma @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congratulations Zach!!

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Varsha Mathur @varshamathur.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out our new preprint all about Pirsonia, a tiny killer of bloom-forming Coscinodiscus diatoms!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#protistsonsky #marinemicrobes 🌊🔬

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Yan Ma @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congratulations 🙌 nicely done!

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Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm off to ASPB #PlantBio2025 tomorrow, with a poster and talk on using X-ray imaging in Plant Biology. New soybean imaging to share, like this fly-through animation of the meristematic region from an XRM scan. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · Jul 24

Fresh from the press! For suberin lovers!
Work led by @, my former PhD student and now postdoc in the team, with help of @sarahorvath.bsky.social and in collaboration with @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social .
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
1/4 #PlantScience

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · Jul 24

I need you, and I can't stress this enough, to read this paper by Margaret Kidwell et al. on horizontal transfer of P elements from mites to flies and back...from *1991*: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Possible Horizontal Transfer of Drosophila Genes by the Mite Proctolaelaps regalis

There is strong inferential evidence for recent horizontal gene transfer of the P (mobile) element to Drosophila melanogaster from a species of the Drosophila willistoni group. One potential vector of...

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mariebarberon.bsky.social @mariebarberon.bsky.social · Jul 22

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

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Yan Ma @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social · Jul 21

let me know what you think! feedback always good!

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Yan Ma @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thanks Tim!

Yan Ma @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social · Jul 21

First Ma lab #GMI paper is now online! It‘s a mini-review on insect-induced plant #galls —their coolness and research potential! Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Jul 3

My last day at the @gmivienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Here’s what I accumulated at my (office) 🚪 🧵 1/advice from my daughters

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Yan Ma @yanma-fungalls.bsky.social · Jul 3

Love all these inspirations on the wall! But we will miss you the most, the embodiment of these inspirations. Thank you for being there and best wishes for road ahead!

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Pingtao Ding (he/him) @dinglab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity

Our new preprint is online, 1 July⬇️

With @himanshuchhillar.bsky.social @leonardojo.bsky.social Amey Redkar @kaisakajala.bsky.social @jonathandgjones.bsky.social

For early readers & community feedback🙏🏼

#openscience @erc.europa.eu

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Jul 1

Cell-type-specific execution of effector-triggered immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.28.662111v1

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats to Clemens Plaschka, who was selected to become a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO bsky.app/profile/embo...), becoming the eighth out of 14 IMP faculty members to receive this honour. More on Clemens Plaschka and his research: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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