Zhe Wang

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⏰Wakey-wakey, rise and shine! 🔆

📣 Now receiving submissions for the
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This manuscript evolved significantly during the process. A massive thanks to my supervisor Ken
@kenichitsuda.bsky.social
for his guidance and for pushing me to sharpen the logic. And a special thanks to editor Liliana Costa for the constructive comments and feedback.🙏

The twist? 🤯
The beneficial fungus ignores the pathogen in a petri dish! It acts as a gatekeeper ONLY in planta.

Triggered by the pathogen's presence inside the root, it activates specific secondary metabolites to block invasion into the central cylinder.

Healthy plants ≠ Pathogen-free.
Instead, they represent a homeostatic ecosystem. Our commentary highlights how plants manage to "live with the enemy" by recruiting beneficial microbes (endophytes) to keep pathogens in check—without eliminating them entirely.

Living with the Enemy: Plants Outsource Their Defense to Fungal Gatekeepers Zhe Wang; Living with the Enemy: Plants Outsource Their Defense to Fungal Gatekeepers, Plant and Cell Physiology, , pcag004, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pc

Finally!! 🎉 After a long journey and multiple rounds of revisions, my Commentary is officially out in @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social !

We discuss the fascinating "Gatekeeper" role of endophytes in plant immunity based on the great work by @keihiruma.bsky.social et al.

📄 Read here:

How did @Nature become "prestigious" to scientists?

In our opening article of Issue 09, writer Robert Reason traces the journal's history.

By understanding how Nature’s prestige was constructed, we can also clarify which elements are deserved and which are entrenched.

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Gemini (AI of Google) made this. Amazing...

GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface | PNAS Microbial communities inhabiting plants have emerged as crucial factors in regulating plant health and defense against disease-causing pathogens. T...

🚨My very first (co-)first author paper got published in @pnas.org 🥳

We describe the tripartite interkingdom interaction between a yeast, the oomycete pathogen Albugo laibachii and a bacterium, mediated by a GH25 lysozyme 🦠

Thanks to everyone involved!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An expanded CRISPRi toolbox for tunable control of gene expression in Pseudomonas putida Here, we present a newly developed CRISPRi system for efficient, targeted and controllable manipulation of gene expression in P. putida. Our study considerable expands the CRISPRi toolbox of Pseudomo...

Making “funky looking cells” using CRISPRi to repress cell division, and increase cytoplasm space for metabolite accumulation:
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great example of “journal-free” presentations by using PMID to cite articles instead of journal name. Thank you @pabnik.bsky.social ! #DMS2025

Transgenerational decline through insidious effects of drought memory Click on the article title to read more.

Long term deleterious effects of drought memory
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A 5-year long experiment, super impressive! I wonder whether the offspring of the final generation would have retained the performance difference, esp. after controlling for seed size/maternal investment.

Predicting the first steps of evolution in randomly assembled communities - Nature Communications Evolution often occurs within complex communities, but the way this context controls the rate and impact of evolution is poorly understood. The authors employ a model of resource competition to study ...

However, these findings are consistent with recent ecological theory by my amazing labmate @johndmcenany.bsky.social which suggested that conspecific strains may coexist in saturated communities even when new strains displace other species. (15/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Prophage induction drives soybean rhizobacterial community differentiation and nutrient cycling benefiting root development Abstract. Bacteriophages, lytic or lysogenic, play critical roles in structuring different soil bacteriomes and driving their functionality. Lysogeny is fa

Prophage induction drives soybean rhizobacterial community differentiation and nutrient cycling benefiting root development

-in #ISMEComms
with @bedutilh.bsky.social

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Dynamic shifts in plant-microbe relationships Plant-microbe interactions encompass a continuum from mutualism and commensalism to parasitism. Mutualists confer benefits such as nutrient acquisitio …

I am happy to see this out!

Plant-microbe relationship (mutualistic, commensalistic, parasitic) is not fixed, but rather dynamic, depending on the specific context.
We summarize the current knowledge on this.

Hope you enjoy~

www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/plan...

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU

Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly

Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

Volume 66 Issue 8 | Plant and Cell Physiology | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists. Publishes original articles reporting significant findings in broad aspects of plant biology.

New Issue alert!
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Filled with CAPtivating studies on 🪳molecular hijackers, protein regulation, electron sinks, fetilisation regulators, shoot-to-root signalling, 🍅defense, 🌾tolerance, & much more!
@jspp-news.bsky.social
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social

🌱 #PlantScience

Opinion | Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket Scientists write and review papers without getting paid, and their institutions have to pay for access.

Excellent editorial by my friend and colleague @pracheeac.bsky.social:

"Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket"

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Microbial traits for volatile production and consumption are diverse and consequential. Here's why they are ripe for interpretation through a trait-based lens...

Led by UA PhD students Ledford and Geffre @parkergeffre.bsky.social in collab w/ LBNL team @elbrodie.bsky.social Marschmann Karaoz

Happy to see our paper out in Current Op in Microbiology!
We show how transient microbes can play key roles in plant fitness & microbiota assembly 🦠
The 1st 1st author article for my 2 fantastic PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social & Louna Coleart-Sentenac 🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BTW, the figures look so nice.

🌿 The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Phytopathology is now online. Most read article is "Functions and Mechanisms of Secreted Proteinaceous Effectors of Broad-Host-Range Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens" by Liu et al. arevie.ws/4gq0jAa

Check out the TOC: arevie.ws/4npcHSW @kamounlab.bsky.social

Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities Abstract. Microbial communities are frequently organized into complex spatial structures, shaped by intrinsic cellular traits, interactions between communi

Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities url: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Very nice work! Have read it, and I'm wondering how much time you two (or maybe only one) spent finishing this work?

Benzoxazinoid-mediated microbiome feedbacks enhance Arabidopsis growth and defense Plants modulate their surrounding microbiome via root exudates and this conditioned soil microbiome feeds back on the performance of the next generation of plants. How plants can perceive this altered...

updated preprint: Intriguingly, Arabidopsis responded with both, improved growth and enhanced defence to a maize-conditioned soil microbiome, and this dual microbiome feedbacks were mediated by priming of the defences. Credits to Katja Stengele et al.!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Born to rewild: Reconnecting beneficial plant-microbiome alliances for resilient future crops Domestication disrupted ancient alliances between plants and beneficial microbes. In this review, Ramirez-Villacis et al. explore how rewilding plant microbiomes—by restoring ancestral plant-microbe i...

Born to rewild: Reconnecting beneficial plant-microbiome alliances
Review on rewilding plant microbiomes—restoring ancestral plant-microbe interactions & revitalizing soil functions—as a roadmap for engineering crops more resilient to climate challenges
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A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification of hidden cell types and the dev...

A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...