Zhe Wang

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~

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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

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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!
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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.!
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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
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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...

Thank you 🙏 Zhe Wang @WangWaud the translation and for posting on WeChat t.co/fZUX8i29gV

最近Kamoun发表的博客《Stop displaying journal names on your slides》让我深受共鸣。

June 66-6 Issue cover showing plant epidermis with stomata

🚨New Issue Alert🚨

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▶️Packed with the latest quality research in #PlantScience: #Stomata, #RootBiology, #PlantBiochemistry, #GeneEditing, #PlantSenescence, #PlantEpigenetics, #PlantDevelopment & much more! 🌱🔬🧬🧑‍🔬

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Congrats on the great paper!🥳 Quick Question about GOTHAM DB metadata: In the downloadable HvN column, what do '-1' and blank values signify? Lack of info? Is there a difference between them? Tks!

The Genetic Basis of Bacterial Adaptation to Hosts Microbes colonize and interact with diverse multicellular hosts using specialized genes, many of which remain unidentified. Better understanding of host-associated gene functions is a key aspect of mi...

📢 New preprint alert!
We used comparative genomics on 72,000+ bacterial genomes to uncover the genetic basis of microbial adaptation to multicellular hosts—plants and animals alike.
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Three-step biosynthesis of salicylic acid from benzoyl-CoA in plants - Nature The salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis pathway—involving ligation of benzoyl coenzyme A and benzyl alcohol to give benzyl benzoate; hydroxylation of benzyl benzoate to give benzyl salicylate; and cleava...

Three back-to-back Salicylic Acid biosynthesis papers 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergence of isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis within Brassicales | PNAS Salicylic acid (SA) is a major defense phytohormone. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the isochorismate (IC) pathway is the primary route for pathogen-indu...

I'm very happy that this paper is now published in PNAS!

Isochorismate-based salicylic acid biosynthesis appears to have emerged in the Brassicales after the divergence of C. papaya, likely within the timeframe between the divergence of B. maritima and R. odorata.

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Nominations are open for the 2026 #JSPP Award 🏅and JSPP Young Investigator Award 🏅

📅Deadline for Nominations by JSPP members: August 8, 2025 📅Deadline for Self-Nominations: September 18, 2025

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Experimental evolution of plant rhizobacteria reveals emerging adaptive mutations | mBio Root colonization ability results from the long-term evolutionary adaptation of certain bacteria to the plant rhizosphere, involving extensive bacterial genetic resources. Understanding colonization m...

Experimental evolution of plant rhizobacteria reveals emerging adaptive mutations

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Pseudomonas bijieensis ▶️ wheat rhizosphere ▶️ fleN mutations ▶️ increased flagella number ▶️ enhanced motility and colonization capacity in the wheat rhizosphere

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The role of isoprenoids in the chemical interaction between plants and other organisms in their rhizosphere Agriculture has become one of the largest users of non-renewable resources in the world and contributes heavily to resource depletion, environmental pollution, and climate change. Solutions to these problems are in dire need and these can partially be found in the inter-organismal interactions surrounding the rhizosphere of our crops. The rhizosphere is a highly complex ecosystem, serving as a habitat for a diverse array of beneficial and pathogenic organisms. Here, we review how plants are performing a balancing act, in which they employ chemical communication—through the exudation of chemicals from their roots—to recruit beneficial organisms, while keeping at the same time, pathogenic ones at bay. These metabolites released by roots are incredibly chemically diverse. Among them, isoprenoids, one of the most diverse metabolite classes, containing many, highly bioactive, molecules, are the focus of this review. A better insight into the chemical communication occurring between the root, the soil, and micro-organisms, will allow harnessing of the beneficial relationships and suppression of the harmful ones. Further, this will enable us to establish knowledge-based changes in how we perform agriculture, how we use chemical inputs, how we should breed more resilient crops and can bring back resilience to our agricultural soils.

The role of isoprenoids in the chemical interaction between plants and other organisms in their rhizosphere | aBIOTECH

AI, peer review and the human activity of science When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

Undermining the cry for help: The phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658588v1

Wegen Trump: Zentralbibliothek Medizin baut Alternative zu US-Datenbank auf Ein deutsches Informationszentrum will eine Alternative zur PubMed-Datenbank in den USA entwickeln, um die Informationsversorgung in der Biomedizin zu sichern.

Germany's central medical library, ZBMed, is building an alternative to PubMed. It will be open source, based on MeSH & associated data standards, built to be sustainable in case PubMed becomes unreliable - with APIs & MeSH maintenance. Open meeting called! 1/2 www.heise.de/news/Wegen-T... #MedLibs

Webinar Alert🌱
Want to learn cutting-edge studies in plant-microbe interaction? Join our webinar "Advances in Plant-Microbe Interactions: Insights from Asia to the World" with
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📅 May 19, 2025 | 🕝 JST 14:30–17:20 (UTC+9)
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An online webinar: Advances in Plant-Microbe Interactions:
Insights from Asia to the World on May 19.

organized by Ren Ujimatsu, who won a 2024 Ben Barres Spotlight Award from eLife @elife.bsky.social

Her recent publication
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preprint
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A fungal transcription factor converts a beneficial root endophyte into an anthracnose leaf pathogen Endophytic fungi colonize healthy plant tissues without disease. Ujimatsu et al. reveal that the fungal transcription factor CtBOT6 triggers the virulence of a root-associated beneficial endophyte by ...

Thrilled to share my first paper published at Current biology!!
We found that the expression level of one single transcription factor converts beneficial root endophyte into pathogenic guy😈 (1/8) www.cell.com/current-biol...

📢 Introducing our class of 2025 Budding Editors:

Tetsuya Hisanaga @hisanaga-t.bsky.social 🌱
Akari Maeda 🕝
Hatsune Morinaka 🔬
Liao Pan 🩸
Zhe Wang @wangwaud.bsky.social 🦠

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