Akifumi Sugiyama

What a wonderful meeting in Málaga! We enjoyed lots of science and social activities. Thank you @vcarryon.bsky.social and team!
#PMS2025

Changsha in 🇨🇳 is selected for the next Plant-Microbiome symposium in 2027
#PMS2025 ➡️ #PMS2027

What a nice surprise to receive a small appreciation (🇪🇸jamón&cheese 😋) for our social media activities at #PMS2025 together with @courtneyherms.bsky.social and @gstringlis.bsky.social

Tomoaki Sato on Oxidative Isoflavone Catabolism in the Soybean Root Microbiota and Its Role in Root Colonization
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Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization Plant roots are colonised by diverse microbial communities. These communities are shaped by root exudates including plant specialized metabolites. Benzoxazinoids are such secreted compounds of maize. ...

Finallly, the last chapter of my PhD thesis made it out as a preprint 🌽🧫🎉 In a community maize bacteria convert benzoxazinoids to different metabolites than when grown alone www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Synthetic communities of maize root bacteria interact and redirect benzoxazinoid metabolization Plant roots are colonised by diverse microbial communities. These communities are shaped by root exudates including plant specialized metabolites. Benzoxazinoids are such secreted compounds of maize. ...

Preprint alert: We investigated how maize root bacteria - alone vs in community - tolerate and metabolise antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. The capacity to metabolise such a toxin impacted community size, structure and importantly, fitness.
Happy reading...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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.

Our latest research, "Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties," is now published online on Nature Microbiology! 🥔✨
Check out the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Let's connect and grow ideas together!

Following up on our recent publication, I'm excited to share that the research briefing of @rlberendsen.bsky.social and I named “Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome.” is freshly online on Nature Microbiology🧬

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...

Phyllosphere 12 The ‘phyllosphere meeting’ is a (typically) quinquennial event that brings together experts from around the world with a scientific interest in leaves (and other above-ground parts of plants and trees...

Registration for Phyllosphere12 is open!
12th International Symposium on Leaf Surface Microbiology

June 6-9 2025 at OIST, Japan

Speaker slots will be available and given based on a rolling basis. Register early!

www.oist.jp/conference/p...

Dear French and Japanese colleagues, mark your calendars!

We are organising the bilateral France-Japan "Frontiers in Plant Biology" symposium.

Date: November 19-21, 2025
Location: Strasbourg

More information soon!
#plantscience

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