Katerina Romanova

A major trade-off between growth and defense in Arabidopsis thaliana can vanish in field conditions In controlled greenhouse conditions, Arabidopsis thaliana plants with a hyperactive allele of the ACD6 gene have stronger pathogen defenses but are smaller and make fewer seeds, in a classic fitness t...

This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting.

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Was great to see #Pseudomonas, #microbiome and #phage enthusiasts alike stopping by my poster at the #2025ISMPMI on Tuesday! I wish I'd had more time to meet you all :)

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Nature lovers at the #2025ISMPMI will be pleased to learn that earlier today, the Confex Hall Butterfly (apparently an Aglais io) was safely captured by me and released to the flowerbeds outside.

Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.

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