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High-frequency biparental inheritance of plant mitochondria upon chilling stress and loss of a genome-degrading nuclease - Nature Plants Maternal inheritance of mitochondria breaks down in the cold when a mitochondrial DNA degrading nuclease is defective, resulting in biparental inheritance that can rescue mitochondrial mutations and g...

🌿🧬Our new story is out in @natplants.nature.com! Tobacco plants usually pass down their mitochondria maternally, but we show we can trigger paternal transmission of mitochondria at high levels & restore plant health in the offspring of mothers harboring defective mtDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Li-Jun Ma presenting her work on Fusarium.

Exciting and beautifully presented seminar from Li-Jun Ma today at UC Davis.

Flatlining of US Science. Massive self inflicted wound.

Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.

Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.

Rapid directed evolution guided by protein language models and epistatic interactions Protein engineering is limited by the inefficient search through a high-dimensional sequence space to find combinations of synergistic mutations. Traditional approaches use stepwise mutation stacking,...

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metaRLK 2.0: an updated database of plant receptor-like kinases developed with structure- and deep learning-based functional annotation and classification #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Stripe rust fungus subverts wheat phase separation–mediated immunity to promote infection | PNAS Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as an important strategy for plant stress resistance, yet its dynamic regulation during plant–pat...

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Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help:

We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery.

This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck.

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

Preprint!!!! This is the result of an ongoing collaboration between us and the genomics core to make genetics cheap and easy. A synergy between library prep and analytical approaches. This one hinges on recognizing 1. that DNA molecules are shaped by evolution and 2. we have friends everywhere.

They probably have a competing story and are dragging your paper along until theirs is ready. Happened to me 2x. This is why preprinting is great. Establishes priority and everyone can see the record.

Golden Gate Bridge, sf

Beautiful California day. Golden Gate Bridge on the way to my cousin’s house.

Fig. 1 Pik pairs as resources for determining optimal ‘chassis’ for engineering recognition.

Mismatch screening in Nicotiana benthamiana to explore Pik-1/Pik-2 paired NLR platforms for receptor engineering

A #Letter by Xi & Banfield
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😂 I have no idea. But not all euks naming shouts, only some.

📣 12 open postdoc positions in @ceplas.bsky.social !! www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

We @teamthomma.bsky.social look for a postdoc on The Secret Lives of Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Intermicrobial Interactions in Soils (see project 4)

Ten Black Scientists That Science Teachers Should Know About Help your students see the possibilities of careers in STEM fields by providing them with diverse role models.

STEM Black History Fact 15/28

Dr. Louis T. Wright introduced safer intradermal vaccination methods, improving smallpox immunization practices.
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Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life @cellcellpress.bsky.social
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Fake pro-family, pro-life, Christian nationalist party

Leviticus 19:34: “The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!

A working model delineating the function of NbLRRP1 in suppressing PTI responses and disease resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana.

A conserved extracellular LRR-only protein disrupts BAK1-mediated immune receptor formation to negatively regulate plant immunity

Zhu et al.

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This chart tells the story.

The grey line is originally published total private monthly job growth with 90% confidence bands. The blue line is what BLS now says actually happened.

Fig. 3. Summary of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae (Fof) and symptomology of yellows-fragariae and wilt-fragariae isolates. Left, FW1 recognizes SIX6 to confer resistance to yellows-fragariae Fof isolates, although it is unknown what type of protein FW1 encodes. FW2 to FW5 also confer resistance to yellows-fragariae isolates, but it is unknown what proteins they encode, and pathogen feature(s) are recognized. Middle, In the absence of FW1 to FW5, strawberry plants infected with yellows-fragariae isolates develop chlorosis and wilt (Henry et al. 2021). Right, Strawberry plants infected with wilt-fragariae isolates, which have SIX1 and SIX13 homologs (Czislowski et al. 2021; Jenner and Henry 2022), wilt but do not develop chlorosis (Henry et al. 2021).

Interactions Review: Mishi V. Vachev et al. summarize current knowledge, identify knowledge gaps, and provide a summary of genomic and molecular tools currently available to study the #Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae–strawberry interaction. Read now: https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-03-25-0028-IRW

Experimental evidence that flagellar rotation is controlled by rotation of multiple small wheels. "The MotA pentamer interacts with rotor of the flagellar motor in a manner resembling intermeshing gearwheels." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Jack Kim and Jill Banfield in a rice field in California.

Today in Nature Communications, a team of IGI researchers from The Banfield Lab and Pam Ronald's labs uncover a new way to reduce #methane emissions from rice by influencing the activity of rice paddy soil #microbes. Read more: https://ow.ly/45j150Y3WsI

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Ouch. I’ve been there too. Recovery takes mental strength, dedication and many many hours of PT. If I can come back, Lindsey Vonn certainly can.

10 Black Scientists You Should Know You might have heard of George Washington Carver and Neil deGrasse Tyson. But what about Patricia Bath? Or Percy Julian? Meet 10 African American scientists who have made the world a better place for…

STEM Black History Fact 8/28

Dr. Charles H. Turner demonstrated learning and memory in insects, laying the foundations for behavioral neuroscience.

Sad to read of the death of Steve Long who contributed a huge amount to #plantscience

@yichangsung.bsky.social gave a great talk on tandem kinases for the UC Davis Plant Path seminar.

🧵Good news out of #NIH today.
(1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.