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A woman giving a talk with a slide showing diseased pea roots

Maria Purnamasari introduces an oomycete causing root rot in peas. Can beneficial bacteria be used for control?

To do so, we need to test ways that microbes are communicating/contacting.

Director co-culturing of Pseudomonas with Aphanomyces shows attachment & feeding of 🦠
#PlantHealth2025

A woman standing on a podium giving a talk with a PowerPoint slide about cacao

Mariana Herrera Corzo presents on an appropriately tropical crop for the beautiful Hawaii location of #PlantHealth2025.

Phytophthora palmivora and P. megakarya both infect cacao, but with different outcomes. Variant calling used to do pop gen on the two species; structure reflects host and geo.

Ben Hoyt conducting a population genomic analysis of the ‘bulldozer’ Phytophthora cinnamomi #planhealth2025

Check out this poster on the physiology and laurel wilt susceptibility of experimental Phytophthora-resistant# avocado #rootstocks—featuring promising tolerance in key combinations. The future of disease-resilient avocado production. #ASHS2025 #PlantScience #horticulture @ashs-hort.bsky.social

The painting shows a potato stem infected with potato blight. The plant has four compound leaves. The lower leaves show clear lesions, while the upper leaves appear wilted and dried. In the top-right corner, a potato tuber is visible, showing dark brown lesions characteristic of late blight infection.

In 2024 I painted potato blight (Phytophthora infestans) for the August illustration of the BSPP plant pathogens calendar.

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Surveys of nurseries, forests and waterways in Minnesota revealed the presence of 14 new records of Phytophthora species Many Phytophthora species are plant pathogens with the capacity to inflict extensive damage and economic losses in nurseries, forest stands and other urban and natural landscapes. This survey aimed...

Read our new paper out on 14 previously undetected Phytophthora species from Minnesota's nurseries, forests and waterways. If you'd like access to the full article don't pay for it please DM me and I can share it with you. @forestmycology.bsky.social
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A fallow field with remnants of pineapple

A guide showing the way pineapple is propagated by taking off individual shoots

One of my favorite parts of any #PlantHealth2025 meeting - the field trips!

I’m on the post-harvest committee’s trip focused on tropical ag.

We’re at Dole learning about how the acidic soil works great for pineapple growth because it helps suppress Phytophthora. But nematodes are the big issue!

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Christmas tree growers keep watchful eye on spread of dangerous mould | CBC News Christmas tree growers in Atlantic Canada are monitoring the spread of a disease and looking for ways to combat it.

Christmas tree growers keep watch on newly discovered root rot disease. The disease has spread from US into ON and QC, now found in NB and NS.

The person interviewed for the story described phytophthora as a slime mold. That's wrong, it's an oomycete, related to algae.

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Intraspecies sequence-graph analysis of the Phytophthora theobromicola genome reveals a dynamic structure and variable effector repertoires https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665439v1

Uncovering the DNA of a forest threat! | Florian Graichen Uncovering the DNA of a forest threat! Phytophthora cinnamomi is a global plant killer - infecting over 3,000 species and threatening ecosystems from forests to farms. In New Zealand, it's long been ...

Uncovering the DNA of a #forest threat!

Phytophthora cinnamomi is a global plant killer - infecting over 3,000 species and threatening #ecosystems from forests to #farms.
#bioeconomy

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Formatted pdf now available. Over 100 authors from across the world agree to protecting the genus Phytophthora against burdensome and unnecessary taxonomic change apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Author's image of peeled potato tuber showing early infection of Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight. Tracking of mycelial progress through tuber visible by potato resistance reaction.

Pleased to publish a @phytopathology.bsky.social paper with West Bengal State University demonstrating seed tubers as source of #lateblight #phytophthora epidemics in the Indian plains.
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A conserved Phytophthora apoplastic trypsin-like serine protease targets the receptor-like kinase BAK1 to dampen plant immunity - Nature Plants Phytophthora secretes a conserved trypsin-like serine protease, PsTry1, that suppresses apoplastic immunity by cleaving the extracellular domain of the co-receptor BAK1, revealing a novel mechanism by...

Conserved Phytophthora effector protease cleaves BAK1 to suppress defense. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌳 Quercus trojana, a remarkable semi-evergreen oak of the Balkans, Türkiye, and southern Italy, finally has its forests classified! Our international team analyzed vegetation plots across the species’ entire range and created the first vegetation classification of Quercus trojana forests.

Carolina stands in front of her poster display at the conference. Her poster is titled: "Building a Musa NLRome to understand bananas."

Today at #2025ISMPMI PhD researcher @acarolinaolave.bsky.social is presenting her research poster on work with plant biotech company Tropic, characterising immunity in Musa cultivars to identify NLR candidates against #Fusarium oxysporum TR4.

🕜 13:30 - 15:15
📄 Poster No: P-016

#MPMI2025

#2025ISMPMI - first new to nature chimeric NLR sensors being created, with integrated domains that do not have sequence or structure matches in the recorded life - raises questions on assessing biosafety & food safety aspects for these immune receptors for lab and field studies.

🌲🤝 INIAV recently welcomed a delegation from the Korea Forest Service 🇰🇷, sharing over 25 years of experience in managing the pinewood nematode in Portugal 🪱🇵🇹.
✨ PurPest and FORSAID were showcased, drawing great interest from our Korean colleagues!
🔍 Read our post at www.purpest.eu/news/pwn-glo...

🚨 New @biorxivpreprint alert! 🚨
We are thrilled to share our latest findings—building on our earlier work on suppressors of helper NLRs of the NRC family—a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector captures resistosome assembly intermediates of tomato NRC3!
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John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

In memory of our dear colleague, John McDowell, who left us all too early. RIP. doi.org/10.1094/MPMI...

The Goss Lab is at #2025ISMPMI! Come see our posters on Phytophthora palmivora virulence (P-271), cacao defense responses (P-022), and Xanthomonas evolution (P-300). Let’s connect and chat about plant-pathogen interactions, genomics, and cacao 🍫#

A person giving a talk on a stage with purple lighting. A slide asks the question how do plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the same cell?

Working with N. benth, Phytophthora, and Funneliformis, @dromius.bsky.social asks how plants treat a symbiont and pathogen in the *same* cell?

The presence of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi within a cell causes a local change in phospholipid signatures as the pathogen tries to invade.
#2025ISMPMI

#OMGN2025 Vivianne Vleeshouwers on potato resistance and Phytophthora diversity- and this slide of her work is part of my lectures - high throughput discovery of resistant germplasm/R gene loci

#OMGN2025 Mariana Herrera Corzo also works on 87 isolates of the arguably most interesting plant pathogen.

#OMGN2025 Ina Schlathoelter contributed to saving chocolate by studying how cacao pods respond to its Phytophthora pathogens. Some cocoa varieties/clones are differentially resistant to palmivora GH49 and megakarya GH34.

Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters) Publishing your poster creates a verifiable and citable record of your work. It also protects you from bad actors — the evidence will be…

I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)

Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.

#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat

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Thrilled to share our latest preprint! This work started during my PhD and was finished together with @jmadhuprakash.bsky.social. We found a Phytophthora infestans L-shaped effector that bridges a host TOL protein to activated NLRs to suppress immunity!
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Nice preprint! Structure of AVRcap1b from Phytophthora reveals a novel fold, and structural effector family. AVRcap1b targets the helper NLR NbNRC2. #plantimmunity

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Plz RT. We are looking for a postdoc to join our collborative project on AI-guided bioengineering of plant immune receptors @tolgaboz.bsky.social and @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social labs: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV032/r...

A conserved Phytophthora apoplastic trypsin-like serine protease targets the receptor-like kinase BAK1 to dampen plant immunity - Nature Plants Phytophthora secretes a conserved trypsin-like serine protease, PsTry1, that suppresses apoplastic immunity by cleaving the extracellular domain of the co-receptor BAK1, revealing a novel mechanism by...

A conserved Phytophthora apoplastic trypsin-like serine protease targets the receptor-like kinase BAK1 to dampen plant immunity
www.nature.com/articles/s41...