Harro Bouwmeester

Vacancy — PhD candidate in Chemical Communication between Plants and the Microbiome | MiCRop - Microbial Imprinting for Crop Resilience Do you want to explore the potential of the microbiome to make agriculture more sustainable? Then apply for this PhD position in the growing MiCRop - Microbial Imprinting for Crop Resilience consortiu...

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Magazines - Vakblad Onder Glas | Harro Bouwmeester Leuk om een bijdrage te leveren aan de Glastuinbouw in Nederland met een interview/overzichtsartikel geschreven door Tijs Kierkels in het vaktijdschrift Onder Glas: https://lnkd.in/evQvVZP7. Het onder...

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Superplant In 2050 leven we met 10 miljard mensen, op een opwarmende planeet. Al die monden moeten gevoed worden. Maar boeren moeten dealen met extreme regenbuien en droogte. Niet alleen de boeren,…... Superplant In 2050 leven we met 10 miljard mensen, op een opwarmende planeet. Al die monden moeten gevoed worden. Maar boeren moeten dealen met extreme regenbuien en droogte. Niet alleen de boeren, ...

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The chemical interaction between plants and the rhizosphere microbiome Research into the interaction between plants and the soil microbiota has expanded rapidly and is unravelling a plethora of interactions between plants…

Hi Akos, thx for this. More light on the relevance of strigolactone complexity for microbiome recruitment to follow soon. Good you added the note on the ultra low concentration of these signals making their study challenging! See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... for more details.

Glucosylation of endogenous haustorium-inducing factors underpins kin avoidance in parasitic plants Parasitic plants rarely attack themselves, suggesting the existence of a kin-avoidance mechanism. In the root parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum, prehaustorium formation is triggered by host-se...

Proud to have contributed to this beauty from Satoko Yoshida's lab:
Glucosylation of endogenous haustorium-inducing factors underpins kin avoidance in parasitic plants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Many people are investigating the role of the plant root exudate in microbiome recruitment. | Harro Bouwmeester Many people are investigating the role of the plant root exudate in microbiome recruitment. In this review we provide a theoretical framework to support this work. Check it out! Thanks lemeng dong, Ka...

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Our new NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) Faculty of Impact postdoc Roland Berdaguer interviewed for the FoI Newsletter. | Harro Bouwmeester Our new NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) Faculty of Impact postdoc Roland Berdaguer interviewed for the FoI Newsletter. Roland will work on the development of a microbial...

Happy to let you know we will be developing a new microbial product to support the transition to a more sustainable agriculture. See the interview with prospective MicroBioLogicals SEO, Roland Berdaguer.
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Strigolactones are germination stimulants of many of the Orobanchaceae parasitic plants. | International Parasitic Plants Society (IPPS) Strigolactones are germination stimulants of many of the Orobanchaceae parasitic plants. Strigolactones biosynthetically derive from the carotenoids, which defines them to belong to the chemical class...

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Happy to be in China again. I am visiting Guo Qinggang and Ma Ping of the… | Harro Bouwmeester Happy to be in China again. I am visiting Guo Qinggang and Ma Ping of the Plant Protection Institute in Baoding together with lemeng dong. Happy to also see Lisong Ma again. The PPI have a research p...

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flowers of the parasitic plant *Orobanche uniflora*. It does not produce chlorophyll and takes all its nutrients from other plants

Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice Rice tillering is an important agronomic trait regulated by plant genetic and environmental factors. However, the role and mechanism of the root micro…

Happy to have been able to provide support to Yang Bai and team to pull this off: soil microorganisms affect rice tillering through production of a dipeptidic strigolactone analog.
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Developing Striga resistance in sorghum by modulating host cues through CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing - PubMed High transformation and gene editing efficiencies in sorghum-produced, transgene-free SDN1-edited plants exhibit precise mutations, reduced germination stimulants, and enhanced resistance to Striga in...

Happy to see the first results of our collaboration with Pooja Bhatnagar out in the open. Disrupting the chemical communication between host and Striga as a tool to control this parasitic weed scorch.
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A role for strigolactones in the genetic variation in tolerance to Striga infection in sorghum The root parasitic weed Striga hermonthica is a major constraint to cereal production in sub-Saharan Africa. Tolerance to Striga—guaranteeing a reasonable yield despite infection—is potentially a val....

Proud of former PhD student Nasreldin Mohemed for pulling this off. In loving memory of our friend and mentor Abdul Gabbar Babiker
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New publication: The role of #strigolactone structural diversity in the host specificity and control of #Striga, a major constraint to sub-Saharan #agriculture. #microbiome #fungi #parasiticplants #sorghum #sulfotransferase
https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10549

Thrilled to be back in Zürich to give an update on our work on rhizosphwre signalling www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag... and to discuss collaboration with Marcel van der Heijden and team on role of strigolactones in AM fungi colonisation.

I am happy to announce that MiCRop PhD candidate Roland Berdaguer received a Faculty of Impact grant to join us at University of Amsterdam. He will develop microbiological products for a sustainable agriculture, through spin-off company, MicroBioLogicals.

Vacancy — PhD Candidate Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for plant science? Would you like to apply your enthusiasm to a highly relevant project in the field of plant-microbiome interactions? Then we have th...

Want to work in the forefront of plant root microbiome research? Join our @UVA Plant Hormone Biology group for a PhD on microbiome host specificity with Kathrin Wippel
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Resistance to Striga parasitism through reduction of strigolactone exudation - PubMed Parasitism with Striga poses a major threat to global food production. Striga germination and growth rely on strigolactones (SLs) exuded by crop roots under phosphate (Pi)-deficient conditions, althou...

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Manipulation of a strigolactone transporter in tomato confers resistance to the parasitic weed broomrape Parasitic weeds of the Orobanchaceae family cause substantial economic losses and pose significant threats to global agriculture. However, management of such parasitism is challenging, and very few re...

Proud to be among the team publishing this. www.cell.com/the-innovati...
Altering strigolactone exudation in tomato for broomrape resistance.

Hi there, welcome on the other side. Hope we can establish an inspiring community here.