Björn Usadel

Stay tuned for some really nice results (plants of course).

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...

The first high-resolution, predictive biodiversity map of Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal communities shows over 90% of underground mycorrhizal fungal ecosystems are unprotected, threatening carbon drawdown and ecosystem resilience to climate extremes.

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Is plant single cell/nuc. & spatial transcriptomics your passion? Do you want to understand plant adaptation using cutting edge molecular & bioinformatics tools? Then come and join us to work together with @ceplas.bsky.social & @wggc-de.bsky.social. #plantjobs
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raw should be raw. So the host is likely in there.

Nice job at Aarhus University @au.dk: we need more professorship in genetic biodiversity!
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A haplotype-resolved pangenome of the barley wild relative Hordeum bulbosum - Nature A study describes the assembly and analysis of a haplotype-resolved pangenome of bulbous barley with the potential to improve domesticated barley and illustrates its use in evolutionary research and trait mapping.

Nature research paper: A haplotype-resolved pangenome of the barley wild relative Hordeum bulbosum

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Today I feel a bit old, 25 years working as a researcher. Time flies.

Small DNA elements can act as both insulators and silencers in plants (Tobias Jores , Nicholas A Mueth , Jackson Tonnies , Si Nian Char , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

🧬🖥️ oarfish v0.9.0 is out! The big improvement in this version is future-oriented. v0.9.0 allows the user to pass in transcript sequences via the `--annotated` option, the `--novel` option, or both. The provenance will be separately tracked to that later 1/4

New review out from the lab on applying 'omics technologies in seed biology, led buy @aurouxlucas.bsky.social with Lim Chee Liew. Well done guys!

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Mutate or keep it classic? In our new #PlantersPunch, PhD student Laura Randarevitch explains how plants roll with the punches – sometimes by changing, sometimes by staying exactly the same! #scicomm #wisskomm

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Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation The European Commission (EC) proposal for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) of July 2023 specifies that Category 1 NGT (NGT1) plants, which are considered equivalent to conventional plants, that is those...

Hot off the press: our analysis of the proposed EU limits to NGT1 category of genome editing in light of recent data on genomic diversity.

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Frontiers | Molecular mechanisms underlying the early steps of floral initiation in seasonal flowering genotypes of cultivated strawberry Floral initiation is essential for sexual reproduction in angiosperms and plays a critical role in determining crop yields. In cultivated strawberry, however...

Freya's last first author paper from her PhD about strawberry flower initiation. Together with our fantastic colleagues from Bordeaux Béatrice Denoyes and Amelia Gaston @inrae-bfp.bsky.social and Malaga Sonia Osorio doi.org/10.3389/fpls...

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Das Konsortium @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social schreibt die NFDI4Microbiota Flex Funds Calls aus. Frist für Einreichungen ist der 11. August 2025

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#Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #FDM #RDM #OpenScience

German Media Shift Toward a More Favorable Stance on Gene Technology with NGTs Researchers from Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences and Heidelberg University in Germany investigated the portrayal of New Genetic Technologies (NGTs) in German mass media from 201...

🧬 German media are covering #GenomeEditing more often—and more positively.
A 2012–2023 study shows New Genetic Technologies (#NGTs) are now more often linked to news of agricultural productivity and progress, rather than consumer concern.
#LetsTalkBreeding
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Open Letter of scientists and entrepreneurs regarding MFF and FP10 June 10, 2025 After the presentation of the European Competitiveness Fund, there has been much uncertainty regarding the positioning and funding for Research and Innovation in the next European Multia...

Plese consider signing this open letter to remind EU leadership of the importance of ring-fencing the budget for ERC, Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowships and other basic research essential for innovation.

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Frontiers | PubPlant – a continuously updated online resource for sequenced and published plant genomes Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies over the last decade have substantially reduced the cost and effort required to sequence plant genomes. W...

We have been tracking sequenced plant genomes for many years now not least for our @denbi.bsky.social activities at www.plabipd.de/pubplant_mai.... We have now with about 2000 species finally published this resource doi.org/10.3389/fpls...

Seconded - I just take screenshots now...

I am happy to have our newest labmember @cbclobato freshly minted PhD from TU Graz significantly extending our seed analysis angle.

If you'd like to see how we link #PlanMicrobeInteraction research from #lab to #field, and from individual 🌱🦠 in controlled systems, to the field- where we 👀 at #roots, full #microbiomes, and #soil in the #field, stop by poster 311 today. #Rhizosphere6 🧪 #PlantScience #SoilHealth

Ein Smartphone zeigt eine Pflanzenbestimmung der Acker-Witwenblume. Im Hintergrund ist das Kuppelgewächshaus zu sehen.

🌱 #BioBlitz Aktionswoche zur Artenvielfalt
Welche Pflanzen und Tiere gibt es im Botanischen Garten? Bei der „BioBlitz“-Woche vom 14. bis zum 22. Juni können alle Interessierten die Arten im Botanischen Garten mit Hilfe einer Smartphone-App dokumentieren. 1/4

Open Letter of scientists and entrepreneurs regarding MFF and FP10 June 10, 2025 After the presentation of the European Competitiveness Fund, there has been much uncertainty regarding the positioning and funding for Research and Innovation in the next European Multia...

Please consider signing this petition, which emphasizes the importance of ring-fencing EU funds for ERC, Marie-Curie fellowships and other collaborative basic research.

www.petitions.com/open_letter_...

@denbi.bsky.social will offer 3 #workshops at @gcb-bioinformatics.bsky.social 2025, focusing on #cloudcomputing, #pangenomics and #protein structure analysis. For more information see: www.denbi.de/news1/1904-d...

Great thanks - we will give it a shot!

Fantastic metagenomics is really needs some new developments in long read data. We will definitely try it out. Are you planning to allow mixing ONT and Pacbio data (sorry if this is in already I only looked at usage and glimpsed at cli rs).

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Fig. 1.Model of ethylene signaling and CTR1/RAF1 functions in the pathway. In the absence of ethylene, ETR1-activated CTR1 phosphorylates EIN2 directly, triggering its degradation and suppressing ethylene signaling. Simultaneously in the nucleus, EIN3 undergoes degradation through EBF1/2-mediated ubiquitination. Upon ethylene perception, both receptor function and CTR1 kinase activity are inhibited, enabling EIN2 cleavage at its C-terminus. This cleaved C-terminal fragment localizes to either processing bodies (P-bodies) or the nucleus, where it leads to EIN3 activation. At the ER, CTR1, like EIN2, translocates into the nucleus where it stabilizes EIN3 via direct interaction with EBFs. Beyond its role in ethylene signaling, CTR1 can also associate with various cellular compartments via protein–protein interactions, participating in diverse signaling pathways. Created in BioRender.

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🌱 From growth to stress: RAF-like kinases as integrators of hormonal signals in plants – Park & Yoon

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#PlantScience 🧪

An Ecosystem of Services for FAIR Computational Workflows arxiv.org/abs/2505.15988 🧬🖥️🧪

Meristems shape plant architectures, and grasses generate a complex array of them. To characterise barley vegetative SAMs and spike development, we used single cell and spatial transcriptome data and integrated them in a new database, BARVISTA. A click on a cell now.....
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