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Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) facilitate chemical communication between plants. Zhang et al. demonstrate the transfer of jasmonic acid via CMN from Botrytis cinerea-infected donor plants to healt...

Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems including rare variants - Nature Microbiology An exploration of previously undescribed variants from the long tail of the CRISPR–Cas distribution.

#microsky #phagesky CRISPR-cas galore

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Sentinel-1 mission – which provides radar vision for the Copernicus Earth observation programme – has a new addition to its family of satellites, with the arrival in orbit of Sentinel-1D, the last of the groundbreaking first generation. The launch took place at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time), on Tuesday, 4 November, on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

The #CopernicusEU Sentinel-1 mission welcomes a new member: Sentinel-1D, launched at 21:02 GMT/22:02 CET from Kourou on Ariane 6 #VA265.

www.esa.int/Applications...

@cnes.fr @euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social @transport.esa.int

Multiple factors associated with forest decline in the context of control measures for the pinewood nematode - European Journal of Plant Pathology Forest decline is a complex phenomenon; however, there is often a tendency to oversimplify by attributing it to a single cause, neglecting the interaction of multiple factors. Ever since the detection...

🚨 The detection of the pinewood #nematode in France🇫🇷 exposes the flaws of current management strategies, focused on delaying rather than creating actual solutions, like we highlighted in our latest paper: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

📰 News: www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen...

Frontiers | Microbiomes at the heart of sustainable agri-food systems and global health

How plants discriminate mutualistic symbiosis from immunity

Multiple factors associated with forest decline in the context of control measures for the pinewood nematode Forest decline is a complex process rarely attributable to a single cause. Nevertheless, when widespread tree mortality occurs, management responses often focus on one primary agent. Our recent study ...

🌲 New 'Behind the Paper' post: go.nature.com/4qdUiLb 🌲

🔍 Forest decline is rarely caused by a single factor, and our latest study reveals why adopting a holistic perspective is key to managing pine wilt disease effectively. 🪱

👉 doi.org/10.1007/s106...

#PineWiltDisease #PinewoodNematode

We present a versatile microfluidics platform that makes multiplexed super-resolution imaging more accessible, reproducible, and high-throughput.

👉 BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#SuperResolution #DNApaint #Microfluidics #SMLM #OpenScience #multiplexing

Putin is losing the war, so prepare for escalation The clock is ticking for Russia’s leader – and that means Europe faces an imminent danger

Le temps presse pour le dirigeant russe / Poutine est en train de perdre la guerre, alors préparez-vous à une escalade

💚 Reason for hope - Regulation works:

@ylaleena.bsky.social Executive Director of the @eea.europa.eu, who had previously tested her blood with @eeb.org, showed a decline in PFAS levels, reflecting trends observed among the European population for restricted PFAS.

This is a good article and I completely agree with its argument for comprehensible research.

DipGNNome: Diploid de novo genome assembly with geometric deep learning and beam-search https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676474v1

Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU

Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly

Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...

"Graphic announcing a public consultation on EFSA’s draft scientific opinion on the risks for human health related to Δ⁸-THC in food. Text highlights: 'Have your say!' and 'Deadline 15.09.2025'. Background shows hemp seeds, hemp powder in a bowl, and a glass jar of oil."

🗣️ #PublicConsultation | Δ8-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ8-THC) in food

Only a few days left to provide feedback on our draft scientific opinion about the risks to human health from Δ8-THC in food.

⏰ Submit your input by 15 September 2025

→ europa.eu/!Q3xNVh

#EUHaveYourSay #EFSA

Creativity in #science, a much-overlooked skill, in a podcast with potential for inspiration. Looking forward to listening!
www.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

I'm outraged by the missile and drone attack on Kyiv, killing men, women and children.

And damaging our EU diplomatic mission.

My thoughts go to our brave staff.

Russia's strikes on Kyiv will only strengthen Europe's unity and Ukraine's defiance ↓

europa.eu/!T4rH8V

Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells - Nature Directional, non-vesicular lipid transport is responsible for fast, species-selective lipid sorting into organelle membranes.

This is awesome! Lipid probes for quantitative imaging of lipid transport. A real need in the lipid field!

@nadlerlab.bsky.social

Lake Konigsee on German-Austrian border © Adobe Stock, Michal Rezny

Lake at the border between Norway and Sweden © Adobe Stock, Wirestock

Mountain landscape in the Pieniny National Park at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. Pieniny Park is located on the border of Poland and Slovakia © Adobe Stock, proslgn

Flock of sheeps moving down a valley in the French Alps on border with Switzerland © Adobe Stock, Aide

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom.

This year, we mark 40 years of Schengen!

The Schengen Agreement has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

This essay is disappointing on multiple levels. Science is not "largely apolitical", as the author claims, and the separation of science from humanities will only lead to more scientists ignoring their responsibilities to society and the sociopolitical implications of their work.

#AcademicSky 🧪

High-Density Microdroplet Cultivation Reveals the Essential Role of Microbial Interactions in the Growth of Environmental Microbes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669842v1

Academic poaching: when other PIs steal your trainees There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?

I just published: Academic poaching: when other PIs steal your trainees

There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?

#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #phdchat

medium.com/p/academic-p...

Interspecific hybridization was key to tuberization. Thank you hybrid speciation for the world's 5th most important food crop 🥔

Multimodal Learning Reveals Plants' Hidden Sensory Integration Logic Plants integrate complex environmental signals through interconnected molecular networks, but the fundamental rules governing this sensory integration remain unknown. Studying tomato roots interacting...

Multimodal Learning Reveals Plants' Hidden Sensory Integration Logic
Kelly Larissa Vomo-Donfack, Gregory Ginot, Veronica Gonzalez Doblas, Ian Morilla
bioRxiv 2025.07.25.666865; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

detailed illustrations of arabidopsis roots showing the proposed effects of dPCD on plant-microbe interactions

The tips of plant roots continually shed cells as they grow. How does this affect their relationship with symbiotic organisms that want to colonise the roots?
https://buff.ly/49k4biq

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...

Published: the paper 'On the uses and abuses of Regression Models: a Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching' by John Carlin and Margarita Moreno-Betancur in the latest issue of Statistics in Medicine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/8)

Label-free structural imaging of plant roots and microbes using third-harmonic generation microscopy Root biology is pivotal in addressing global challenges including sustainable agriculture and climate change. However, roots have been relatively understudied among plant organs, partly due to the dif...

Label-free structural imaging of plant roots and microbes using third-harmonic generation microscopy. Daisong Pan et al.
BioRxiv 2024.04.13.589377; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile, recently released its first images of the cosmos/deep space. Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was a pioneering US astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe #WomensArt

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Female. From EPPO (2025). Courtesy: Natalia Kirichenko, Sukachev Institute of Forest, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

EFSA (2025)

EFSA (2025)

Egg mass on Larix sibirica. From EPPO (2025). Courtesy: Natalia Kirichenko, Sukachev Institute of Forest, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

🌱 New EFSA Pest Report!

📄 #Dendrolimus #sibiricus 👉 efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/...

EFSA’s scientific support for ranking candidate #PriorityPests.

📊 EFSA assessed 46 pests, focusing on:
✔️ Lag period
✔️ Spread
✔️ Impact on crops and environment

#EFSA #PlantHealth #ScienceToPolicy