Kenichi Tsuda

One of the scientists I admire.

Fig. 1. Diversity of leaf symbiotic structures.

Léa Ninzatti, Marie-Françoise Jardinaud, and Aurélien Carlier review current knowledge of hereditary leaf symbiosis in tropical plants and explore hypotheses regarding mechanisms that enable these highly specific interactions: https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-11-24-0111-RVW

An elevated environmental temperature impairs accumulation of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683271v1

Binary vector copy number engineering improves Agrobacterium-mediated transformation - Nature Biotechnology Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants and fungi is enhanced by plasmid copy number variants.

Binary vector copy number engineering improves Agrobacterium-mediated transformation

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Leaf-age specific flood resilience in Arabidopsis thaliana is determined by distinct processes contributing to post-submergence recovery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682766v1

How do you detect transgenes in genome-edited crops? We tested several methods and report our findings in 2 back-to-back papers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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TGA family of transcription factors are nitric oxide sensors in the root stem cell niche https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682262v1

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

The Effect of Plasma Activated Water on the Rhizosphere Composition of Arabidopsis and Solanum lycopersicum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682576v1

Primary metabolism determines the outcome of salicylic acid-mediated immune induction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682132v1

Interested in the chemical ecology of plant-bacteria interactions? There is still time to apply until October 20th!

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When I was a kid, we had dictée sessions where the teacher would read a text aloud and we’d write it down. We were even graded on our handwriting — a totally useless skill today.

Keep that in mind when you argue against LLMs: what’s seen as an essential skill is ever-evolving.

📣 New @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint, another joint-venture of @wolki95.bsky.social & @antonkraege.bsky.social, co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social. Here’s a 🧵

Primary metabolism underpins the execution of immune responses in different tissues of the same plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681807v1

New pre-print from the team!

The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses.

Have a read!

#PlantScience
@johninnescentre.bsky.social

Plant Biotechnology, Volume 42, Issue 3 Published by Japanese Society for Plant Biotechnology. OPEN ACCESS

We are pleased to announce the release of our special issue, “Diverse Symbiotic Relationships between Plants and Microbes in the Phyllosphere and Rhizosphere,” now available in Plant Biotechnology (open access)!
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We’re delighted to share that our paper has been just accepted in PCP!

We analyzed fungus–fungus competition that suppresses pathogenic colonization in Arabidopsis roots.Special thanks to Duke, Hiroyuki, Yuki, Nanami, and everyone who contributed!
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Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
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How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)

How do cells communicate when it's hot?

Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_T26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below

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Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

Bacillus velezensis EU07 suppresses Fusarium graminearum via transcriptomic reprogramming https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681611v1

Assistant Professor - Austin, Texas job with Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin | 675377 MBS UT Austin invites applications for tenure-track faculty position at the Assist Prof level. Early-stage Assoc Prof level are also considered.

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-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity-
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Jasmonic Acid Oxidases (JAO) define a new branch in jasmonate metabolism towards 11OH-jasmonic acid and its glucosylated derivative https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681447v1

Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution Directed evolution can rapidly generate genetic variants with new and enhanced properties, yet efficient platforms for performing such evolution directly in plant cells have been lacking. We developed...

Out First Release in @science.org this week:
The development of a directed evolution strategy with proof of concept in plant immune protein engineering.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

Beyond kin killing: Dickeya-derived phage-tail-like bacteriocin P2D1 targets phylogenetically distant Pseudomonas spp. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680878v1

Open rank faculty positions available at MSU Plant Resilience Institute. Apply online at: https://tinyurl.com/yy2kvt3n

Only 10 days left to apply to the MSU Plant Resilience Institute for a faculty position.We're looking for 1 junior and 1 senior faculty. Applications submitted after 10/15 cannot be considered. Join us! It's a very collaborative, fun, innovative group of plant biologists. Apply at: lnkd.in/eRyDv_Pi

Tissue-Specific Experimental Evolution Reveals Adaptive Trade-Offs in the Plant Vascular Pathogen Clavibacter michiganensis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.05.680514v1

Congrats!