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Plant Cell Wall Remodeling and Peptide Signaling Under Abiotic and Biotic Stress #review #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

Nikolas and I just published our insights on CLEs in plant–bio interactions. Too short to cover everything, but we hope it gets you also excited about these peptides. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity

Definitely worth listening to. David, together with the SLCU outreach community, did a really cool outreach project at the time.

Thank you to @marioncmueller.bsky.social and @huckelhovenr.bsky.social for involving me. I had fun working on the figure and learned lots as well. Congratulations to everyone 🥂

Looks amazing Darius!

A multi-plant transcriptomic atlas reveals conserved and lineage specific defense architectures in response to Botrytis cinerea Generalist pathogens pose a challenge to plant immunity by infecting diverse hosts while harboring extensive intraspecific genetic variation. Whether evolutionary distant plant lineages rely on a shar...

Ever wondered if diverse plant species respond similarly when infected by the same exact pathogen? Infect different asterids and rosids with the same Botrytis genotypes and teh short answer, quite differently.
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Beautiful pictures! No bird expert but yes, the small one is a robin. We call them „Rotkehlchen“ (something like „red throat“).

How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later One of the jobs facing an early-career scientist, and a developing writer, is to learn what their field’s literature looks like. One of the best tools to that end is the journal club. If you’ve nev…

It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)

Our new article is now online on @natplants.nature.com! ✨
We identified and characterised AvrPm4 and SvrPm4, a pair of powdery mildew effectors controlling avirulence on the wheat kinase fusion resistance protein Pm4 🌾 check it out ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Chris. Nice to see some great news :)

„Baa-Varia“ - love it 😂

Membrane curvature initiates Cdc42-FBP17-N-WASP clustering and actin nucleation - The EMBO Journal The architecture of actin networks at the cell surface is regulated by local membrane topology. However, how actin nucleation can respond sensitively to the degree of membrane curvature remains incomp...

Membrane curvature initiates Cdc42-FBP17-N-WASP clustering and actin nucleation
Yansong Miao and coworkers
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At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year.
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)

The small GTPase MaROP10 interacts with MaRIC6 to regulate rhizobial infection in Melilotus albus The symbiotic nitrogen fixation process between legume roots and rhizobia initiates at the root hairs. Rhizobia initially colonize the tip of the root hairs and induce its curling to become entrapped. However, the specific molecular mechanisms underlying root hair deformation and curling in response to rhizobial infection remain unclear. In this study, transcriptome analysis of wild-type JiMa389 and nodulation-deficient mutant jima61 of Melilotus albus, the Rho-like small GTPase MaROP10. Our results show that MaROP10 functions as an interacts with the Nod factor receptor NFR5 to regulate rhizobia-induced root hair deformation and infection thread formation during the early stages of rhizobial infection. To elucidate the mechanism of MaROP10, we further identified its downstream potential effector protein, MaRIC6, which positively regulates root hair deformation and infection thread formation. Taken together, MaROP10 likely integrates signals from the symbiotic receptor NFR5 to regulate downstream signaling pathways through its effector MaRIC6, thereby coordinating root hair deformation and infection thread development during the early stages of rhizobial infection.

The small GTPase MaROP10 interacts with MaRIC6 to regulate rhizobial infection in Melilotus albus - ScienceDirect

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

The key global crops, wheat, rice and maize, are expected to see the losses to pests increase by about 46%, 19% and 31% respectively when global heating reaches 2C 👇 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Transcriptional Response of Magnaporthe oryzae Towards Barley-Microbiome Derived Bacteria | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® The composition of the plant microbiome is shaped not only by the host plant and abiotic environmental factors, but also by inter-microbial cooperation and competition. Plant pathogens, therefore must...

CONGRATS to team @effectomics.bsky.social and @steidele.bsky.social . Transcriptional Response of Magnaporthe oryzae Towards Barley-Microbiome Derived Bacteria | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

Engineering plant tandem kinase immune receptors expands effector recognition profiles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694194v1

Exciting opportunity! Can recommend working with Phil, amazing scientist with a great sense of humor as a bonus.

Check out amazing confocal images by @alexguyon.bsky.social, former member of @dromius.bsky.social lab and now postdoc in Maria Harrison’s group. He managed to image haustoria from a pathogen and arbuscules from a symbiont in the same cell! 🤩

Congratulations @steidele.bsky.social 🥳 check out Tina’s new preprint for key transcription factors being involved in barley Fusarium head blight and/or drought responses.

Check out the new preprint from the Hückelhoven lab @huckelhovenr.bsky.social. Includes beautiful microcroscopy images of powdery mildew haustoria from my former colleague Mariem Bradai.

One 3D printed cookie cutter in the shape of a plant cell, another in the shape of DNA

Food coloring on science themed cookies

Finally got around to use these amazing 3D printed cookie cutters (one of the best poster prizes received). I think my husband finally realized what he got himself into with the marriage 😂

Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

New preprint of the "BarFus"-group @tum.de from the Chair of Phytopathology @huckelhovenr.bsky.social

We deeply analyzed barley double stress responses and discovered this:

Going to register today. Hopefully see you there? :)

Two residues reprogram immunity receptors for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis - Nature An investigation of plant receptor-like kinases identifies regions of these proteins that control whether immune or symbiotic signalling pathways are activated, with minimal changes to specific r...

Cool new paper on receptor specificity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development.
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