Finally, @adnroide.bsky.social presented his PhD work on receptor engineering by introducing pikobody domains in NLR proteins. This approach allowed him to generate potato plants that can recognize the effector Avrblb2 of Phytophtora infestans.
20.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Independent researcher @ccilelorrain.bsky.social presented how she used GWAS in the field to identify multiple novel effectors of Zymoseptoria tritici, which could be validated experimentally!
20.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Great presentation (and poster!) by @anikadamm.bsky.social, describing two nematode transcription factors that regulate effector gene expression at different infection stages.
20.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Young group leader Talia Karasov (University of Utah) gave an insightful plenary talk, showing that the genomes of Pseudomonas pathogens encode highly specific tailocins that drive intra-genus competition between pathogens. Non-pathogens seem mostly safe!
20.07.2025 16:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trang Phan (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) found that a Xanthomonas pathogen activates the expression in Citrus leaves of a fruit ripening enzyme that digests leaf xylan, which consequently triggers T2SS effector secretion.
20.07.2025 15:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In the same concurrent session, @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social (group leader at the University of Birmingham) showed how transposons drive effector gene evolution (gene multiplication and inactivation) in Pyrenophora fungi. Impressive findings!
20.07.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great talk by @racquelsingh.bsky.social who presented how she dissects sequence variation in conserved "Hrp box" promoters of T3SS effector genes in Pseudomonas syringae.
20.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Coming back from 5 days of great science at #2025ISMPMI, I wanted to share some of my highlights, and particularly to mention my favourite presentations by early career researchers.
A thread 🧵 ⬇️
20.07.2025 15:43 — 👍 30 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Great talk by @teamthomma.bsky.social who shows that effectors have antimicrobial activities that are ancesteral - other functions within the host have evolved later on to suppress immunity in plants #2025ISMPMI
17.07.2025 16:43 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
#2025ISMPMI my poster is up! If you are interested in how a family of plant endogenous peptides can act as both signaling and antimicrobial peptides, pass by my poster P-222 on Thursday afternoon.
16.07.2025 08:49 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
My poster is up at #2025ISMPMI. Come by P-372 Thursday afternoon if you are interested in fungal evolution, effectors and microbial competitions!
More research by @teamthomma.bsky.social at P-091, P-170, P-299, P-317, P-337 and P-388.
16.07.2025 06:27 — 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
I would be happy to join, if you agree!
15.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy to be back in Cologne for #2025ISMPMI !
13.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wow, congratulations Paloma! Well deserved 😊
08.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hot off the printer!
Our lab will be introducing PHYTOMap to the MPMI community. Interested in spatially mapping both microbiomes and plant gene expression? Come see our posters at #2025ISMPMI
P-315 by @siyusong.bsky.social
P-441 by @hsuanpai.bsky.social
07.07.2025 17:45 — 👍 38 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
The Swiss Mycology Symposium is getting started at @wslresearch.bsky.social in Birmensdorf!
27.06.2025 07:34 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are excited to share our new story with you! We show how losing a binding domain can flip an antimicrobial fungal effector into a host immune suppressor, highlighting functional specialization along the saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum. Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
20.06.2025 17:25 — 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint was released, a joint-venture of @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social and co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social a 🧵
16.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 34 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0
Happy to share our work on a recombinant interspecific smut hybrid of two fungal maize pathogens which helped us to understand how the regulation of effector genes determines infection style and tumor formation. Thanks to Gunther Doehlemann, Weiliang Zuo & Tom Winkler!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
15.06.2025 06:06 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Undermining the cry for help: The phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658588v1
11.06.2025 23:03 — 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Cool story, congrats Lara!
07.06.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I can only recommend.
• Unique topic at the forefront of plant pathology
• Opportunities to develop your own research ideas
• Great scientific environment
• Definitely a lab where you get to learn a lot!
05.06.2025 07:02 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Legume-specific recruitment of rhizobia by hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
The legume-rhizobia symbiosis possesses great potential for sustainable agriculture because of its ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, reducing crop dependence on nitrogen fertilizers. Rhizobia recognize the host legume through flavonoids released by the roots. These signals are detected by bacteria typically over a few millimeters. Recent research has shown that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi extend this recognition beyond 15 cm by transporting flavonoids along their hyphae. In soil, common mycorrhizal networks linking plants are formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. We hypothesized that such networks linking different legumes can transmit host-specific signals, guiding rhizobia to their appropriate hosts. Using in vitro and greenhouse microcosms, we linked Medicago truncatula and Glycine max via a common mycorrhizal network of Rhizophagus irregularis and inoculated GFP-labeled Sinorhizobium meliloti and mCherry-labeled Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens on the hyphae. S. meliloti preferentially migrated towards M. truncatula, whereas B. diazoefficiens preferentially migrated towards G. max (155 ± 8 and 13 ± 3 nodules, respectively). This was confirmed in the greenhouse with a higher concentration of S. meliloti (2.1-2.5 × 105 CFU·g−1) near M. truncatula and a higher concentration of B. diazoefficiens (1.5-1.6 × 105 CFU·g−1) near G. max (71-82 and 15-18 nodules, respectively). Metabolomics revealed host-specific flavonoids in hyphal exudates: M. truncatula-connected hyphae released DL-liquiritigenin, naringenin, sakuranetin, and 3,7-dimethylquercetin, whereas G. max-connected hyphae released daidzin, 6”-O-malonyldaidzin, irilone, and erylatissin A. These findings establish that common mycorrhizal networks constitute a “navigation system”, using chemical signals to orient rhizobia towards their specific hosts, thereby improving nodulation with potential applications in agriculture.
Wow... Mycorrhizal fungal highways for plant signals and rhizobia -> Legume-specific recruitment of rhizobia by hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic
28.05.2025 18:33 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.
09.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 161 🔁 61 💬 7 📌 3
Webinar Alert🌱
Want to learn cutting-edge studies in plant-microbe interaction? Join our webinar "Advances in Plant-Microbe Interactions: Insights from Asia to the World" with
@elifecommunity.bsky.social !
📅 May 19, 2025 | 🕝 JST 14:30–17:20 (UTC+9)
📌Register: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
07.05.2025 02:30 — 👍 16 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (Oldroyd Group) | Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Sinha Lab at UC Davis | Interested in research and science communication | Dancesport dancer
PhD student with Milda Pucetaite at Lund University.
Interested in soil microbiology, microbial interactions and biogeochemical carbon cycling.
Dogs, Horses and Gardening, with a side of research on complexity and metabolic warfare in plants
Evolutionary biologist -population genomics -wild-agricultural pathogen evolution, invasion and adaptation (Wheat & Beets)
Interested in fungi and plant-pathogen interactions🌱 currently working with @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social 🇮🇨🇦🇷🇬🇧
Group leader at Heinrich-Heine University | Exploring different aspects of fungal interactions | Passionate about Structural Biology | altegoerlab.de
Associate Professor at Université Laval| Canada Research Chair in Insect Vectors Invasions and Emergent Plant Diseases 🌿🪲 |Chercheur CRIV, IBIS, EDS | Senior Editor Plant Disease | CoFounder Pride in Microbiology 🏳️🌈 - Lab News: @eplopez.bsky.social
SNSF Ambizione Fellow | Junior PI in Plant Pathology @ ETH Zürich | Specializing in fungal genome architecture & TE-driven evolution
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Geneticist at John Innes Centre
INRAE, SPE Plant Health & Environment division, ISA Sophia Antipolis, Plant Nematode Interactions
Biologist, Post-Doc in Alga Zuccaros lab at the university of Cologne- interested in plant-microbe interactions, plant microbiota and inter-kingdom synergism
Retired Prof in Molecular Plant Pathology: Emeritus in Everyway: enjoys life voraciously: enjoys beer: enjoys family & 2 dogs even more than beer(!) L'pool FC through thick & thin
Postdoctoral scientist @ Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (@phimresearch.bsky.social) & Centre de Biologie Structurale.
Biochemical/structural studies of proteins to understand plant disease/immunity & improve crop health 🌾🌱
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A Postdoc at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich 🇬🇧 working on vegetable NLR networks 🥬 & An instructor at Sciences Faculty (Biology), Kasetsart University, Thailand 🇹🇭
Plant signaling. EMBO Fellow at Zipfel’s group, University of Zurich.
Postdoc @ MPI for Biology - Langner's lab. Passionate about evolution in plant pathosystems | #beproud he/him
