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Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social · 18h

📣 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 🧵

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 12d

Differential contributions of an antimicrobial effector from Verticillium dahliae to virulence and tomato microbiota assembly across natural soils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679524v1

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 1d

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

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 1d

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

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 1d

Engineering the C-tail of the versatile Arabidopsis immune receptor RLP23 enhances pathogen resistance in rice and poplar!
Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏
#MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci

Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 1d

Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 9d

🌱📢46th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16/10/2025 at 15.00 CET discussing The impact of ERC funding for Plant Sciences. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for spring seminars 👉http://bit.ly/3WpPYuC. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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.

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · 2d

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

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

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…

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social · 2d

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!

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...

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social · 2d

Recognition of a phytocytokine by the DEPR1-SERK2 receptor complex confers multi-pathogen resistance in wheat #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

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Eliza Loo @elizaloopi.bsky.social · 3d

Our latest work is out! We set out to see if we could recreate soil-nurturing plant growth in vitro. The plants looked happy and we see microbiome-induced cell-type-specific responses! A modest step but a fun challenge 😁

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 3d

Artificial Soil (ArtSoil): recreating soil conditions in synthetic plant growth media https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681539v1

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 5d

A first dive in fern x pathogen interaction! More to come!

Congratulations @baptistebio.bsky.social @jacquet-chris.bsky.social et al.!

Jacquet-chris @jacquet-chris.bsky.social · 5d

Want to see ferns under attack and how they respond to pathogens? Check out our latest paper!
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Congrats on this huge team effort to @baptistebio.bsky.social @madeleinebaker.bsky.social @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social @maximebonhomme.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social

Various ferns species inoculated with S. sclerotiorum.

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 4d

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 4d

Just wrapped up our DIVERSITORIUM advisory meeting – thanks to our guests: Scott Collins, @clausbeier.bsky.social, @panemma.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, @inesmulder.bsky.social, Kai-Uwe Totsche, @holgerpagel.bsky.social, Hans-Peter Piepho & Christian Poll THANKS for all your great suggestions!

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the paper by Zhang et al. 👇
Fungal resistance in rice is restored by interfamily transfer of an evolutionarily lost co-receptor

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Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 5d

Restoring fungal resistance in rice:

Identification of STOM, a fungal MAMP, and its receptor-co-receptor pair, STOMR/STOMRh. Evolutionary loss of functional STOMRh in monocots restricts immune recognition, while restoring it in rice reconstitutes defense
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Fungal resistance in rice is restored by interfamily transfer of an evolutionarily lost co-receptor

Zhang et al. identify STOM, a previously unknown fungal MAMP, and its receptor-co-receptor pair, STOMR/STOMRh. The evolutionary loss of functional STOMRh in monocots restricts immune recognition, whil...

www.cell.com

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 5d

Fran @frangordilloc.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on one of our favorite topics: the evolutionary relevance of co-receptors for immune receptor transfer in #plants 🌱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI

Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱

Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 5d

Lost & found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer

@isabelmonte.bsky.social highlights work revealing cross-species co-receptor transfer can overcome restricted taxonomic functionality in rice, pointing to strategies for crop protection
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Lost and found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer

Plant immune receptors hold great promise for engineering broad-spectrum disease resistance, but their effectiveness is very limited by restricted taxonomic functionality (RTF). In this issue of Cell ...

www.cell.com

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 6d

Now with official press release. I'm very much looking forward to welcome @cbarragan.bsky.social in January

www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 6d

Really cooool: our first #TERRA science event - the FUN workhop: With lots of fun we just work out our FUNs (Focus Units) for collabortive PhD projects at the interface of Geo- and Biosciences in Gäufelden. Stay tuned which FUNs will be positively reviewed & will soon start the #PhD hiring process!

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 8d

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:

- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x

Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025

RT are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 8d

⏰ Just 13 days left to apply!
Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers!
Please, spread the word! 🗣️
🌿🌱

The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 15d

📢Announcement!
The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟
It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators

Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships
& in 🧵

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GreenRobust @greenrobust.de · 7d

... and a scientific coordinator for experiments of the "Plant Perturbation Atlas" within our cluster www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim

Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 8d

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

Please repost!

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Delphine Pott @delphinem-p.bsky.social · 11d

Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!

GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 12d

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

www.biorxiv.org

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Paloma Durán @paduba.bsky.social · 12d

TIRIS Postdoc fellowship call will soon be open in Toulouse! If you're interested in plant microbiota, or plant-plant interactions or experimental evolution, the ECOGEN team at the @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social would be happy to support and help with your application!

AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society

tiris.univ-toulouse.fr

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 12d

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

www.biorxiv.org

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Isabel Monte @isabelmonte.bsky.social · 12d

Junior PIs, apply for the TPJ fellowship! I became TPJ Fellow in 2023 and highly recommend this program 💚 More details 👇

The Plant Journal @theplantjournal.bsky.social · 15d

📢Announcement!
The call for 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is now open! 🌟
It is designed to offer support and mentorship to researchers transitioning from post-doctoral scientists to principal investigators

Info: 👉http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1365313x/homepage/TPJ-fellowships
& in 🧵

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 12d

Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋‍🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️

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