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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 13h

IN BRIEF: Metacaspase-Peps-PEPR: The three musketeers in boosting wheat resistance against Fusarium head blight (Margot Raffeiner) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Metacaspase–Peps–PEPR: The 3 musketeers in boosting wheat resistance against Fusarium head blight

Plants truly do not have an easy life. They are exposed to multiple stresses around the clock, including climatic extremes and numerous pathogens. Stressed

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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!

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@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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Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social · 13h

📣 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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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 12h

Rewriting the code of plant immunity go.nature.com/475WgV7

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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 · 8d

🌱📢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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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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Alex McClelland @alexjmcclelland.bsky.social · 4d

1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens.
In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A secreted citrus protease cleaves an outer membrane protein of the Huanglongbing pathogen

Plants secrete a variety of proteases as a defense response during infection by microbial pathogens. However, the relationship between their catalytic activities and antimicrobial functions remains la...

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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 5d

SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

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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 ...

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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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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 6d

Our article "Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" is finally published @plantphys.bsky.social!
You can download the #OpenAccess PDF here:

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

But real connoisseurs of #AntimicrobialCompounds will want to get the vinyl boxset: #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

A vinyl box with six colored vinyl LPs sticking out of its right side. The Title "Guns in Rosettes" is on top, with the subtitle "The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" just below. Then there is an Arabidopsis plant with machine guns sticking out. Below is the statement "6-LP LIMITED EDITION COLORED VINYL BOX SET"

The back cover of the vinyl box set showing the tracklist:
1. Methionine-derived compounds
Aliphatic GSLs
2. Tryptophan-derived compounds (trptonites)
Indolic GSLs
Camalexin
Hycanite (4-OH-ICN)
3. Phenylalanine-derived compounds (phenylpropanoids)
Benzenic GSLs
Coumarins
Hydroxycinnamates
Flavonoids
4. Terpenoids
(E)-β-caryophyllene
α- and β-pinene
Thalianin, arabidin, and DMNT

And the statement "Recorded live in front of an audience in 2025"

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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting review in JXB:
How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles
#plantscience
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How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles

Rapidly released from damaged cells, green leaf volatiles exemplify an evolutionary adaptation conserved across terrestrial plants, serving as essential de

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 8d

Plant metabolism: Zoom in to the single-cell level (Nikolaos Ntelkis, C Robin Buell, Alain Goossens) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Plant metabolism: Zoom in to the single-cell level

The numerous emerging single-cell technologies allow uncovering plant metabolism regulation at higher resolution, enabling precise pathway discovery and me

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 8d

~12 years after we coined it EPP1 with @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social one afternoon when we were postdoc with @jeanmichelane.bsky.social!

Congrats @melaniekrich.bsky.social @tatiana-vernie.bsky.social et al. for the hard work!

EPP1 is the fourth member of the Common Symbiosis Pathway 🍄🌱!

Mélanie Rich 🌱🍄 @melaniekrich.bsky.social · 8d

So happy to see the latest preprint of the team out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The continuation of a long standing project started by @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @jeanmichelane.bsky.social‘s lab. 1/7 🧵

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years ([Delaux and Schornack 2021][1]). Because of their intracellular nature, th...

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Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social · 8d

This month is Pink October, a month dedicated to raising awareness about breast cancer and women's cancers in general.
LBM sees pink

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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 11d

HY5 integrates light and electrical signaling to trigger a jasmonate burst for nematode defense in tomato
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Paloma Durán @paduba.bsky.social · 11d

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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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 11d

A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

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Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social · 12d

Fantastic work from @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social annd col. expanding the basic genetic toolkit enabling symbiotic interactions in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

EPP1 is an ancestral component of the plant Common Symbiosis Pathway

The success of plants on land has been enabled by mutualistic intracellular associations with microbes for 450 million years (Delaux and Schornack 2021). Because of their intracellular nature, the est...

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Merissa Huei-Hsuan Tsai @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social · 12d

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Science Magazine @science.org · 12d

Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk

A confocal microscopy image shows root-colonizing bacteria clustering around an emerging lateral root, where localized glutamine leakage induces spatially confined reporter activity.

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Elia Stahl @eliastahl.bsky.social · 12d

Beautiful story! Congrats @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and everybody else involved!!

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Charles Roussin-Léveillée @charlesrleveillee.bsky.social · 12d

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫

Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all!

Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!!

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

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Jeffrey Dean @jeffdean-uga.bsky.social · 14d

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

MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap - Nature Communications

The Venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant, catches prey by sensing touch. Here, the authors show that DmMSL10 functions as a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in sensory hairs, initiating long-range calcium and electrical signals required for trap closure.

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