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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 16h

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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Dubcovsky Lab @dubcovskylab.bsky.social · 1d

Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 1d

Function and regulatory mechanism of HvSPX4 in maintaining phosphate homeostasis in barley (Junhao Zhang, Yichen Zhou, Yunqian Zhang, Huifang Zhao, Qiyu Liang, Yunfeng Xu, et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Function and regulatory mechanism of HvSPX4 in maintaining phosphate homeostasis in barley

A 50-bp insertion in the promoter region of HvSPX4 enhances its expression and is associated with reduced plant growth in a natural barley population under

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 2d

🍅🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱🍅

Resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato is linked to variety-specific proteomic changes; the CAPE1 peptide restricts Ralstonia solancearum growth in planta - Zhang et al. 🦠🍅

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#PlantScience 🧪 @bactodeath.bsky.social

Fig. 3.PR1 protein features and alignment. (A) Representation of the tomato PR1 protein domains and conserved features. SP, signal peptide; CAP, cysteine-rich secretory proteins, antigen 5, and pathogenesis-related 1 protein domain, highlighting CAP3, CAP4, CAP1, CAP2, and CBM motifs; CAPE, CAP-derived peptide (Han et al., 2023). (B) Alignment of the representative PR1 proteins across different plant species. Amino acid alignment generated from ClustalO alignment of the representative PR1 proteins from tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), potato (Solanum tuberosum), pepper (Capsicum anuum), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), and wheat (Triticum aestivum). Red and blue highlighted regions show the last amino acid before the putative CAPE peptide cleavage. The conserved CAPE peptide sequence is shown in red.

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

A small peptide APP3-14 disrupts pathogen-insect mutualism via modulating plant MYC2-mediated olfactory defense #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

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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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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 3d

🌱 📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 🌱

Qi et al. address current challenges in revealing protease roles in biological processes and present systematic methodologies for identifying bona fide protease–substrate pairs in plants 🔬

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Fig. 1.Guidelines for a bona fide protease–substrate pair.

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 6d

NEWS & VIEWS: Barley roots require HvGLU3 for cellulose biosynthesis (Blanca Jazmin Reyes-Hernández) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Barley roots require HvGLU3 for cellulose biosynthesis

Plant cells are enclosed by the cell wall, a complex polysaccharide structure that strengthens the plant body and supports plant development, cell communic

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 6d

Site-specific and efficient RNA editing is achieved with a CasRx editor go.nature.com/4dFun7P
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A circularly permuted CasRx platform for efficient, site-specific RNA editing - Nature Biotechnology

Site-specific and efficient RNA editing is achieved with a CasRx editor.

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 6d

Functional conservation and divergence of the WOX gene family in regulating meristem activity: From Arabidopsis to crops (Fei Du, Zihan Chang, Xiuying Kong, Lanqin Xia, Wenbin Zhou, Thomas Laux, Lichao Zhang) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

Functional conservation and divergence of the WOX gene family in regulating meristem activity: From Arabidopsis to crops

WOX genes play both conserved and diversified roles in regulating meristem activity across diverse plant species, which offers potential for agricultural c

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 7d

New Article: "A mobile DELLA controls Medicago truncatula root cortex patterning to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" rdcu.be/eJO9O

Mobile transcriptional regulators DELLA and SHORT-ROOT control the number of root inner cortex cell layers able to host symbiotic AMF.

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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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Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · 8d

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Jeremy G Bird @drjeremygbird.bsky.social · 8d

My department (Biological Sciences) at the University of Delaware is looking for a new tenure track assistant professor with a research focus on biomolecular sensing broadly. 🧪#molbiol #microsky
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

University of Delaware - Details - Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Biological Sciences

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 8d

UNC Chapel Hill is hiring an Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Per Jeff
Dangl MPMI candidates are also highly desired in the search. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor to study critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology.We seek candidates wh...

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Prof. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · 13d

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/175001

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · Jul 21

Call for Papers: 2026 Focus Issue on Early Land Plant Evolution – Phylogenetics, Paleobotany, and Evo-devo Physiology. Submission Deadline: 03/2026. academic.oup.com/plphys/pages...

#plantscience

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Agristok @agristok.bsky.social · 16d

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

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Freddy Boutrot @freddyboutrot.bsky.social · 21d

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1371/jour...

CEPR2 perceives group II CEPs to regulate cell surface receptor-mediated immunity in Arabidopsis

Author summary To protect themselves against pathogens, plants have evolved a sophisticated and intricate immune system that allows pathogen detection and the activation of appropriate defense respons...

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Kierzkowski Lab @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 28d

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) | 12844852

A full-time tenure-track assistant professor position at the IRBV, Université de Montréal.

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 22d

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

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A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

Developmental gene function is conserved over deep time, but cis-regulatory sequence conservation is rarely found. Rapid sequence turnover, paleopolyploidy, structural variation, and limited phylogeno...

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Ora Hazak @hazaklab.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations to Charlotte and to you👏🏼

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Ken Shirasu @shirasulab.bsky.social · 26d

Well done, Max! Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neofunctionalized RGF pathways drive haustorial organogenesis in parasitic plants

Plant peptide hormones regulate and induce the parasitic plant specialized organ for connecting to and feeding from the host.

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 27d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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