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Borjana Arsova
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🌱🌾Plant roots + nutrient uptake + beneficial microbes🦠| dabbing into bacteriophages for plant health| Head of research Root Dynamics Group @ IBG 2 - Plant Sciences, @fz-juelich.de | 🇲🇰
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In our new pre-print 📝we dissect how #plants🌾 adapt their metabolism under #Nitrogen limitation when #beneficial #Pseudomonas 🦠are present. You can compare #Noninvasive #Phenotype 📸 during 3 weeks with #lipidomc and #proteomic results at specific 🕰️.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪 #PlantSci #PMI
Systems-level Plant Responses Reveal Pseudomonas-Mediated Growth Promotion in Brachypodium Under Nitrogen Limitation
Plant molecular adaptation to plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) under nutrient stress remains unclear, yet is essential for advancing PGPB use in agriculture. The model grass Brachypodium dystach...
www.biorxiv.org
What we are also missing is the awareness and feeling of responsibility of each individual. If we can only do a little, that little is better than doing nothing...🌡️🥵⚡⛈️🌊🌬️🧪
#ClimateChange
#FridaysForFuture
#NoPlanetB
Governments have the tools to act and keep global warming within limits. What’s needed now is unity and ambition.

Let’s close the #EmissionsGap, and ensure a just transition for everyone, everywhere: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2025
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
👥👇S.Sanow @ucdavisplants.bsky.social M.Mantz, @degradomics.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de E.Sturm @unicologne.bsky.social A.Bhatnagar & U.Roessner - Metabolomics Australia R.Walker, M.Watt @unimelb.bsky.social @gabrielschaaf.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
H.Wiessel, A.Lücke, J.Kelm &🙋@fz-juelich.de
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In our new pre-print 📝we dissect how #plants🌾 adapt their metabolism under #Nitrogen limitation when #beneficial #Pseudomonas 🦠are present. You can compare #Noninvasive #Phenotype 📸 during 3 weeks with #lipidomc and #proteomic results at specific 🕰️.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧪 #PlantSci #PMI
Systems-level Plant Responses Reveal Pseudomonas-Mediated Growth Promotion in Brachypodium Under Nitrogen Limitation
Plant molecular adaptation to plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) under nutrient stress remains unclear, yet is essential for advancing PGPB use in agriculture. The model grass Brachypodium dystach...
www.biorxiv.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Reposted by Borjana Arsova
UC Davis scientists developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer by using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, opening the path toward less air and water pollution worldwide and lower costs for farmers: ucdav.is/471PBwz

#FromLabsToLives #SpeakUp4Science
Wheat That Makes Its Own Fertilizer
UC Davis scientists have developed wheat plants that produce their own fertilizer, opening the door for less air and water pollution and lower costs for farmers.
ucdav.is
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reposted by Borjana Arsova
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Amping up reproducibility of microbiome studies through standardized protocols and fabricated ecosystems (PLOSBio) @borjana-a.bsky.social (Summary by Indrani Kakati @indranik18.bsky.social) buff.ly/qQFJWna

#PlantaePSRW
Amping up reproducibility of microbiome studies through standardized protocols and fabricated ecosystems | Plantae
There is ample evidence for the impacts of plant microbiomes to plant growth and metabolism, but there are also challenges to obtaining reproducible data. In a first of its kind multi-laboratory…
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thank you @plantteaching.bsky.social So cool when I see our work is useful for others. The reference is for journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
🧪#PlantSciene #PlantMicrobeInteractions
#PMI #EcoFab
October 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reposted by Borjana Arsova
🐸 Frogs and false signals

A new study finds that grey treefrogs use daylight length to trigger 'antifreeze' buildup for winter. But as climate change warms winters, this cue may mislead them into preparing too early or too late.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪
Freeze‐tolerant frogs accumulate cryoprotectants using photoperiod: A potential ecological trap
Climate change is disrupting the reliability of photoperiod as a cue signalling seasonal changes in temperature. We show that gray treefrogs under a late-season photoperiod accumulated large reserves...
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Borjana Arsova
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
www.nature.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
👇Is our recent effort 2 make #PMI research more reproducible. Check out this 📜 done on 3 continents🌎, by👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 in5 diff. labs, using the🌾 #brachypodium and 2 #SynComs
journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/...
🧪 #PlantMicrobeInteractions #EcoFAB #PlantSci @fz-juelich.de @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @unimelb.bsky.social
Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research
Reproducing microbiome experiments across laboratories is a major challenge in soil and plant health research. In a collaborative effort involving five laboratories, this study achieved consistent, in...
journals.plos.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Borjana Arsova
For Science 🧪enthusiasts in #NRW & beyond: our #Research Center @fz-juelich.de is opening it's doors
on 07.09.2025.
Talk to 👩‍🔬 about the🔬questions addressed here. Try #HandsOn #experiments.

More on www.tagderneugier.de/en
#TagDerNeugier #TdN25 #STEM #SciComm #ScentificCommunication #PlantScience
August 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The compulsory #Photography samples that accompany each of my scientific meetings. #CityPhotography #Oxford #Naturephotography.

But seriously check out the news from the
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 🦠 #BNF #16ENFC
August 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I 🗣️ abt. "Physiol. changes behind 🦠-enhanced 🌾 growth under #nitrogen stress" & linked results from Kuang et al 2022 JXB, apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... & unpubl.
#protein #Lipid data during #PMI
#PlantScience
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 #BNF #16ENFC
August 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
S. Schnell #UniGiesen, 🇩🇪 showed how #Seed inoculation w. H. diazotrophicus improved #protein content of #wheat in field. Suazrez et al 2014 Int J Syst Evol microbiol & www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PMI #BNF 🧪 #PlantScience #18Symposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation w. #non-legumes
Seed inoculation of Hartmannibacter diazotrophicus does not alter the rhizosphere bacterial microbiome of wheat and barley in a three-year field trial
The effects of plant growth promoting bacteria used for inoculation on native microorganisms remain unexplored under field conditions and, to a lesser…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Vicente Mariscal Romero, #IBVF 🇪🇸 🗣️ "Symbiotic competence and signaling mechanisms in #Nostoc- #Rice associations
See:
Alvarez et al 2020 MPMI
Nice #proteomics using
#SwathMS on both species.
#PMI #PlantScience
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 🦠 #BNF #16ENFC
August 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Abiel Kidane (#MPI-Bremen) Germany talked about the dependency of #NitrogenFixation in the #ocean w. #Iron availability.
High N2 fixation is associated with high #Fe in the medium (Fu and Bell 2003; Wen et al 2022).
#18thSymposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with #non-legumes
🧪 🦠 #BNF #16ENFC
August 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The level of talks on the 18th Symposium on #BiologicalNitrogenFixation with non-legumes is amazing. Plant-Bacteria interactions are complex and we need more of this, to figure out how to bring science to application. #BNF #ENFC16 #PMI 🧪 #PlantScience
August 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
For Science 🧪enthusiasts in #NRW & beyond: our #Research Center @fz-juelich.de is opening it's doors
on 07.09.2025.
Talk to 👩‍🔬 about the🔬questions addressed here. Try #HandsOn #experiments.

More on www.tagderneugier.de/en
#TagDerNeugier #TdN25 #STEM #SciComm #ScentificCommunication #PlantScience
August 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Acinetobacter phages use distinct strategies to breach the capsule barrier https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.664161v1
July 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reposted by Borjana Arsova
What a community, what a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere, what a location! Thank you @snsf.ch, CSF @ethz.ch, @newphyt.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social and @cerealcell.bsky.social for supporting us.
🌾Brachypodium 2025 was a blast🌾
Grazie mille - Thank you so much
Forza Brachy - Go Brachy
July 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I ❤️meetings where the community comes together in an open and welcoming manner. The atmosphere was great and scientific curiosity was at its peak. Thank you @michaelraissig.bsky.social @anneroulin.bsky.social Joop and the entire organisation team. #Brachypodium #Brachy2025 #IBRC2025 🧪 #photography 🇨🇭
July 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I ❤️meetings where the community comes together in an open and welcoming manner. The atmosphere was great and scientific curiosity was at its peak. Thank you @michaelraissig.bsky.social @anneroulin.bsky.social Joop and the entire organisation team. #Brachypodium #Brachy2025 #IBRC2025 🧪 #photography 🇨🇭
July 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Very nice talk by Dorota Kawa (Utrecht University, Netherlands) “Patterns of Stress Resilience: Beneficial Microbes Tailoring #Root Cells”
Check out the paper below for more info.
#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 #Sorghum #Microbiome #PlantScience 🧪

www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Jill Preston (University of Vermont, United States) “Testing the growth-stress tolerance #tradeoff in the model temperate #grass #Brachypodium distachyon”
#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 🧪 #PlantScience
July 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Michelle Facette (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States) “The cell biology of grass stomatal development and function”
#IBRC2025 #Brachy2025 #PlantScience 🧪
July 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM