Christina Steidele
@steidele.bsky.social
Mother of two, wife, molecular biologist & bioinformatician, working @TUM, interested in Barley, Fusarium and networks
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1/ Preprint alert:
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
1/ Preprint alert:
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
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Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
knowmag.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
✍️ Rachel Ehrenberg
knowmag.org/4hImL8e
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My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
www.uni-kiel.de
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
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Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685811v1
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at cellular resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685811v1
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We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:
🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
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🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
1/4
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:
🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
1/4
🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)
📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience
#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs
1/4
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Researchers decoded the #pangenome of 33 oat lines, revealing their full #geneticdiversity to support breeding of more resilient, high-yield #crops in the face of #climatechange: go.tum.de/651300
📷iStock/ Evgeniy Andreev
📷iStock/ Evgeniy Andreev
Oat’s genetic diversity decoded
Researchers at TUM have decoded the genomes of 33 oat lines. This provides leverage for breeding more climate resilient plants.
go.tum.de
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Researchers decoded the #pangenome of 33 oat lines, revealing their full #geneticdiversity to support breeding of more resilient, high-yield #crops in the face of #climatechange: go.tum.de/651300
📷iStock/ Evgeniy Andreev
📷iStock/ Evgeniy Andreev
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Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Conference
Conference "Molecular Biology of Plants", annual meeting of the Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology in the DBG
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hi all @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social members and other 🌽community folks, #MBP2026 🌱 is no open for registration. Please 🏄♀️ to: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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Man hatte sich daran gewöhnt, dass der König seinen Untergebenen im Kindesalter die Beine brach und ihnen dann den Rest ihres Lebens Krücken verkaufte. "Es geht auch anders!" sagte der Fremde. "Dann braucht man keine Krücken!"
"Er will uns die Krücken wegnehmen!" schrie das Volk und verprügelte ihn.
"Er will uns die Krücken wegnehmen!" schrie das Volk und verprügelte ihn.
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Man hatte sich daran gewöhnt, dass der König seinen Untergebenen im Kindesalter die Beine brach und ihnen dann den Rest ihres Lebens Krücken verkaufte. "Es geht auch anders!" sagte der Fremde. "Dann braucht man keine Krücken!"
"Er will uns die Krücken wegnehmen!" schrie das Volk und verprügelte ihn.
"Er will uns die Krücken wegnehmen!" schrie das Volk und verprügelte ihn.
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Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
The interplay of RALF structural and signaling functions in plant-microbe interactions
Rapid alkalinization factor (RALF) peptides are important signaling molecules binding to Catharanthus roseus receptor-like kinase 1-like (CrRLK1L)—LORELEI/LORELEI-like GPI-anchored protein complexes t...
dx.plos.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our Mini-review is out now! Here we collect recent findings of RALF peptide functions, adress their (potential) roles in plant-microbe interactions and discuss the resulting emerging questions. Pls share!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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My paper of the week!
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My paper of the week!
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🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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We warmly welcome Professor @uhammes.bsky.social as the new Head of the Department of #Botany I at our university! He is investigating the proteins that help #plant #hormones reach their sites of action. We wish him every success in his research and teaching!
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We warmly welcome Professor @uhammes.bsky.social as the new Head of the Department of #Botany I at our university! He is investigating the proteins that help #plant #hormones reach their sites of action. We wish him every success in his research and teaching!
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
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Given up on the concept of being "well-rounded". I'm more like a hexagon, and depending on what side I happen to accidently roll I get work, family, exercise, hobbies or a tidy house. None can co-exist.
October 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Given up on the concept of being "well-rounded". I'm more like a hexagon, and depending on what side I happen to accidently roll I get work, family, exercise, hobbies or a tidy house. None can co-exist.
Reposted by Christina Steidele
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
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
IN BRIEF: Metacaspase-Peps-PEPR: The three musketeers in boosting wheat resistance against Fusarium head blight (Margot Raffeiner) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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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
Congrats to Andrea Gust and her group at #ZMBP 👏👏👏
#MPMI #EvoMPMI #plantsci
Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance - @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social go.nature.com/474nnA9
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Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen (S Einspanier, C Tominello-Ramirez, F Delplace, R Stam) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @sev1panier
October 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen (S Einspanier, C Tominello-Ramirez, F Delplace, R Stam) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @sev1panier
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Wie Proteine in Pflanzenzellen wissen, wohin sie müssen, war lange unklar. RUB-Forschende haben nun den entscheidenden Lipid-Schalter identifiziert und damit ein zellbiologisches Rätsel gelöst.
Altes Rätsel um die Proteinverteilung in Pflanzenzellen gelöst
Bochumer Forschende haben einen Steuerungsmechanismus aufgeklärt, der vielleicht auch über Pflanzen hinaus funktioniert.
news.rub.de
October 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Wie Proteine in Pflanzenzellen wissen, wohin sie müssen, war lange unklar. RUB-Forschende haben nun den entscheidenden Lipid-Schalter identifiziert und damit ein zellbiologisches Rätsel gelöst.
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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...
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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...
www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/n...
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A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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 ...
www.science.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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...
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Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social !
Enjoy reading it!!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Enjoy reading it!!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Very excited to share that our paper "A RALF-brassinosteorid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape" is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social !
Enjoy reading it!!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Enjoy reading it!!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
Validate User
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October 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b
@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?
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Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen
Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto
academic.oup.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!
Reposted by Christina Steidele
Die direkt gewählte Abgeordnete aus Berlin-Mitte, @hanna-steinmueller.de, sorgt gerade für viel Aufsehen, weil sie ihr Baby mit in den @bundestag.de genommen hat. Das zeige, dass wir über die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie reden müssten, sagt sie.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Die direkt gewählte Abgeordnete aus Berlin-Mitte, @hanna-steinmueller.de, sorgt gerade für viel Aufsehen, weil sie ihr Baby mit in den @bundestag.de genommen hat. Das zeige, dass wir über die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie reden müssten, sagt sie.