Steven Zwartkruis
@stevenzwartkruis.bsky.social
PhD student in plant science at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.
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🪲 REVIEW 🪲
This review uncovers the critical role of the plant cell wall in pest defence, integrating structural, molecular, and genetic insights to highlight its emerging significance in plant–pest interactions during herbivory - Perez-Alonso et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
This review uncovers the critical role of the plant cell wall in pest defence, integrating structural, molecular, and genetic insights to highlight its emerging significance in plant–pest interactions during herbivory - Perez-Alonso et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🪲 REVIEW 🪲
This review uncovers the critical role of the plant cell wall in pest defence, integrating structural, molecular, and genetic insights to highlight its emerging significance in plant–pest interactions during herbivory - Perez-Alonso et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
This review uncovers the critical role of the plant cell wall in pest defence, integrating structural, molecular, and genetic insights to highlight its emerging significance in plant–pest interactions during herbivory - Perez-Alonso et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Lu et al. review the cysteine-rich peptides RALF and EPF/EPFL, and their roles in regulating growth, development, immune responses and stress adaptation, highlighting new mechanistic insights and challenges in peptide research.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Christoph Ringli and collaborators identify a new regulator of the Arabidopsis extensin-mediated cell wall integrity sensing: phosphatase PP2C12 inhibiting receptor kinase FERONIA
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Christoph Ringli and collaborators identify a new regulator of the Arabidopsis extensin-mediated cell wall integrity sensing: phosphatase PP2C12 inhibiting receptor kinase FERONIA
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Shedding light on receptor kinase processing
journals.plos.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Thrilled to share our latest review on receptor kinase processing in plants! 🌱
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Huge congratulations to @adithya1972.bsky.social and Anna for leading this work, and a big thank you to our fantastic collaborator Martina-Ried Lasi for making this a truly rewarding team effort!
Reposted by Steven Zwartkruis
What... There is an Arabidopsis gene called Lord of the Rings (AT5G50150).
"LOTR1 protein has an unknown function. It contains both DUF4409 and DUF239 domains. Loss of function mutations show defects in formation of the Casparian band, which is correlated with mis-localization of CASP1. "
"LOTR1 protein has an unknown function. It contains both DUF4409 and DUF239 domains. Loss of function mutations show defects in formation of the Casparian band, which is correlated with mis-localization of CASP1. "
TAIR - Arabidopsis
www.arabidopsis.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What... There is an Arabidopsis gene called Lord of the Rings (AT5G50150).
"LOTR1 protein has an unknown function. It contains both DUF4409 and DUF239 domains. Loss of function mutations show defects in formation of the Casparian band, which is correlated with mis-localization of CASP1. "
"LOTR1 protein has an unknown function. It contains both DUF4409 and DUF239 domains. Loss of function mutations show defects in formation of the Casparian band, which is correlated with mis-localization of CASP1. "
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"Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher" - Nature News feature
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher" - Nature News feature
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can we harness them to create better crops?
Reposted by Steven Zwartkruis
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 😱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI
Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
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...
@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
October 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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 😱
#EvoMPMI #MPMI
Check also the beautiful paper by Zhang et al. on the PRR STOMR and discover what happened to its co-receptor 😱
Reposted by Steven Zwartkruis
A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A RALF-brassinosteroid signaling circuit regulates Arabidopsis hypocotyl cell shape doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
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Very proud to share our latest preprint: postdoc/LRSF fellow Yue Rui studies the mechanisms regulating attachment of the cell wall to the plasma membrane. The Cellulose Synthase Complex and REMORINs determine the extent of attachment and root osmotic stress tolerance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Very proud to share our latest preprint: postdoc/LRSF fellow Yue Rui studies the mechanisms regulating attachment of the cell wall to the plasma membrane. The Cellulose Synthase Complex and REMORINs determine the extent of attachment and root osmotic stress tolerance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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One of the key aspects influencing morphogenesis is mechanics. We mapped the mechanical properties of living roots at the tissue and cellular levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
One of the key aspects influencing morphogenesis is mechanics. We mapped the mechanical properties of living roots at the tissue and cellular levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Interesting paper 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
WALLFLOWER, an Arabidopsis receptor-like kinase, is polarized in root epidermal cells where it represses cell elongation impacting root waving
Nutrient and water uptake relies on the ability of roots to grow through and explore the soil. When roots are grown on the surface of a substrate, growth occurs with an undulating trajectory known as ...
www.biorxiv.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Interesting paper 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
May 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics
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DARWIN REVIEW: "Plant cell wall structure and dynamics in plant–pathogen interactions and pathogen defence" - Kristina S Munzert et al, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#plantscience 🧪
#plantscience 🧪
March 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
DARWIN REVIEW: "Plant cell wall structure and dynamics in plant–pathogen interactions and pathogen defence" - Kristina S Munzert et al, doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#plantscience 🧪
#plantscience 🧪
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The FERONIA–RESPONSIVE TO DESSICATION 26 module regulates vascular immunity to Ralstonia solanacearum academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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The FERONIA–RESPONSIVE TO DESSICATION 26 module regulates vascular immunity to Ralstonia solanacearum
The kinase FERONIA and the transcription factor RD26 drive a signaling cascade that regulates xylem lignin deposition, thereby promoting plant immunity to
academic.oup.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:35 PM
The FERONIA–RESPONSIVE TO DESSICATION 26 module regulates vascular immunity to Ralstonia solanacearum academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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#PlantScience