Ok, this is a big one! Proud to present our latest story on hydropatterning-a process that allows plants to sense moisture gradients in soil and activate branching. Johannes Scharwies defines the genetic basis for this response in maize and Arabidopsis! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Time is ticking! ⏰ The call for our PhD program ends in a few days! Apply now to join us at ISTA next fall! 🔗 bit.ly/3T9xCeo

OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation Knut Drescher Sanika Vaidya Biozentrum, University of Basel nature.com/articles/s4156…

Last chance to apply for a #PhD position TU Graz in #microbiome research Deadline: January 8th jobs.tugraz.at/en/jobs/afa175… Last PhD defense of Kristina Michl (2024)

Exploring subsoil Microbiome Functioning: New paper in Nature Food by Ziheng Peng and Shuo Jiao et al. demonstrates that subsoil microbiomes are less resistant to global changes compared to topsoil microbiomes. nature.com/articles/s4301…

PRESS RELEASE - Could this fundamental discovery revolutionise fertiliser use in farming?  Researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that makes plant roots more welcoming to beneficial soil microbes.  okt.to/HV18h7 Norwich Research Park Myriam Charpentier

Resolving spatially distinct phytohormone response zones in Arabidopsis thaliana roots colonized by Fusarium oxysporum @somssichm academic.oup.com/jxb/article/do…

Things like this are so infuriating. Yes, an incredible amount of money is being spent to make articles freely available. But WAY more - over **40 BILLION DOLLARS** was spent over the same period to provide access to articles that are paywalled. The problem isn't open access -

🚨 We’re Hiring! My group is looking for a #Postdoc (m/f/d) to explore the seed #Microbiome and uncover the mechanisms of microbial inheritance in plants! 🌱Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie Gabriele Berg 📅 Deadline: 27.02.2025 🔗 Apply here: shorturl.at/PGXD4 Please RT #Hiring #ScienceJobs

🍾Big Congratulations to my dear colleague Uli Schaffrath RWTH Aachen and collaborators! Beautiful work showing that plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #PlantSci #effectors #immunity #MolPlantPhys

Today’s read is this beautiful research article 🧐 A fungal transcription factor converts a beneficial root endophyte into an anthracnose leaf pathogen: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

(1/6) The very first paper on actin-microtubule interactions and the collaboration between Qiong Nan Qiong's lab at Northwest A&F University and my lab is online now at Cytoskeleton Journal Cytoskeleton journal! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cm…

That is Glycosyrin an iminosugar from Pseudomonas syrinage!, Blue white colony MAGIC!, Bacterial pathogen deploys the iminosugar glycosyrin to manipulate plant glycobiology | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited to share that our latest research on the regulatory framework of tripartite relation between plant-bacteria-fungi in promoting stress tolerance in plants is out now in The Plant Journal KAUST KAUST Research KAUST BESE doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70…

🍀🎉😊❤️🙏 I am so grateful and proud to be working with Catherine, Joanna, Adrienne and Nan to create the Arabidopsis timeline! Such a landmark project, published The Plant Cell & initiated by NAASC NAASC & North American ICAR

DR5 is a favorite auxin reporter. In Nature Communications we show DR5 expression is stochastic, exhibiting both intrinsic and extrinsic noise. We put two different color DR5 reporters in the same plant and see stochasticity. Shuyao Kong @mingyuan2328 @byron_rusknak rdcu.be/emNVQ

Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by Alex Guyon When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phosphoinositides at haustoria may impact immunity & trafficking - And the roots are more resistant! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A clear message for young scientists: publish (CNS!) or perish — or at least, accept you may never be “one of us” 💔 But here’s the truth: you can have an extraordinary career without ever publishing in Cell, Nature, or Science. Success is about finding your community,

Second LeafHope seminar directly from KAUST 👏 - Thank you Anamika Rawat for accepting the invitation! We learned a lot today! Microbes are essential for a more sustainable agriculture! 💚

Ancestral P-body proteins rewired for autophagic recyclingin the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_plants