Just published! In the latest H. H. Flor Distinguished Review, Barbara Valent honors Harold H. Flor’s legacy by exploring how the rapidly evolving rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae escapes plant resistance (R) genes by mutating or losing corresponding avirulence (AVR)

Can’t unsee this now! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

🌿 PhD Opportunity: Herbivorous Insect–Plant–Microbiome Interactions at Wageningen U&R, Netherlands – Fall 2025 🔬 Host: Wageningen University & Research (WUR) 📅 Deadline: 16 May 2025 🔗 Apply: shorturl.at/Me5Dz 📱 NGSF WhatsApp: lnkd.in/gFbYvDDK

We have a PREPRINT! Genomics of Root System Architecture Adaptation in Sorghum under Nitrogen and Phosphorus Deficiency biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to ⁦Camilla Molinari⁩ on her successful PhD defence today. Very proud supervisor. ⁦⁩ PhD#43 from the group. ⁦The Sainsbury Laboratory⁩

📢 New Rice Disease Fact Sheets! 🌾 🔬 Blast: uaex.uada.edu/publications/p… 🟣 Cercospora: uaex.uada.edu/publications/p… 🌾 False Smut: uaex.uada.edu/publications/p… Essential info for growers, advisors & researchers! Camila Nicolli Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology

⚡️ Attn anyone interested in algal genomics and lichen symbiosis! ⚡️ New preprint: a near chromosome-level assembly of Trebouxia sp. A48 (member of T. decolorans species complex), the photobiont of Xanthoria parietina. 1/5 #lichen #alga #genomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share my new Tansley Review New Phytologist on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Single-cell and spatial omics technologies now span diverse molecular modalities—but only a subset have been adopted in plant research. There’s enormous untapped potential. [2/n]

🌟Call for Papers on #Lichen #symbiosis🌟 Thrilled to be a guest editor for The Lichenologist, together with Veera Tuovinen, Ioana Onut Brännström, and Ellen Cameron. Send us papers on the inner workings of lichens, submission is open till September 2025! tinyurl.com/2w7wwubm

AlphaFold models of host-pathogen interactions elucidate the prevalence and structural modes of molecular mimicry biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Our review on mechanobiology of fungal invasive growth with Lauren Ryder and Joris Sprakel in the Current Biology Special issue #Fungi cell.com/current-biolog…

In the Striga hermonthica–rice pathosystem, cell wall dynamics play a key role in determining resistance or susceptibility. Using simultaneous RNA-seq and weighted gene co-expression network analysis, Damaris Barminga et al. compared interactions between Striga and resistant

🎉 Small milestone to share: Our work has now passed the final correction stage and is moving forward to publication. I am super grateful to everyone involved — my team members DingLab, collaborators, reviewers and the editorial team. Stay tuned for the final version

Join us for the 🪴 🌵 Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2025 ☘️ 🪴 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8th-10th September pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk @pprm2025.bsky.social PPRM2025Edinburgh #plantsignaling #PlantScience #plantsci Abstract deadline 1st July. A thread 🧵 (1/n)

1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?

Last chance to apply for the open postdoc position in our lab!

The Magnaporthe oryzae MAX effector AVR-Pia binds a novel group of rice HMA domain-containing proteins biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper is now online in Science Advances! Congrats Saskia Hogenhout John Innes Centre and all coauthors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…