Plant cells and development, Plant-microbe research, Phytophthora, oomycetes & symbiotic fungi, TAL effectors (TAL DNA binding code codiscoverer) and Coleoptera
Cambridge, UK
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Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com/
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Amazing interactive poster on the evolution of land plants @watertoland
follow the link and click in it! 🖱️
madland.science/greening.php
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Plz RT. Postdoc position: We are looking for a plant biologist with a strong interest in the model system Marchantia and comparative studies with flowering plants. @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46686/
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Marchantia liverworts are dioecious: The Ladies (left) and Gentlemen (right) of Marchantia polymorpha in our Far Red Light District. Reproductive structure formation can be induced by far red light. Pic by @juarsuffi
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Symbiotic root fungi are everywhere! Currently, quantifying root colonisation relies on staining & human scoring. For high-confidence predictions try AMFinder & our streamlined flatbed scanner protocol. Pls RT and let us know what you think. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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A great collaboration with @brockingtonian @plantsci
MycoRed: Betalain pigments enable in vivo real-time visualisation of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
by @AlfonsoTimoneda & Temur Yunusov, Clement Quan, @Gavrin_Alex et al.
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Those tiny Nicotiana benthamiana with arbuscular mycorrhiza-activated betalains are really helpful to know when and where colonisation (and symbiosis) is happening. Picture by @AlexWGuyon More info: slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/blushing…
- tagging @ATinyGreenCell because betalains are cool.
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Unrelated oomycetes and arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi both have coenocytic hyphae with hundreds of moving nuclei - check out the paper by @edouard_evan et al. on Phytophthora nuclei if you want to know more @mbiojournal doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01516-1…
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Plz RT. David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowship
Come and establish your group @slcuplants: 5-yr fellowship, salary + 30% Gatsby distinction award + £70,000 p.a. of unrestricted research support.
@UniCambridge jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/37298/ - apply by 30 Oct. 2022 🌱🌿🌼🖥️💡
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Nitrogen fixing symbiosis - Single cell and single nucleus expression analysis manuscripts -
Ye et al. - doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.…
Cervantes-Pérez et al. - doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2022.…
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RT plz and comment on our preprint -
A pathogen effector FOLD diversified in symbiotic fungi
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
by @AlbinTeulet, Clement Quan, @edouard_evan, @alan_wanke, @YangWeibing [1/6]
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Plz RT. Join our team (schornacklab.net) @slcuplants as a Research Associate/Postdoc and use effectors to modulate plant cell and developmental processes. Please apply by 18 August 2023. For questions, DM or email me. #2023ISMPMI jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42065/
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I have just submitted my final Univ. Research Fellowship report.
Am grateful for 5+3 yrs of funding to establish a team @slcuplants to study how plants accommodate microbes, and excellent training and networking opportunities. Thank you @royalsociety!
Hopefully stay connected.
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Pls.RT. Join our online symposium - The role of microbes in plant health: Emerging topics - 2 October, 2020; 2-5:30pm (GMT+2) bio.lmu.de/aktuelles/symposi… #PlantsCamLMU Speakers include Silke Robatzek, @CerealSymbiosis @Phil_Carella @EKemen @StegmannMartin @MParniske
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Exploring and harnessing the diversity of molecular mechanisms used in nonflowering plant-microbe interactions is rewarding in many ways. Pls. have a read and see. Putting this together for @ScienceMagazine with @PierreMarcDelau was great fun. science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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Recommendation: Very nice #CRISPR summary, especially for newcomers to this technology.
Thomas Jacobs - VIB Ghent - How do you CRISPR? Streamlining genome editing projects in plants piped.video/O1Ysc_jmLpA
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2025 IS-MPMI Congress
Save the date – more information coming soon!
Sunday, 13 July – Thursday, 17 July, 2025
Confex Conference and Exhibition Centre
Cologne, Germany
ismpmi.org/Events/Pages/Upco…
@ISMPMI
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RT plz. Come join us @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni - we are looking for a Lab Technician jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/36211/
schornacklab.net
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Suggested #OpenAccess Reading: Developmental modulation of root cell wall architecture confers resistance to an
oomycete pathogen. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.0…
Thx past¤t @SLCUplants Alex Gavrin, @toma_rey @TorodeTA @JustineToulotte, Abhishek Chatterjee, Edouard Evangelisti
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RT & Save the date: 6th international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting #iMMM2023
25-27 Sep 2023 in Cambridge @slcuplants
more information will follow soon
ALT An image of fungi colonising a liverwort Save the date! 6th international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting 2023, Cambridge, 25-27 September 2023 More information to follow.
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A pathogen effector FOLD diversified in symbiotic fungi - by @AlbinTeulet, C. Quan, @edouard_evan @alan_wanke @YangWeibing
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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N-terminal domains of NLR immune receptors exhibit structural and functional similarities across divergent plant lineages @ThePlantCell
by @Khongsam_Chia et al. @Phil_Carella lab
with an NLR N-terminal domain structure network analysis by @AlbinTeulet academic.oup.com/plcell/arti…
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RT, plz. New year, new postdoc opportunity! Come work with us @SLCUplants @Cambridge_Uni. Know and use biochemical and/or computational approaches to elucidate how plant processes impact on the colonisation by detrimental or beneficial microbes jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/32810/
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Convergent evolution of water-conducting cells in Marchantia recruited the ZHOUPI gene promoting cell wall reinforcement and programmed cell death
doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.0…
Nice work led by @JustinGoodric15 now available post-peer review.
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Medicago root hairs stained for actin and walls by @Gavrin_Alex on the cover of @CurrentBiology!
This accompanies our recent article 'Developmental Modulation of Root Cell Wall Architecture Confers Resistance to an Oomycete Pathogen' cell.com/current-biology/ful… @TorodeTA @Thomarey
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My Fascination For Plants - like this little male Marchantia liverwort in a pavement crack - will never stop. How they have evolved to colonise diverse habitats. How they have adapted for survival & reproduction. How they benefit from but also defend against microbes. #FoPD22
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Improving cassava bacterial blight resistance by editing the epigenome - Nature Comms. sco.lt/5FlLdY
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Bryophytes as Modern Model Plants: An Overview of Their Development, Contributions, and Future Prospects
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Plant lipids enticed fungi to mutualism - not only in "higher" plants 😉@HarroBouwmeest1 science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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To improve documentation and reproducibility of fungal colonisation analyses:
Evangelisti et al. - Deep learning-based quantification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant roots -
now @NewPhyt
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
github.com/SchornacklabSLCU/…
pretrained, or train your own!
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Beautiful image of a Nicotiana root (walls stained magenta) colonised by a arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (yellow) by @AlexWGuyon
A good example that most of the root system's living cortex cells in these plants are full of symbiotic fungi.
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RT plz. Come join us @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni. We are looking for a postdoc/RA studying legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis. Expertise with soybean would be great. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38864/
ALT Advert text for a postdoc/RA position. Link in the main tweet
ALT Picture of a nodule with blue GUS staining. Picture by Aleksandr Gavrin
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The Great British Liverwort Hunt - a citizen science project with @DavidJHoey @ilichenmoss and an SLCU Outreach consortium led by @Edwige_M contributed numerous Marchantia accessions to this work.
zenodo.org/records/10040686
slcu.cam.ac.uk/outreach/live…
The Marchantia pangenome reveals ancient mechanisms of plant adaptation to the environment biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_plants
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Plz RT: come work with us!
Fully funded PhD @Cambridge_Uni @slcuplants
Betalain root symbiosis reporters to enable field-relevant predictions of the risk of chemicals to AM fungi.
ctp-sai.org/projects-for-202…
Limited to UK applicants only. Please apply by 14th April.
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Shi et al. 2023 - Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Plant Growth and Stress Adaptation: From Genes to Ecosystems annualreviews.org/doi/10.114…
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The @Cambridge_Uni Biosciences PhD studentship programme is open for applications - deadline 1 December. bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/a…
[int. students can apply but limited funding]
If you wonder how microbes live inside plants: apply & get in touch schornacklab.net
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Congrats @alan_wanke for winning a poster award at #Fungal24 !
Interested in learning more about mycorrhizal Mucoromycotina fine root endophytes and their lifestyle-related genomic signatures? Come and visit my poster 477 tonight at #Fungal24
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Substrate (Phosphorylation motif) mimicry is known from bacterial effectors.
We found FIRE 🔥& other Phytophthora RXLR effectors with canonical 14-3-3 phosphosensor binding motifs.
See @edouard_evan @AlexWGuyon @leeshen15225049 newest paper @MPMIjournal
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Brushing up my German 😝 by reading old Bryophyte books. Loved this figure on AM colonisation and different tissue types with potential function in Marchantia.
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Some transiently expressed proteins prefer to accumulate near the guard cells (which are not transformed in this assay) in the N. benthamiana leaf epidermis.
ALT Confocal fluorescence microscopy of a green fluorescent protein fusion in Nicotiana benthamiana leaf epidermal cells with a clearly uneven distribution, more signal near a bordering guard cell. Chloroplasts are in magenta.
ALT Confocal fluorescence microscopy of a green fluorescent protein fusion in Nicotiana benthamiana leaf epidermal cells with a clearly uneven distribution, more signal near a bordering guard cell. Chloroplasts are in magenta. This is the same as the first image, but the cell walls are not visible.
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The Renaissance and Enlightenment of Marchantia as a model system - academic.oup.com/plcell/adva… #MyMarchantia
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#iMMM2023 brought a whole community of molecular mycorrhiza enthusiasts together. It was great to host you all @slcuplants - safe travels and see you all at #iMMM2025 in Munich
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Amazing! by @JenMcgaley - a game changer for arbuscule development time-lapse imaging!
The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Before this, it was almost impossible to pop a new gene into a specific part of a vascular plant genome.
Major improvement of plant genome editing! Amazing! @cbtomsen
Finally online!
Efficient HDR in plants by engineered CRISPR-endonucleases! Big Thanks to all involved! 🎉
doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2024.…
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Beautiful AM-expression-painting by Tania Chancellor from @PaszkowskiLab - this is going to let cell biology of AM fungi explode @ICOM_12 #ICOM12
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RT, plz. Come and work with us as a Professor for Plant Development @slcuplants slcu.cam.ac.uk/ @Cambridge_Uni jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/30781/
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Bryophytes Physcomitrium patens and Marchantia polymorpha as model systems for studying evolutionary cell and developmental biology in plants academic.oup.com/plcell/adva…
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Nuclei move and stretch in oomycete hyphae #Phytophthora
Edouard Evangelisti et al: Hydrodynamic Shape Changes Underpin Nuclear Rerouting in Branched Hyphae of an Oomycete Pathogen
@MarieLenaour @leeshen15225049 @mbiojournal mbio.asm.org/content/10/5/e0…
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Friday 7 Jan, 11 am UK time - @BBCRadio4
Fungi: The New Frontier
@Timhayward visited us @SLCUplants to see when and where fungi and plants engage in a symbiosis.
The episode features six mycologists including 'Entangled Life' author @MerlinSheldrake.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00132x…
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we fused the rice Pong transposase protein to Cas9 or Cas12a programmable nucleases. We demonstrated sequence-specific targeted insertion (guided by the CRISPR gRNA) of enhancer elements, an ORF and a gene expression cassette into the genome of Arabidopsis nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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If you are interested in cutting-edge Plant Development Research, consider signing up for our #SLS20 Symposium @SLCU_plants. Its electronic and its free. Register your interest now to be one of 100 attendees. slcu.cam.ac.uk/SLS20/
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Check out this video by @AlexGuyon.
Amazing, how dynamic symbiotic arbuscular #Mycorrhiza fungi are when they colonise roots. The longer you stare at this the more interesting questions arise!
A little timelapse of arbuscule development in benthi. Very fun to see how fast it can go, 15minutes between frames.
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Plz RT. Save the date!
Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 'Development / Reprogrammed'
17-19 September 2024. @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni
Keynotes by @K_Sugimoto_Lab and Zac Lippman
#SLS2024
ALT scientific conference announcement - an image repeating the text of the post.
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Phytophthora palmivora establishes tissue-specific intracellular infection structures in the earliest divergent land plant lineage pnas.org/content/early/2018/… @Phil_Carella @useless_ulysses @myglimpse
@Marta_Tom20
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Effectors, effectors, effectors! Come and discuss the fun in Arbuscular Mycoorhiza fungi at my poster P-241 today between 3-4 pm @ICOM_12 #ICOM12 This work has been led by @AlbinTeulet - see also doi.org/10.1111/nph.18996
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"angiosperms are not ‘higher plants’ and, in turn, bryophytes are not ‘lower’, ‘basal’, or ‘primitive’ plants. The best practice, hence, is to refer to any given organism by the name of the group to which it belongs."
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Transient Agroinfiltration - a key method in plant science - today with the #ASTP2023 students @slcuplants; no plants got severely harmed during the process. Let's see if it works. Check back on Friday.
ALT A group of students in lab coats pipetting and injecting solutions into leaves of tobacco plants in a laboratory.
Along with several other organisations, we are hosting ASTP students for a week of exploring what being a researcher is like. They're off to a terrific start on our #cryoSEM. #ASTP2023 @GurdonInstitute gurdon.cam.ac.uk/astp
ALT Welcome to SLCU! ASTP - We hope you have a great week with us here in Cambridge! www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/astp . The image also shows a picture of a member of staff at SLCU and 5 pupils participating in the ASTP programme.
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Most read original research paper @ISMPMI journal right now 😎
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Just shared with the students @plantsci Dept. @Cambridge_Uni some of our research interests @slcuplants - featuring the beautiful images of @RuthLeFevre @Phil_Carella Temur Yunusov and @Gavrin_Alex
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David is leaving @slcuplants for new adventures with @Sandy_Heth in Edinburgh. @DavidJHoey has been central to our research with Marchantia, and SLCU‘s social life. Above all I am gonna miss his positive attitude, laughs and happiness. All the very best to you, David!
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33 years ago, 1990, East (GDR) and West (FRG) Germany reunited. When the borders opened for the first time in 1989 my family queued on the Autobahn to cross the borders and visit the part of Germany we only knew from western TV. #TagDerDeutschenEinheit
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What a difference a longer day makes: Speedbreeding benthamiana with 22h light per day. Get your transgenic seeds two weeks earlier. Better think fast what to do with them ⏩🍃
by Matt Castle and @daniel_luedke @TheSainsburyLab
Here comes Speedy Benthi! 😍 🌱 Kudos Matt Castle & @daniel_luedke
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Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots @Cambridge_Uni @plantsci @slcuplants cam.ac.uk/research/news/blus…
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Growing with the flow....
The fungus Rhizophagus irregularis has entered through a rhizoid into #MyMarchantia paleacea to establish a symbiosis in the storage tissue layers, the photosynthetic layer with chloroplasts and air pores on top remains untouched
Image by @alan_wanke
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Congratulations @DavidJHoey for successfully passing your PhD viva. So proud of you and your achievements and all you did for our team and for @slcuplants also thank you @jmhibber & @moodytomato for acting as examiners. 🎉🍾🎊🎈
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Not new but I think a good resource for anyone who really sees a need for split-YFP/BIFC.
Fig. 4 summarises appropriate and inappropriate controls.
future-science.com/doi/10.21…
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Plz RT. We (schornacklab.net) are looking for a researcher with an interest in plants to further our understanding on common and specific processes underlying the intracellular colonization of land plants by symbionts and pathogens.
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24632/
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RT, plz. We are looking for a lab tech to support our plant-microbe research 🌱🍄 @slcuplants @Cambridge_Uni. We particularly encourage women and people with BME background to apply. Please apply by 31 Oct. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/31878/
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Fungi hijack a ubiquitous plant apoplastic endoglucanase to release a ROS scavenging β-glucan decasaccharide to subvert immune responses academic.oup.com/plcell/adva… @kbcbkumaran7 @alan_wanke @AlgaZuccaro
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Bioluminescent Xanthomonas hortorum pv. gardneri as a Tool to Quantify Bacteria in Planta, Screen Germplasm, and Identify Infection Routes on Leaf Surfaces frontiersin.org/article/10.3…
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"Fungi have long sustained and enriched life on Earth. We are unthinkable without them, and yet, we are only just beginning to understand the intricacies of fungal lives. It’s time we give them the attention they deserve." time.com/6256252/fungi-scien… @Giulifungi @MerlinSheldrake
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Contaminated Phytophthora cultures? Check our paper and its suppl. materials for a way to get them to sporulate again by @edouard_evan et al. bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.c…
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Today the team and I say good bye to Edouard who leaves @slcuplants to start his on research on Phytophthora @WUR. All the very best! Edouard was a key contributor to many of our past and ongoing research. We also welcome Carolin and Dina who will study effector biology.
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The eINTACT method for studying nuclear changes in host plant cells targeted by bacterial effectors in native infection contexts - Nature Protocols sco.lt/78rkkS
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My birthplace was in East Germany, in the GDR. Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the #reunification of Germany which also gave Chemnitz its original name back. A day to celebrate German democracy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chem…
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Targeted introduction of heritable point mutations into the plant mitochondrial genome - Nature Plants sco.lt/6B42am
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Ph.D. student @DavidJHoey introduces the Great British #LiverwortHunt. Great to see that so many signed up to help plant research. Exciting science outreach @Cambridge_Fest made possible by all of you who send back material and by many contributors @slcuplants. 🙏
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Lovely quote which fully ignores our understanding of the nutritional symbioses of plants, and all aspects of plant biology where it differs from seed-bearing flowering plants. I am glad we are moving on and now appreciate biology in all its diversity.
"No matter what plant is being worked on, the original insight came from Arabidopsis"
Here's the story of how one little plant and decades of collaborative research gave us the tools to grow better crops
ukri.org/about-us/how-we-are…
ALT Close up photo of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant with white flowers
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Powerful new resource for #MyMarchantia
The maturation and aging trajectory of Marchantia polymorpha at single-cell resolution
Online now: The maturation and aging trajectory of Marchantia polymorpha at single-cell resolution dlvr.it/Sqjr1R
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#nonseeduk22 @Phil_Carella @JohnInnesCentre asking how plant immunity and defense mechanisms have evolved.
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When you have to share a room with your older siblings...
gemmae of different development stage in a cup of #MyMarchantia, imaged by @alan_wanke
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NLR immune receptor–nanobody fusions confer plant disease resistance @Kamounlab @JiorgosKourelis science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications - it was a pleasure to write this together with Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab
free access before 19 Nov:
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.@alan_wanke gave an overview on what the genome of Mucoromycotina Fine Root endophyte can tell us about its lifestyle #ICOM12 @ICOM_12
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A root-specific NLR network confers resistance to plant parasitic nematodes - @daniel_luedke et al.
A root-specific NLR network confers resistance to plant parasitic nematodes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_plants
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Mortier et al. 2023 - Evidence that a common arbuscular mycorrhizal network alleviates phosphate shortage in interconnected walnut sapling and maize plants
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