Feng Zhou
@fengzhou10.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences (CEMPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai. Contact: fzhou@cemps.ac.cn https://scholar.google.ch/citations?hl=en&user=AYTPXvcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Pinned
Feng Zhou
@fengzhou10.bsky.social
· Oct 8
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
This discovery traces back to the spring of 2018, when I was a postdoc in nikogeldner.bsky.social 's lab. After shifting Arabidopsis seedlings from solid to liquid culture, I observed that the root commensal bacterium CHA0 rapidly colonized Casparian strip–defective mutants.
Reposted by Feng Zhou
Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Feng Zhou
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/...
This discovery traces back to the spring of 2018, when I was a postdoc in nikogeldner.bsky.social 's lab. After shifting Arabidopsis seedlings from solid to liquid culture, I observed that the root commensal bacterium CHA0 rapidly colonized Casparian strip–defective mutants.
Using precise spatial and temporal analysis, researchers in Science provide insight into how bacteria around the root interact both with the plant and with each other.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/3WgNajk
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This discovery traces back to the spring of 2018, when I was a postdoc in nikogeldner.bsky.social 's lab. After shifting Arabidopsis seedlings from solid to liquid culture, I observed that the root commensal bacterium CHA0 rapidly colonized Casparian strip–defective mutants.