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Why are so many plant viruses phloem-restricted? New work from Xueping Zhou’s lab reveals how this tissue tropism is determined in a geminivirus — and why phloem confinement can turn out to be an evolutionary advantage! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌱🦠🚷🅿️🛫🌱
Defence-mediated phloem restriction of a plant virus facilitates insect transmission - Nature Communications
How plant viruses are restricted to the phloem are long-standing questions in plant virology. The paper shows PENETRATION3 activity and callose deposition confine plant viruses to the phloem, which fa...
www.nature.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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kmerchante.bsky.social
Join us in Málaga!
pgrp2026.bsky.social Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants - PGRP2026 @pgrp2026.bsky.social · 29d
🎉 The PGRP2026 website is live & registration is OPEN!

👉 malaga-en.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index

Check out our amazing lineup of speakers
Don’t miss out: we´ll also select speakers from submitted abstracts ❗️

Hurry up! we have limited seats!

Join us in Málaga, Oct 5–7, 2026 🌞
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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incavirus.bsky.social
Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
AGO5 restricts virus vertical transmission in plant gametophytes
The propagation of a viral infection from a host parent to its progeny is known as vertical transmission, or seed transmission in plants. It allows viral infections to rapidly spread locally via polle...
www.biorxiv.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
geminiteamlab.bsky.social
The GT goes to Stuttgart! A (brief) trip, nice scenery, good food, a touch of (mostly fictitious) science, and excellent company! What else could one wish for in a lab retreat? (Ah — it was also the 10th anniversary of the lab!) 🎂🌱🦠
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social
Great talk by @delphinem-p.bsky.social from @geminiteamlab.bsky.social yesterday: “Hijacking the Plant #Spliceosome” on how alternative splicing drives #viral infection and #tomato fruit development 🍅

Thanks to our host @incavirus.bsky.social for organizing this insightful seminar! 👏
Delphine Pott (left) and Marco Incarbone (right) standing in front of a yellow wall and next to a window facade in an office building. Both are smiling.
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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jamespblloyd.bsky.social
Such a cool pre-print on making sentinel plants - so much potential!

Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bioluminescent sentinel plants enable autonomous diagnostics of viral infections
Plants engineered with synthetic genetic programs can transform how we monitor and manage the extension of crop pests and diseases. Here, we establish a bioluminescent platform in Nicotiana benthamian...
www.biorxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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plantaeofficial.bsky.social
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: The why, why and how of symptom development in viral disease (Annu. Rev. Phytopathology) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) @geminiteamlab.bsky.social buff.ly/dsQwgbo

#PlantaePSRW
Review: The what, how and why of symptom development in viral disease | Plantae
I was initially drawn to this review by curiosity about its title; I realized I hadn’t ever wondered how and why viral infections cause symptoms in plants. I’m so glad I looked into it!
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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kjschmid.bsky.social
The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:

- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x

Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025

RT are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs
Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
www.uni-hohenheim.de
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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delphinem-p.bsky.social
Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!
geminiteamlab.bsky.social GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Oct 3
How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
geminiteamlab.bsky.social
How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
geminiteamlab.bsky.social
Incredibly happy and proud of our Chaonan Shi (chaonan123.bsky.social ), who successfully defended her doctoral thesis yesterday at the @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social ! (And what a brilliant defence it was!) 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr Shi!!! 🍾🥂🍋‍🟩🌶️ We are so lucky to have you in our team ❤️
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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hendersi.bsky.social
Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... @cam.ac.uk @camplantsci.bsky.social
Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science
The Board of Electors to the Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to
www.cam.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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annualreviews.bsky.social
🌿 The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Phytopathology is now online. Most read article is "Functions and Mechanisms of Secreted Proteinaceous Effectors of Broad-Host-Range Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens" by Liu et al. arevie.ws/4gq0jAa

Check out the TOC: arevie.ws/4npcHSW @kamounlab.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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maitesaura.bsky.social
New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 :
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494
September 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
geminiteamlab.bsky.social
📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!
September 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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steffffff.bsky.social
To all friends and colleagues virologists

SAVE THE DATE for the next International Symposium on Single Stranded DNA viruses

Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
June 15-19 2026

Stay put for more info soon when website goes on air !
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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as-in-hohenheim.bsky.social
Check out this new story from the Felix lab, with some contribution from us:
Receptor antagonist prevents hyperactivation of the plant immune system
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A receptor antagonist counterbalances multiple systemin phytocytokines in tomato
Tight regulation of immune activation is crucial for plant health. How plants control the actions of their immunostimulatory phytocytokines is largely…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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albertopmacho.bsky.social
Our latest article is now online!
@PlantBiotechnologyJournal

Expression of Arabidopsis FLS2 in N. benthamiana confers responsiveness to Ralstonia flg22 and activation of anti-bacterial immunity
doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

By Meng Li, Yujiao Chen, and Yali Wei
doi.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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egarcia-perez.bsky.social
Inspiring time at @ismpmi.bsky.social, where I had the honour of sharing my PhD work on repurposing viruses for plant biomanufacturing. It was great to reconnect with old friends (special shoutout to @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 💚) and meet so many researchers pushing plant–microbe science forward 🌱🧬🧫
July 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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plosbiology.org
Previous studies of extrachromosomal circular DNA #eccDNA in #plants are based on short-read seq. @vanderschuren-lab.bsky.social uses long-read seq to obtain a map of full-length eccDNAs from #Arabidopsis, identifying their genomic origins & epigenetic regulation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44Mq3RI
Dynamics and distribution of eccDNA in Arabidopsis. Left: Schematic representation of eccDNA amplification and sequencing via CIDER-Seq pipeline. Top right: EccDNA size distribution in Arabidopsis Col-0 leaf tissues (n = 4,158). The x-axis shows eccDNA size in kb and the y-axis shows the percentage of eccDNAs belonging to each window. Middle right: Size ranges of eccDNAs with marked median and quantiles (n = 4,190). Bottom right: Percentages of eccDNA reads mapping to TAIR CDS, TE, or intergenic databases (values represent the average of three replicates).
July 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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eiriklag.bsky.social
I had a lot of fun ☺️ next time we need more virus sessions and posters!
July 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
geminiteamlab.bsky.social
Such an intense and enjoyable week at #2025MPMI!
July 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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suaybuestuen.bsky.social
Next in the concurrent session “spatial and temporal session” is @type3lab.bsky.social who will talk about their amazing findings on distinct pseudomonas subpopulations that cooperate to colonize plants #2025ISMPMI
July 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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suaybuestuen.bsky.social
If you wanna dive into the world of #proteostasis and its role in plant immunity, visit @margotraffeiner.bsky.social poster (P-405) today. She discovered a novel proteotoxicity regulator (a protease with ubiquitin binding capacities) that plays a role in biotic and abiotic stresses! #2025ISMPMI
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM