Peter Meng
@peterm9.bsky.social
SUSTech |🌿🦠 Plant-Microbe Interactions | Bioinformatics | R & Python | AI in Biology
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So happy to attend the 'Symposium on Plant Immunity and Crop Disease Resistance' in Sanya! Learned so much from the experts' sharing and gained a lot of new knowledge. It was incredibly rewarding!
#PlantImmunity #CropDiseaseResistance #Symposium #Sanya
#PlantImmunity #CropDiseaseResistance #Symposium #Sanya
So happy to attend the 'Symposium on Plant Immunity and Crop Disease Resistance' in Sanya! Learned so much from the experts' sharing and gained a lot of new knowledge. It was incredibly rewarding!
#PlantImmunity #CropDiseaseResistance #Symposium #Sanya
#PlantImmunity #CropDiseaseResistance #Symposium #Sanya
October 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
So happy to attend the 'Symposium on Plant Immunity and Crop Disease Resistance' in Sanya! Learned so much from the experts' sharing and gained a lot of new knowledge. It was incredibly rewarding!
#PlantImmunity #CropDiseaseResistance #Symposium #Sanya
#PlantImmunity #CropDiseaseResistance #Symposium #Sanya
My Supervisor
Yi Song, Southern University of Science and Technology
Characterization of primary immune responder cells in roots based on scRNAseq dataset
#BGIspatialmicrobiome
Characterization of primary immune responder cells in roots based on scRNAseq dataset
#BGIspatialmicrobiome
October 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My Supervisor
A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants
Mukherjee et al. report fitness trade-off between plants and the rhizosphere microbiome
under sulfur deficiency, mediated by the tri-peptide signal glutathione. Competition
among rhizosphere bacteria ...
www.cell.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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You just want to install an R package.
But the screen goes red.
Your stomach drops.
Even pros dread this moment. Here's how to survive it: 🧵
But the screen goes red.
Your stomach drops.
Even pros dread this moment. Here's how to survive it: 🧵
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You just want to install an R package.
But the screen goes red.
Your stomach drops.
Even pros dread this moment. Here's how to survive it: 🧵
But the screen goes red.
Your stomach drops.
Even pros dread this moment. Here's how to survive it: 🧵
Reposted by Peter Meng
FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
SALICYLIC ACID SENSOR1 reveals the propagation of an SA hormone surge during plant pathogen advance
Salicylic acid (SA) is a key phytohormone that orchestrates immune responses against pathogens, including Pseudomonas syringae bacteria. The timing and extent of SA accumulation are tightly controlled...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
FRET sensor for SA developed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Our paper, describing how the T6SSs of P. putida shape the tomato rhizosphere, is now in its final format in @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Communications. If you'd like to learn more, here is a thread (1/11) or read the Article doi.org/10.1093/isme....
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Our paper, describing how the T6SSs of P. putida shape the tomato rhizosphere, is now in its final format in @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Communications. If you'd like to learn more, here is a thread (1/11) or read the Article doi.org/10.1093/isme....
Reposted by Peter Meng
Finally out, such an awesome piece of work, very proud of this one: www.cell.com/cell-systems... #MicroSky
October 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Finally out, such an awesome piece of work, very proud of this one: www.cell.com/cell-systems... #MicroSky
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science 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 12:31 PM
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
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 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science!
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
(1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.
Reposted by Peter Meng
Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Peter Meng
Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU
Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly
Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...
Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly
Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...
September 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Pleased to share our new article in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaboration with the group of Zhong Wei at NJAU
Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly
Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...
Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly
Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnTD6t8JE...
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Resistance gene enrichment sequencing refines the Brassica napus NLRome url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Resistance gene enrichment sequencing refines the Brassica napus NLRome
Resistance gene enrichment sequencing produces a complete repertoire of nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors for Brassica napus, overcoming pri
academic.oup.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Resistance gene enrichment sequencing refines the Brassica napus NLRome url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
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#NewResearch
Computational analysis and pairwise assays reveal that bacterial topoisomerase IV is a target of microbially produced phenazines, which informs synthetic-community design to treat fungal crop infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Computational analysis and pairwise assays reveal that bacterial topoisomerase IV is a target of microbially produced phenazines, which informs synthetic-community design to treat fungal crop infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phenazines contribute to microbiome dynamics by targeting topoisomerase IV - Nature Microbiology
Computational analysis and pairwise assays reveal that bacterial topoisomerase IV is a target of microbially produced phenazines, which informs synthetic-community design to treat fungal crop infectio...
www.nature.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#NewResearch
Computational analysis and pairwise assays reveal that bacterial topoisomerase IV is a target of microbially produced phenazines, which informs synthetic-community design to treat fungal crop infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Computational analysis and pairwise assays reveal that bacterial topoisomerase IV is a target of microbially produced phenazines, which informs synthetic-community design to treat fungal crop infection.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
September 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The "Florédex" ✨, a pokémon-inspired vector collection of the greatest flower designs and their science is coming along nicely 🌷🧬
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
All hand-drawn, digitalised, and animated.
Reposted by Peter Meng
Reposted by Peter Meng
Interactions between native soil microbiome and a synthetic microbial community reveals bacteria with persistent traits
#transwellsystem #Pseudomonas
#mSystems
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#transwellsystem #Pseudomonas
#mSystems
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
August 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Interactions between native soil microbiome and a synthetic microbial community reveals bacteria with persistent traits
#transwellsystem #Pseudomonas
#mSystems
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#transwellsystem #Pseudomonas
#mSystems
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The classic scenario:
Wet lab colleague: "The data looks a bit weird..."
Me (alarm bells ringing internally): "Oh?"
Wet lab colleague: "Is there something wrong with your code?"
Wet lab colleague: "The data looks a bit weird..."
Me (alarm bells ringing internally): "Oh?"
Wet lab colleague: "Is there something wrong with your code?"
🧵 So you want to be a computational biologist?
1/ It’s not about pushing buttons. It’s late nights, failed scripts, breakthroughs, and detective work with data. Let’s dive.
1/ It’s not about pushing buttons. It’s late nights, failed scripts, breakthroughs, and detective work with data. Let’s dive.
August 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The classic scenario:
Wet lab colleague: "The data looks a bit weird..."
Me (alarm bells ringing internally): "Oh?"
Wet lab colleague: "Is there something wrong with your code?"
Wet lab colleague: "The data looks a bit weird..."
Me (alarm bells ringing internally): "Oh?"
Wet lab colleague: "Is there something wrong with your code?"
Reposted by Peter Meng
🧵 So you want to be a computational biologist?
1/ It’s not about pushing buttons. It’s late nights, failed scripts, breakthroughs, and detective work with data. Let’s dive.
1/ It’s not about pushing buttons. It’s late nights, failed scripts, breakthroughs, and detective work with data. Let’s dive.
August 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🧵 So you want to be a computational biologist?
1/ It’s not about pushing buttons. It’s late nights, failed scripts, breakthroughs, and detective work with data. Let’s dive.
1/ It’s not about pushing buttons. It’s late nights, failed scripts, breakthroughs, and detective work with data. Let’s dive.
Reposted by Peter Meng
The resistosome story continues...
Another beautiful structure - this time from a (modified) wheat NLR 🌾
Another beautiful structure - this time from a (modified) wheat NLR 🌾
August 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The resistosome story continues...
Another beautiful structure - this time from a (modified) wheat NLR 🌾
Another beautiful structure - this time from a (modified) wheat NLR 🌾
Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding
A genome editing and AI-driven robotic system that overcomes floral barriers to facilitate
automated hybrid breeding in tomato and soybean.
www.cell.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Engineering crop flower morphology facilitates robotization of cross-pollination and speed breeding: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Biosynthesis of a major plant immunity hormone, salicylate, changed drastically during evolution of flowering plants
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Biosynthesis of a major plant immunity hormone, salicylate, changed drastically during evolution of flowering plants
Salicylate (SA) is a key plant immunity hormone, which induces immunity against biotrophic pathogens. Two SA biosynthetic pathways are known: the isochorismate synthase (ICS) and the phenylalanine amm...
www.biorxiv.org
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Biosynthesis of a major plant immunity hormone, salicylate, changed drastically during evolution of flowering plants
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Linalool-triggered plant-soil feedback drives defense adaptation in dense maize plantings | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Linalool-triggered plant-soil feedback drives defense adaptation in dense maize plantings
High planting density boosts crop yields but also heightens pest and pathogen risks. How plants adapt their defenses under these conditions remains unclear. In this study, we reveal that maize enhance...
www.science.org
August 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Linalool-triggered plant-soil feedback drives defense adaptation in dense maize plantings | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Peter Meng
Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
Amino acid competition shapes A. baumannii gut carriage
Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete w/ microbiota & persist in gut. Amino acid supplementation & differences in diet promote A. baumannii gut colonization in mice & humans
@laurenpalmer.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete w/ microbiota & persist in gut. Amino acid supplementation & differences in diet promote A. baumannii gut colonization in mice & humans
@laurenpalmer.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Amino acid competition shapes Acinetobacter baumannii gut carriage
Ren and Clark et al. show that Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete with
the resident microbiota and persist in the gut. Additional evidence demonstrates that
amino acid supplementation a...
www.cell.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
Reposted by Peter Meng
August 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by Peter Meng
New paper out! Here, I provide my personal view on "Plant-microbe interactions in the context of global change biology"
@psumbiome.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
@psumbiome.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
August 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New paper out! Here, I provide my personal view on "Plant-microbe interactions in the context of global change biology"
@psumbiome.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
@psumbiome.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...