curious_plant_scientist
andytobherre.bsky.social
curious_plant_scientist
@andytobherre.bsky.social
PhD student in Phytopathology @ CAU Kiel
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🙏 A big thank you to all the amazing collaborators:

@rstam.bsky.social @andytobherre.bsky.social, N. Rangegwoda, L. Groenenberg, and T. van der Lee
@uni-kiel.de
July 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Welcome! I taught about your group's HYPervariable effectors this week in MPMI. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A gene with a thousand alleles: The hyper-variable effectors of plant-parasitic nematodes
Pathogens are engaged in a fierce evolutionary arms race with their host. The genes at the forefront of the engagement between kingdoms are often part…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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(2/3) Fungal NUDIX proteins trick plants by disrupting their ability to sense phosphate
Paper here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
and see the associated Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors
Inorganic phosphate (Pi) is essential for life, and plant cells monitor Pi availability by sensing inositol pyrophosphate (PP-InsP) levels. In this work, we describe the hijacking of plant phosphate s...
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM