Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬
@apmweber.bsky.social
Plant scientist. Keen on understanding the inner works of photosynthesis. Works at @hhu.bsky.social
https://www.plant-biochemistry.hhu.de
https://www.plant-biochemistry.hhu.de
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Hustle 🌱 👩🔬👨🔬🔬guys! Last day to register for #MBP2026 by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social at: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Registration
Registration: Conference of Molecular Biology of Plants
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November 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Hustle 🌱 👩🔬👨🔬🔬guys! Last day to register for #MBP2026 by @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social at: www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
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Tomorrow Luciana Gaccione from Lorenzo Barchi's lab will explain on our @nanoporetech.com day at HHU Düsseldorf, how to turn what we sequenced with 9.41 technology (!) into a high quality pangenome. If you can't make it, read all about it here as well: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Graph-based pangenomes and pan-phenome provide a cornerstone for eggplant biology and breeding - Nature Communications
Eggplants are important vegetables worldwide. Here, the authors report 40 genome assemblies of Solanum melongena, its progenitor S. insanum and the allied species S. incanum to construct two pangenome...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Tomorrow Luciana Gaccione from Lorenzo Barchi's lab will explain on our @nanoporetech.com day at HHU Düsseldorf, how to turn what we sequenced with 9.41 technology (!) into a high quality pangenome. If you can't make it, read all about it here as well: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A small contribution from us & Edi Gerhardt @febsj.bsky.social
Highlighting the recent findings: Structure of the NifL-NifA complex controlling nitrogen fixation gene expression in Azotobacter
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sfb1381.bsky.social @hhu.de @mibinet.bsky.social
Highlighting the recent findings: Structure of the NifL-NifA complex controlling nitrogen fixation gene expression in Azotobacter
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sfb1381.bsky.social @hhu.de @mibinet.bsky.social
FEBS Press
The urgent need for sustainable agriculture places biological nitrogen fixation at the forefront of current biotechnological research. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria play crucial roles in agric...
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A small contribution from us & Edi Gerhardt @febsj.bsky.social
Highlighting the recent findings: Structure of the NifL-NifA complex controlling nitrogen fixation gene expression in Azotobacter
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sfb1381.bsky.social @hhu.de @mibinet.bsky.social
Highlighting the recent findings: Structure of the NifL-NifA complex controlling nitrogen fixation gene expression in Azotobacter
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sfb1381.bsky.social @hhu.de @mibinet.bsky.social
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Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Countdown: there are only 9 days left ... if you want to join
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
Strong BSC enrichment of GLDP, GLDT, SHM, GGT, GOX, and GS2/GOGAT — the full photorespiratory glycine–serine–NH₃ cycle is shifted from mesophyll to BSC in C3-C4 Moricandia arvensis
This shift couples CO₂ concentration, nitrogen re-assimilation, and redox balance within BSC mitochondria and plastids.
This shift couples CO₂ concentration, nitrogen re-assimilation, and redox balance within BSC mitochondria and plastids.
🌿 RESEARCH 🌿
Single-nucleus RNAseq reveals bundle sheath cell-specific photorespiration pathways in Moricandia arvensis, incl ammonium assimilation & redox regulation, highlighting metabolic compartmentalization in C3–C4 photosynthesis – Triesch et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Single-nucleus RNAseq reveals bundle sheath cell-specific photorespiration pathways in Moricandia arvensis, incl ammonium assimilation & redox regulation, highlighting metabolic compartmentalization in C3–C4 photosynthesis – Triesch et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Strong BSC enrichment of GLDP, GLDT, SHM, GGT, GOX, and GS2/GOGAT — the full photorespiratory glycine–serine–NH₃ cycle is shifted from mesophyll to BSC in C3-C4 Moricandia arvensis
This shift couples CO₂ concentration, nitrogen re-assimilation, and redox balance within BSC mitochondria and plastids.
This shift couples CO₂ concentration, nitrogen re-assimilation, and redox balance within BSC mitochondria and plastids.
🌱 The #TaCoCass Team in the field: evaluating #cassava lines with diverse architecture and productivity. The trials highlight the genetic variation that underpins efforts to boost photosynthetic efficiency in cassava, paving the way toward more resilience and higher yield
#Cassava #Photosynthesis
#Cassava #Photosynthesis
September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🌱 The #TaCoCass Team in the field: evaluating #cassava lines with diverse architecture and productivity. The trials highlight the genetic variation that underpins efforts to boost photosynthetic efficiency in cassava, paving the way toward more resilience and higher yield
#Cassava #Photosynthesis
#Cassava #Photosynthesis
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New Insights Into Bacterial Motility and DNA Transfer:
a small press on our discovery of ComFB signaling family by @claussenarne.bsky.social @hhu.de
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social
a small press on our discovery of ComFB signaling family by @claussenarne.bsky.social @hhu.de
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New Insights Into Bacterial Motility and DNA Transfer:
a small press on our discovery of ComFB signaling family by @claussenarne.bsky.social @hhu.de
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social
a small press on our discovery of ComFB signaling family by @claussenarne.bsky.social @hhu.de
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social
A new crop in the lab. 🌱 Field day with TaCoCass team members — working to boost photosynthetic efficiency in cassava and secure a more sustainable food future. #Cassava #Photosynthesis #FoodSecurity
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A new crop in the lab. 🌱 Field day with TaCoCass team members — working to boost photosynthetic efficiency in cassava and secure a more sustainable food future. #Cassava #Photosynthesis #FoodSecurity
We are deeply saddened by the news that Andrew D. Hanson (@adhansonlab.bsky.social) is no longer with us. He was an exceptional scientist, mentor, and leader in multiple fields. He constantly reminded us that over-promising would backfire. Rest in peace, Andrew.
September 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We are deeply saddened by the news that Andrew D. Hanson (@adhansonlab.bsky.social) is no longer with us. He was an exceptional scientist, mentor, and leader in multiple fields. He constantly reminded us that over-promising would backfire. Rest in peace, Andrew.
RETICULATA1 (RE1) exports basic amino acids from plastids—implications for amino-acid homeostasis and development.
News & Views: “Reticulata Weaves the Metabolic Net” (Katrin Philippar, Nature Plants). doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natplants.nature.com #PlantScience #Arabidopsis
News & Views: “Reticulata Weaves the Metabolic Net” (Katrin Philippar, Nature Plants). doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natplants.nature.com #PlantScience #Arabidopsis
August 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
RETICULATA1 (RE1) exports basic amino acids from plastids—implications for amino-acid homeostasis and development.
News & Views: “Reticulata Weaves the Metabolic Net” (Katrin Philippar, Nature Plants). doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natplants.nature.com #PlantScience #Arabidopsis
News & Views: “Reticulata Weaves the Metabolic Net” (Katrin Philippar, Nature Plants). doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natplants.nature.com #PlantScience #Arabidopsis
How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
How amino acids are transported in plants
Plants produce all amino acids essential for human life. This commonly occurs in specialised cell organelles, so-called plastids. A research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (H...
www.eurekalert.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
@hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Coming out in @NaturePlants today (rdcu.be/eBScJ): The mechanism for essential amino acid transport across the chloroplast envelope. We identified RETICULATA1 (RE1) as a new type of transport protein. #PlantScience #AminoAcidTransport #Chloroplasts. @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬
Last month, our consortium met in Tartu, Estonia, to share our latest progress and reflect on what’s next for our #H2020 project. Here is a sneak peek! 📽️ 🌻
There were lots of updates, including cross-consortium publications, regulatory deliverables, and upcoming trials.
There were lots of updates, including cross-consortium publications, regulatory deliverables, and upcoming trials.
July 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Last month, our consortium met in Tartu, Estonia, to share our latest progress and reflect on what’s next for our #H2020 project. Here is a sneak peek! 📽️ 🌻
There were lots of updates, including cross-consortium publications, regulatory deliverables, and upcoming trials.
There were lots of updates, including cross-consortium publications, regulatory deliverables, and upcoming trials.
GDC, but also SHM, GGAT, and GOX are predominantly bundle-sheath expressed in C3-C4 intermediate Moricandia
Single-nuclei sequencing of Moricandia arvensis reveals bundle sheath cell function in the photorespiratory shuttle of C3-C4 intermediate Brassicaceae url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
Single-nuclei sequencing of Moricandia arvensis reveals bundle sheath cell function in the photorespiratory shuttle of C3-C4 intermediate Brassicaceae url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
Single-nuclei sequencing of Moricandia arvensis reveals bundle sheath cell function in the photorespiratory shuttle of C3-C4 intermediate Brassicaceae
Abstract. Spatially confined gene expression determines cell identity and is fundamental to complex plant traits. In the evolutionary transition from C3 to
academic.oup.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
GDC, but also SHM, GGAT, and GOX are predominantly bundle-sheath expressed in C3-C4 intermediate Moricandia
Single-nuclei sequencing of Moricandia arvensis reveals bundle sheath cell function in the photorespiratory shuttle of C3-C4 intermediate Brassicaceae url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
Single-nuclei sequencing of Moricandia arvensis reveals bundle sheath cell function in the photorespiratory shuttle of C3-C4 intermediate Brassicaceae url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬
🔍 Guten Morgen, HHU! Am Samstag ist Tag der Forschung an der HHU!
Am 5. Juli laden wir alle großen und kleinen Interessierten von 11-15 Uhr zum Ausprobieren und Entdecken auf den Campus ein.
Freut euch auf ein vielfältiges Programm:
• Interaktive Experimente
• Mitmachaktionen für Groß & Klein 1/3
Am 5. Juli laden wir alle großen und kleinen Interessierten von 11-15 Uhr zum Ausprobieren und Entdecken auf den Campus ein.
Freut euch auf ein vielfältiges Programm:
• Interaktive Experimente
• Mitmachaktionen für Groß & Klein 1/3
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🔍 Guten Morgen, HHU! Am Samstag ist Tag der Forschung an der HHU!
Am 5. Juli laden wir alle großen und kleinen Interessierten von 11-15 Uhr zum Ausprobieren und Entdecken auf den Campus ein.
Freut euch auf ein vielfältiges Programm:
• Interaktive Experimente
• Mitmachaktionen für Groß & Klein 1/3
Am 5. Juli laden wir alle großen und kleinen Interessierten von 11-15 Uhr zum Ausprobieren und Entdecken auf den Campus ein.
Freut euch auf ein vielfältiges Programm:
• Interaktive Experimente
• Mitmachaktionen für Groß & Klein 1/3
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬
Updated preprint: MMF1 is "a microbiota receptor” through which Arabidopsis plants perceive their soil microbiome. Perception optimises root microbiome composition, immune status and ultimately leads to better growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A TNL receptor mediates microbiome feedbacks in Arabidopsis
Plant performance depends on the soil microbiome. While microbiome feedbacks are well documented, the mechanisms by which plants perceive and mediate these feedbacks remain unclear. We established a f...
www.biorxiv.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Updated preprint: MMF1 is "a microbiota receptor” through which Arabidopsis plants perceive their soil microbiome. Perception optimises root microbiome composition, immune status and ultimately leads to better growth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"...we propose here that the host genes, as the stable part of the holobiont, play a leading role expressing phenotypes through its microbiome-shaping capacity, possibly through the establishment of universal host genotype-specific core microbiota."
rdcu.be/esIrX
rdcu.be/esIrX
The host genotype actively shapes its microbiome across generations in laboratory mice
rdcu.be
June 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"...we propose here that the host genes, as the stable part of the holobiont, play a leading role expressing phenotypes through its microbiome-shaping capacity, possibly through the establishment of universal host genotype-specific core microbiota."
rdcu.be/esIrX
rdcu.be/esIrX
URGENT The Naked Scientists needs your help. This is one of the best #science #podcast out there. #Cambridge University is planning to make Dr. Chris Smith redundant, which would likely kill the podcast. More info and how you can help here:
www.thenakedscientists.com/sos-cambridg...
www.thenakedscientists.com/sos-cambridg...
SOS - Cambridge University are killing of Dr Chris
EMERGENCY
www.thenakedscientists.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
URGENT The Naked Scientists needs your help. This is one of the best #science #podcast out there. #Cambridge University is planning to make Dr. Chris Smith redundant, which would likely kill the podcast. More info and how you can help here:
www.thenakedscientists.com/sos-cambridg...
www.thenakedscientists.com/sos-cambridg...
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“Utilizing new genomic techniques #NGT in #organic production could improve yields …. and will help achieve the #EU ’s sustainable #agriculture goals” several authors together with our president @apmweber.bsky.social advocate in Cell Reports Sustainability www.cell.com/cell-reports...
New genomic techniques in organic production: Considerations for science-based, effective, and acceptable EU regulation
The EU has a goal of 25% organic farmland by 2030, but lower yields in organic farming
versus non-organic farming puts strain on sustainable food production. Utilizing new
genomic techniques (NGTs) in...
www.cell.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Utilizing new genomic techniques #NGT in #organic production could improve yields …. and will help achieve the #EU ’s sustainable #agriculture goals” several authors together with our president @apmweber.bsky.social advocate in Cell Reports Sustainability www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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In defense of funding foundational plant science (Joanna Friesner , Cristiana T Argueso , Wolfgang Busch , Thorsten Hamann , Lucia Strader , Mary Williams , Shuang Wu , Adrienne H K Roeder) Read more at: doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
doi.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In defense of funding foundational plant science (Joanna Friesner , Cristiana T Argueso , Wolfgang Busch , Thorsten Hamann , Lucia Strader , Mary Williams , Shuang Wu , Adrienne H K Roeder) Read more at: doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
Congratulations Julian @jmhibberd.bsky.social this is well deserved!
Congratulations to Professor Julian Hibberd, Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his groundbreaking work on C4 photosynthesis.
Read more: tinyurl.com/y53wvve3
#PlantSciences 🧪
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
Read more: tinyurl.com/y53wvve3
#PlantSciences 🧪
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Congratulations Julian @jmhibberd.bsky.social this is well deserved!
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With their clever setup to visualize ongoing endosymbiotic gene transfers (EGTs), Enrique Gonzalez-Duran, Ralph Bock and team reveal how double-strand break repair limits excessive EGT. Check out their new Nature Plants paper and my News and Views summary! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A gatekeeper for gene transfers - Nature Plants
Large-scale genetic screening for plastid-to-nucleus gene transfers identifies that fast double-strand break repair functions as a key barrier for nuclear integration of organellar DNA and provides in...
www.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
With their clever setup to visualize ongoing endosymbiotic gene transfers (EGTs), Enrique Gonzalez-Duran, Ralph Bock and team reveal how double-strand break repair limits excessive EGT. Check out their new Nature Plants paper and my News and Views summary! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬
Fantastic group of students made #PlantAct2025 a great experience, thank you all! @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Fantastic group of students made #PlantAct2025 a great experience, thank you all! @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social
Nominate papers from #ECR s for the @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Best Paper Award by April 15. Papers must come from Master or PhD thesis.
Only members of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) are eligible to submit nominations; self-nominations are also accepted for this prize. #PlantScience
Only members of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) are eligible to submit nominations; self-nominations are also accepted for this prize. #PlantScience
For our members:
There is only 1 week left,
if you want to decorate the career of an #ECR
with our Prize for the best #PlantSci paper
📆 Deadline for nominations is 15 April 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us-...
There is only 1 week left,
if you want to decorate the career of an #ECR
with our Prize for the best #PlantSci paper
📆 Deadline for nominations is 15 April 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us-...
April 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Nominate papers from #ECR s for the @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Best Paper Award by April 15. Papers must come from Master or PhD thesis.
Only members of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) are eligible to submit nominations; self-nominations are also accepted for this prize. #PlantScience
Only members of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) are eligible to submit nominations; self-nominations are also accepted for this prize. #PlantScience