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EmerSys Team - IRHS Angers
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EmerSys Team at IRHS Angers, France - INRAE
Emergence, Systematics & Ecology of Plant Bacteria / Xanthomonas, Xyllela Pathogens / Seed Transmission / Seed Microbiome
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The EmerSys research team from @irhs-angers.bsky.social just joined bluesky!

We study the Emergence, Systematics & Ecology of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. Watch this space if you like Xanthomonas, Xylella, Pseudomonas bacteria and also seed microbiome research 🧫🦠🌿
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Check our new perspective paper exploring how the seed holobiont goes to sleep 😴 and reactivate for germination.
A lot of exciting research to be done to understand dormancy mechanisms in microbes and plants ☘️
@emersys-irhs.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social
Dormancy and reactivation of the seed and its microbiome: a holobiont perspective

#mSystems review by Davide Gerna, @thomas-chadelaud.bsky.social, @fly-florian.bsky.social, @lmatthieul.bsky.social, Armelle Darrasse and @microbialmarie.bsky.social

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December 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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#PMS2025 Check the posters of my 2 wonderful PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social & Louna Colaert-Sentenac!

Results on multi-kingdom SynCom experiments inoculated on seeds to perform plant microbiome engineering & promote pathogen resistance on rapeseed & common bean 🫘 🌱
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November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Very happy to be in Antequera, Spain for #PMS2025 with my 2 PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social and Louna Coleart-Sentenac
We will present results from the SUCSEED project on culturomics and seed microbiome engineering using multi-kingdom SynComs 🫘🧫
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November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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#OurTuesdaySeminar: delighted to have our two colleagues Alain Sarniguet and Matthieu Barret from @emersys-irhs.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social who gave us an overview of #bacteria-bacteria #interactions (T6SS & siderophores) in seed #microbiota.
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Great night for the Fête de la Science at the stunning Digital Floralia exhibition (Miguel Chevalier)-Musée des Beaux Arts Angers
I enjoyed chatting about our research on seed microbiota, holobionts and alternatives to pesticides 🦠👩‍💻🌱
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October 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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We are very excited to make the first announcement of SeedCon 2026. Please mark your calendars and look out for further updates on seedcon.org #SeedCon2026 #SeedMicrobiome #MicrobialInheritance #PlantMicrobiome #Conference
Save the Date!
Join us for SeedCon 2026 – The First International Seed Microbiome Conference in Potsdam, Germany.
📅 May 5–7, 2026
More details coming soon: seedcon.org
#SeedCon2026 #SeedMicrobiome #MicrobialInheritance #PlantMicrobiome #Conference
September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New paper from the team 🎉 by M Briand, M-A Jacques & J Dittmer
The hidden life of Xylella
SRA data mining reveals new host plants & unrecognized infected areas in the world 🌍!
Genomes provide evidence for a 3rd Xylella species infecting wild rice 🌾
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The hidden life of Xylella: mining the NCBI Sequence Read Archive reveals potential new species, host plants, and infected areas for this elusive bacterial plant pathogen | Applied and Environmental M...
The rapid detection of a pathogen in a new environment and/or in a new host plant is essential to mitigate disease outbreaks. However, bacteria with a wide plant host range, many asymptomatic hosts, a...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly

Current Opinion in Microbiology by @logansuteau.bsky.social et al from @microbialmarie.bsky.social

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September 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Check this paper from the team in collaboration with Simon Law (CSIRO) on transient microbial architects in plant microbiota 🌱
Happy to see our paper out in Current Op in Microbiology!
We show how transient microbes can play key roles in plant fitness & microbiota assembly 🦠
The 1st 1st author article for my 2 fantastic PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social & Louna Coleart-Sentenac 🎉
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September 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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New Tansley review out in @newphyt.bsky.social with @fdiniandreote.bsky.social and Gabriel Castrillo! We explore how the root is shaped by dialogue with soil microbes—highlighting emerging mechanisms and future research directions in root plasticity and microbiome interactions.
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Microbial drivers of root plasticity
Soils are highly heterogeneous and dynamic systems, experiencing a constant flow of plant root exudates and moisture fluctuations that affect nutrient distribution, soil physicochemical properties, a...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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📢 New preprint alert!
We used comparative genomics on 72,000+ bacterial genomes to uncover the genetic basis of microbial adaptation to multicellular hosts—plants and animals alike.
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The Genetic Basis of Bacterial Adaptation to Hosts
Microbes colonize and interact with diverse multicellular hosts using specialized genes, many of which remain unidentified. Better understanding of host-associated gene functions is a key aspect of mi...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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New pre-print from my group - project led by PhD student Michael Hoffert. We set out on a daunting mission to generate a 'periodic table' of bacterial diversity (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A periodic table of bacteria?: Mapping bacterial diversity in trait space
Bacterial diversity can be overwhelming. There is an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, but many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmental prefe...
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July 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward?
At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below
The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!
July 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Check out this new paper from the team led by former PhD student Tiffany Garin on the role of T6SS mediated competition on seed microbiota assembly and transmission 💉🦠🌱
T6SS-mediated competition by Stenotrophomonas rhizophila shapes seed-borne bacterial communities and seed-to-seedling transmission dynamics

#mSystems from Alain Sarniguet @irhs-angers.bsky.social
with @lmatthieul.bsky.social @microbialmarie.bsky.social

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July 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Amateurs d'avocats 🥑 ?

Mardi 27/05, deux collègues mexicains nous ont proposé un séminaire sur les microbiotes rhizosphérique et du nectar de l'avocatier afin de développer des approches de biocontrôle et biostimulation.

Merci @drafred.bsky.social & Alfonso Mendez Bravo
#microbiote #biocontrole
June 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A great seminar by @lmatthieul.bsky.social from @emersys-irhs.bsky.social on seed microbiota today!

FR: un séminaire merveilleux par Matthieu Barret d’équipe EmerSys sur le microbiote de la graine aujourd’hui !

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May 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Fantastic (and very busy) two days visiting @irhs-angers.bsky.social and sharing insights on plant #microbiota and #syncoms with the @emersys-irhs.bsky.social and #FungiSem teams. 🥑🍅🫘🐝

And what a greenhouse! 🤩

Thanks @microbialmarie.bsky.social for having us!
May 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We are very happy to host you with Alfonso Mendez Bravo! Great talks and discussions about plant-microbiome interactions, pathobiomes, nectar yeasts! Really cool research on avocado 🥑 🦠
Made it to beautiful Angers and looking forward to two days of fruitful discussions with colleagues at @emersys-irhs.bsky.social.
May 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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We had a lot of fun doing our "Proof by Underpants" 🩲experiment with 2 groups of middle schoolers from Angers !
We will compare the soil health of an orchard and a grassland from our Experimental station UE HORTI @inrae-france.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Check our preprint led by our colleagues from the FungiSem team @irhs-angers.bsky.social
High prevalence of Basidiomycota yeasts in seeds across multiple plant species 🌾🍅🫘🥬
Unexplored Yeast diversity in Seed Microbiota

Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces
March 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Last week to apply to join our team in Angers as a PhD student with @fly-florian.bsky.social
📢 Open PhD Position
With @fly-florian.bsky.social, we are recruiting a PhD student to develop CRISPR-Based Microbiome Editing to Study Microbial Interactions in Early Plant Life 🧬 🌿
Join us in Angers, France in the @emersys-irhs.bsky.social at @inrae-france.bsky.social
🗓️ Deadline 03/31
More info 👇
March 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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#StandUpForScience protest here in Angers, France 🇫🇷 with @emersys-irhs.bsky.social and @irhs-angers.bsky.social represented 🥼 in front of @ua-recherche.bsky.social
We stand with our American colleagues facing unprecedented attacks against Science, Research, Public & Environmental health ✊
March 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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📢 Open PhD Position
With @fly-florian.bsky.social, we are recruiting a PhD student to develop CRISPR-Based Microbiome Editing to Study Microbial Interactions in Early Plant Life 🧬 🌿
Join us in Angers, France in the @emersys-irhs.bsky.social at @inrae-france.bsky.social
🗓️ Deadline 03/31
More info 👇
March 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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📆 Labmeeting IRHS : Boris Taillefer, postdoc de l’équipe EmerSys nous a présenté ses travaux sur le rôle des effecteurs T6SS de Stenotrophomonas rhizophila dans le microbiote des graines. 🦠 🌱
#Microbiote #T6SS #Stenotrophomonas #SeedMicrobiome #PlantHealth
February 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM