Marco Giovannetti
@magiovan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at University of Torino, Italy, working on plant-microbe interaction, plant genetic diversity, GWAS, symbiotic interactions
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@arianna-kr8.bsky.social on Plant genetic and root-associated microbial diversity modulate Lactuca sativa responsiveness to a soil inoculum under phosphate deficiency
#PMS2025
#PMS2025
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@arianna-kr8.bsky.social on Plant genetic and root-associated microbial diversity modulate Lactuca sativa responsiveness to a soil inoculum under phosphate deficiency
#PMS2025
#PMS2025
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
It was wonderful to have Bijun with us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social & @incavirus.bsky.social to finally "use our microscope to its full potential" as our core-facility put it! 🔬
Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!
Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
It was wonderful to have Bijun with us @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social & @incavirus.bsky.social to finally "use our microscope to its full potential" as our core-facility put it! 🔬
Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!
Congrats to all, esp. @bijuntang.bsky.social and @xanderjones.bsky.social ! Super happy to be a part of this great story!
Have a look at our latest preprint about MLO role in root development and calcium signaling!
1/6) Third effort from my PhD with @magiovan.bsky.social and @lorellanavazio.bsky.social, happy to see it online!
We show that a symbiotic clade IV MLO (LjMLO4) regulates root development and responses to endogenous RALF34 via calcium signalling in Lotus japonicus
www.biorxiv.org.
We show that a symbiotic clade IV MLO (LjMLO4) regulates root development and responses to endogenous RALF34 via calcium signalling in Lotus japonicus
www.biorxiv.org.
A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus
Mildew Locus O (MLO) genes, initially identified as powdery mildew susceptibility factors, are increasingly recognized as multifunctional regulators implicated in diverse processes including plant rep...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Have a look at our latest preprint about MLO role in root development and calcium signaling!
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.676995v1
September 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A symbiotic MLO gene regulates root development via RALF34-triggered Ca2+ signalling in Lotus japonicus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.676995v1
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Oggi esce VERTIGINE, il mio nuovo libro. Un viaggio tra la spietatezza del metodo scientifico, la potenza delle nostre emozioni e il mercato, a volte cinico, delle speranze /1
amzn.eu/d/bBjv73s
amzn.eu/d/bBjv73s
Vertigine. Storie di chi si affida alla scienza e di chi impara a farlo : Mautino, Beatrice: Amazon.it: Libri
Vertigine. Storie di chi si affida alla scienza e di chi impara a farlo : Mautino, Beatrice: Amazon.it: Libri
amzn.eu
September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Oggi esce VERTIGINE, il mio nuovo libro. Un viaggio tra la spietatezza del metodo scientifico, la potenza delle nostre emozioni e il mercato, a volte cinico, delle speranze /1
amzn.eu/d/bBjv73s
amzn.eu/d/bBjv73s
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#PMS2025 is going global! 🌍
So far, participants from 32 countries have registered for #PMS2025
This is your chance to connect, share ideas, and network with a international community of #plantmicrobiome scientists.
📅 Join now @ 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#MicrobiomeResearch
So far, participants from 32 countries have registered for #PMS2025
This is your chance to connect, share ideas, and network with a international community of #plantmicrobiome scientists.
📅 Join now @ 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#MicrobiomeResearch
September 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#PMS2025 is going global! 🌍
So far, participants from 32 countries have registered for #PMS2025
This is your chance to connect, share ideas, and network with a international community of #plantmicrobiome scientists.
📅 Join now @ 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#MicrobiomeResearch
So far, participants from 32 countries have registered for #PMS2025
This is your chance to connect, share ideas, and network with a international community of #plantmicrobiome scientists.
📅 Join now @ 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com
#MicrobiomeResearch
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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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I still think about this 2018 “American Gut” study every time I go grocery shopping - eating MORE than 30 types of plants per week boosts diversity in your gut microbiome, and also reduces antibiotic resistance genes in your body journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I still think about this 2018 “American Gut” study every time I go grocery shopping - eating MORE than 30 types of plants per week boosts diversity in your gut microbiome, and also reduces antibiotic resistance genes in your body journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
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"Diversity of perspectives and knowledge stimulates creativity, and collaborative work enables projects that would be impossible to achieve alone." - Dr. Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona.
botany.one/2025/09/ceci...
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
botany.one/2025/09/ceci...
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
September 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Diversity of perspectives and knowledge stimulates creativity, and collaborative work enables projects that would be impossible to achieve alone." - Dr. Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona.
botany.one/2025/09/ceci...
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
botany.one/2025/09/ceci...
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪
First some back pain I had to treat with cortisone injection that forced me to postpone the flight. Then, yesterday, my flight was cancelled. Now I'm finally on my way to #2025ISMPMI. A bit late, but I hope to catch up with friends and science!
July 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
First some back pain I had to treat with cortisone injection that forced me to postpone the flight. Then, yesterday, my flight was cancelled. Now I'm finally on my way to #2025ISMPMI. A bit late, but I hope to catch up with friends and science!
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a verifiable and citable record of your work. It also protects you from bad actors — the evidence will be…
medium.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters)
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors.
#ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat
medium.com/p/why-im-ski...
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New preprint out!
We reveal that ERAD, a protein degradation pathway, selectively targets intracellular PILS auxin transport facilitators to control growth.
This expands ERAD's role beyond protein quality control, right into developmental regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint out!
We reveal that ERAD, a protein degradation pathway, selectively targets intracellular PILS auxin transport facilitators to control growth.
This expands ERAD's role beyond protein quality control, right into developmental regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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New preprint out!
We reveal that ERAD, a protein degradation pathway, selectively targets intracellular PILS auxin transport facilitators to control growth.
This expands ERAD's role beyond protein quality control, right into developmental regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint out!
We reveal that ERAD, a protein degradation pathway, selectively targets intracellular PILS auxin transport facilitators to control growth.
This expands ERAD's role beyond protein quality control, right into developmental regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
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...
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
June 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
1/🚨 New preprint alert! Can mutualists and pathogens co-colonise the same living plant cell and what does that do to the plant membranes that surround these microbes?
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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💥🥳 At long last, our latest paper is out!
Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Led heroically by Sylvia Chang & @jonowells.bsky.social
A study which has changed the way I think of #transposons! No less! 🧵 1/n
Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Led heroically by Sylvia Chang & @jonowells.bsky.social
A study which has changed the way I think of #transposons! No less! 🧵 1/n
Gag proteins encoded by endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development | PNAS
Transposable elements (TEs) make up the bulk of eukaryotic genomes and examples abound
of TE-derived sequences repurposed for organismal function. ...
www.pnas.org
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
💥🥳 At long last, our latest paper is out!
Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Led heroically by Sylvia Chang & @jonowells.bsky.social
A study which has changed the way I think of #transposons! No less! 🧵 1/n
Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Led heroically by Sylvia Chang & @jonowells.bsky.social
A study which has changed the way I think of #transposons! No less! 🧵 1/n
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
Amazing !! Antiproteolysis peptides (APPs), identified by artificial intelligence, stabilized TF by inhibiting E3 ligase to induce resistance. Targeted Inhibition of Protein Degradation #TIPD #PPSTasis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Commentary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Commentary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
April 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Amazing !! Antiproteolysis peptides (APPs), identified by artificial intelligence, stabilized TF by inhibiting E3 ligase to induce resistance. Targeted Inhibition of Protein Degradation #TIPD #PPSTasis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Commentary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Commentary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Plant genetic and root-associated microbial diversity modulate Lactuca sativa responsiveness to a soil inoculum under phosphate deficiency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646582v1
April 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Plant genetic and root-associated microbial diversity modulate Lactuca sativa responsiveness to a soil inoculum under phosphate deficiency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646582v1
It's always a good feeling to have things out on biorXiv! That's the second line of research we took with lettuce a few years ago, spearheaded by Arianna!
Excited to share our latest publication in bioRxiv regarding the response of lettuce to a soil microbial consortium 🥬🦠.
@magiovan.bsky.social
@magiovan.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
It's always a good feeling to have things out on biorXiv! That's the second line of research we took with lettuce a few years ago, spearheaded by Arianna!
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
A must read for AM symbiosis afficionados
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A fungal sRNA silences a host plant transcription factor to promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Cross-kingdom RNA interference (ckRNAi) is a mechanism of interspecies communication where small RNAs (sRNAs) are transported from one organism to another; these sRNAs silence target genes in trans ...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A must read for AM symbiosis afficionados
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
Happy to share this viewpoint, written together with @fabriceroux7.bsky.social and Fabienne Vailleau @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1/4
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Building microbial synthetic communities: get inspired by the design of synthetic plant communities
In the last decade, the generation of host-associated microbial culture collections has allowed the fine disentangling of complex relationships between commensal microbes and their hosts, and within-...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Happy to share this viewpoint, written together with @fabriceroux7.bsky.social and Fabienne Vailleau @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1/4
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1/4
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I'm incredibly proud of the work the broad plant science community has done through the ROOT&SHOOT initiative.
Given its nature, our future funding is uncertain.
Please give us a boost by sharing this announcement and joining us for the event, we'd love to have a big turnout. Thanks! 💚 #PlantSci
Given its nature, our future funding is uncertain.
Please give us a boost by sharing this announcement and joining us for the event, we'd love to have a big turnout. Thanks! 💚 #PlantSci
February 25th, 11AM EST.
Join us for a panel discussion on "Perspectives from Black Professionals in the Plant Sciences" featuring Dr. Margaret Young, Dr. Stephon Fitzpatrick, & Dr. Jason B. Thomas.
rootandshoot.org/root-shoot-w...
Open to all, come be a part of it!
#BlackHistoryMonth
Join us for a panel discussion on "Perspectives from Black Professionals in the Plant Sciences" featuring Dr. Margaret Young, Dr. Stephon Fitzpatrick, & Dr. Jason B. Thomas.
rootandshoot.org/root-shoot-w...
Open to all, come be a part of it!
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'm incredibly proud of the work the broad plant science community has done through the ROOT&SHOOT initiative.
Given its nature, our future funding is uncertain.
Please give us a boost by sharing this announcement and joining us for the event, we'd love to have a big turnout. Thanks! 💚 #PlantSci
Given its nature, our future funding is uncertain.
Please give us a boost by sharing this announcement and joining us for the event, we'd love to have a big turnout. Thanks! 💚 #PlantSci
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf
January 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf
Reposted by Marco Giovannetti
Peter Visscher is a luminary in human genetics, but in this case, he is completely wrong. Here's why 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine? - Nature
We discuss the potential consequences and ethical concerns of polygenic genome editing of human embryos to alter specific variants associated with polygenic diseases, highlighting the possibility of r...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Peter Visscher is a luminary in human genetics, but in this case, he is completely wrong. Here's why 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...