Team Thomma
@teamthomma.bsky.social
Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Evolutionary Microbiology
@UniCologne & @CEPLAS_1, studying how fungi interact with plants and their environment. He/him. 💛🖤
@UniCologne & @CEPLAS_1, studying how fungi interact with plants and their environment. He/him. 💛🖤
Congratulations @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social! Hugely deserved!! 🥳 🥂
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Congratulations @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social! Hugely deserved!! 🥳 🥂
Tough one! We think the "cry" is not silenced....the plant still cries out, we hypothesise. But, the response (attraction of Pseudomonads) is undermined. So we thought the "undermining" is perhaps a somewhat better analogy.
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Tough one! We think the "cry" is not silenced....the plant still cries out, we hypothesise. But, the response (attraction of Pseudomonads) is undermined. So we thought the "undermining" is perhaps a somewhat better analogy.
For details, see the 🧵we published earlier based on the @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social submission: bsky.app/profile/team...
Last week, our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint was released, a joint-venture of @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social and co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social a 🧵
Undermining the cry for help: The phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658588v1
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
For details, see the 🧵we published earlier based on the @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social submission: bsky.app/profile/team...
Altogether we show that the outcome of effector-mediated microbiota manipulation by Verticillium is determined by the composition of the host-associated microbiota which, in turn, is influenced by the surrounding soil. Happy to hear your feedback! {END}
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Altogether we show that the outcome of effector-mediated microbiota manipulation by Verticillium is determined by the composition of the host-associated microbiota which, in turn, is influenced by the surrounding soil. Happy to hear your feedback! {END}
Intriguingly, tomato root microbiota differed between wild-type and Ave1-deficient Verticillium, with Ave1 causing soil-specific shifts in bacterial composition, even where it did not affect virulence.
October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Intriguingly, tomato root microbiota differed between wild-type and Ave1-deficient Verticillium, with Ave1 causing soil-specific shifts in bacterial composition, even where it did not affect virulence.