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So happy to attend the 'Symposium on Plant Immunity and Crop Disease Resistance' in Sanya! Learned so much from the experts' sharing and gained a lot of new knowledge. It was incredibly rewarding!
#PlantImmunity #CropDiseaseResistance #Symposium #Sanya
October 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
somssich.bsky.social
And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social:

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
somssich.bsky.social
I came across this beautiful obituary for Chris Lamb in @annualreviews.bsky.social, authored by Richard Dixon:

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

It's very well written, putting his science into perspective & also painting a picture of Chris as a person and mentor.

#PlantScience #PlantImmunity
His studies were now raising questions that could only be fully addressed by the application ofthe newly emergingmolecular biology approaches. These were slow to permeate into the plant sciences, and I remember the look ofconfusion on colleagues’ faces when Chris took a swig of his pint of beer and then announced that we needed to adopt cloning approaches. Chris strongly believed in those days that a couple ofpints ofbeer and sev- eral cigarettes in a local pub (either the Happy Man or the Barley Mow at Englefield Green) over lunchtime helped the creative faculties and ensured an optimal design for the experiment. This work led to a series of publications on the mechanisms of induction ofPAL and chal- cone synthase, the first enzyme in the flavonoid pathway that leads to the elicitor-induced bean phytoalexins (41), as well as increased profits for the landlords of the aforementioned pubs. Chris saw this move as an acceptance by the prestigious Salk faculty, which included Nobel laureates Francis Crick and Renato Dulbecco, ofthe maturity and intellectual rigor of the Plant Biology program, and this real- ization resulted in the institute’s administra- tion giving a green light for additional faculty hires. Chris was an outstanding talent spotter, and Joanne Chory was hired in 1988 to start a program on the genetic dissection of photo- morphogenesis, with Detlef Weigel following in 1993, initially working on the genetic dissec- tion of flowering. Chris collaborated with his new hires where appropriate (39, 99), utilized the techniques they were developing, such as T-DNAactivation tagging, in his ownwork (8), and was delighted to see their programs rapidly and independently develop to a stature equal to that of his own. Chris was also attentive to the smaller, more personal details, and was remarkably generous to those who worked in his lab as students, postdoctoral fellows, or visiting scientists; it is notable that he freely allowed many of these people to take the projects they had initiated under his supervision to their new jobs. Another of his major legacies is therefore the number ofcareers he nurtured that are now flourishing at major universities and research institutes throughout the world. There are also the memories that many people have of the sheer fun of doing science with someone who is at once a great leader, a visionary, a lover of the good things in life, and the possessor of a most wonderful sense of humor.
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
somssich.bsky.social
Our article "Guns in Rosettes: The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" is finally published @plantphys.bsky.social!
You can download the #OpenAccess PDF here:

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

But real connoisseurs of #AntimicrobialCompounds will want to get the vinyl boxset: #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
A vinyl box with six colored vinyl LPs sticking out of its right side. The Title "Guns in Rosettes" is on top, with the subtitle "The Arabidopsis chemical weapons arsenal" just below. Then there is an Arabidopsis plant with machine guns sticking out. Below is the statement "6-LP LIMITED EDITION COLORED VINYL BOX SET" The back cover of the vinyl box set showing the tracklist: 1. Methionine-derived compounds Aliphatic GSLs 2. Tryptophan-derived compounds (trptonites) Indolic GSLs Camalexin Hycanite (4-OH-ICN) 3. Phenylalanine-derived compounds (phenylpropanoids) Benzenic GSLs Coumarins Hydroxycinnamates Flavonoids 4. Terpenoids (E)-β-caryophyllene α- and β-pinene Thalianin, arabidin, and DMNT And the statement "Recorded live in front of an audience in 2025"
October 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Bacillus cereus NJ01 induces SA- and ABA-mediated immunity against bacterial pathogens through the EDS1-WRKY18 module

🧑‍🔬 Dacheng Wang, @kenichitsuda.bsky.social, Chunhao Jiang, Yiming Wang, et al.

📔 Cell Reports

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
Bacillus cereus NJ01 induces SA- and ABA-mediated immunity against bacterial pathogens through the EDS1-WRKY18 module
Emerging evidence suggests a beneficial role of rhizobacteria in ameliorating plant disease resistance in an environment-friendly way. In this study, …
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March 27, 2024 at 2:02 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Beyond defense: Glucosinolate structural diversity shapes recruitment of a metabolic network of leaf-associated bacteria

🧑‍🔬 Kerstin Unger, Matthew T. Agler, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Beyond defense: Glucosinolate structural diversity shapes recruitment of a metabolic network of leaf...
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December 7, 2023 at 7:46 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Decoding early stress signaling waves in living plants using nanosensor multiplexing

🧑‍🔬 Mervin Chun-Yi Ang, Jolly Madathiparambil Saju, Michael S. Strano, Rajani Sarojam, et al.

📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social Communications

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
Decoding early stress signaling waves in living plants using nanosensor multiplexing - Nature Communications
Upon stress, plants activate a signaling cascade leading to resistance or stress adaptation. Here, Ang & Saju et al. use sensor multiplexing to elucidate the interplay between H2O2 and SA signaling as...
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April 8, 2024 at 7:42 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Leveraging co-evolutionary insights and AI-based structural modeling to unravel receptor-peptide ligand-binding mechanisms

🧑‍🔬 Simon Snoeck, Cyril Zipfel, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Leveraging co-evolutionary insights and AI-based structural modeling to unravel receptor-peptide lig...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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January 23, 2024 at 7:59 AM
somssich.bsky.social
Alex and his team at #UniMelb (incl. @jacklscanlan.bsky.social) are using the typical RIP genomic patterns to monitor fungicide resistance of L. maculans #PlantImmunity:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And here is a recent Review from them on the topic: 👇
No safe haven: Loss of avirulence in the plant pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans by DNA duplication and repeat‐induced point mutation
Unlike other avirulence genes in canola pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans, AvrLm2 is protected from repeat-induced point mutation (RIP): here fungal populations were identified with RIP in AvrLm2, due ...
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November 11, 2024 at 9:41 AM
somssich.bsky.social
This is such a cool story!

➡️ Arabidopsis produces scopoletin to fend off pathogens.
➡️ The beneficial M. phaseolina converts scopoletin to esculetin, thus evading its negative effects & out-competing pathogens.
➡️ Esculetin serves as iron-chelating coumarin to support the plant.

#PlantImmunity
June 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
planteditors.bsky.social
#PlantScience #PlantImmunity peeps, plus fans of quoting popular music in titles!
wheatinitiative.bsky.social Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · Jun 16
🌾 Wheat Pathogens Webinar
Next week with Kelly Turkington
Join the webinar here
🔗 www.wheatinitiative.org/new-events/p...
🗓️ Date & Time: June 24, 2025 | 5:00 PM Berlin / 10:00 AM Calgary / 2:30 AM Adelaide
June 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
somssich.bsky.social
You know a talk will be good if the title slide features a kangaroo. 👌 MPIPZ #WednesdaySeminar with @pdchristine.bsky.social. A visual guide through ways of short- & long-distance plant cell-cell-communication. Turns out it's not all #Plasmodesmata -mediated 😱. #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
Christine Faulkner on stage at the MPIPZ Cologne. The talk of her title, shown on the slide in the back, is "Friends, neighbours and enemies: cell-to-cell communication in times of stress". Next to the title are pictures of a fungus, a red kangaroo, an algae and flowers of a tree.
December 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 A Sap Peptide Conserved across Flowering Plants Positively Regulates Lignin Biosynthesis, Biomass and Immunity

🧑‍🔬 Chang-Hung Chen, Pin-Chien Liou, Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin, Ying-Lan Chen, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
A Sap Peptide Conserved across Flowering Plants Positively Regulates Lignin Biosynthesis, Biomass and Immunity
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
May 23, 2024 at 7:43 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Hypoxia represses pattern-triggered immune responses in Arabidopsis

🧑‍🔬 Brian C. Mooney, Emmanuelle Graciet, et al.

📔 Plant Physiology

🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantStress #PlantImmunity #PlantPhysiology #Hypoxia
Hypoxia represses pattern-triggered immune responses in Arabidopsis
Hypoxia represses several key aspects of the plant's innate immune response, with potential implications to limit the trade-offs between hypoxia responses
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August 27, 2024 at 2:10 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 The leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase QSK1 is a novel regulator of PRR-RBOHD complex and is employed by the bacterial effector HopF2Pto to modulate #PlantImmunity

🧑‍🔬 Y. Goto, Y. Kadota, K. Shirasu, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience
The leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase QSK1 is a novel regulator of PRR-RBOHD complex and is employ...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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December 14, 2023 at 3:05 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 CEP signaling coordinates plant immunity with nitrogen status

🧑‍🔬 Jakub Rzemieniewski, Martin Stegmann, et al.

📔 @naturecomms.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantNutrition #PlantImmunity #PlantSignaling
CEP signaling coordinates plant immunity with nitrogen status - Nature Communications
Rzemieniewski et al. demonstrated that Arabidopsis thaliana CEPs regulate immunity via three CEP receptors with distinct expression patterns and ligand specificities. CEPs and their receptors coordina...
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December 17, 2024 at 10:09 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Genome-resolved metatranscriptomics reveals conserved root colonization deter- minants in a synthetic microbiota

🧑‍🔬 Nathan Vannier, Stéphane Hacquard, et al.

📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social Communications

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Genome-resolved metatranscriptomics reveals conserved root colonization determinants in a synthetic ...
The identification of processes activated by specific microbes during microbiota colonization of plant roots is hampered by technical issues in metatranscriptomics. Here, Vannier et al. colonized germ...
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December 13, 2023 at 2:11 PM
plantpostdocs.bsky.social
One week until the #Sahyadri Symposium featuring our 2024 Sahyadri Outstanding Postdoc Awardees!

Register here - bit.ly/4gZCCgv
Friday, March 21, 2025
9 AM PST/ 11 AM CT/ 12 PM ET.
#PlantImmunity #MathematicalModeling #CarotenoidMetabolites
Sahyadri symposium flier featuring Deepak Bhandari, Renee Dale and Sombir Rao. Registration link: bit.ly/4gZCCgv
March 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
jipb.bsky.social
New findings about the role of Arabidopsis C-TERMINAL DOMAIN PHOSPHATASE-LIKE 1 in MAPK cascades in microbe-associated molecular pattern–triggered immunity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience #PlantImmunity
Flow diagram to illustrate the novel regulatory role of CPL1 in suppressing MAMP-induced MAPK cascade activation and MAMP-triggered immunity to bacterial pathogens.
October 25, 2023 at 6:22 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Non‐Invasive, Bioluminescence‐Based Visualisation and Quantification of Bacterial Infections in Arabidopsis Over Time

🧑‍🔬 Nanne W. Taks, Harrold A. van den Burg, et al.

📔 Molecular Plant Pathology

🔗 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMethods
Non‐Invasive, Bioluminescence‐Based Visualisation and Quantification of Bacterial Infections in Arabidopsis Over Time
Development of a non-invasive high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to visualise and quantify progression of bioluminescent bacterial pathogens in Arabidopsis rosettes over time.
bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
gittacoaker.bsky.social
I'm working on discussion papers for my MPMI class. Any favorite recent breeding/biotech plant immunity papers? From your work or others? #plantimmunity #MPMI
December 31, 2024 at 11:28 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Regulated Cleavage and Relocation of FERONIA Control Immunity in Arabidopsis Roots

🧑‍🔬 Jia Chen, Feng Yu, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
Regulated Cleavage and Relocation of FERONIA Control Immunity in Arabidopsis Roots
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
October 17, 2023 at 12:27 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 TIR innovations in plant immunity

🧑‍🔬 Zhongshou Wu

📙 @newphyt.bsky.social

🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity
TIR innovations in plant immunity
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain-containing immune receptors are crucial for plant immunity, with recent advancements highlighting the enzymatic functions of TIR domains and their production ....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social
New insights into viral tolerance in plants 🌱
Review by Elvira-Gonzales, Blevins & Heinlein in @jxbotany.bsky.social explains how mobile siRNAs protect #Arabidopsis by traveling faster than the virus to young tissues.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience #RNAi #VirusTolerance #PlantImmunity
May 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
horticulturer.bsky.social
Overview of SA & JA signaling pathways & their interaction in plant defense. #Phytohormones #PlantImmunity #SAJAInteractions @OxfordJournals
Details: doi.org/10.1093/hr/u...
Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid in plant immunity
Abstract. Salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) are the two most important phytohormones in plant immunity. While SA plays pivotal roles in local and
doi.org
May 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM