Sietske van Bentum

🌱 How does disease affect the soybean root microbiome? Our new study in #PlantandSoil explores differences in bacteria & fungi in healthy vs. diseased plants. Thanks Sarah Lebeis, Bridget O'Banion and @agates-phd.bsky.social for your hard work in the field! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌍 Just got back from #ISMBECCB2025 in Liverpool — great science and even better conversations! Got lots of ideas to try in my computational workflow.

#ComputationalBiology #Microbiome #PlantScience #Metagenomics #WheatAlliance #SustainableAgriculture

Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants The rhizosphere microbiome influences plant health by mediating plant-pathogen interactions. Plants can recruit protective microbes in response to disease, but the consistency of this process in field...

📜 Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants

🧑‍🔬 @svbentum.bsky.social, @rlberendsen.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMicrobiome #Fusarium #Agriculture

Had a great time at Lincoln Agritech in New Zealand, collaborating on research into how bacteria can inhibit a fungal leaf pathogen! 🌱🔬 Grateful for the warm welcome in their lab. Excited to process the samples back in Utrecht—but first, time to explore NZ!✨

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Evolution of a vascular plant pathogen is associated with the loss of CRISPR-Cas and an increase in genome plasticity and virulence genes Paauw et al. report on the evolution of a plant pathogenic Xanthomonas pathovar and show that the gain of mobile genetic elements and virulence factors coincided with the loss of the CRISPR-Cas genome...

➡️ New insights into the evolution of the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris involving the genome defense system CRISPR-Cas! www.cell.com/current-biol... Our data wizard 🪄@mpaauw.bsky.social sequenced almost 100 genomes and this is what he found … /

Sietske van Bentum PhD defence

We're super proud of Doctor Sietske van Bentum! A more than outstanding defence of her thesis 'Disease-associated shifts in the rhizosphere microbiome: towards a soy-borne legacy'

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