Plant-Microbe Interactions

How are we to argue with the likes of @PlantEvolution? 🌱

“Fantastic and important study” — we’ll happily take that 😊

The formatted PDF of our paper is now online! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

This nicely builds on our earlier Current Biology work with
@keyu01.bsky.social @utrechtpmi.bsky.social @carahaney.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social @gstringlis.bsky.social , where we showed how acidification of the plant environment supports colonization by beneficial Pseudomonas.

Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization, promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying Pseudomonas, sele...

🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Really nice work from @jellespooren.bsky.social showing that disease-suppressive soils might sometimes be generated in the phyllosphere. Turning the concept of soilborne legacies upside down 🌱🦠 With @cornepieterse.bsky.social @svanwees.bsky.social and others @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

@y-song.bsky.social doing a great job at explaining the importance of the potato microbiome at the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social microbiome day! Hoping the medical and veterinary microbiome scientists in the audience enjoy the change in perspective.

🔬 Exciting #JournalClub in our group today by @nielsaerts.bsky.social! We discussed the immense and multilayered complexity of hormonal cross-regulation in plant immunity, based on this preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🌿🧬A must-read for those fascinated by plant defense and signaling!

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Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota - Nature Plants The authors show that immunosuppression is highly conserved in the bacterial order Xanthomonadales. This feature, which preceded their specialization as host-adapted pathogens, probably contributes to...

Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting journal club by @mpapadopoulou.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Evidence for the promotion of specific microbial ecological clusters to increase soybean plant fitness in response to nutrient deficiency. Also interesting for microbiomes4soy.eu

Vooruit dan maar!

We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

Great talk by Heribert Hert on microbiomes in relation to drought resistance, regreening strategies and the orphan crop Fonio microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

@eoghan-king.bsky.social @sohambio.bsky.social @shingomiyauchi.bsky.social @gozdemerveturksoy.bsky.social @amiposts.bsky.social Welcome to the club!

And so it was! Great defense, great thesis. #ProudSupervisor

Symposium in celebration of the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social is of course kicked off by @gijsselten.bsky.social following intro by @dejongepmi.bsky.social!

@gijsselten.bsky.social demonstrated that plants select bacterial functions using a SuperSynCom (1000 strains)

Next up: Simon Radutoiu about the role of LysM receptors in symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia

Maria Suarez Diez (WUR) about constraint-based modelling of SynComs: already complex with a SynCom of three!

Great line up before the PhD defense of @gijsselten.bsky.social: now Ruben Garrido-Oter on experimental evolution on the plant

Five years of hard work has paid off! 🎉 What a nice new year surprise—we made it to the cover of Nature Microbiology! 🌟
Acknowledgment to all co-authors and specially Elisa Atza for producing this cover image!

Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes

👉https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-driven-assembly-of-disease-suppressive-microbiomes

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Jelle Spooren on the cum laude defense of his PhD thesis, "Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes" 🌱🦠 🎓
Thanks to @jurriaanton.bsky.social and @algazuccaro.bsky.social for their thoughtful opposition in the defense and the great talks during the seminar!

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n)
#PlantScience
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Agricultural practices influence soil microbiome assembly and interactions at different depths identified by machine learning - Communications Biology Machine learning breaks through the linear limitations of traditional methods, providing deeper insights into the assembly, interactions, and mechanisms underlying microbiomes at varying soil depths u...

Great journal club bij @gijsselten.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s42... showing how to get passed the linear limitations of traditional methods in microbiome research!

Potato crop performance is predicted by tuber microbiome - Nature Microbiology A predictive model developed using machine learning, high-throughput sequencing of the microbiomes associated with seed tubers and drone imaging of the crops growing from the tubers can forecast the p...

Short on time? Read the Research Briefing for a short overview of the paper by @rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seed tuber microbiome can predict growth potential of potato varieties - Nature Microbiology Time-resolved drone imaging of potato crop development and seed tuber microbiome data can be used to predict potato vigour, or growth potential, in next-season crops in trial fields.

OUT NOW: The seed tuber microbiome can predict future growth of potato varieties in the field 🥔🦠🌱
@rlberendsen.bsky.social @y-song.bsky.social & co

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