ICTV's long-anticipated Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is out! Bioinformaticians are asked to classify unknown virus sequences and contribute to making Virus Taxonomy more reproducible. See: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-TaxonomyC… - please RT, tell your bioinformaticians and colleagues!

New Resource: "Parallel degradome-seq and DMS-MaPseq substantially revise the miRNA biogenesis atlas in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/dMAQ8 With Research Briefing: "Exploring the landscape of miRNA production and the structural rules that shape it" rdcu.be/dMARh

PhyloAln: a convenient reference-based tool to align sequences and high-throughput reads for phylogeny and evolution in the omic era academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… Molecular Biology and Evolution

The new more compact and more efficient #NCBIBLAST core_nt database is available for download (ow.ly/fh9P50SJmvb)! At 64 volumes, core_nt is less than half the size of nt, but provides nearly equivalent results. Read more: ow.ly/Nkst50SJmv9

Light-emitting probes for in situ sensing of plant information dlvr.it/TB6wm9

Vibrant #PlantHealth2024 at Memphis, TN. Plant Disease got time catching with great plant virologists and plant pathologist! Diego Quito-Avila Robert Alvarez Francisco Ioannis Tzanetakis

A very active plant virology community in the APS, let’s keep the virus presence solid !!

How to use CRISPR/Cas9 in plants - from target site selection to DNA repair bit.ly/4d8roWo

New findings in the fight against #Cassava Witches Broom #Disease. ACIAR USAID CGIAR Genetic Innovation Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Leibniz-Institut DSMZ Alejandra Gil-Ordóñez Juan Manuel Pardo Garcia Samar Sheat, Ph.D.🌿 Khamla Ana Maria Leiva @WarreArinaitwe Stephan Winter Jonathan Newby Wilmer Cuellar nature.com/articles/s4159…

With the rapid transboundary spread of #cassava witches' broom disease, understanding its biology is key to implementing better preemptive mgmt strategies, from #earlydetection & production of #cleanseed, to ID resistant varieties. ACIAR USAID nature.com/articles/s4159…

Queen guitarist Brian May on science: "Everything comes down to asking the right questions and keeping an open mind, and resisting the terrible inclination that scientists have, because they’re human beings, of finding what you expect to find." go.nature.com/4dT5kOU

Birth of protein folds and functions in the virome | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

The training tool used in this study is an online app made with R Shiny, currently featuring nine plant diseases. It is freely available here: delponte.shinyapps.io/traineR2/

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

A T6SS pangenomic atlas paints a picture of Ralstonia as a bully that aggressively attacks all sorts of microbial targets with its T6SS. Nathalie Aoun Stratton Georgoulis Tiffany Lowe-Power tlowepower on 🟦🌥️ #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

NEW REVIEW OUT Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection. We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.