Exciting News✨ Our paper on the Galápagos expedition is now published in Nature Microbiology 🚢Exploring soil & plant microbiomes: do they evolve like the iconic Scalesia? Island-specific microbes? Boosting plant resilience? Eco-restoration? Let's find out⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4156…

I will move to National University of Singapore next April. There are several PhD and postdoc positions open (closest PhD deadline is 15 Nov 2024). You are welcome to apply. It will be great if you can RT. Look forward to the next chapter.

Plant Science Research Weekly: Sept 27. plantae.org/plant-science-… (2/2) Single-cell transcriptomics and drought stress; Zn modulates nitrogen fixation; Do herbarium collections matter in a digital world?; Lack of racial diversity in UK plant science.

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Zinc regulates symbiotic nitrogen fixation in response to soil nitrate (Nature) @dugaldEReid Jieshun Lin Peter Bjørk (Summary by Arijit Mukherjee Arijit Mukherjee) buff.ly/4ekj5a3 #PlantaePSRW

What determines transfer of carbon from plants to mycorrhizal fungi? For the past 2 years, we debated this question. And I mean debated. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #TansleyReview New Phytologist 1/n

Our Tansley Insight is out New Phytologist !!! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…. From synthetic communities to synthetic ecosystems: exploring causalities in plant-microbe-environment interactions. Big congrats Chesneau Guillaume, Johannes Herpell MPIPZ Cologne #SynComs #SynEcos.

#JustIn on Plantae: How to Choose a Suitable Statistical Method for Your Experiment. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows ThomasDepaepe🌱, Kumanan N Govaichelvan, and Arijit Mukherjee share a guide to help researchers choose appropriate statistical tests. plantae.org/how-to-choose-…

Glad to be moderating this exciting session along with Prakshi Aneja

Can microbiome adaptations protect crops from pests and climate change? | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Glad to be a part of the 2026 cohort of Assistant Feature Editors Plant Physiology. Eager to learn and grow alongside the amazing editorial team mary williams and the outstanding AFEs I’ll be collaborating with-

Featured Article: Se nanoparticles boost rhizosphere Cross-kingdom-signaling mediates biosynthesis of selenium nanoparticles by selenobacteria. Histamine from Bacillus stimulates p-coumarate in roots, promoting recruitment of growth-promoting rhizobacteria cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Very happy to share the final version of our work on the evolution of broad host virulence in Pseudomonas out now Cell Host & Microbe It’s just in time for the holidays 🎄🦠 cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Exciting milestone! My first paper as part of the Kost Lab, co-authored with Leonardo Oña and Christian Kost , is now published in Trends in Microbiology Check it out here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Woo-hoo! My friend and colleague, Jeff Dangl, together with Jonathan Jones & Brian Staskawicz Brian Staskawicz have been awarded the 2025 Wolf Prize Wolf Prize in Agriculture. Amazing recognition of even more amazing science: college.unc.edu/2025/03/wolf-p…

Microbial Sulfur processing is an underappreciated aspect of sulfur emission and sustainable crop production. We present evidence for this, in our recent review: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture Arijit Mukherjee Free access till Apr 30th: dlvr.it/TJTsn0

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene 🧵1/6 Ever wonder how bacteria organize during an infection?! Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

CHOIR is now online Nature Genetics! CHOIR is a new clustering method for single-cell data that evaluates whether clusters represent statistically distinct cell populations. CHOIR scales to millions of cells and works with single-/multi-omic data of any type! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Elated to share that I've joined the Dangl lab at HHMI & UNC-Chapel Hill as a postdoc! Grateful for the opportunity to explore exciting questions in plant-microbe interactions with such an inspiring team plant ☘️ 🧬 #postdoc #plantscience

An effluent pump family distributed across plant commensal bacteria conditions host- and organ-specific glucosinolate detoxification nature.com/articles/s4146…