Learn about work Asela Wijeratne and Brett Hale are doing to improve soybean resilience to Phytophthora stem and root rot.

Xiaowen's (Xiaowen Feng) new paper uses 16S in reads and k-mers to answer how much a metagenome assembly captures the species and sequence content in a sample. We found abundant species are not always assembled and proposed a heuristic to rescue some of them. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Check out this study on host genetic variants, environment and microbiomes for maize in Nature Plants nature.com/articles/s4147…

Thanks for having me to talk about Tarspotter and tools #NPMTI (agpmt.org) is developing for farmers to predict & manage #corn #disease Damon L. Smith Darcy Telenko Martin Chilvers Tom Allen Trey Price Camila Nicolli Mandy Bish Kiersten Wise

Some weekend reading…great to see GROND, our new database for long-read amplicon sequencing of the ribosomal operon, is out. Congrats ⁦Calum Walsh 🇮🇪🇦🇺⁩ ⁦Meghana Srinivas⁩ ⁦DvS Research Group⁩ ⁦Paul Cotter⁩ ⁦Tim Stinear⁩ ⁦⁦ microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Fine-scale characterization of the soybean rhizosphere microbiome via synthetic long reads and avidity sequencing dlvr.it/T9YK3Z

Avirulence depletion assay: combining R gene-mediated selection with bulk sequencing for rapid avirulence gene identification in ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Watch Stopping a Soybean Killer: A Systems Biology Approach from Extension at youtu.be/wqWJ8SgZOgg Alison Robertson Asela Wijeratne Brett Hale ISU Extension and Outreach UA System Div of Ag #agtwitter #soybean IowaSoybeans Arkansas Row Crops Arkansas Soybean Soybean Diseases

Crop Protection Network (CPN) Alison Robertson Asela Wijeratne Brett Hale ISU Extension and Outreach UA System Div of Ag IowaSoybeans Arkansas Row Crops Arkansas Soybean The soybean killer here is Phytophthora, a not-so-friendly oomycete pathogen of soybean. There is an overview at cropprotectionnetwork.org/publications/a…

Bacteria+DRS! Nanopore got it!Analysis of bacterial transcriptome and epitranscriptome using nanopore direct RNA sequencing #nanopore #DRS doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Check out Scouting for Soybean Stem Diseases from Extension at doi.org/10.31274/cpn-2…. Kiersten Wise Carl Bradley Martin Chilvers Dylan Mangel Febina Mathew Daren Mueller Iowa State IPM Damon L. Smith Albert Tenuta Mandy Bish Maddi Shires CFAES Wade Webster K-State Applied Row Crop Pathology Program Darcy Telenko

A picture is worth 1000 small plots?

Unveiling errors in soil microbial community sequencing: a case for reference soils and improved diagnostics for nanopore sequencing. #nanopore #16S nature.com/articles/s4200…

An optimal normalization method for high sparse compositional microbiome data journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Database size positively correlates with the loss of species-level taxonomic resolution for the 16S rRNA and other prokaryotic marker genes journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Watch Stopping a Soybean Killer: A Systems Biology Approach from Extension at youtu.be/wqWJ8SgZOgg Alison Robertson Asela Wijeratne Brett Hale UA System Div of Ag #agtwitter #soybean IowaSoybeans Arkansas Row Crops Arkansas Soybean Soybean Diseases

Might this be the future of disease management? Asela Wijeratne Brett Hale Crop Protection Network (CPN)

Hot off the press: Donovin Coles, PhD's recent Western Sydney - HIE work leveraging the sequencing of the Phytophthora medicaginis genome to begin digging into how effector-like secreted proteins may control chickpea root pathogenesis in a quantitative resistance model tinyurl.com/5d3kzj6n

A study on 44 oomycete species reveals how host interaction lifestyles shape their metabolic networks. To learn more, read about it in our July issue: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-1… Sander Rodenburg Francine Govers Michael F Seidl Dick de Ridder WUR Plant Phytopathology @ WUR