Pls RT: PhD position available in our group University of Basel. Topic: 'Harnessing compost microbes for new crop protection products against foliar diseases’. shorturl.at/KsnGU

Fascinating talk by Kenichi Tsuda on plant immunity to maintain plant and microbiome health #micrope2024

NEW READ: *Understanding plant responsiveness to microbiome feedbacks*. Here we argue that, while we begin to understand microbiome assembly, we still know very little how plants respond to soil microbiomes and how they benefit from microbiome feedbacks. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

(1/4) Nice to see my favorite project of my PhD out in Nature Communications 🥳rdcu.be/dPMnK. Our works shows that maize root bacteria metabolize maize’s antimicrobial benzoxazinoids into a red degradation product AMPO by a novel lactonase BxdA. 🧬🧫🌽

(3/4) The lactonase BxdA is specific to maize root bacteria that metabolize benzoxazinoids. It is the first gene of the newly identified benzoxazinoid degradation gene cluster.

(4/4) Team work makes the dream work @Kschlaeppi, Matthias Erb, Pierre Mateo, Matilde Florean, Tobias Zuest, Valentin Gfeller, @EvaKnoch, Christelle AM Robert, Sigi Hapfelmeier, Marco Kreuzer, Caitlin Giroud, Tobias Köllner & others Bernomics IRC One Health, Universität Bern, University of Basel

(2/3) We found that, while root bacteria from other plants cannot, maize root bacteria can metabolise the main bioactive compounds of maize. These maize bacteria, particularly Sphingobium and microbacteria, have a unique gene to specifically adapt to the roots of maize plants.

(3/3) nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great teamwork in our study investigating how maize root bacteria cope with bioactive root metabolites of their host nature.com/articles/s4146…

Die Nachfrage nach landwirtschaftlichen Rohstoffen steigt. Wie lassen sich zusätzliche Anbauflächen mit dem Naturschutz vereinbaren? Forschende um Florian Zabel & Ruth Delzeit haben ein Landnutzungsmodell entwickelt, das Antworten liefert. unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/New…

MetaFlowTrain : A Highly-Parallelized and Modular Fluidic System. youtu.be/gNUfZWEunQk?si… via YouTube

Our speakers are in the house! Ready to kickoff the 12th edition of Graduate School EPS summer school UU_Plants

Graduate School EPS UU_Plants Summerschool Environmental Signalling in Plants kicked off by Rashmi Sasidharan 🌱🌿🌾🌹🌻

Great talks, fab posters, good food, drinks and happy faces on a perfect summer day☀️Ending day2 of our UU_Plants Graduate School EPS summer school on a high !

Would you like to know a bit more about our Director Caroline Gutjahr and her passion for Science? There is a brand new interview Current Biology ! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences is hiring 2(!) Tenure Track Assistant Professors in Ecology and Evolution! Join us in a scientifically excellent and diverse community in beautiful and affordable Pittsburgh! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

Discovering How Maize Root Bacteria Metabolize Host Exudates – A Story Of Red Art, Teamwork, and Serendipity communities.springernature.com/posts/discover…

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I wrote a behind the paper story: Discovering How Maize Root Bacteria Metabolize Host Exudates – A Story Of Red Art, Teamwork, and Serendipity communities.springernature.com/posts/discover…