Here is a preprint with potential interest to those fascinated by host-microbe interactions, abiotic stress adaptation, xylogenesis, P bodies & mRNA turnover, and extended phenotypes induced by microbial effectors: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… (1/5)

Upper level graduate students are also able to apply. Make sure you tell your students!

Go cyclones!

Iowa State University scientists have developed a groundbreaking method for single-cell proteomics, enabling the identification of specific proteins in individual plant cells. cals.iastate.edu/news/2025/iowa…

Advanced graduate students eligible as well. PhD or equivalent no earlier than 2019, or still be studying for a graduate degree. 3 named awards: Bushnell-Roelfs, Pierre Hucl, Dean Spaner. See icrpmc2025.ca/conference-awa… Crop Development Centre - USask UAlberta Cereal Breeding Lab (CBL) Borlaug Global Rust Initiative CPS The American Phytopathological Society

Join if you can to celebrate John’s incredible life and legacy. Save the date and come together to honor his memory and the joy he brought to so many of us! Details below.

more barley at #monogram25 ! Malcolm Macaulay flash talk about his project ITAG barley project James Hutton Institute International Barley Hub

Flash talk: Malcolm Macaulay International Barley Hub talks about his poster on iTAG Barley - Inheritance of Traits and Genes Teaching and Training resource using Oregon Wolfe Barley #Monogram25

Nice to see iTAG in use internationally. Very exciting.

GRETCHEN WALSH!!!! NEW 100 FLY WORLD RECORD!!!! 54.60!!!!! THE FIRST WOMAN UNDER 55.00!!!!

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Displaying The Daffodil DNA Project and Oregon Wolfe Barley iTAG projects The ASE Scotland Conference. Lots of interactions and interesting chats!

I can’t wait to start iTAG, well done Malcolm Macaulay & Khadija Jabeen (has Khadija shared on Bluesky?) Oxford Nanopore The Royal Society #partnershipgrants

📢New paper! The fungal pathogen Fusarium uses a specialized protein to weaken plant immune defences & cause head blight - discovery could lead to bio-engineered disease-resistant grains. Agricultural Research Service IU Biology The American Phytopathological Society IS-MPMI Read the full story 👇 rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungal-pr…

Read the full paper 👇 apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MP…

Happy birthday to Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), trailblazing geneticist, GSA President (1945), and Nobel laureate! 🧬 Her work transformed biology and continues to inspire. Explore her legacy in this profile by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: buff.ly/sUqaxYG 🔗

So proud of our MSc student! Way to go, Madison!

😎🎆In final form: NGPINT V3 (doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…), a system-wide PPI software update in both Singularity and Docker to process millions of raw sequence reads from Y2H-NGIS and ranking with Y2H-SCORES IS-MPMI ISU Plant Pathology Genetics Society of America ASPB Valeria Velásquez-Zapata The American Phytopathological Society ISCB News

Relative scale of corn yield losses in North America to different pathogens. Sourced from the Crop Production Network and reflects the 2024 field season.