Durga Athimoolam🦉

SRF at DBT-NIPGR @nipgrsocial, New Delhi.
Plant-pathogen interaction.
Melomaniac🎶🎵🎼; 📚aholic

[Prof Brajesh Singh @Prof_Braj_Singh]

New paper from lab- Functional restructuring of the global soil microbiome under multiple stressors- in @NatureComms
Across global terrestrial ecosystems ~60% of all functional genes significantly shift when microbes experience high multiple stressors.
https://t.co/h7hdzc4ngn

[Ping Wang @PingWan11721284]

I am thrilled to share that I will start my lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University (LSU) this August!
🚨 Recruiting postdocs & Ph.D. students
🌱 Plant signaling | Autophagy | Stress granules
Feel free to reach out or apply!
🔁 RTs appreciated!

[Prof Brajesh Singh @Prof_Braj_Singh]

Our new paper in @cellhostmicrobe include
1. a global atlas of human bacterial pathogens in soils
2. Soil biodiversity negatively linked with human pathogens
3. Many pathogens to increase in future climates
4. Positive link between pathogens & mortality
https://t.co/RKcZPGJG5A

[Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @MPlantPCom]

https://t.co/Ja5uiQYcfz: An LLM-Powered Virtual Scientist for Plant Science #resource #MolecularPlant https://t.co/q1SfJ52Kgx

[CSIR-CIMAP @CSIRCIMAP]

Hearty congratulations to Dr. Akanksha Singh and her team on the acceptance of their research titled “First Comprehensive Whole Genome Analysis of Plant Growth-Promoting Endophytic Bacterium Micrococcus luteus ASd6…” in the Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. 🌿
The study provides valuable genomic insights into plant growth-promoting endophytes and highlights their role in enhancing the productivity of medicinal plants.

🔗 https://t.co/fmLTJFKT1v⁠�

#ScientificAchievement #PlantResearch #CSIR #GenomeAnalysis #MedicinalPlants #Innovation
@CSIR_IND @DrJitendraSingh @DrNKalaiselvi @zabeerahmedb

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

How banana plants transfer beneficial microbes to suppress Fusarium wilt

Liu et al.

https://t.co/Ni2wq0mqfK

[Grower Group Alliance @GGA_WA]

📣 Bursaries available for drought resilience research

Are you a PhD or master’s student looking to make a real impact on agriculture? Or know someone who is?

The #WADroughtHub is offering a small number of bursaries of $5,000 to $25,000 to support students to include an extension component in their drought resilience research in 2025/26-2026/27.

Applications close 30 April.

🔗 Learn more and apply: https://t.co/8fEElvF67E

[Faba man @khazaei_hamid]

Here comes our opinion paper on breeding for multi-stress resilience in crops. @plantspplplanet
https://t.co/XVQJKWYOC7
#plant_breeding
#cropsci
#crop_Improvement
#FoodSecurity
#environmental_stresses

[Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis]

We grow plants in the lab every day. It empowers our cell & molecular biology studies.

From today, as Day 1, I will show some of the plants we grow in the lab everyday and we are so grateful for the wonderful biological system.

Image: Tomato🍅leaf with visible trichome.

[Prof Brajesh Singh @Prof_Braj_Singh]

New paper from lab-Impacts of climate extremes on plant pathogens, microbiomes and plant health-

in @NatureRevMicro
https://t.co/FPUbmu8gGt
led by @Dr_ChaoXiong

'New approaches to mitigate plant disease risks by harnessing microbiomes and metabolites under climate extremes'.

[Edel Pérez-López @Edel_PLopez]

🚨 New from the lab!

In this preprint, we show how the clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae uses a PBS3-like effector (PbGH3) to hijack plant hormone signalling and reshape root development during infection 👏

We found that PbGH3 acts as a structural and functional mimic of the immune enzyme AtPBS3 (GH3.12), evidence of the evolutionary relationship between the clubroot pathogen and Brassicas 🥦

This study is now under review 🤞

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Aridity and drought - distinct concepts too often conflated

Knapp et al. @alan_knapp @RJ_GriffinNolan

https://t.co/wWL0po8G7O

[Plant Science @sci_plant]

Land plant evolution: from microbial interaction to horizontal gene transfer

https://t.co/bnpP7Xt5Ra
♻️

[Prof Brajesh Singh @Prof_Braj_Singh]

In a new paper in @NatureComms - we
1. provide first global map of dominant bacterial plant pathogens
2. show microbial diversity, SOC, some Streptomyces, AM fungi associated with low pathogen prevalence
3. Many pathogens to increase under future climates
https://t.co/aprRIwe8Yq

[Prof Brajesh Singh @Prof_Braj_Singh]

New paper from the lab-
Responses of Root Microbiome and Metabolome Are Linked to Crop Disease Severity' -
Alkaloids, triterpenoids & polyketides metabolite showed links with microbes known to influence host immunity & stress adaptation @ayomidefadiji

https://t.co/0DrMRPUUbP

[National Centre for Biological Sciences @NCBS_Bangalore]

#Researchexplained
@AvikKumarPal1 and team from @shivaprasad_pv 's lab reveal a hidden regulatory layer in rice seed tissue: when a gene-silencing machinery fails, certain gene expression goes off track, affecting grain development and quality
🔗 https://t.co/qojCmhoSnj

[Justyna Olas @JustynaOlas]

A 2-year postdoc position is open in my group at the @igz_leibniz ! Explore heat stress adaptation in tomato plants. Join us at the IGZ! 🌱🍅 🌡️

https://t.co/WHo2OGGg98

[Plant Science Conferences @Plantconfer]

🌱 Unlock the Science Behind Plant Growth!
Join us at @Plantconfer (GPMB-2026) Organized by @magnus_group !
Exploring the Future of Plant Metabolic Engineering
📍 Rome, Italy | 📷 14–16 Sept 2026
📌 Submit Abstract: https://t.co/yJHcCISEiq

[good papers @paperperday]

High bacterial diversity drives the suppression of a soilborne plant disease

"the diversity of synthetic communities per se can provide plant health benefits through an increased ability to protect against pathogens."
https://t.co/a8PEtnSzIp

[C.Strullu-Derrien @CStrulluDerrien]

Advanced imaging reveals arbuscular mycorrhizas in 407-million-year-old plant from Scotland @NewPhytologist @dromius @FFercoq @victorleshyk
https://t.co/NChTSn1dMy