Paul Daly

Associate Professor, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences. CAZymes, filamentous fungi, oomycetes, microbe-microbe & plant-microbe interactions, genomics.

[Paul Daly @paulSH02]

Please take a look at our recent paper (open access) on the role of proteases and inhibitors in the interaction between antagonist P. oligandrum and plant pathogen P. myriotylum, with @Dr_Taha_Sheikh
https://t.co/Etc9PPo4du

[Tominaga K. (tomiken) @pacyc1841]

Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a putative mechanism for cell size evolution | PNAS https://t.co/LHsgRfhZfJ

[IS-MPMI @ISMPMI]

Big news from IS-MPMI! We have a LOT of exciting updates to share 🧵

New website coming soon, a brand-new webinar series, a Global South membership initiative, and more.

Thread ⬇️

[Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome]

1/9 Interesting new paper by Kasalo, Domazet-Lošo et al. on amino acid biosynthesis & animal origins.
Some of the most energetically expensive amino acids became "outsourced" during early animal evolution rather than synthesized internally.
🧵
https://t.co/6IRqoouGg6

[Alga Zuccaro @Team_Zuccaro]

How do beneficial fungi remodel host cell walls without triggering immunity? We identify SiROCX as a basidiomycete-specific regulator activating CAZyme targets, including GH11/GH10/GH43/CE4 and AA9 enzymes, for xylan/cellulose remodeling during symbiosis.
https://t.co/lr6citjmcH

[Joanna Kacprzyk @joanna_kacprzyk]

We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the new Green Cell Factory project at UCD.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone interested in plant cell biology and biotechnology.
Application deadline: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 2 June 2026. Link below…

[Serenella A. Sukno @ssukno]

Beautiful work lead by @R_Baroncelli on how a fungal plant pathogen can conquer a new host. Long fun journey with scientists from 6 European countries. https://t.co/zfSmU3dVFp

[Australasian Mycological Society @ausmycsoc]

We are inviting abstracts for presentations at the AMS Symposium on Friday 21 August 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Come share your FUNgal work with other like-minded people!

@Plant_Pathogens
@ausplantsoil

https://t.co/1siucHXjT9

[Dr. JD Farrell-Campbell, Ph.D. @Campbell_JD_PhD]

@plantpostdocs @WomeninPlantBr_ @UFPlantbreeding @NCPlantBreeding

[Nature Reviews Microbiology @NatureRevMicro]

New online! Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing https://t.co/GiAU0Ly90N

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

New episode of The Work We Do is out!

Charles Spillane, @FAOScienceChief, reflects on his lifelong love of science fiction, why innovation still misses many farmers, and his vision for the future of agrifood science.

👉 https://t.co/ns03NS3PZL

[Fantin Mesny @f_mesny]

🎉 📰 Very happy to share the journal publication of our manuscript "Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation"! #ScienceAdvancesResearch @ScienceMagazine

@Team_Thomma

https://t.co/eDCr7hcoZ7

[Nicolas Corradi @Blunt_Microbe]

📢PhD and PDF opportunities available for most promising internationals interested in joining our lab! 📢

The deadline is extremely short - 1 week - don’t shoot the messenger! 😅

👉https://t.co/1n2iYy6g9v

Contact me for potential projects following my website instructions!

[Islam S. Sobhy @IslamSSobhy_78]

Delighted to share our new editorial in @FrontPlantSci🌱

As Guest Editor, I helped shape this collection exploring the multifunctional roles of plant VOCs in plant defense, sustainable pest management, advancing plant–insect ecology and agroecology.

🔗 https://t.co/WuMvWNjdfz

[IS-MPMI @ISMPMI]

Interested in how discoveries in the plant-microbe field have been translated to the real world? Check out our YouTube channel. We’ve just posted the ISMPMI Translational Science Workshop from 2021. Available to the public for the first time.

https://t.co/dLRLWh2vpI

[Paul Daly @paulSH02]

Please take a look at our recent work in @JoF_MDPI on Trichoderma nordicum (a recently described species) and biocontrol of oomycete caused crop diseases in collaboration with @FungIrinaD

https://t.co/KpUPsWCL7b

[WIMI Biotech @wimi_biotech]

Three weeks to evaluate CRISPR efficiency? YES! 🧬⏱️

A game-changer for plant scientists! Zhang's team at Peking University just dropped a universal hairy root transformation protocol in Modern Agriculture. 🛡️🌱

Why it matters:
✅ Universal: Validated in 12 dicot species (Arabidopsis, Tomato, Lettuce, Soybean, etc.).
✅ Fast: Completes the entire evaluation loop in under 3 weeks.
✅ High Efficiency: 91.03% transformation rate in Arabidopsis using the K599 strain.
✅ Reliable: Results correlate perfectly with stable transgenic plants.
No more waiting months for tissue culture! 🚀
https://t.co/ZqfIzsY1GX

#PlantScience #CRISPR #AgTech #GeneEditing #PekingUniversity #ModernAgriculture

[bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio]

The transcription factor SiROCX controls a monocot-specific CAZyme program for host cell wall remodeling during symbiotic root ... https://t.co/vamdJWUOJN #biorxiv_micrbio

[WIMI Biotech @wimi_biotech]

🇨🇳 BREAKTHROUGH: WIMI Biotech & Shanghai Jiao Tong University unveil CasY7 - China's first fully independent CRISPR gene editing system

✂️ 87.7% efficiency in maize (2.7× better than Cpf1)
🌾 Validated across 12 major crops
🧬 100% proprietary IP - no foreign dependencies

Published in JIPB
https://t.co/hMyHGY41vB

Breaking the Western monopoly on gene editing

#CasY7 #CRISPR #GeneEditing #ChinaInnovation #WIMI

[Nick Talbot @talbotlabTSL]

Some reflections on #Fungal26 This was a great meeting as always but set against some turbulent times of course, which meant many regular attendees were not present. This thread is mainly for them. However, the proportion of 1st time attendees was very high & international. 1/15