Fascinating thread on fungi & how their effectors shape not only their plant hosts but also the rest of the microbial community in the interaction. Fungi were here first and have been competing on and in plants for 100s millions of years. Wondering if oomycetes are included? Bravo
Presented draft SEFARI Fellowship report on use of eDNA for environmental monitoring to CAMERAS board today in Edinburgh Botanics. Valuable feedback for final report plus a bonus chance to see 'good' Rhododendrons in bloom
21st #Euroblight workshop underway in Ourense, Spain with sessions on population change and aerobiology and spore capture. Lots more to come
Awesome aecia!
Truly scary and we all need to be alert to it.
Today is International Day of Plant Health. A day to celebrate people and structures key to plant protection. Sick plants = sick people = sick planet.
www.fao.org/plant-health...
Anyone fancy a new challenge? @bspp.bsky.social Molecular Plant Pathology is inviting applications for the role of Editor-in-Chief
bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
📢Major milestone for eDNAqua-Plan!
Key outcomes on standards, interoperability, workflows & policy integration of a future digital ecosystem for DNA-based biodiversity data are now available.
👉 ednaquaplan.com/results/deli...
#DNA #Data #Biodiversity #eDNA #Policy
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Was a pleasure to present to this group of forest stakeholders on Friday. A good discussion on Phytophthora risks and Plant Health Centre project.
North Scotland Regional Meeting: 23rd April 2026 - Scottish Forest & Wood-based Industries – SFWI share.google/oDchzHl2KnFW...
<em>Molecular Plant Pathology</em> is a molecular plant disease journal publishing research that advances the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of plant disease.
In the context of #eDNA monitoring in Scotland I am just flagging this enthusiastic group who are meeting today and again in October. Connecting researchers and stakeholders to protect Scotland's freshwater
Scottish Freshwater Group | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology www.ceh.ac.uk/scottish-fre...
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Healthy plants can help to end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.
📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝
We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
David Cooke
Membership of the Scottish Freshwater Group (SFG) enables connections which serve the environment and people
Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...
Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today.
Fantin Mesny
🌱I am life.
🌱I have been around for longer than you can imagine.
🌱I am home to millions.
🌱I cover much of the earth.
Your life relies on mine. I am worth protecting.
I am plants. 🌱🌱
#PlantHealth
Figure from correspondence to The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 mi…
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Frédéric Suffert
First 2026 sampling day for stem #rust (#Puccinia graminis) on barberry (#Berberis vulgaris) around Dijon. On the Chenôve plateau, the aecia are already showing up!
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Fantastic diversity of shapes of #Puccinia graminis aecia, likely influenced by developmental stage, resistance level of #Berberis vulgaris, inoculum pressure, weather conditions at infection, and formae speciales (around Dijon, France). But can you identify the intruder? 🤔
