Professor of Phytopathology | Kiel University
| Crop wild relatives and their pathogens | Likes quantitative and qualitative resistance mechanisms & popgen
Remco Stam
This work nicely quantifies a major issue in our universities: "In higher education, administrative costs have risen much faster than instruction and research costs (4). MIT Faculty grew by only 9.2% between 1985 and 2023, while administrative staff grew by 189%." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
To be fair, the heavy lifting was done by Matthias Hahn and his team. Our contribution was to confirm that the extensive, repeated CRISPR editing underlying the mutant series did not result in major unintended off-target effects (which it doesn't). :)
In our intro article, we review recent contributions on the ecology & evolution of wild plant pathogens 🌱🦠🌳 and introduce the articles in this theme issue, emphasizing their relevance to agriculture 🌽🌾🧑🌾 and the broader field of disease ecology 🦇🦌🦋🤒👩⚕️: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Am 17.06. steht die finale Abstimmung im EU-Parlament auf der Tagesordnung.
Nach eigenen Angaben der Demeter-Kampagne wurden EU-Parlamentarier*innen bisher mit 200.000 E-Mails vollgespamt.
Heute wurden Nummern veröffentlicht, um die MdEPs jetzt noch mit Telefonterror mürbe zu machen.
Völlig irre.
Right now anti-gene-editing groups are lobbying MEPs to block crucial innovation that will make European agriculture more sustainable.
The final vote on legislation governing the use of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) will take place next week.
Sign our petition: act.weplanet.org/p/eu-support...
Stop scrolling and click this link! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
I'm so excited to share this open-access theme issue on Wild Plant Pathosystems in #PhilTransB
Co-edited with Rachel Penczykowski @rachelpenczy.bsky.social Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social & Emme Bruns @ebruns.bsky.social
Host killing by necrotrophs is really complex.
Using a 29-gene knockout series in Botrytis cinerea, we show that removing nearly all known cell death-inducing proteins and major phytotoxins is not sufficient to prevent host necrosis.
Check out the paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So cool to see that the wild tomato species we're doing our research on are now also on display at the Kiel Botanical gardens!
Thanks to all staff for making this possible and @sev1panier.bsky.social for organizing this!
It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.
Autofahrer rast mit 98km/h durch Berlin, tötet Fußgänger, und begeht Fahrerflucht.
Urteil gerade: 22 Monate auf Bewährung.
Klimaaktivist blockiert wiederholt für 30 min eine Straße um die Gesellschaft für die Klimakrise aufzurütteln.
Urteil: 22 Monate Knast ohne Bewährung
Ein völliger Wahnsinn!
