Fascinated about the colorful world of microbes. 🧫 Researcher in OneHealth. Now focusing on AMR in the food chain @Agroscope.
Lisa Thönen
Great to see this work published in New Phytologist! 🎉 It’s exciting to see the benzoxazinoid-conditioned soil microbiome in action. 🦠
This study represents an important step forward in understanding how plants shape their growth performance in response to soil microbiomes🌱
A community of microorganisms that can reproduce the flavour attributes of premium chocolate, by fermenting cocoa beans, are reported in Nature Microbiology. go.nature.com/4mH9uOo 🧪
Lisa Thönen
Nature Portfolio
Happy that my 3rd PhD paper is finally out 🎉 We show how maize root bacteria team up to degrade plant host toxins 🌱🦠🤝 Many thanks for the good teamwork to unravel this story!
Lisa Thönen
🧫✨ Excited to share my first publication in microbiological food safety!
We investigated 🔍 ready-to-eat meat products in Switzerland for the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A step toward improving food safety. Thanks to Elisabet Marti and the team! 🔬
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...
Finallly, the last chapter of my PhD thesis made it out as a preprint 🌽🧫🎉 In a community maize bacteria convert benzoxazinoids to different metabolites than when grown alone www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have published a protocol for the high-throughput chemical phenotyping of bacteria. 🧫 🧪 I began working with the this system over a decade ago and it has already driven key discoveries how maize root bacteria adapt to plant specialized metabolites. Thanks to all collaborators! 🙌
Nice article about our work 🧫🌽🌾
New study: Benzoxazinoid‐mediated microbiome feedbacks enhance Arabidopsis growth and defence - Stengele - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Plant roots are colonised by diverse microbial communities. These communities are shaped by root exudates including plant specialized metabolites. Benzoxazinoids are such secreted compounds of maize. ...
Antimicrobial resistance is a global health concern, which is partly driven by rising meat consumption, which has led to the intensive farming of livestock t...
SynCom of maize root bacteria: in team work, they detox differently. Interacting they redirect the metabolisation to an alternative degradation product.
Credits: @lisathoenen.bsky.social, Dr. Christine Pestalozzi & teams @unibas.ch and @unibe.ch.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Plants modulate their surrounding microbiome via root exudates and such conditioned soil microbiomes feed back on the performance of the next generation of plants. How plants perceive altered soil m...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
We investigated how maize root bacteria—alone or in community—tolerate and metabolize
antimicrobial compounds of their host plant. We found that the capacity to metabolize
such a compound impacts bact...
Customizable High-Throughput Chemical Phenotyping of Root Bacteria bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?...
We describe a flexible, scalable, robust, and affordable method for the chemical phenotyping of bacteria.
Klaus Schlaeppi
Pesticides and excessive fertilizers harm crops and the environment. As an alternative, farmers can already buy “biologicals” - bacteria, fungi or mixes thereof. But recent research by @kschlaeppi.bsky.social and his team reveals why these often fall short and offers insights on improving them.
To optimize their growth, plants shape the bacterial community on and around their roots. Finding out how they do so is key to develop new microbiological products for greater sustainability in agricu...
