Assistant Professor in the Plant-Microbe Interactions group at Utrecht University, Managing director of NPEC Utrecht, interested in the molecular mechanisms by which plants recruit beneficial microbes and shape their microbiome.
Roeland Berendsen
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MiCRop co-PIs @rlberendsen.bsky.social and @vkokkoris.bsky.social on Dutch television
How are we to argue with the likes of @PlantEvolution? 🌱
“Fantastic and important study” — we’ll happily take that 😊
The formatted PDF of our paper is now online! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
Super happy to have our work published in one of my favourite journals @newphyt.bsky.social Amazing effort by Jiayu Zhou and colleagues from @utrechtpmi.bsky.social and UvA. You can find it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cornepieterse.bsky.social
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MiCRop Harnessing the second genome of plants
Roeland Berendsen
Registration is now open for the 2026 edition of our UU PhD summer school. Check out the not-to-be-missed speaker lineup 🤩🤩 signup now!! @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @utrechtpmi.bsky.social @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social @rlberendsen.bsky.social @mproveniers.bsky.social @kaisakajala.bsky.social
They show how Fusarium infection drives leaf-surface alkalinization — and how acid-producing Pseudomonas species flip the switch to suppress disease.
Happy to have chipped in a little (also with @fdiniandreote.bsky.social
🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
