Adithya Acharya

Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression has revolutionized plant research, but is largely confined to solanaceous species. This study shows that an engineered strain allows efficient transient expression across diverse dicot crop species. 🧪 #AcademicSky #plants plos.io/3W0hqlP

A balancing act...⚖️ Maruyama et al. show how the E3 ubiquitin ligase plant U-box protein 4 (PUB4), stimulated by CERK1 receptor kinase, targets FERONIA receptor kinase degradation to help regulate chitin-induced immunity in #Arabidopsis doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantImmunity #PlantScience

🌱 How do plants read chitin length? The receptor CHIP13 works like a molecular measuring tape. What began 13 years ago with a recalcitrant protein is now in @science.org. Thanks to all my co-authors and colleagues! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

So much glycan perception in @science.org this week! 🌱 Our chitin paper in a Perspective article alongside two exciting studies on how plant receptors read chitosan and cellulose. doi.org/10.1126/scie... Cellulose: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Chitosan: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

📢 Call for Papers | Seed Biology FERONIA and the Broader CrRLK1L Family of Receptor Kinases 🔬 Reviews & research articles welcome! 📅 Deadline: June 30, 2027 Submit your work: https://www.maxapress.com/seedbio/specials/183 #PlantScience #SeedBiology #CallForPapers

SRF3 couples cellular iron homeostasis and defense responses through ubiquitin-dependent nano-organization | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We conclude the session @plantproteostasis.bsky.social on a high note with David Görg (he just finished his PhD recently) from @cnaumann123.bsky.social lab: He is talking about Pi-dependent ER stress adaptaton by a novel autophagy component ♻️ #proteostasis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Stripe rust is a devastating pathogen of graminaceous #crops. Here, Wang et al. identify the S-like RNase TaRNS4 that positively regulates #wheat resistance to stripe rust by degrading the #RNA of Puccinia striiformis. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 2 Research support positions: Plant breeding. @mpipz.bsky.social in Cologne Deadline: 20 November 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Postdoc opp; the Katherine Esau Fellowship @UC Davis funds 2–3 years of work on plant structure and function. Curious how plant structure shapes plant-microbe interactions? Get in touch! Due Nov 1, international applicants welcome. www-plb.ucdavis.edu/about/fellow...

„Without funding of basic research – which is the advantage of doing research in Germany – our discoveries would not have been possible”, Nobel Prize laureate 2026 Peter Hagemann points out in German news @heutejournal.bsky.social (starting at 19:00 minutes) – in German www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

🌱New preprint 🎉 I am happy to share this last work of my PhD research! We uncover a novel role of cysteine protease RD19 in immunity. RD19 regulates RBOHD-generated ROS and is required for induced resistance responses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... More details in the thread below! 🧵

Congratulations to biophysicist Peter Hegemann @humboldtuni.bsky.social, plant physiologist Georg Nagel @uni-wuerzburg.de, and @deisseroth.bsky.social! …. it all started with a basic research question: how tiny alga sense light

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🔬 Proteases in Cell Fate Regulation 📝 Edited by Peter Bozhkov & Simon Stael 📅 Closing date: 31 October 📇 Got a suitable manuscript? Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

A TurboID-based proximity labeling tool to track the plant secretomes Lin et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/K9ABWG...

Our Special Issue on receptor-ligand interactions is now online! Thanks to all the authors for sharing their knowledge and views! Huge thanks to @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social @veroglez.bsky.social and @isabelmonte.bsky.social for great collaboration: ) @theplantjournal.bsky.social for the venue!

Mutations in SUMO conjugating enzyme reveal contributions of sumoylation to plant stress resilience and yield Lilian Nehlin, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Synthetic FLS2 receptor oligomer boosts plant innate immunity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Still one week to apply!

Intronised fluorophores improve reporter output and biosensor expression in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.21.753201v1

🔬 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🔬 Franzisky et al. present a minimally invasive method for repeat extraction of apoplastic fluids with low contamination from dicot leaves, capturing dynamic spatial and temporal patterns vital to nutrient transport and signaling 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience

📣🇩🇪Wir suchen: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) zur Erstellung von enzymatischen Kaskadenreaktionen. 📣🇬🇧Job Opening: Research Associate (m/f/d) for setting up enzymatic cascade reactions. 📆23.10.26 🔗 ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/35-wissensch... #scijobs #plantscijobs #biochemistry #ResearchJobs

Thanks @plosbiology.org for highlighting our paper on the front of the website! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

Anthropic has used Claude to optimise structure prediction and design code to improve speed and memory efficiency. 2-3X speed improvements on AF3, 5X on OF3, 5X on BindCraft low memory modes to model large assemblies. All released as open source www.anthropic.com/research/cla...

Great time at #PPRM2026 in Freising! 🌱 Enjoyed presenting my PhD work and connecting with researchers in the field.Thanks to the organizers for this opportunity and to my supervisor for the support! @marischuster.bsky.social @ipbhalle.bsky.social @julien-gronnier.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social

@adithya1972.bsky.social on stage at #PPRM2026 #ProudPI

I had to leave #PPRM2026 early to tend to my kid. But @adithya1972.bsky.social from the lab is around and giving a talk today. I wish you all a great conference and see you next time!

Beautiful, clear talk by Stefanie Ranf on her favourite receptor LORE. Have a look to the latest preprints of her lab! #PPRM2026

@eliastahl.bsky.social gives a wonderful update on their work on perception of insect eggs. Fascinating story! #PPRM2026

Invited speaker @elwirasmakowska.bsky.social starts the first signaling session and shares their progress in understanding fungal glycan perception by CRKs

#PPRM2026 ECRs, please don’t hesitate in approaching me during the conference if you are interested in working with us 😊🌱

Happy to be in Munich for the first time for my first PPRM 2026 ( Plant Peptide receptor meeting) This time organized by @julien-gronnier.bsky.social and team Very excited to listen to the exciting scientific line up here 😊

So nice to see this story out! This is so incredibly useful for us receptor people. Thanks! @rstam.bsky.social et al!

My Alice petunia explants already undergoing shoot organogenesis after just 13 days from plating leaf disks. So fast!

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher working on N-terminomics and Protease Degradomics (m/f/d) (11/2026) ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/33-postdocto...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will focus on Plant Membrane Biochemistry and Chemoproteomics (m/f/d) (10/2026) ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/34-postdocto...

I'm excited to share that my newly funded #ERCStG FRONTERA is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers at @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱🔬 If you are passionate about plant immunity, proteolysis, membrane proteins, or proteomics, I'd love to hear from you. 🧵 Please RT/share!

AlphaFold Server’s ligand menu just got a lot bigger and I almost missed it! You can now add any ligand from the wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary. Just enter its CCD code 🥳

Our junior research group leader, Mariana Schuster, has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant, which comes with a grant of 1.5 million euros. Congratulations @marischuster.bsky.social! #ERCStg @erc.europa.eu More Information: www.ipb-halle.de/en/article/e...

🌱 Job alert! A PhD position starting in 2027 is available with me and Andrea Gust @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social as part of the Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de 👉 Interested? Apply now &/or share! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... #PlantSciJob #PhDPosition

📣we're hiring a PhD researcher to test whether rhizosphere microbiomes keep flowers attractive under drought 🌸 joint supervision with soil ecologist @tcamenzind.bsky.social for the ROOT2BLOOM project in @greenrobust.de apply by 30/09 tinyurl.com/root2bloom questions welcome, thanks for sharing!

🔬Big news🥳 We’re excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Rosa Lozano-Durán as new Director and head of the Department of Plant Virology @mpipz.bsky.social Her research focuses on how plant viruses interact with their hosts. 🎉Welcome to MPIPZ, Rosa 🌿🌱 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5842514/loza...

Shedding light on plant proteolysis: genetically encoded fluorescent sensors as tools for profiling protease activities (Álvaro Daniel Fernández-Fernández , Simon Tack , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Out in @natplants.nature.com, mapping of brassinosteroid chemical features required for (1) receptor binding, (2) ligand positioning and (3) co-receptor recruitment. Fantastic work by Alberto Caregnato & @hmchen93.bsky.social and our friends in Olomouc. Funding:@snf-fns.ch -> doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Role of membrane-organizing SPFH proteins in plants: @hannah-web.bsky.social, Alexandra Ehinger, @birgitkemmerling.bsky.social et al define how Arabidopsis HIR2 forms higher-order assemblies and organizes receptor signaling domains link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Programmable design of synthetic plant immune receptors for pathogen protein recognition" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

News & Views: "Clearance of splicing byproducts promotes plant defence" rdcu.be/fu1HS Pre-mRNA splicing generates seemingly useless byproducts called lariat RNAs. Tang et al. show that if not cleared, they act as precursors of small interfering RNAs that target defence genes. #PlantScience

Deadline extended 📢 Submit your abstract for the #PPRM2026 by July 29th! Check our fantastic lineup of invited speakers and come join us discuss all things #plant peptide receptors 🌱 Please spread the word and see you in Freising (Germany) from September 14 to 16 😊 www.events.tum.de/frontend/ind...

Nick’s enthusiasm is literally radiating. Follow link to read more about it kamounlab.medium.com/community-sp... @NickDesnoyer #OpenFlower #SummerSchool

‼️Job altert🚨📢 please spread the word: We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our new department "Phytopathology and Plant Protection" at @unihalle.bsky.social. www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...