Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

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News from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Cologne, Germany - Basic molecular biological research on plants and microbes

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
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📣Paper Alert! 🥳 A new study @cp-cell.bsky.social from the Schulze-Lefert group @mpipz.bsky.social reveals how Arabidopsis adapts its iron acquisition strategy to soil pH, using coumarins & bacterial pathways to access this essential nutrient. 👏 👉 bit.ly/4yEU9Em #plantsci www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

cell.comArabidopsis uses distinct coumarins and bacterial pathways for pH-adaptive iron acquisitionArabidopsis coordinates Fe acquisition with its root microbiota by releasing distinct coumarin chemotypes in response to environmental pH. These root-exuded specialized metabolites interact with root-...
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📣📣Paper Alert! New paper @nature.com from the Marques group @amarques.bsky.social and colleagues on Rhynchospora tenuis - 🌿a plant that reproduces sexually but has completely lost the reshuffling of DNA🧬 Congratulations! 👏 🥳 Read more👉 www.mpipz.mpg.de/pr-marques-2... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comSex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis - NatureRhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate, genome-wide achiasmy in both male and female meiosis.

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EMBL Events
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Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL

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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences
@ceplas.bsky.social

🌱In unserem letzten Beitrag zum #fascinationofplantsday erklärt André Marques @amarques.bsky.social vom MPIPZ @mpipz.bsky.social was eine erfolgreiche Pflanze ausmacht und welche Rolle unterschiedliche Chromosomen dabei spielen können. Wirklich faszinierend! 😉

CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences@ceplas.bsky.social

🌱Heute ist #fascinationofplantsday! Wir stellen euch diese Woche CEPLAS Forschende vor, die von Pflanzen - vom Samenkorn bis zur ausgewachsenen Pflanze - fasziniert sind. Findet heraus warum! 🔎 @leibnizipk.bsky.social @hhu.de @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @unicologne.bsky.social

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Hadrien Oliveri
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Hot off the press 🚨 Epidemic spreading between regions is often modelled on a network 🕸️ But how do we describe this process properly? Here, we show how to build a linear transport operator at the network scale, by coarse-graining local advection-reaction-diffusion within edges. shorturl.at/0tAN8

shorturl.atA multiscale theory for network advection- reaction-diffusion - Journal of Mathematical BiologyMathematical network models are extremely useful to capture complex propagation processes between different regions (nodes), e.g. the spread of an infectious agent between different countries, or the transport and replication of toxic proteins across different brain regions in neurodegenerative diseases. In these models, transport is modelled at the macroscale through an operator, the so-called graph Laplacian, based on the edge properties and topology, capturing the fluxes between different nodes of the network. However, this phenomenological approach fails to take into account the physical processes taking place, at the microscale, within the edge. A fundamental problem is then to obtain a transport operator from mechanistic principles based on the underlying transport process. Using advection-reaction-diffusion as a generic mechanism for inter-nodal exchanges, we derive a multiscale network transport model and derive the corresponding linear transport operator at the macroscale from first principles. This effective graph Laplacian is fully determined by the transport mechanisms along the edges at the microscale. We show that this operator correctly captures the transport, and we study its scaling properties with respect to edge length.
Hadrien Oliveri@hadrienoliveri.bsky.social

⭐New preprint: "A multiscale theory for network advection-reaction-diffusion" with @alaingoriely.bsky.social and Emilia Cozzolino arxiv.org/abs/2509.06546

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epsoeurope.bsky.social
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52nd EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 16th April 2026 at 15.00 CET discussing ‘Genome Editing Public Consultation Outcomes’ with Janne Artell, Gabi Waldhof and Mia Olsson. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for autumn seminars bit.ly/41jzkzn. #PlantScience

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Hadrien Oliveri
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Active matter physics studies living beings as open, out of equilibrium, and emergent systems. In this perspective on plant morphogenesis, we show how such features arise from the basic hydromechanics of plant tissue and how to capture them in models. 🌱💧 Preprint 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2512.05554

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parkergroup.bsky.social
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Great to see this really cool story published in Nature! rdcu.be/e7UoR Parker & Wang’s commentary, “A fellowship of the rings in plant defence”, provides further insights into the elaborate structures of NLRs formed during plant immunity. rdcu.be/e7UnA @nature.com @mpipz.bsky.social

rdcu.beAssembly of helper NLR resistosome clusters upon activation of a coiled-coil NLRNature - SUMM2, a coiled-coil NLR, promotes the assembly of higher-order resistosome clusters to initiate cell death in plants.

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Schneeberger Lab
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🥔 We traced the ancestral legacy of modern breeding introgressions in European potato! Combining pedigree records & genome-wide SNPs, we reveal which wild relatives shaped the European gene pool and how. 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-05143-z

doi.orgTracing modern breeding introgressions in European potato - Theoretical and Applied GeneticsThe European potato germplasm originated from a few founding genotypes, and its narrow genetic base has since been broadened through introgressions from wild relatives. We combined pedigree records an...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
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What a great talk by Kirsten Bomblies and an inspiring discussion on #womeninscience. 🌿Always believe in yourself - you belong here! 🧪🔬Learn more about our fantastic female scientists @mpipz.bsky.social here 👉 www.mpipz.mpg.de/5784211/inte...

mpipz.mpg.deMPIPZ Women in Science 2026
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We are excited to welcome Kirsten Bomblies as the speaker at our 🌿Annual Barbara McClintock Seminar🧪 and guest at our roundtable discussion @mpipz.bsky.social on “Women in Science,” held in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #11Feb #womeninscience

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
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📣📣Paper alert! Excited to share a new paper @pnas.org from the Tsiantis lab @mpipz.bsky.social and colleagues on how enhancer evolution shapes leaf diversity. 🌱🌿Congratulations! 👏🥳 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4583PdR #plantsci #evolution www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

pnas.orgEvolution of repressive sequences within an enhancer contributed to morphological diversity in crucifer plants | PNASCis-regulatory sequences, such as enhancers, play a crucial role in morphological evolution, but how their diversification leads to evolution of no...