Roeland Berendsen

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...

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This nicely builds on our earlier Current Biology work with
@keyu01.bsky.social @utrechtpmi.bsky.social @carahaney.bsky.social @cornepieterse.bsky.social @gstringlis.bsky.social , where we showed how acidification of the plant environment supports colonization by beneficial Pseudomonas.

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

Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization, promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying Pseudomonas, sele...

🎉 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...

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

MiCRop co-PIs @rlberendsen.bsky.social and @vkokkoris.bsky.social on Dutch television

Arabidopsis root defense barriers support beneficial interactions with rhizobacterium Pseudomonas simiae WCS417 Plant roots interact with pathogenic and beneficial microbes in the soil. While root defense barriers block pathogens, their roles in facilitating beneficial plant–microbe associations are understud...

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

Assistant Professor in Plant Science Contribute to innovative Plant Science research using world-class facilities to unravel how plants cope with stressful abiotic environments.

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Thanks! Great you like it.

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Really nice work from @jellespooren.bsky.social showing that disease-suppressive soils might sometimes be generated in the phyllosphere. Turning the concept of soilborne legacies upside down 🌱🦠 With @cornepieterse.bsky.social @svanwees.bsky.social and others @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

PhD Position on Decoding Plant Microbiota–Host Specificity Using AI Join us to generate data and build AI-driven models to decode plant–microbiota host specificity!

One more week to apply for an open PhD position in my team at Utrecht University. Interested in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, microorganisms and plant-microbiota interactions, don't hesitate and apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Dive into the plant root microbiome with Dr. Ronnie de Jonge (Utrecht Uni).
His team uses high-dimensional ‘omics and AI to understand how plant roots recruit beneficial microbes.
Don’t miss his talk at #PPATH2025

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#AIinBiology #PlantScience

Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants The rhizosphere microbiome influences plant health by mediating plant-pathogen interactions. Plants can recruit protective microbes in response to disease, but the consistency of this process in field...

📜 Microbiome responses to natural Fusarium infection in field-grown soybean plants

🧑‍🔬 @svbentum.bsky.social, @rlberendsen.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantMicrobiome #Fusarium #Agriculture

Apparently they did enjoy! @y-song.bsky.social @utrechtpmi.bsky.social

@y-song.bsky.social doing a great job at explaining the importance of the potato microbiome at the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social microbiome day! Hoping the medical and veterinary microbiome scientists in the audience enjoy the change in perspective.

🔬 Exciting #JournalClub in our group today by @nielsaerts.bsky.social! We discussed the immense and multilayered complexity of hormonal cross-regulation in plant immunity, based on this preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🌿🧬A must-read for those fascinated by plant defense and signaling!

🚨 We’re hiring–please spread the word! 🚨 Our lab at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social is looking for a pre-doc intern to join our research on plant immunity. If you’re a current undergrad/master’s or recent graduate interested in gaining research experience, please apply! tatsuyanobori.com

@micropresearch.bsky.social starts the second phase in its journey to harness the plant microbiome for (a)biotic stress resilience. Stay tuned for PhD and Postdoc openings this spring! www.microp.org

It's not just PubMed. All NCBI services are down. This includes:

- RefSeq
- NCBI Gene Database
- NCBI BLAST Server
- NCBI Entrez

If this becomes permanent (or if servers slow down), this is a debilitating blow to genome and genomics research.

What Trump miscalculates about American power Central to Donald Trump’s approach to international relations is an inability to grasp the basis of America’s postwar power – a mistake Australia must confront for its own security.

What Trump miscalculates about American power - insightful www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/interna... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Excited to share my postdoctoral work from Basel! We discovered a “microbiota receptor” in Arabidopsis that optimises plant immunity, the root microbiome composition, eventually leading to enhanced plant growth.

A travelling-wave strategy for plant-fungal trade. An image of a microscopic view of fungi. Nature logo.

Our newest research on plant-fungal trade published today in @nature.com.

The work, led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF combines robotics, mycology & biophysics to reveal underground supply-chain dynamics.

Open access:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vacancy — PhD Candidate Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for plant science? Would you like to apply your enthusiasm to a highly relevant project in the field of plant-microbiome interactions? Then we have th...

📌Vacancy at the University of Amsterdam!
Join us at the Green Life Sciences with three open positions by my colleagues. 🌱🌻
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PhD position on "Microbial Host Preference in Plant Stress Resilience" in the group of Dr. Kathrin Wippel: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade - Nature Symbiotic fungi control network-level structure and flows to meet trade demands.

the mycorrhizal highways moves in waves with trade interests at the forefront flowing dynamically in both ways within hyphae.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States

The European federation of Academies of Sciences has posted a statement of concern about the developments in the US. They now have added the option to endorse this statement as an organisation. Would be great if this could go viral. allea.org/portfolio-it...

And folks warn that Chinese GenAI are a risk and manipulative.

Interesting journal club by @mpapadopoulou.bsky.social about www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Evidence for the promotion of specific microbial ecological clusters to increase soybean plant fitness in response to nutrient deficiency. Also interesting for microbiomes4soy.eu