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InternationalRoot-knot nematodes find their host via their microbiome
A group of international researchers has demonstrated that the root-knot nematode species Meloidogyne incognita employs ingenious methods to locate its host plant. In Nature Plants, the researchers report that they do this by picking up chemical signals from the microbiome cultivated by the plant.
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InternationalPodium: Liliana Moreira Teixeira Leijten
Our members form the beating heart of our societies. Here, we regularly highlight one of them. This time, it’s NVBMB-member Liliana Moreira Teixeira Leijten.
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InternationalImmune cells in the driving seat: new molecular braking mechanism discovered
Researchers at UMC Utrecht and AMOLF have discovered that two proteins influence each other on the same immune cell to adjust inhibitory signals. They present this unexpected mechanism by which immune cells adapt their behaviour in Science Signaling.