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ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture @ensa-research.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🫛ENSA researchers identified three enzymes that could boost nitrogen fixation in legumes. Their model predicts up to 11% higher efficiency and nearly 9% higher rates of fixation, providing new targets for sustainable crop improvement. @meganlmatthews.bsky.social Rourou Ji @joshuakaste.bsky.social

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ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture @ensa-research.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🍄‍🟫 🌾New research from Uta Paszkowski's group reveals that elevated CO₂ strengthens rice's reliance on mycorrhizal fungi for phosphorus uptake. This research reveals just how important this partnership may become as atmospheric CO₂ levels continue to rise. #PlantScience #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange

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ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture @ensa-research.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Exciting to see ENSA research featured by SWR @swr.de.web.brid.gy. In this short TV report, @ottlab.bsky.social and @henrietteruebsam.bsky.social explain how studies of nitrogen-fixing symbioses could inform future work in crops such as cassava and maize. #PlantBiology #ResearchCommunication

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ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture @ensa-research.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🌽The road to nitrogen fixing maize is long, but important. A new modelling study by ENSA researchers suggests maize could grow much faster when partnering with two soil microbes – nitrogen fixing bacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.@meganlmatthews.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social Link👇

🌽Maize grown by ENSA group leader Ruaridh Sawers at Penn State University helped to experimentally validate the model of maize and AM fungi.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Gestern Dreh, heute online. Ein kurzer Bericht über unsere Arbeit hier in Freiburg im Rahmen des @ensa-research.bsky.social Projekts und in Kooperation mit @cibss.bsky.social. Danke an @henrietteruebsam.bsky.social und das ganze Team für die Koordination und Mithilfe. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

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Weniger Erdgas und CO2: Wissenschaftler forschen an Bakterien-Pflanzen-Symbiosen

Kunstdünger braucht viel Erdgas und schadet Klima und Gewässern. Forschende in Freiburg wollen, dass Nutzpflanzen sich mithilfe von Bakterien selbst mit Stickstoff versorgen.

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fabulous film about @jenmcgaley.bsky.social's work in the @paszkowskilab.bsky.social. Jen has captured arbuscular mycorrhiza in motion for the first time. Find out more 👉https://tinyurl.com/yc2brzcu 🧪 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

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ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture @ensa-research.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

ENSA is hiring a postdoc in maize–microbe interactions. 🌽🦠 If you have expertise in maize molecular biology, physiology, or cell biology, apply to join Simona Radutoiu's lab at Aarhus University, Denmark. Deadline: 31 July 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Some members of Simona Radutoiu's lab group photographed in the forest while on an away-day hike.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A new documentary on scientific approaches to replace industrial nitrogen fertilizers is now online @artefr.bsky.social (only in DE/FR). Among them is our and @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social's work @ensa-research.bsky.social further supported by @cibss.bsky.social. www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

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Dünger der Zukunft: Die Stickstoff-Revolution - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Ohne künstlichen Stickstoffdünger wären die hohen Erträge der industriellen Landwirtschaft undenkbar. Doch der intensive Einsatz schädigt das Klima. Weltweit wird nach klimafreundlichen Alternativen g...

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We're delighted to announce Uta Paszkowski as the new Russell R. Geiger Chair in Crop Science - a prestigious academic chair at @cam.ac.uk that serves as a cornerstone for cutting-edge agricultural research, sustainability and global food security. 🌍🌱🧪 tinyurl.com/39k489sd

Professor Uta Paszkowski, Crop Science Centre Director and Russell R. Geiger Professor of Crop Science in the gardens at St John's College where she is a Fellow. Credit: Nathan Pitt. © University of Cambridge.

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Sociedad Española de Fijación de Nitrógeno @sefin-esp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📢 Nos complace anunciar a los ganadores del I Premio Tesis Doctoral Tomás Ruíz Argüeso en esta primera edición de 2026: Primer Premio para @andrearesearch.bsky.social de la Universidad de León y Accésit a @itsmesamu.bsky.social de la Estación Experimental de Aula Dei. ¡¡Enhorabuena a los dos!! 🌱🧫👏🎉

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New pre-print from the lab! We show that the subtilase SBT12a is essential for symbiosome stabilization in Medicago. Using HUNTER proteomics, we even got some of its substrates. Have a look. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

New Opinion with @iamjawaharsingh.bsky.social @oswaldovaldesl.bsky.social in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social No Phosphate, less nitrogen fixing symbiosis and nodules, regardless of nitrogen status. PHR-L7 represses NIN in Common bean under phosphate starvation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Congrats @ottlab.bsky.social and @pengbo10.bsky.social for leading this work!

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants

Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

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Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw @idw-online.de · 09/03/2026

Key Protein SYFO2 Enables ‘Self-Fertilization’ of Leguminous Plants • An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott, professor at the University of Freiburg and member of the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS – Centre for Integrat... weiterlesen

CIBSS scientist Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott. - Copyright Michael Spiegelhalter / University of Freiburg

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ENSA - Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture @ensa-research.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

ENSA2 researchers Jens Stougaard & Jesús Montiel González share their journey in @theplantjournal.bsky.social. From pioneering Lotus japonicus to uncovering how bacteria infect plants, their work shows how collaboration drives global agricultural innovation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Now out: The expansin EXPA1 is required for both inter- and intracellular infections of Lotus roots. The study was led by Jesús Montiel (UNAM, Mexico) and Jens Stougaard (Aarhus, Denmark) with @blace.bsky.social from our team doing lots of the imaging. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Lotus japonicus alpha‐expansin EXPA1 is recruited during intracellular and intercellular rhizobial colonization

The colonization of legume roots by rhizobia represents a critical phase in the establishment of root nodule symbiosis. In this study, we demonstrated that LjEXPA1, a plant protein involved in cell w...

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