Mahmut Tör
@MahmutTor
Plant biologist. Interested in plant -pathogen interactions and explores MBCAs and siRNAs for plant protections. Professor @worcester_uni Personal views only.
Annual Croquet tournament starting soon after Ian Crute’s instructions. Rule is don’t handle others’ balls!!
Colour of the day: Zinnia elegans. Quiet. Calm. Just enough. #Nature #FlowerPhotography #Stillness #MindfulMoments
Colour of the day! Too thistle to handle #BeeApproved #PollinaTorFriendly #BuzzingBeauty
@Corne_Pieterse speaking facts about food for rhizospheric microbes and for humans #2025ISMPMI
In memory of John Matthew McDowell: A Visionary Leader in Molecular Oomycete-Plant Interactions and a Wonderful Mentor and Friend to Many #2025ISMPMI apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MP…
At #2025ISMPMI, scientists don’t introduce themselves—they flash their badges like undercover agents. ‘Name? Badge. Affiliation? Badge.’ These lanyards have more authority than passports 😄
Visited the Cologne Botanical Garden in the free afternoon. A stunning blend of structure, colour, and calm. #2025ISMPMI #Cologne #ScienceAndNature
Had to convince Murray Grant to visit a poster on how plants gossip about pathogens — only for him to realise it was his. PI life in one sentence #2025ISMPMI
Cross-kingdom RNAi is everywhere: 🍅 Pathogens use sRNAs to suppress plant immunity 🌱 Symbionts use sRNAs to promote compatibility 🦟 Even mosquitoes aren’t safe Hailing Jin @hailingj1 at #ISMPMI2025: revealing how small RNAs cross borders—and shift the balance. #CKRNAi
Informative talk by @dromius How do plants manage both a symbiont and a pathogen in the same cell? Identical interfaces, opposite outcomes. Is it about spatial control, membrane identity, or effector logic? 📍 #ISMPMI2025
Gizem @gzm_uunall presenting her work on dsRNA-based strategies to control downy mildew in pea crops 🧬 at #2025ISMPMI . P-329 is the number!
Excellent talk by @WenboEffector at #2025ISMPMI: secondary siRNAs (tasiRNAs etc.) are frontline defenders—pathogens like Phytophthora send PSR2 to silence them while sparing core RNAi. Smart sabotage; new targets for crop protection. #PlantImmunity #RNAi
#MPMI2025 opened with “Young researchers are our future.” Then the keynote hit us with a slide citing 22 papers—all from Science, Nature, and Cell. 😅 Over to you, young scientists! #PlantPathology #SciTwitter #AcademicTwitter #ECRchat
Did you know Phytophthora makes a precision cut. The angle has to be 41-51 degrees. A cool 😎 carpenter with the right tools in your garden. A very nice talk by Max Pluis. #OMGN2025
This time @gzm_uunall is delivering her talk on the use of dsRNA against pea downy mildew #OMGN2025 #PlantPathology
Select your body properly. Thomas Hainaux: Agrobody to control your oomycetes #OMGN2025
Mariana Herrera Corzo presents at #OMGN2025: Characterizing Phytophthora palmivora virulence gene variation using targeted capture sequencing and RNA-seq. #PlantPathology #RNAseq #Phytophthora
OMGN 2025 kicks off in Cologne with an excellent keynote by Bart Thomma on fungal pathogenesis. A strong start to a week of microbial insights! #OMGN2025 #FungalBiology #PlantPathology
The moon rose like a fireball over the rooftops tonight—hard to tell if it’s watching us or just passing by. #FullMoon #LunarFlex #RoofWithAView
