Elly Poretsky
eporetsky.bsky.social
Elly Poretsky
@eporetsky.bsky.social
Plant Biologist and Bioinformatician | Project Scientist at UC Berkeley’s Angelo Coast Range Reserve, studying grassland biodiversity, soil microbiomes, and root chemistry | Created www.plantapp.org
Reposted by Elly Poretsky
ColabFold 1.6.3 is out! 2.5x faster, pip-installable, ipSAE+pDockQ2 scores. Thanks Choonghwan Lee, Marielle Russo, Gyuri Kim
🐍pip install colabfold[alphafold]

CF2 Sneak Peak with AF3/Boltz/Protenix/ESMFold2…
🐍pip install "colabfold[alphafold3]@git+https://github.com/sokrypton/ColabFold@af3-preview"
September 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Reposted by Elly Poretsky
New preprint!

There have been quite a few papers about RLP and RLK receptors, but none of them have a truly reproducible annotation pipeline (including my own...)...
We finally made such a pipeline and look more systematically at RLPs within tomato.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
PlantLRR-PRR:A Reproducible Annotation Pipeline Reveals Contrasting Evolution of Developmental and Defense Receptor-Like Proteins in Tomato
Plants perceive external and internal signals via receptors to modulate their growth, development, and defenses. Leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like-kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like-proteins (RLPs) are t...
www.biorxiv.org
September 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by Elly Poretsky
Reciprocal transport of carbon and nitrogen between plants and the hyphosphere microbiome in a temperate grassland

Brandt et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 11, 2026 at 12:03 PM