Talk about large plant genomes... The 13-Gb faba bean genome is out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (and it is just a diploid - for comparison, the Arabidopsis genome is 0.135 Gb) ^FG

In our Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis & Biotechnology collection Fernando Geu-Flores & co Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences review the biosynthesis of quinolizidine alkaloids in lupins to elucidate the full pathway Read the #OpenAccess article in full below👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Level up: first conference talk in Danish! Special mention to Sophie Otterbach 🙂 #plantekongres #herning #lupiner #alkaloider

Today in Science: towards limonoid biosynthesis (e.g. azadirachtin). Full of juicy nuggets: methyl shift (+cyclopropane ring formation) by new enzymes, protective acetylation, Baeyer-Villager, and furan ring formation. Congrats Sattely_lab, Anne Osbourn, and Hannah Hodgson!

Check out this nice piece of #sciencecommunication from our lab member at Plant Physiology! Looking forward to read more. Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences #plantsci ^DB

Happy to share our latest pre-print on nicotine biosynthesis ^KV

Congratulations to the entire consortium on the immense advancement in #fababean science published in nature. This will facilitate gene discovery and breeding efforts, taking major steps forward! ^HS #legumes #plantprotein #PlantSci

Congratulations to the FrankeLab on their exciting work published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. on the skeletal rearrangements of triterpenoids in Ailanthus altissima! ^DB #PlantSci

Looking for a postdoc position on crop improvement? Check out this exciting possibility in the lab of stiguandersen aimed at eliminating the favism-causing agents from faba bean in collaboration with us au.dk/om/stillinger/… ^FG

Finally published🎉 Check out our latest publication in collaboration with the group of Nicola J Patron 👩🏾‍🔬🌱⚙️ 👇^KV

Our latest story in Science Advances ✅We pinned down the mutation that gave us sweet white lupins ✅We recreated the sweetness in blue lupins using FIND-IT ✅We revised how bitter lupin alkaloids are made science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🙏Science at VILLUM Novo Nordisk Foundation and +others!

Our research in the headlines this week 🙌 See Davide Mancinotti and Hajar Golshadi's work covered by News From Science ⬇️

The science is clear! It's time to say YES to #CRISPR and other #NGTs! 💚 Scientists from PLEN join the call from 37 Nobel laureates and over 1,500 scientists for MEPs to support new genomic techniques in the European Parliament debate tomorrow!

We're hiring! Wanna join us and work on plant natural products? - PhD student: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=1611… - Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige… See examples of our work: - science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… - nature.com/articles/s4147… Deadline on 17 March 📅 #PhD #postdoc #biochemistry

Announcing the NovoCrops PhD Summer School 2024! ✅Learn about crop improvement & gene editing ✅Network with international experts ✅Get coaching on poster prep & delivery ✅Participate in 1-day CPSC conference Sign up here: eventsignup.ku.dk/novocrops2024 Travel grants available!

Congratulations to the FrankeLab and the D'Auria group on their exciting work published in Science! 🎉 Dive into the biosynthesis of the allelopathic alkaloid gramine in barley, involving a cryptic oxidative rearrangement! 🌾🔬 #plantsci ^DB

Now adding Caixia Gao 🙏to our teacher's team for the NovoCrops 2024 PhD Summer School in Copenhagen. Have you saved your spot yet? Travel grants available! (deadline extended to 15 May) eventsignup.ku.dk/novocrops2024

Last week, our group member Katharina Vollheyde took part in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions organized #ScienceIsWonderful fair in Brussels.

Congratulations to our postdoc @henrykstraube for getting his Phd thesis honored!🌱