Antibodies for a bespoke plant immunity. Highlight of Sophien Kamoun work demonstrating that plant immune receptors can be retrofitted with animal antibodies to provide #plants potentially with hundreds & thousands of options to perceive attacking #microbes cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Looking for excellent candidates for a doctoral student position within the PlasticUnderground Marie-Curie doctoral network to study the effects and transport of #microplastic in soil. Research comes with a lot of flexibility. Deadline 29.5. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/72548

A Suite of Constitutive Promoters for Tuning Gene Expression in Plants pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

IN BRIEF: A new phase of identifying RNA-binding proteins: Plant phase extraction (Nora Flynn) buff.ly/3OLZyFD ASPB #PlantSci

New manuscript from our lab showing the use of Arabidopis callus cultures to study protein/RNA transport: Arabidopsis callus-grafts: A system to study symplasmic intercellular macromolecular transport....doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16…

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#Abiotic #stress targets in #plants #crops Andrew F. Bowerman ... Barry J. Pogson academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Can microbes save the planet? Genetic engineering and accelerated evolution of microbes aim to help climate change go.nature.com/43tQRUC

"... a method to determine binding affinities to native #chromatin by #sequencing (BANC-seq), in which native chromatinized DNA is used to determine absolute #transcription factor binding affinities in a specific #epigenetic state across the genome." nature.com/articles/s4158…

This so cool 😎 Plant gene editing through de novo induction of meristems Dan Voytas #TRIC23 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Wow! #Fanzor, a eukaryotic (#human) programmable #RNA-guided #endonuclease. Feng Zhang lab. nature.com/articles/s4158…

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

Gentechnik in der Pflanzenzüchtung – wovon sprechen wir hier überhaupt? Wir Menschen haben seit es Ackerbau gibt Pflanzen aufgrund erwünschter Merkmale ausgewählt und weitergezüchtet. 🧵1/8 Zum Beispiel: ursprünglicher Mais und sein wilder Verwandter Theosint:

EPSO welcomes the EC’s legal proposal on NGTs to the EP & Council. EPSO offers to contribute to clarifying & improving standards for evaluating the equivalence between NGTs & conventional crops on a scientific basis #PlantScience #EUGreenDeal #EUFarm2Fork bit.ly/3OceM6l

#Pollen-mediated transfer of #extrachromosomal circular #DNA between #plant species. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37186777/

This is a strangler fig tree, Inside this tree is a hollow space where a different tree stood The strangler fig's seeds have made their way into the canopy of a host tree and germinated. As the fig's roots grow, they cascade down the trunk, Once they are in the ground it

“Die Biolandwirtschaft läuft Gefahr, gerade bei der Nachhaltigkeit abgehängt zu werden.” #NGT »Wir sollten die moderne Technik nutzen« spektrum.de/news/bio-und-g…

Großartige Neuigkeiten: #TAILOR-Nachwuchsgruppe unter der Leitung von #LenaHochrein, #UniPotsdam: #Synthetische Biologie zur Optimierung von #Promotoren und lichtgesteuerten Prozessen in industriellen Hefen. Gratulation, Lena! uni-potsdam.de/de/nachrichten…

Only one week left to apply for the advertised Postdoc position in my BMBF-funded junior research group TAILOR: Your chance to combine applied research at the interface of science and industry with the vibrant life of Berlin and Potsdam!