A major milestone for biodiversity genomics: EBP-affiliated projects have now contributed over 6,000 genome assemblies toward the goal of sequencing all known eukaryotic life. 🧬 Thank you to all EBP-affiliated projects behind this work, from sampling and DNA extraction to sequencing and assembly.

Hardest part of making bio tools is the endless testing of edge cases, to make sure that sequences are holy, circular permutation is accounted for, degenerate bases are considered, etc. To make robust code worthy of wetlab requires attention. I'm burning my bots with endless tests to make this work.

Our funky R-stereoselective Epi-STR is now available online and open access at its permanent home @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. 🥳 This is Clara's first first-author paper, makes me extra happy! @mpi-ce.bsky.social #PlantScience #natprod doi.org/10.1002/anie...

They arrived. Notably, they are matte except for the bee vision glaze. They are also durable: I almost immediately dropped one on my hardwood floor and it was fine. 🐝🌱

PhD Funded Position in Plant Evolutionary Genomics at Uppsala University, Sweden A prestigious PhD opportunity in evolutionary genomics at Uppsala University. Work on sex chromosome evolution, bioinformatics, and population genetics with access to cutting-edge facilities.

Yesterday morning was peak Saguaro! 🌵 🌼 (13 blossoms?!)

Columbine flower Colorado. 📷 Marilyn S.

1/ BRAKER4 hatched! The Earth BioGenome Project is on track to sequence ~1.5M eukaryotic species. Every one needs a structural annotation. No Perl monolith was going to survive that. So we rewrote BRAKER from the ground up. github.com/Gaius-August...

Conifer leaves anticipate their shaded future www.botany.one/conifer-leav... Densely packed needles along the shoots of evergreen conifers exhibit shade-acclimated photosynthetic characteristics even under full sunlight #Botany #PlantScience

From DNA to discovery: what are the steps of HiFi sequencing? 🧬 This blog breaks down the 5-step PacBio workflow, covering everything from Nanobind sample prep to real-time data analysis on the Revio and Vega systems. See how it all comes together: bit.ly/4vDRhGW #PacBio #HiFisequencing #Genomics

Are scientific papers always right? Not necessarily. Our students revisited a study on quinoa leaf pigmentation. Here is what they found: doi.org/10.64898/202... #OpenScience #Reproducibility #PlantScience @puckerlab.bsky.social

Starting Monday: Python course at the University of Bonn 🚀 Teaching Plant Sciences master’s students how to handle big data with Python & apply AI to real-world problems 🌱💻 Slides & materials: github.com/bpucker/PyBo #Python #AI #DataScience #PlantScience @puckerlab.bsky.social

Check out Nancy's latest work about the long history of anthocyanin research and the strong growth of this research topic 👇 #PlantSciences #Evolution

📢 Sydney #RNA scientists: our next #SydneyRNASalon event is coming up! 🧬 ECR, student, or just RNA-curious? This one's for you! 📅 Thu 30 April · 2:10–4:30pm 📍 Room G07, Biosciences Building D26 UNSW 🥐 Refreshments sponsored by @rnasociety.bsky.social, Lexogen & @ramacgenomics.bsky.social

🌱 Check out this new #AJB On the Nature of Things essay! 🌱 What we learn from #weed #genetics By Acer VanWallendael doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #herbicides #evolution

📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on April 27 at 10:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2026 Plantae Fellows.🌱 👉 Free registration at buff.ly/yDFsgTp #PlantScience

The United States of America is the ONLY Nation on earth who's citizens are permitted to have guns SPECIFICALLY in order to rise up against an Authoritarian government and yet they choose to do FUCK All 🤔 This is the feeling we have in Europe.

If you ever feel a bit too big for your birtches, try your hand at non-model plant bioengineering. No one is a master at it, and anyone who thinks they are has never danced with Araceae. Genuinely humbling experience. Come for the GM plants. Stay for the ego death.

It’s beginning. 🌵

Congratulations, @elizaloopi.bsky.social ! The awardee of our Eduard Strasburger Prize 2024, Dr Eliza Loo from @hhu.de has received a "Klaus Tschira Boost Fund" grant to explore targeted programming of plant microbiomes.

Meet TAIR's own Alyssa Proia, one of the researchers behind #TAIR12, now available on the ENA and NCBI. phoenixbioinfo.org/meet-the-tea... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis

🌱 From Frontiers in Agronomy: Biosolarization can cut broomrape germination by over 99 percent, offering a faster, low-chemical option to protect crops from parasitic weeds. (Bradley D. Hanson) ▶️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/agr... #PlantScience #WeedScience

Would you like to confirm your cloning success with full plasmid sequencing? NanoPlasmiQC allows automatic analysis of dozens of plasmids in a single ONT sequencing run: doi.org/10.64898/202... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #OpenScience @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

The Bleeding Heart plant always reminds me of turtles with pink shells, flippers white heads & necks & eyes. I always call it the Diving Turtles plant! #GardensHour 🌱

6 PhD Positions Fully Funded in Environmental Sciences (Dual Degree Germany–Australia) – 2026 Intake Discover six fully funded PhD opportunities in Environmental Sciences offering a prestigious dual degree between Germany and Australia. Explore research in climate modelling, biodiversity, wildfire…

Have you used #TAIR12 in your research? We're looking for speakers for the Arabidopsis Bioinformatics concurrent session at #ICAR2026 in Singapore! Interested? Email [email protected] with your pitch. #plantscience #plantbiology #arabidopsis 🧪

🌱🐣 Happy Easter from our Plant Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Group! 🧬 Celebrating renewal, curiosity, and the hidden “Easter eggs” in biological data 🧪💻 🌿 Happy Easter! 🌼 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb #Genomics #Bioinformatics #PlantSciences @bpucker.bsky.social @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social

geneslator: an R package for comprehensive gene identifier conversion and annotation doi.org/10.64898/202... DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Evolution

We have been cooking up this story for a while and we are excited to finally be able to share! Read on if you're interested in whole plant regeneration WITHOUT the application of hormones!

Why did researchers choose to volunteer their time to reannotate the Arabidopsis thaliana genome? It's value to the community🌾🧪🌱 bit.ly/4btx3HQ #TAIR #plantscience #plantbiology #Arabidopsis #cropscience #TAIR12

Already one year at Uni Bonn since our move from TU Braunschweig. Great science, new ideas, and a growing team — thanks to all collaborators and supporters who made it possible. More to come! www.pbb.uni-bonn.de #AcademicJourney #Teamwork #Science @bpucker.bsky.social @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social

Novabrowse: A Tool for High-Resolution Synteny Analysis, Ortholog Detection, and Gene Signal Discovery doi.org/10.64898/202... DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Evolution

🥔🌿 RESEARCH 🌿🥔 RNAi-induced down-regulation of BEL11, a proposed negative regulator of tuberization in Andean potato, alters tuberization, photosynthetic characteristics, and biomass allocation in cultivated potato – Zounková et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Can some museum just do a blacklight survey party in their collections after hours and report everything that glows? Every 6 months there’s another one of these and I’m starting to think maybe it’s not that special/there are some interesting patterns we could pick up with broad sampling.

I love chromoproteins so much!

WF-coir is a promising organic alternative substrate to mineral wool and peat for highwire cucumber propagation regardless of the fertigation methods used in commercial facilities. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI19123-25 #HortScience #plantscience

From @nature.com ’s #Systems #Biology & #Application | From #FAIR to #CURE: guidelines for computational #models of biological systems | #Education #OpenScience #Credible #Understandable #Reproducible #Extensible | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in the genetic secrets of your favorite plant? A genome sequence might reveal them. We wrote down a workflow from DNA extraction & sequencing to genome sequence assembly & annotation. It includes a hands-on guide with example commands. doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Happy to share our new review mapping the journey of anthocyanin research and highlighting where it is heading next! The explosion of publications in the last decade says it all 📈 Definitely a space to watch👀 And we're here for it!✌ lnkd.in/eCsfB-RE #Plants #Anthocyanins #EarlyCareerResearch

Biologists in Europe, the Middle East and U.S. planted 360 small plots of the thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana in various types of climates from alpine to desert. Their findings show that genetic diversity is crucial for the survival of plant populations. #biodiversity @plantevolution.bsky.social

How Thale Cress adapts – or goes extinct. In an unprecedented field experiment plant scientists investigated evolutionary adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana to a wide range of climates at 30 locations: from the Alps to the Negev Desert was investigated. In @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

“Sakura” in Japan. Cherry blossoms symbolize the fleeting nature of life, mortality, renewal, and spring in Japanese culture. ☺️ TT: ThaoThao Yodo station, Kyoto

Excited about plant pigments? Anthocyanin biosynthesis is a hot topic in plant biology, judging by the growing number of publications #FlavonoidFriday doi.org/10.20944/pre... & shorturl.at/Hrm4c @puckerlab.bsky.social

Reference genome assembly of a tetraploid accession of the tuber crop Tropaeolum tuberosum doi.org/10.64898/202... Genome sequence of the medicinal plant Tropaeolum majus provides insights into flavonoid biosynthesis doi.org/10.1101/2024... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #LongReads

'New Phytologist is an international journal with one goal: to promote plant science. The journal is unique in that it is owned by the New Phytologist Foundation, which reinvests its revenue into promoting plant science.' – Maarja Öpik 🧵1/2

🌱 Have you used the new TAIR12 annotation in your research? We're looking for speakers for the Arabidopsis Bioinformatics concurrent session at #ICAR2026 in Singapore! Interested? Email [email protected] with "potential ICAR2026 session speaker" in the subject line & your pitch in the body.

Teams around Stefan Hoth @uni-hamburg.de + Lars Voll (Marburg) generated a compound by chemical modification that can efficiently rescue growth without decreasing immune response of the autoimmune mutant chs3-2D. Read more #OpenAccess in our journal #PlantBiology DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

Petunia species called Midnight Gold

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Genome sequence of Tacca chantrieri reveals the genetic basis of floral pigmentation doi.org/10.64898/202... #Genomics #Bioinformatics