The European Commission is pleased to launch this new Science, Research & Innovation account. We look forward to connecting with the community on Bluesky! 🧪 Here you will find: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources

A new crop in the lab. 🌱 Field day with TaCoCass team members — working to boost photosynthetic efficiency in cassava and secure a more sustainable food future. #Cassava #Photosynthesis #FoodSecurity

🌱 The #TaCoCass Team in the field: evaluating #cassava lines with diverse architecture and productivity. The trials highlight the genetic variation that underpins efforts to boost photosynthetic efficiency in cassava, paving the way toward more resilience and higher yield #Cassava #Photosynthesis

A research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has revealed that modern barley has a “mosaic origin”, meaning it stems from several wild populations across the Fertile Crescent. The findings were published in @nature.com. ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/ytzyn4re ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/5e2v7cp5

Over 100 European policymakers, scientists, & agricultural stakeholders were at our webinar yesterday! Together, we examined how New Genomic Techniques can drive sustainability in European agriculture! 🇪🇺 🌾 Organised by #EUSAGE, @reimagineeuropa.bsky.social, & our @horizoneu.bsky.social project!

Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project partner, Andrea Lodetti, has his poster at the European Plant Phenomics Symposium #EPPS2025! Check his research on “Sensing the Dynamic Response of Photosynthesis to Abiotic Stressors with Forced Oscillating Light” today from 17:30–19:00 or tomorrow 15:45–17:00!

Our project partners from @SorbonneUniversity and @ecolenormalesuperieure @cnrs will introduce our #HorizonEU project @EuroBioImaging “Plant Imaging Expert Group“ meeting! 🌿🔬 Hear from Ludovic Jullien, Aliénor Lahlou, and Ian Coghill this Wednesday 24 September, at 13:00 CEST

Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social, head of Biotechnology & Genome Editing, at @leibnizipk.bsky.social joins our webinar on New Genomic Techniques to boost sustainability in Europe”! 🇪🇺🌾 Join us Sep 18 at 16:00 CEST! 📅 Free Registrations at forms.office.com/e/RXJwce0Y4G

The discovery of genes underlying interesting traits for #PlantBreeding is one of the most important & difficult tasks here @kwsgroup.bsky.social. We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist to help us with this! #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #PlantGenetics #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs

Garlich von Essen, Secretary General & CEO at Euroseeds, will join our free webinar “Innovating Agriculture: How New Genomic Techniques Can Boost Sustainability in Europe” on Thursday, 18 September! Free registrations at forms.office.com/e/RXJwce0Y4G

Join our free webinar on 18 September to hear from @apmweber.bsky.social, our #EUfunded project coordinator, about recent progress in crops, including maize that is more resistance to droughts! 🌽 ✅ Free registrations at forms.office.com/e/RXJwce0Y4G

Congratulations on the publication @tianshu-sun.bsky.social and @jmhibberd.bsky.social! In our #H2020 project, Tianshu and Julian are profiling gene expression in specific cells & assembling and testing gene constructs. All to induce C3-C4 intermediacy and bypass photorespiration in Arabidopsis. 🌱🧬

For Science 🧪enthusiasts in #NRW & beyond: our #Research Center @fz-juelich.de is opening it's doors on 07.09.2025. Talk to 👩‍🔬 about the🔬questions addressed here. Try #HandsOn #experiments. More on www.tagderneugier.de/en #TagDerNeugier #TdN25 #STEM #SciComm #ScentificCommunication #PlantScience

New Zealand had some of the most restrictive laws when it came to genetically engineered food crops. This move once again demonstrates how the NZ Government makes Science-based decisions. Take note, European Union! #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantScience #Agroculture #Sustainability #PlantBreeding

Join our online webinar 18 September on how New Genomic Techniques #NGTs can significantly contribute to sustainable agriculture in Europe! 🇪🇺 🌾 ✅ Free registrations at lnkd.in/dMj8ThfM Secure your place and participate in shaping Europe’s sustainable agricultural future!

Our coordinator @apmweber.bsky.social is one of the advocates for “using new genomic techniques in organic [farming] with participatory governance to help achieve the EU’s sustainable agriculture goals.” 🌱♻️ #OpenAccess article at @cp-cellrepsustain.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Researches call for the #EU to allow gene editing in an effort to make #organic farming more sustainable.🌾 http://dlvr.it/TL4Fj2 @unibayreuth.bsky.social Alexandra Molitorisova @cp-cellrepsustain.bsky.social

Last month, our consortium met in Tartu, Estonia, to share our latest progress and reflect on what’s next for our #H2020 project. Here is a sneak peek! 📽️ 🌻 There were lots of updates, including cross-consortium publications, regulatory deliverables, and upcoming trials.

In case you missed it, our partners @ari-satanowski.bsky.social and Daniel Marchal published a potential new option for biological carbon reduction. It could be a promising approach to enhance CO2 fixation in plant science & synthetic biology! 🌱🧬 Open-access study at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our #H2020 project welcomes the new @copernicusland.bsky.social tool for detailed crop and land use data. Better data means better decisions for food security & sustainable farming! 🛰️ 🌾 #AgTech #SustainableAgriculture #CopernicusEU #CLMS www.copernicus.eu/en/news/news...

We have just wrapped up our hybrid consortium meeting in Tartu, kindly hosted by our fantastic Estonian colleagues at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. 🇪🇪 With the project heading into its final phase, it was the perfect chance to look back on what we’ve grown together! #H2020 #PlantScience

International researchers advocate New Genomic Techniques in organic production with participatory governance to achieve the EU’s sustainable agriculture goals. 🇪🇺 💬 Open-access commentary at @cellpress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Our team recently published important findings in Science Advances on improving crop efficiency! Read the press release to learn more. 🌻 #PlantScience #SustainableAgriculture #FoodSecurity #EUResearch gain4crops.eu/beyond-photo...

The PlantsCoChallenge homepage is now online. Please come and visit us! www.plantscochallenge.de/

As well as CO2 Rubisco reacts with O2: plants evolved photorespiration to deal with the consequences. It works, but synthetic biology can do better! 🔄 We used metabolic modeling to compare alternative pathways to boost crop yields 🌱 🧵 #ScienceAdvancesResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New research from GAIN4CROPS compares alternative pathways to photorespiration—a metabolic process that reduces photosynthetic efficiency and crop yields. A key finding: Carbon-fixing pathways like TaCo are the most promising ones. Read the open-access article at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Launch of the 3rd report on the state of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for food and agriculture #PGRFA #CGRFA @Rome

Our roadmap, “Time to Translate,” on harnessing photosynthesis for better crops in the EU, was featured in @lemonde.fr! 🌱 www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

This great article by @annameldolesi.bsky.social is a promising example of how #NewGenomicTechniques could help protect vines and reduce the impacts of fungicides in #SoilHealth. Our #H2020 project uses similar genetic tools to boost #photosynthesis in sunflower. 🌻 #GiveGenesAChance #PlantScience

Lots of new people joining Bluesky, and lots of great starter packs floating around, so here’s another idea: if you work at the intersection of food/agriculture, nature, and climate, introduce yourself and what you do below so folks can keep connecting. Who’s here now?

We met @camplantsci.bsky.social this week to present and discuss on how far our #H2020 project has come. 🇪🇺 🌻 Some updates: New hybrids, field trials prep, and paper in review! 🔔 Thank you @jmhibberd.bsky.social, @tianshu-sun.bsky.social & @slcuplants.bsky.social for hosting! 🤗 Visit gain4crops.eu

Cool paper in Nature: Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A great opportunity for researcher to collaborate on plant science solutions to climate challenges! The coordinator of our #H2020 project, @apmweber.bsky.social, is a member of this wonderful initiative! 🌱 👏 Learn more about it at www.plant-act.org #PlantScience #CropInnovation #ClimateCrisis

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Our consortium is at @camplantsci.bsky.social for 2 days of presentations and discussions on how far our #H2020 project has come. 🔬🌻 We will also be getting ready for an upcoming review. 📑 Thank you @jmhibberd.bsky.social for hosting our team in sito & online! 🤗

Started creating a synthetic biology starter pack. Still missing many so reply here if I forgot you or someone else. go.bsky.app/SjfpxTK #synbio

Hear from our partner, Tobias Erb, on how synthetic biology can create more sustainable carbon sequestration options. 🔧 🌱 📉 He and his team are supporting our #H2020 project to boost photosynthesis! 🌻 #PlantScience #ClimateChange #SyntheticBiology #PlantMetabolsim www.youtube.com/live/6MzASUU...

This #StarterPack is a wonderful resource for those looking for a #PlantScience community! We hope it will help us reach those interested in #PlantMetabolism as our #H2020 team works on improving C3 photosynthesis. 🌻 🆙

Ok, I made a starter pack for membrane trafficking and organelles (broadly defined). Feel free to self-nominate! go.bsky.app/RbtJjt7

Spread the word! We are 90 days away from the Plant-Herbivore Interaction Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Symposium in Pomona, CA and 117/200 slots have been filled. Sign up soon! The program has been published and I hope you find the lineup exciting: www.grc.org/plant-herbiv...

At the #WorldFoodPrize2024, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu mentioned that “the #genetic revolution goes beyond increasing yields.” 🥗 🌱 ✨ Our #HorizonEU project uses these tools to improve the photosynthetic efficency in C3 plants, learn how at gain4crops.eu 🇪🇺 www.fao.org/newsroom/det...

Did you know that sunflowers can self-organize to optimize their sunlight exposure & growth? 🌻🌻🌻 Researcher revealed that sunflowers make small, movements—called circumnutations—to avoid shading each other when grown closely together. 🔎 Read the #OpenAccess article at doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

We are the account #2,091,415 at Bluesky! Time flew and now there are over 10 million accounts! 🌱 ➡️ 🌻 Many of them sharing interesting research on #PlantScience like @ceplas.bsky.social and our project coordinator @apmweber.bsky.social 👏

Our team recently met in Udine to present the latest achievements from each partner and roadmap the next steps of our #EUfunded project! 🇪🇺👥 We are funded under #Horizon2020 by @ec.europa.eu and our goal is to sustainably increase crop yield. 🌻📈 www.linkedin.com/posts/gain4c...

📜 Systemic analysis of metabolome reconfiguration in Arabidopsis after abiotic stressors uncovers metabolites that modulate defense against pathogens 🧑‍🔬 Antoni Garcia-Molina, Victoria Pastor 📔 Plant Communications 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

Happy Summer Solstice and World Music Day from the GAIN4CROPS team! ☀️🎶 Today, we celebrate the warm start of the sunflower blooming season and leave you with “Sunflower”, a gentle tune for an afternoon of research or relaxation. 🌻 🎼 balearic.bandcamp.com/track/sunflo...

Yesterday was #WorldBeeDay! 🌻 🐝 Today we explore lesser known but vital native #pollinators that are crucial to maintain #ecosystem and #food production! 🦋 🦇 🔎 Find out how the European parliament @ec.europa.eu is protecting them at www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud... www.un.org/en/observanc...

“Twenty-eight years of #GM Food and feed without harm: why not accept them?” asks Richard Goodman, food allergens expert @unlincoln.bsky.social. 🌾✨ 🔎 Explore the history, regulation, & potential of #GMOs in this #OpenAccess article doi.org/10.1080/2164... via @tandfonline.bsky.social

Exciting news for #agricultural #innovation! 🔎 📣 Mass #spectrometry imaging (MSI) of plants in situ is giving better insights for boosting #metabolism. 🔬🌿💪 More in the Journal of Experimental Botany by Patrick Horn & Kent Chapman from the University of North Texas: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

📣 We are happy to share that our partners Gilles Clauss, from @cnrs.bsky.social, and Dimitri Tolleter are presenting their #Arabidopsis Leaf Quantitative Atlas at the Quantitative #PlantBiology journal club! 🌿🌐 📆 Register and join them tomorrow at 11:00 GMT! cambridge-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...