🌱 A big step for plant breeding in Europe The EU has approved the #NGT Regulation — creating “clear conditions for applying modern breeding approaches”, says our CEO Felix Büchting. A step towards more resource‑efficient, sustainable agriculture 🌎 Our Press release: www.kws.com/corp/en/medi...

The future is finally here. Thanks to all who helped with this.

🌾 Lab to Leaf: Insights in Plant Biology 🌱 🌍 Rice feeds more than half the world. But did you know that over 90% of it is grown in Asia? Using USDA's Rice Outlook (buff.ly/w9IYfTy) you can have a closer look at the yield production of different countries on the globe. #LabtoLeaf #Plantscience #Rice

🌾 #LabtoLeaf: Not all rice blight is the same. We created a diagnostic kit that identifies the precise Xoo strain in blight-ridden rice plants. This allows to inform planting strategies and means resistance to be locally matched. Read more on how it works: buff.ly/KjOoRKJ #RiceBlight #PlantScience

PCR or short-read sequencing may miss partial insertions from transformation vectors. Such fragments could reclassify plants as GMOs, with major regulatory and reputational risks. Long-read WGS captures entire insertion regions, and eliminates false positives. #genomeediting #plantscience

Genome editing can revolutionize agriculture, but only if we ensure it is safe and transparent. Our comment in Nature Biotech highlights why long-read whole genome sequencing should be the standard to confirm that genome-edited plants are free of foreign DNA. 🔗 buff.ly/zrgWbn4

🗺️ Wondering how other countries regulate genome editing? Our sister resource Edit a Genome tracks NGT regulations worldwide and ist freshly updated in June 2026: www.editagenome.org #GenomeEditing #NGT

For the Healthy Crops project, this is a welcome signal. We develop disease-resistant rice varieties using exactly these techniques, helping smallholder farmers in Asia and Africa protect their harvests. 🌾 www.healthycrops.org #FoodSecurity #PlantScience

🌾 Historic day for food science in Europe! The EU Parliament just adopted new rules for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs): genome-edited plants similar to conventionally bred ones will now face lighter regulation! A clear pathway from lab to field. #NGT #EUPolicy

📜 From lab to field: analyses of genome-edited bacterial blight resistant rice 🧑‍🔬 @elizaloopi.bsky.social, José Huguet-Tapia, Michael Selvaraj, @madlensomssich.bsky.social, Frank F White, Bing Yang, @research-science.bsky.social, et al. 📔 bioRxiv #️⃣ #PlantScience #FieldTrials #PlantGenEd #Rice

The team has successfully developed #rice varieties through marker-assisted backcross breeding that are #resistant to bacterial blight. They will be transferred to partners in #Madagascar and #Tanzania, where they'll be tested in the field before they are distributed to local farmers.

Demokratische Werte und Wissenschaft dürfen nicht länger für algorithmische Machtspiele missbraucht werden. Wer X mit eigenem Content füttert – egal wie gut gemeint – hilft einer vom CEO manipulierten Plattform, die den Rechtspopulismus feiert. #NoMorelnteraction #eXit #Twitter 2/2

Time to polish them figures. Looking forward to finally meet the PD crowd in person! 🌿

Marcel generated an updated map of the World's status regarding the regulations for genome editing. Check it out, we will expand in the future and keep updated....https://www.editagenome.org

plasmodesmata conference in St Louis in September 2024 plasmodesmata.genetics.wisc.edu

#OpenWheatBlast wins UEA Innovation & Impact Award! Open science + International collaboration + Genomics = a quicker response time to the wheat blast pandemic Congrats @kamounlab.bsky.social, Joe Win, @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social, Sergio Latorre and Hernán Burbano! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2d...

Congratulations to Akira for the discovery of the possibility to observe nuclei across a wide range of plants using near infrared autofluorescence without the need to use any dyes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Conratulations to Eliza Loo to her new publication in Cell Host Microbe. www.hhu.de/en/about-hhu.... New insights into the spatial differentiation of microbiota along the root, the correlation with host physiology and the role of SWEETs for proper colonization!

Congratulations to Jona and Robert Campbell's lab to the new LSSmApple and it use to generate a ratiometric calcium sensor GA-MatryoshCaMP6s and the visualisation of mating factor induced calcium spiking in yeast. doi.org/10.1021/acs.....

📜 Plant plasmodesmata bridges form through ER-driven incomplete cytokinesis 🧑‍🔬 Ziqiang P. Li, Hortense Moreau, Emmanuelle M. Bayer, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Plasmodesmata #PlantCellBio

📜 Plasmodesmata act as unconventional membrane contact sites regulating inter-cellular molecular exchange in plants 🧑‍🔬 J. Pérez-Sancho, M. Smokvarska, @yvonjaillais.bsky.social, E. M. Bayer, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment

Plasmodesmata? Cool fungal effectors being hypermobile and influencing cell-to-cell mobility? All the cool stuff and more in this paper 😎 #PlantScience #plantimmunity

Very pleased to have finally got this out there - many years work by the team - primarily Dana Vlad. Discovered that large vein ranks are actively repressed to allow smaller veins to develop. All grasses we looked at are the same. Allowed us to change patterns in rice - not quite C4 rice but closer

Congratulations to Yugander & our Laurence Albar's team to the publication on rice lines resistant to rice yellow mottle virus by genome editing (doi.org/10.1111/pbi....). Notably loss of CPR5.1, but not CPR5.2 , causes resistance. In contrast to Arabidopsis mutants shows no lesion mimic phenotype.

 📢 Job alert! Are you interested in #PlantScienceResearch, molecular biology and microscopy? Then send your application! We are looking for a postdoc to join our team at @hhu.bsky.social. See adverts below.   #PlantSciJobs

✨Ever wondered how C4 plants 🌱 manage to shuttle metabolites back and forth between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells so efficiently? ✨ They have increased cell-to-cell connectivity between these cells through A LOT of plasmodesmata. @plantsci

Our team at @hhu.bsky.social is looking for a new administrative assistant in the coordination of the project. In this temporary 50% position, you will support a great team of scientists in their daily administrative tasks. All applicants must be fluent in German and English.

📜 Near-infrared imaging of phytochrome-derived autofluorescence in plant nuclei 🧑‍🔬 Akira Yoshinari & Masayoshi Nakamura et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy

Congratulations to SYMPORE member Vicky Howe from @simonrdg.bsky.social Lab, who was selected as new Assistant Features Editor at The Plant Cell.