Mass spectrometry imaging: principles and applications in plant research nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social

Dopamine biosynthesis in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693491v1

Nicotine biosynthesis completed by cryptic activating glucosylation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692101v1

🔓Don't miss in our latest issue this #OpenAccess review by @maximilianfrey.bsky.social & co. @ipbhalle.bsky.social, @unihalle.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social looking at the biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family #naturalproducts #secmet

#OpenCloning is a an Open Source alternative to SnapGene/Benchling that supports automation and integration with other software ✅ Free 🔓 Open Source 🧬 More cloning methods than SnapGene 🤖 Can be automated with python 👨‍🔬 Built by a researcher — for researchers! 👉 Check it out at opencloning.org

Researchers have manufactured organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) on a nanoscale – that’s around a hundred times smaller than a human cell. This not only enables ultra-sharp screens and microscopes, but also opens up entirely novel possibilities for wave optics applications. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

How does messenger RNA (mRNA) get out of the nucleus to become a protein? Eukaryotic mRNA is packaged, exported, and then translated in the cytoplasm. But how do these steps work? And what are open questions? Check out our new review for our take: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (1/3)

And now we have Arabidopsis plants with 8 chromosomes instead of 10 and no obvious phenotypic differences, this week in @science.org #PlantScience Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data - @bocklab.bsky.social @cemm.oeaw.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at go.nature.com/3WPGJnW

Tension, suspense, or narrative arc in a story is the stuff that keeps the reader going. But how do you introduce suspense in a scientific article? That is what my latest post is all about. aboutacademicwritingandzo.substack.com/p/how-to-wri... #AcademicWriting #WritingTips #NarrativeArc #Suspense

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Really fabulous work! Animal pigments engineered in bacteria.

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants and fungi is enhanced by plasmid copy number variants go.nature.com/3CdewQS rdcu.be/eNaje

Excited to see our paper online! We combined scMS and scRNA-seq from the same plant cells 🌱 — a step toward true single-cell multi-omics in plants. Overview 👇

Discovery and engineering of the biosynthesis of rotenoids www.nature.com/articles/s44... @natsynth.nature.com

Very exciting to finally see our iridoid cyclase ICYC online @natplants.nature.com! A joined effort with Robin Buell’s lab with Josh Wood generating snRNA-seq, and my student Chloée Tymen performing the initial experiment. #natprod #PlantScience @mpi-ce.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new study in Nature Plants maps how "multi-tasking" enzymes in plants transfer nitrogen, a key step toward improving crop N use efficiency. 🌱 Big thanks to our collaborators from Max Planck, Hokkaido Univ, & MSU, and for support from @NSF and @DOE. Learn more: rdcu.be/eFOFN #PlantMetabolism

Beautiful work by Yaereen and former lab member Kevin! Learn more about the anti-cancer compound homoharringtonine and its'biosynthesis in plants here 🌿https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672243v1

The multilayered regulation of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in plants: Trends in Biochemical Sciences www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.

Protein Structural Phylogenetics academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Into natural product biosynthesis & tailoring enzymes? Frustrated by the lack of a dedicated resource to explore their functions? Tired of endless literature searches for reaction info? Meet the MITE database, freely available at mite.bioinformatics.nl. Preprint: doi.org/10.26434/che... (1/8)

Inspired by natural molecular glues, drug hunters are chasing protein–protein interactions with next-gen small molecules tuned for enhanced tissue specificity and reduced toxicity www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eAC91

Couldn't have said it better! Great job @taralowensohn.bsky.social, Will, and Chun! Special thanks to the Gao lab at @stanford.edu #singlecell #plantbiology

A truly enabling new approach by @taralowensohn.bsky.social Will Cody and @sattelylab.bsky.social to probe plant genetics at scale. Single-gene-per-cell delivery coupled to an effective transcriptional selection system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ingenane biosynthesis enzymes in @newphyt.bsky.social by @matildeflorean.bsky.social, @carstenschotte.bsky.social from @oconnorlab.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social in collaboration with Ian Graham lab members. #natprod #PlantScience doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Here, the authors @oconnorlab.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social uncover the mechanism of epimerization behind uncommon 3R-containing alkaloids in Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) and study their inclusion in downstream biosynthesis #PlantScience #natprod www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SynBio: it’s what plants crave doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... J Exp Bot Insights article from *Dan Hong Loh* - she discusses the impacts of Rubisco SynBio tool expansions from Archer et al. 2025 (doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...).

Heron is a new intuitive software tool that helps researchers design complex experiments even if they don’t have in-depth technical expertise. 🔗

July Issue. Read FREE: Sequencing historical RNA: unrealized potential to increase understanding of the plant tree of life (see cover); Decoding the evolution of C4 photosynthesis; Transcellular regulation of ETI-induced cell death; & much more www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience

Researchers @emoryuniversity.bsky.social observe #longevity benefit of #psilocybin #psychedelic mushroom news.emory.edu/stories/2025... — extended human skin & lung cell lifespan by 50% — increase aged mice survival by 30% — reduces oxidative stress — improves DNA repair 🧪 #health #science #aging

Want to become a cloning wizard? 🪄 Our latest blog post is packed with hands-on tips for mastering Modular Cloning — advice on how to prepare for the process, handle reagents, high-throughput methods, and more. Start your MoClo quest here: https://twp.ai/4io9Rn

Yes when I was on the board of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social the women profs told us exactly this..and even moreso for the minority profs: minority students flocked to them as role models to ask for mentoring and advice, taking time away from the Prof's own research #womeninscience #womeninstem

SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labelling protein for bioimaging. An article published in Nature Chemical Biology presents SNAP-tag2 with increased labelling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live-cell super-resolution imaging. go.nature.com/46fMIZd 🧪

'Night science' is what you do when you're not sure what's the question.

Defining and benchmarking open problems in single-cell analysis - @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social @fabiantheis.bsky.social bit.ly/4l8dsiF

Broad application of the ALFA tagging technology for in planta nanobody-based imaging and biochemical characterization of plant proteins #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Robots for precision agroinfiltration. Really cool engineering effort with the biology in mind 👍🏾

A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life. #DNAbarcoes #DNAsignatures #GenomeSequencing @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A catalytically inactive enzyme enables the formation of free indole for plant defense + communication, researchers from @oconnorlab.bsky.social from @mpi-ce.bsky.social report in @natchembio.nature.com ‬ DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01943-y www.ice.mpg.de/496511/PR_Fl...

I'm very pleased to present the @cp-devcell.bsky.social Voices on plant model organism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... While we appreciate the diversity of plant models, one often questions which model is the "best"?

We have developed an entirely new mechanism of action for gene knockdown -> trafficking of targeted mRNAs to the lysosomal, using lysosomal trafficking oligonucleotides (LyTONs)! Published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org Led by Disha Kashyap #chemsky 🧪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Next preprint out from my work @oconnorlab.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social : the discovery or iridoid cyclase in asterids! Thread below. #PlantScience #natprod www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest paper is out in its final form in @theplantcell.bsky.social We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context. Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Must read for all who use Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform: “Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression” #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔬📊 Comment: A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data @natcellbio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

Today in Nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III & deBz-deoxy-Taxol #SingleCell #secmet 🧬🧪🌾