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...

And here's one for @sciam.bsky.social on the amazing biology of the European blister beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus). The larvae, which clump together in an orange mass, are the first animals known to mimic flower scent - they do it to attract bees. 🧪 🪲 🐝 🌼 www.scientificamerican.com/article/beet...

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Philippa Borrill, SEB Plant President Medallist (2022). Her work and mentorship had a lasting impact on the plant science community. Read our tribute: www.sebiology.org/resource/rem... ⬇️ Her Scientists with Impact interview is in this thread

Parasitic beetles are the first animals known to imitate floral scents

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AI-driven protein engineering: A new paradigm for plant trait design #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Conserved and Divergent: Salicylic Acid Biosynthesis and Signaling Pathways across the Plant Kingdom #review #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

How nature borrows ideas from nature. Ahh... beautiful work from Ryan Alam, a colleague and a dear friend of mine :) Bee-hunting beetles are the first animals known to fake the smell of flowers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Democratizing CRISPR? Legal complexity, access and the right to science - @zlsr-unibas.bsky.social go.nature.com/4rZjTYt

A Stable Isotope Tracing Primer for the Mass Spectrometrist - Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @annualreviews.bsky.social

Interesting paper: Metabolic enzyme PAL can go into the nucleus in response to high product build up and sequester an activating TF of the pathway, thus acting as a feedback inhibition loop. From: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

Lovely C&EN @cenmag.bsky.social story on the history and personal impact of the cancer drug Taxol. After spending recent years deciphering how yew trees, our source for Taxol, synthesize this lifesaving drug, it’s so nice to see it in the larger context #secmet #medsky Plants are amazing chemists.

Synthetic Biology of Plants and Microbes for Agriculture, Environment, and Future Applications | Chemical Reviews pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Expanding enzyme functionality through site-specific incorporation of noncanonical amino acids: Trends in Biochemical Sciences www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

Proximity labeling users: check out this study by @zhixingchen2.bsky.social and Peng Zou, which establishes how much contact-dependence vs. diffusion is responsible for biotinylation — tl;dr TurboID has a much smaller effective radius! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2

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