🎉🆕📰🎉: Filling in the gaps: evidence of leaf endodermis and vein sheath in gymnosperms doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing: "Cookbook for plant genome sequences" doi.org/10.1186/s128... #Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Where is the #Arabidopsis community on @bsky.app? Any #Brassica fans? See our recent protocol covering design principles and considerations for building and testing programmable and reversible CRISPRi-based gene circuits in plants. 🧪 #plantscience @natprot.nature.com @ryanlister.bsky.social

🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱 👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27! #PlantScience

Labs have started this semester👍🏼. Did the colorful 🎨 macromolecules tests in General Botany. Learning to follow protocols plus leadership skills. Made LBagar in Molecular Biology (advanced) for upcoming expts🦠🧫🧬. Added activated charcoal ⚫️ so chromoproteins can pop 🟢🔵🟣. #ECSUVikingsScience

Is your work accessible to everyone? 🌿💻 Submit a Methods for Plant Modelling article to help non-modelling researchers and students use and build upon your ✅ Algorithms & software ✅ Models ✅ Frameworks, platforms, or languages Click here for more information: academic.oup.com/insilicoplan...

Duckweeds are an important plant research model but have been challenging to modify genetically. A study published in @newphyt.bsky.social by the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI, presents a new and highly reproducible method for genetic transformation in the duckweed species Spirodela polyrhiza.

New Article: "Unravelling the predominant genetic paths for asexual reproduction in Kalanchoe" rdcu.be/e1pxI With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.

📣 Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” blog.aspb.org/new-teaching.... 🌱 #PlantScience

Happy Winter 2025/26 #ECSUVikingsScience. We welcomed Thea 👍🏼 and said goodbye to Ashna and Carmen😥. Our research on corn tissue culture🌽🧫 and transformation🧬🦠🧪 continues (watchful eyes 👀of Mrs. H). Lab meetings are a great way to improve oral presentations 🗣💻. Promise more time for fun🧁🎵. #plants

Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower… And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵

This was the 2025 harvest from my mini-maize experiment. These were the largest cobs out of an F2 population constructed by crossing Fast-Flowering-Mini-Maize Line-A (FFMM-A) and Blue Jade Sweetcorn.

Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number. I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”. Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.

♻️ Tracking pollen tube and ovule development in vivo reveals rapid responses to pollination in Brassica napus by Catherine Parry and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

We are pleased to announce the official release of PLAZA 5.1, our plant genomics platform, which comes with a major front-end redesign. This results in improved performance, enhanced visualization tools, and refined Toolboxes. Src: www.vandepoelelab.be/plaza/news#28

Attention Nicotiana benthamiana users! Certain strains of Agrobacterium (e.g. GV3101-pMP90) induce glandular trichomes because of cytokinin production by Agrobacterium. As this can influence assay outcome, we recommend testing several strains. See our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Opportunity Alert! Now accepting applications for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).🌱 👉 Apply by Feb 6! surf.aspb.org. #PlantScience

🌿🌱 RESEARCH 🌿🌱 Auxin, cytokinin, and GA3 interact to regulate the formation and development of plantlets on the leaves of Kalanchoë pinnata, with GA3 maintaining dormancy of epiphyllous buds on attached leaves - Jácome-Blásquez et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Please join us on Jan 22, 2026, at 12:00 pm PST/3:00 EST for our monthly virtual ASPB PUI session. Topic is: Tips for Designing a CURE (Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience). Join the meeting at whitman.zoom.us/j/9278222674... Contact Dr. Brit Moss at [email protected], if link issues

PlantGENE was awarded a Special Creativity Extension grant from the National Science Foundation. Learn more at plantgene.sivb.org/plantgene-aw... #plantscience #bioengineering #ScienceCommunity

Cleomaceae are the sister group to the Brassicaceae. In contrast to the Brassicaceae, they contain true C4 photosynthetic species. This indicates that the genetic capacity to evolve C4 is ancestral to the split of Brassicaceae and Cleomaceae. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This should be fun! 🤓 Join us May 10-13 in Barcelona!! www.ptcge2026.com

The Lab welcomes 👍🏼#undergrad Thea J. #ECSU. She is part of our corn 🌽 NSF grant. We are improving regeneration from seedling tissues and introducing morphogenic factors using Agrobacterium🧬🧫🦠🌱. Thea is supervised by Lab Tech Jacqueline and peer mentored by Nicole. #ECSUVikingsScience #plant

Targeting T-DNA to a specific locus using CRISPR From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Explore undergrad-powered research with this collection of papers authored by the next generation of plant scientists, in the International Journal of Plant Sciences. Read it here: https://ow.ly/pSi750Xm7nO International Journal of Plant Sciences

Optimization for #Arabidopsis #floral #dip transformation 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Methods article by Liu et al. @erhminlai @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience #Agrobacterium

#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

Binary vector origin predictably determines Agrobacterium-mediated transformation outcome across eukaryotic kingdom https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.688525v1

Are you ready to publish? Submit your work to one of the open-access, peer-reviewed ASHS Journals - HortScience, HortTechnology, or JASHS! https://journals.ashs.org/ #horticulture #plantscience #plantbreeding #research #fruit #vegetables #turfgrass #ornamentals

Restarted the Medicinal Plant of the Month display in the lobby of Jenkins Science Center #ECSU. Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼to undergrads Carmen and Ainya (GH lab techs 💻⚕️💊), and ECSU for the repairs🔨. Our trusty praying mantis is on guard (IPM 🐞🐛. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu #plants

The CRISPR Help Session Part II is an interactive Q&A event. The audience will have an opportunity to ask specific questions to expert speakers about analysis of edited lines. Please come prepared with questions for discussion! Register here: cornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CRISPR #PlantSci

David Jackson closing the first international forum on maize biology, which he and I chaired. 70 institutions from 10 countries represented. Looking forward to 2027 IFMB in Chengdu!

Does anyone have a textbook recommendation for teaching genomics (including recent technologies for genome assembly and annotation) to undergraduate/graduate students?

Completed the classical plant experiments in General Botany #ECSU. Undergrads collected data on fresh/dry wt. ⚖️ of seeds 🌰 for a week; histology🔬 of plant organs; light ☀️vs chlorophyll on photosynthesis ⚗️🧪🌱; respiration (germinating vs dry seeds 🌰). #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcuexcellence

One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Pothos is a popular foliage plant. ‘UF-Ea-0310’ was selected from self-pollinated seedling populations of ‘Marble Queen’. Regeneration of ‘UF-Ea-0310’ via direct somatic embryogenesis resulted in a complete green-leaved cultivar: UF-Ea-0314. #HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI18915-25

Nice write-up about RUBY in our university newsletter: today.ucsd.edu/story/seeing...

Loading vertical protein gels 👍🏼👍🏼 #ECSU. Undergrads in Molecular Biology looked at fish 🐟 proteins (Edvotek). All the ohs and ahs 🙄😃 when General Botany undergrads see their first plasmolysed epidermal cells (red onion 🔴🌰 in different conc. of sucrose🍬 and salt🧂). #ECSUVikingsScience

Expts. have started in earnest #ECSU. Macromolecules tests ⚗️🧪🎨 with control (water) and unknown sol'n (General Botany); and making LB media 🧫 (Molecular Biology). Added some activated charcoal ⚫️ for #agarart 🔴🔵🟣🟢. Idea 💡 from @atinygreencell.bsky.social. #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcuexcellence

Speakers & Topics: 🔹Dr Keunsub Lee – Enhancing Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation 🔹Dr Greg Goralogia – A hairy root-to-shoot excision system 🔹Dr Chris Willig – Agrobacterium strain enhancement for plant transformation Register! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @aabiologists.bsky.social

Our project on the oak 🌰 tree 🌳 by the Library continues #ECSU. Biological Research undergrads will be annotating the chloroplast genome. Part of the ACTG project of Dr. Alex Harkess (HudsonAlpha Inst.). Last fall, we sequenced HMW DNA 🌱🧪🧬 (excellent quality 👌). #ECSUVikingsScience #hbcu

Thinking of starting a plant genome sequencing project? Check out this step-by-step guide: Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences 📖 www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #LongReads @puckerlab.bsky.social

Still enjoy 👍🏼 doing plant nodal cultures 🌱🧫 after almost 30 years #ECSU. The laminar flow hood is humming, my music 🎶 is playing in the background but still a silence 🔕as no talking (increase in contamination🦠🍄). The interplay between the forceps and the scalpel..... #perfect 💐 #plants

Exploring maize transcriptional regulatory landscape through large-scale profiling of transcription factor binding sites #resource #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

In 2005, a small team of researchers asked: What if undergrads didn’t just learn genomics, but contributed to real discoveries? That question launched the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP). #GenomicsEducation #UndergradResearch #GEPCUREs

Teachers! Celebrate 20 Years of PlantingScience with us during the 25-26 school year! 🌿🌱🥳 Mentoring openings are still available for the Fall and Spring sessions! Click here to learn more👉 plantingscience.org/getinvolved/joinplantingscience

The Council on Undergraduate Research is once again kicking off their yearly CURE mentoring program. PUI faculty, if you are interested in bringing authentic research practices into the classroom, please contact Dr. Jonathan Fitz Gerald at [email protected]. @aspbofficial.bsky.social #plant

👏👏 to auxotrophic Agrobacterium. 5th week of culture and no sign of Agro overgrowth. Less antibiotics also needed in selection media 🧫. Great for #undergrad labs. Will transform most of my plant plasmids 🧬 into these strains 🦠🧪. Petunia leaf explants 🌱 transformed with RUBY🔴. #ECSU #plant