Finally! Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m excited to share this paper! There’s been a lot of debate around biological nitrogen fixation in cereals, and as scientists, we must continue refining this process. Thanks to @jeanmichelane.bsky.social and Wilfred Vermerris for their invaluable support. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

#Sorghum develops aerial roots and (like maize) produces abundant carb-rich mucilage after rain. @rev7.bsky.social @jeanmichelane.bsky.social &co show that diazotrophic #bacteria in the aerial roots can fix nitrogen, reducing need for synthetic fertilizers 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3EYPZjK

It's not just PubMed. All NCBI services are down. This includes: - RefSeq - NCBI Gene Database - NCBI BLAST Server - NCBI Entrez If this becomes permanent (or if servers slow down), this is a debilitating blow to genome and genomics research.