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It is finally out. A beautiful collaboration with amazing results is now finally readable for everyone. Congrats to all authors. @molplant.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by Gregor Mendel more than 160 years ago https://go.nature.com/3EC3eqT

New OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eiJVL ...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.

Now with a Research Briefing: "Current RNA-seq evidence of mRNA mobility is largely due to noise in the data" rdcu.be/eiWOU

New OA Letter: "Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication" rdcu.be/ehZmi A substantial number of transcripts, currently annotated as graft-mobile, lack statistical support from available RNA-seq data. #PlantScience

Our new paper is out! rdcu.be/ehYvN