🌱I am life. 🌱I have been around for longer than you can imagine. 🌱I am home to millions. 🌱I cover much of the earth. Your life relies on mine. I am worth protecting. I am plants. 🌱🌱

Heat waves can suppress production of the plant defence hormone salicylic acid. @nature, research shows the mechanism of this suppression, which involves liquid-liquid phase separation. The data could be relevant to generating climate-resilient crops. go.nature.com/3Ntnpp9

Today we report in nature a central molecular mechanism leading to thermosensitive plant immunity. We then genetically repaired this temperature-vulnerable step as a roadmap to resilient plant immune systems. Laurier Biology 💜𓅪💛 Duke Biology HHMI rdcu.be/cQD8r

If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive [Stanford Complexity Group: buff.ly/3utG23e]

Agroecology can help 👇 🌱Build resilient livelihoods 🌱Safeguard biodiversity 🌱Boost nutrition 🌱Sustainably manage the planet’s natural resources 🌱Respond to climate change Learn how 👉bit.ly/38xjLI0

REMINDER... Tired —> Nap Sad —> Music Stressed —> Walk Angry —> Exercise Burnt out —> Read Feeling lost —> Pray Overthinking —> Write Anxious —> Meditate

Heritable transgene-free genome editing in plants by grafting of wild-type shoots to transgenic donor rootstocks | Nat Biotech nature.com/articles/s4158…

CRISPR-edited plants using graft-mobile gene editing system !!! 😲 Nature Biotechnology ▶️Heritable transgene-free genome editing in plants by grafting of wild-type shoots to transgenic donor rootstocks 📖nature.com/articles/s4158…

Finally the genome of Grass pea is out: nature.com/articles/s4159… Glad to be part of this project. Congratulations to all the authors 👏🏻👏🏻Pramod Kandoth lovenpreet mangat Shrikant Mantri @AshwaniPareek10 Tilak Raj Sharma, Joy K Roy, Sivasubramanian Rajarammohan, Dalwinder Singh

It would be beneficial to repeat the experiment using outfits of different colours in order to determine the generalizability of the findings.

Glad to have this paper on the grass pea genome out! Thank you, team_ NABI BRIC-NABI The genome is available at lathyrusgenome.nabi.res.in It will fasten our research efforts on this fantastic crop Grasspea Shiv Agrawal #plant_resilience #climate_change #nutrition

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.” On #InternationalDayofEducation, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. scim.ag/1h9

I just published: 3 unexpected things we owe to the plant pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas link.medium.com/1w2za1MX0wb

This is super interesting and smart: express proteins in E. coli with a tag that sends them into the culture media in vesicles. Seems to enhance expression of toxic proteins and has g/liter of culture yields of near pure protein 🤯

📢We welcome new research to Special Issue "Genes: Important Functions in Plant Stress Tolerance" ⏳Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2023 ➡️All info: mdpi.com/journal/agrono…

Happy to share pre print version of our upcoming work on genome editing by CRISPR/Cas in Grass pea. We have developed a quick system for functional studies of Lathyrus genes 🧬 ✂️ 🌱 Pramod Kandoth lovenpreet mangat Ajay K Pandey (@pandeyak1974.bsky.social) Grasspea

Loss-of-function of an α-SNAP gene confers resistance to soybean cyst nematode disq.us/t/4kh1zzq

Our manuscript is online Plant Cell Reports! Advancing #Grasspea improvement: We’ve developed a tool to optimize agronomic traits in this climate smart #legume #GeneEditing #CRISPR #FoodSecurity #ClimateAdaptation Pramod Kandoth lovenpreet mangat Ajay K Pandey (@pandeyak1974.bsky.social) Grasspea BRIC-NABI

Freaky Flowers Volume 3!🌸🧬 Did you know that just a few mutations can transform the Arabidopsis flower into all kinds of forms? 🤯 Here’s a tour of 6 mutants that orchestrate floral development and architecture 🧵

Joe Ecker Joe Ecker, Joseph Swift Joseph Swift, and team have revealed the genetic details of 30-million-year-old question: How did some plants evolve from less-efficient C3 photosynthesis to C4 photosynthesis? Their findings pave the way for the creation of more robust,