Great news! Japan approved the use of a 4th gene edited food crop. The new waxy maize variety provides more smoothness to food products. Gene editing of crops is now mainstream, except in Europe #EUSAGE bit.ly/3KUKd32

#TansleyReview: Plasmodesmata and intercellular molecular traffic control Estee E. Tee and @pd_christine 📖 ow.ly/Apgu50S8BLT #LatestIssue @wileyplantsci John Innes Centre

I plan to recruit two Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Dept of Entomology at the University of Kentucky. The research focus will be on molecular mechanisms underlying physiological adaptation. Specifics below. Please DM/email me if you have any questions.

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#ResearchNewsAlert: IRRI 🌾 scientists have identified key genes and markers linked to low glycemic index (GI) and high protein content in rice, leveraging genetics and AI classification methods. The study has been published in PNASNews. #OneCGIAR Read more:on.cgiar.org/3MBMH6K

TE-Seq: A Transposable Element Annotation and RNA-Seq Pipeline. #TransposableElements #RNAseq bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The heat shock response of plants: new insights into modes of perception and signaling and how hormones contribute JXB academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

HOLY SHIT IT'S HAPPENING AI can now write genomes from scratch. Arc Institute an NVIDIA just published Evo-2, the largest AI model for biology, trained on 9.3 trillion DNA base pairs spanning the entire tree of life. it doesn’t just analyze genomes. it creates them 1/

ICAR has developed two genome-edited rice varieties, marking the first products in the country to utilize #genome #editing technology. Hon'able MoA&FW Sh. Shivraj Singh Chouhan shall announce this landmark achievement to the nation on 04.05.2025 at 11.00 AM Image is symbolic

I've tested 100s of research tools - both paid and FREE! Here are my go-tos for all research stages (paid + free) (𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦.𝘮𝘦 & 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯) ⤵️ 💬 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂

DicePlot: A package for high dimensional categorical data visualization academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Dissection of genetic basis of 1,392 rice landraces and 770 hybrid combinations reveal great potential of rice landraces in hybrid rice improvement #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plan…

Reverse BSA-QTLseq: a new genotype-driven bioinformatics approach for simultaneous trait mapping #resource #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-communic…

Congratulations to James C. Schnable (James Schnable) of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, winner of the 2026 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for breakthroughs in plant genomics and quantitative #genetics that are reshaping modern agriculture! nasonline.org/award/nas-priz… #NASaward Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR)

For decades, peer review has been treated as the gold standard of scientific validation. Yet many scientists know the reality: the system is far from perfect. Peer review is broken and sometimes even corrupted. The process can be slow, inconsistent, and vulnerable to bias.

Finding low-complexity DNA sequences with longdust academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬💻🧪 github.com/lh3/longdust

If you've used my qqman package in the past, you might take a look at gwasplot: High Performance GWAS Plotting and Annotation. I haven't updated qqman in years and don't plan to. github.com/weinstocklab/g… #Rstats

A periodic reminder to leave behind simplistic & naive notions.

NodeGWAS: Leveraging Graph Pangenomes for Sensitive and Accurate Association Analysis in Diverse Diploid and Polyploid Species #correspondence #PlantCommunications