Paralog editing tunes rice stomatal density to maintain photosynthesis and improve drought tolerance buff.ly/42BQLdX ASPB #PlantSci

Finally published! Chromosome scale assembly of an African orphan crop, #Lablab purpureus. Years of mentorship, fruitful collaborations and capacity building initiatives come to life. Congrats to all authors. ILRI.org, University of Southampton, Plant Genome and Systems Biology. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Grateful to participate in work aimed at sharing the tools of gene editing with scientists across Africa, alongside Savage Lab Evan Groover Leena Tripathi @igisci innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-co…

Very excited to see Xin Cheng's insight "From grasses to succulents – development and function of distinct stomatal subsidiary cells" published online. We discuss what subsidiary cells are and how they are formed differently in grasses and succulents nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Today, the European Commission officially proposed to upgrade its rules from 2001 : gene edited plants with fewer than 20 edits will be exempt from GMO legislation in Europe in the future. Finally. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… reuters.com/markets/commod…

Public registration is OPEN for the UC Berkeley Plant Genome Engineering Symposium! This 10/27. Featuring global luminaries at the forefront of plant engineering, and hosted in the heart of gene editing Institute for Geographic Information Science. Seats are limited. Register for free now: rb.gy/iv1tt

Our lab's paper on gene body methylation states is out in Genome Biology today! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… The reviewers were all excellent - helpful, thorough and fair, and made it a stronger paper :)

Dear community, We release chromosome level genome of pasta wheat T turgidum Kronos, a model organism, founder of the sequenced reverse genetics resource, highly amenable to transformation. The genome is released here under Toronto agreement zenodo.org/records/102154…

Happy to share our work on cassava transporter editing is out now in Plant Biotechnology Journal. A big thank you to an amazing team Sam Dr. Jessica Lyons at @igisci and Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14…

The activated plant NRC4 immune receptor forms a hexameric resistosome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

What limits rubisco function? Is it the chemical mechanism? Evolution? In an updated pre-print Michael Prywes et. al explore this question by assaying >99% of single amino acid mutants in Form II rubisco (1/7)

Amazing position with an amazing PI!

A RIPE team used CRISPR/Cas9 to alter photosynthesis in rice by changing its upstream DNA. This is the 1st approach to increase gene expression & downstream photosynthetic activity. See their work in Science Advances. DOI: bit.ly/4bAFsXA Story: bit.ly/4ca0sEf

New study from our group published in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… Congratulations @timplantfan and everyone involved!

In Taga Lab Zoila, Zachary Hallberg, and I dove into studying the impact of nutrients like Vitamin B12 (corrinoids) on community-wide & isolate-specific scales. How often do you see paired studies like these?! Our sibling papers are out now in The ISME Journal! academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…