📣 Join us on May 30 at 9 EDT, for a The Plant Cell panel discussion focusing on “Translational Research from Arabidopsis to Crop Plants and Beyond".🌱 👉Learn more and register at blog.aspb.org/may-30-plant-c…. #plantscience

SoftAlign: End-to-end protein structures alignment biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/jtrinquier/Sof…

Today in Science Magazine we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells, a collaboration with Sternberg Lab. 1/13 drive.google.com/file/d/1I-UbCR…

Coverage of our collaboration with the Liu group.. ' “This is crazy directed evolution!” - Makoto Saito' nature.com/articles/d4158…

🌾 #BNIWheat could be a game-changer—cutting nitrogen use, losses & GHG emissions without compromising yields. #CIMMYT leads a global BNI Mission with partners worldwide. 🎙️ Dr. Marenya Paswel shares insights from Africa & India 🔗 Read more on BNI: bit.ly/4dPtKcg

Gravitropism and tiller angle regulation in rice via the LA6 node Liang et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Predicting expression-altering promoter mutations with deep learning Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📣 The recording of "Spatial Transcriptomics Technologies: A Primer" by Garam Kim is now available: youtube.com/watch?v=JbKCH7… This talk is part of Broad Institute's MPG Primer series. For more info, check out broad.io/MPGPrimer

Join us for a Plant Methods workshop cohosted by PMEX and Plant Postdocs! June 25th 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 6 PM GT Register here: tinyurl.com/PMEXJune

#JustIn on Plantae: How to Manage Your Time Effectively as a Researcher. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Gourav Arora, Elisa De Meo, and Ved Prakash, Ph.D. explore practical time mgmt. strategies tailored to the unique challenges of academic research. plantae.org/how-to-manage-…

Missed a webinar of the series from our Wheat Pathogens Expert Working Group? Watch the recordings and explore key insights on wheat disease threats & solutions. 🌾 Start watching now: wheatinitiative.org/ewg-pathogens KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 Reem Aboukhaddour

BarleyOmics: A comprehensive multi-omics database of barley #correspondence #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-plan…

💡 Introducing the Fields of Learning 💡 Texas Wheat now offers free, downloadable classroom activities that teach K–12 students about wheat production, nutrition and use. buff.ly/RYyS4eP

Gene editing IP was holding back innovation and deployment of new crops and sounds like that's going away. Heard about OpenCRISPR from Profluent, in-house directed evolution produced Cas from Corteva, fusion protein from Pairwise, all (presumably) with freedom to operate.

A tenure track position for small grains genetic improvement in Cornell! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29858

I am thrilled to announce that I will start as a small grains genetist at Texas A&M AgriLife Research - Amarillo, TX, on September 1st. Looking forward to collaborating with everyone working on small grains! Texas Wheat Texas A&M AgriLife Research WheatCAP

🎉 Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in New Phytologist! 🌱 Aphid effector Mp10 fine-tunes plant immunity via EDS1, balancing suppression and activation of defence. 🧑‍🔬Matteo Gravino, Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social, Saskia Hogenhout et al., John Innes Centre, SapienzaFisVe (curated by Pontiggia) #️⃣

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Structural evolution of nitrogenase over 3 billion years #nitrogenase #evolution #microbiology eLife - the journal elifesciences.org/articles/105613

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…