Delighted to share my recent TED talk, where I delve into the potential of soil microbes to future-proof our food supply, reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture and providing better livelihoods for farmers. Check it out: go.ted.com/gilesoldroyd TED Talks ENSA

Check out our new paper in Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… and for digested thread see: bsky.app/profile/tonnig…

New insights in metabolism modelling to decipher plant–microbe interactions Blonde et al. Feth el Zahar Haichar 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Microclimate

Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 🌱PlantPan: A comprehensive multi-species plant pan-genome database 📖doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70… by Jiang, Qian et al PlantPan is a multi-species pan-genome database offering detailed gene functions to boost crop breeding and plant evolution studies

#SyntheticBiology postdoctoral position in our group UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences in directed evolution of enzymes that underlie important crop traits ⬇️

Indian Agriculture Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday (May 4) released two genome-edited varieties of rice, the first achievement of its kind in the country. Some details about these varieties and background are available in these pics. With

Good news from UK. Wake up, European Commission!

Congratulations Michael and the entire team!👏Cool work from the Caroline Gutjahr lab and a testament to all the long hard work behind it PNASNews . Grateful to have contributed to this story✌️. Checkout the mechanisms by which the RAM1 functions. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Diets+food systems are driving an ongoing epidemic of overweight/obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes & other diseases ⬇️Fixes are long overdue. See this straightforward 1-stop resource for decision-makers & concerned citizens from UF IFAS Solutions UF Medicine doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…🧵

Journals are just part of a system that incentivizes overselling end-to-end. But, as gatekeepers on the final products, they have agency. An editorial policy of “It’s complicated” falls short. Journals can ask for field trials to be done right & interpreted prudently.

Wow! Important changes on European Research Council (ERC) grant eligibility! 10 years for Starting, 15 years for Consolidator (but you can only have them once!)

Our new paper is out! 🌱💡 "Distinct post-harvest deterioration pathways caused by light vs dark storage of fresh-cut lettuce packed in modified atmosphere." Big thanks to my coauthors for a great collaboration! 🙏 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.post… #Postharvest #MAP #Lettuce

See this opening statement for the prosecution ⬇️ (should read “There is a dire need for solutions….” BTW) 💯 some improvements in N use etc are possible. But another big energy use in ag is diesel. How to replace this? Animal traction? Which takes land.. doi.org/10.1007/s42994…

New preprint! 😀 We uncover how early land plants evolved UV-B tolerance by dissecting the UVR8 pathway in Marchantia polymorpha. Conserved yet rewired—evolutionary plasticity revealed. 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #PlantScience #UVB #Evolution

Very excited that our work on directional symplastic transport in differentiated root is now published!A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes: Molecular Plant cell.com/molecular-plan…

Happy to see Kevin’s work on ZIP transporters published. We found evidences that ZIP2 and ZIP8 are involved in Cu and Fe acquisition respectively and confirmed the role of ZIP3 and ZIP5 in Zn acquisition. Congratulations ROBE Kévin !