Seeing whitening of lupin leaves is a great sign in our group! We use virus-induced gene silencing (aka #VIGS) to silence genes in lupin plants; genes we think may be involved in the production of lupin defence compounds. A thread ↓ 1/

What a beauty! The 1st image by the Webb telescope peeking back in time to the earliest galaxies we have ever seen (the reddish distorted ones), enabled by gravitational lensing (general relativity) caused by a heavy cluster of stars that is actually in front of them (middle) 🤩

A misleading paper in Science Magazine just came out talking about how a single gene can increase rice yield by 41-68%. As a (wanna-be) plant breeder, I’m here to tell you why this study is misleading, and we can’t “solve” yield through single genes 🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today at Rothamsted Research we harvested the UK's first QHP field trial - gene-edited Camelina which, thanks to new legislation, could be grown as non-GM. Much easier to do experiments and test different edits in the field. Thanks to Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research and Yield10 Bioscience for support.

Emotional day, as our DTU Biosustain & BioInnovation Institute teams together w/ Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) O'Connor Lab Vincent Courdavault labs showcase supply #WHO listed essential medicine vinblastine in engineered yeast: nature.com/articles/s4158…. Thx to everyone involved & founders Novo Nordisk Foundation Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 BioInnovation Institute

Congratulation to all co-authors Fernando Geu-Flores, Sotirios Kampranis, Dan Staerk for this amazing work on the elucidation of the first steps of ginkgolide biosynthesis Nature Communications. Unfortunately Victor and Dan do not have Twitter accounts Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen Research rdcu.be/cUMIE

The cocaine biosynthesis pathway has remained a mystery... until now! Check out this great work from the Kunming Institute of Botany, including production in Nicotiana benthamiana😲 ^FG pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Talk about large plant genomes... The 13-Gb faba bean genome is out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (and it is just a diploid - for comparison, the Arabidopsis genome is 0.135 Gb) ^FG

In our Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis & Biotechnology collection Fernando Geu-Flores & co Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences review the biosynthesis of quinolizidine alkaloids in lupins to elucidate the full pathway Read the #OpenAccess article in full below👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Level up: first conference talk in Danish! Special mention to Sophie Otterbach 🙂 #plantekongres #herning #lupiner #alkaloider

Today in Science: towards limonoid biosynthesis (e.g. azadirachtin). Full of juicy nuggets: methyl shift (+cyclopropane ring formation) by new enzymes, protective acetylation, Baeyer-Villager, and furan ring formation. Congrats Sattely_lab sattelylab.bsky.social, Anne Osbourn, and Hannah Hodgson!

Looking for a postdoc position on crop improvement? Check out this exciting possibility in the lab of stiguandersen aimed at eliminating the favism-causing agents from faba bean in collaboration with us au.dk/om/stillinger/… ^FG

Y'all have heard of single-cell transcriptomics. But... single-cell METABOLOMICS?? No problem, say Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social), Lorenzo Caputi, O'Connor Lab, Buell lab and colleagues. Impressive work!

Fantastic interview of Andrew D Hanson Lab by our postdoc Henryk Straube at Plant Physiology. Full of transformative advice to researchers at all career stages. And sprinkled with brilliant quotes by many others. Are you a fox🦊or a hedgehog 🦔?

Our latest story in Science Advances ✅We pinned down the mutation that gave us sweet white lupins ✅We recreated the sweetness in blue lupins using FIND-IT ✅We revised how bitter lupin alkaloids are made science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🙏Science at VILLUM Novo Nordisk Foundation and +others!

Pretty flowers and delicious seeds - #lupins have it all 🪻 See how to turn a bitter & toxic lupin into a sweet & nutritious one ⬇️ science.org/content/articl……… 🙏Erik Stokstad for the coverage 🙏@fred_stoddard WallaceCowling for the kind words #legumes #proteincrops

A warm welcome to the newly discovered human enzyme SCAN, able to S-nitrosylate an insulin receptor using S-nitroso-CoA as co-substrate😮 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We're hiring! Wanna join us and work on plant natural products? - PhD student: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=1611… - Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige… See examples of our work: - science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… - nature.com/articles/s4147… Deadline on 17 March 📅 #PhD #postdoc #biochemistry

Announcing the NovoCrops PhD Summer School 2024! ✅Learn about crop improvement & gene editing ✅Network with international experts ✅Get coaching on poster prep & delivery ✅Participate in 1-day CPSC conference Sign up here: eventsignup.ku.dk/novocrops2024 Travel grants available!

Now adding Caixia Gao 🙏to our teacher's team for the NovoCrops 2024 PhD Summer School in Copenhagen. Have you saved your spot yet? Travel grants available! (deadline extended to 15 May) eventsignup.ku.dk/novocrops2024