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🌱From Nature Communications: A newly cloned resistance gene, Lr.ace-4A/Lr30, provides near-immunity to leaf rust in durum wheat, offering a powerful tool for future wheat breeding. (Jorge Dubcovsky)
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Genome-assisted identification of wheat leaf rust resistance gene Lr.ace-4A/Lr30 - Nature Communications
Leaf rust threatens wheat production worldwide. Here, the authors report a high-quality genome assembly of the leaf rust resistant durum wheat landrace PI 192051 and the cloning of the leaf rust resis...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The CRISPR Help Session Part II is an interactive Q&A event. The audience will have an opportunity to ask specific questions to expert speakers about analysis of edited lines.

Please come prepared with questions for discussion!
Register here: cornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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NEWS - Exploring the power of plants to make drugs out of sunlight

Using approaches in #genomic data gathering, #AI and #biotechnology, researchers in the group of Prof. Anne Osbourn OBE FRS NAS are glimpsing the future of rapid drug and natural product discovery.

www.jic.ac.uk/news/explori...
Exploring the power of plants to make drugs out of sunlight | John Innes Centre
Plants are consummate chemists, using the sun’s energy and carbon dioxide from the air, to conjure a dazzling array of complex natural products in ways that cannot be replicated synthetically in the…
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October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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🌱 Wrapping up in Fort Collins, CO at the Plant Epigenetics & Epigenome Engineering conference! 👏 Congrats to our Future of Science Fund Scholarship winners - Vanda Adamkova, Carl Simmons & Kehui Zhu!

Learn more: keysym.us/scholarships...

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October 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The Arabidopsis histone methylation reader MRG2 interacts with eIF4A3 to regulate alternative splicing and circadian rhythms (Yaxue Huang , Jiabing Wu , Xiang Li , Jiachen Wang , Mengmeng Ma , Wen Jiang , Wen-Hui Shen , Yu Yu , Aiwu Dong) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Engineered geminivirus replicons enable rapid in planta directed evolution
Directed evolution can rapidly generate genetic variants with new and enhanced properties, yet efficient platforms for performing such evolution directly in plant cells have been lacking. We developed...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM