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"Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say" by Hannah Devlin for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #Banana

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Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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How it started: "Italy tests first gene-edited vines for winemaking" www.nature.com/articles/s41... And How it's going 👇

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"Giant carnivorous plant newly described to science" via Cosmos Magazine by Ariel Marcy cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plant... #PlantScience #Botany #CarnivorousPlants

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"Eco-vandals target gene-edited Chardonnay in Italy" by @annameldolesi.bsky.social mycrispr.blog/2025/02/16/e... The second #PlantGMO field trial destroyed in Italy in the past months. #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #SustainableAg #Agriculture

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"Coffee Prices Are at a 50-Year High. Producers Arenʼt Celebrating." ' #Climatechange is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.' via @nytimes.com by @petersgoodman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/b... #PlantBiology #Coffee #Agriculture

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Egg white protein (ovalbumin) produced in transgenic potatoes. Stored in tubers, straightforward to harvest and extract. Scalable. rdcu.be/d9XLg

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Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding 'By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops' www.economist.com/science-and-... #PlantScience #PlantBreeding #Agriculture

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Poland seeks to break EU deadlock on GMO deregulation "After 18 months, governments have yet to agree on when a new class of GMO crops can be treated as equivalent to conventional strains, and whether producers should be granted monopoly rights through patents." #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs

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Global ‘gigantism’ hotspot: Tasmanian tree standing at almost 100m tallest in the country www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Interested in learning more about this exciting breakthrough in plant biotechnology? Join us on January 22 at 1:50PM to learn more! Register Here: ufplants.org/symposium

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Food production matters www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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🎄 Philipp Zerbe and his team are working to uncover the optimal combination of scent molecules to deter pests and provide the traditional fragrance consumers expect. ▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/christm... #PlantBiology #PlantScience #Holidays

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Great article on cuetlaxochitl, including how it got the name "Poinsettia", Spanish co-opting of it for Christmas traditions, and the modern horticultural industry. (by the Drs. Ellstrand -- my wonderful grad advisor Norm and his son Nathan!) time.com/7202847/poin...

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There has been...interest...in my NYT essay about industrial agriculture. I've seen a lot of thoughtful commentary, not all of it about the depth of my evil. Thanks! Here's a gift link, then a quick thread responding to the most common critiques. 1 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...

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What the world really needs is a vibe shift. Most people who don’t farm don’t think much about agriculture, & we’ve fallen into a trap of assuming there’s virtuous agriculture and evil agriculture. But we farm because we need to eat. Let’s use biotech and other tech to make less of a mess.

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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o... Don’t agree with everything, but it’s a really interesting read.

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Judge blocks rule that eased U.S. reviews of biotech crops Some plant researchers fear the setback could last years and will stifle innovation. (From Science) #PlantScience www.science.org/content/arti...

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Any media contacts? Please share… we would love more people to hear the story of freetrees.ie 🌱🌎 Set up a year ago, 87,000 trees given away for free, a registered charity, volunteer based, making a difference. www.facebook.com/share/p/17z4...

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One more quick plug for this event, we've got a fantastic line up of plant science educators attending and maybe you should do? Registation closes Dec 12. January 7-8, Lancaster UK. web.cvent.com/event/a17159...

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"Joanne Chory, Who Enlisted Plants to Fight Climate Change, Dies at 69" In the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/science/envi... #PlantScience #Obituary

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The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

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If you need something interesting to listen, here are some cool #PlantScience / #PlantBiology Podcasts (Thread 🧵): "Atom in the Garden of Eden" by 99% Invisible 99percentinvisible.org/episode/atom... Back when you could just order & sow randomly #mutagenized plants to check for cool phenotypes.

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For this absolutely amazing podcast episode, there's a contemporary #PlantScience follow-up here, coming from one of William Beal's "successors", @davidlowry.bsky.social: Have a look at this thread here: bsky.app/profile/davi... It's the latest update to the fantastic, historic experiment here 👇

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If you need something interesting to listen, here are some cool #PlantScience / #PlantBiology Podcasts (Thread 🧵): "Atom in the Garden of Eden" by 99% Invisible 99percentinvisible.org/episode/atom... Back when you could just order & sow randomly #mutagenized plants to check for cool phenotypes.

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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

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"Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants" 'Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species - most likely to be under threat of extinction' by Patrick Greenfield for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #PlantScience #Botany

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A fern found on the island of New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific is only a few inches tall. But its DNA is made up of 160.45 billion base pairs—50 times more than the human genome.

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I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

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#Bananas are cool. 👍🍌 Nice article from the New York Times in the below post, and if you're interested in the Banana's links to history, politics, colonization - but also banana science, plant breeding, plant monocultures, and #Fusarium wilt disease - have a look at this book: 👇

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Stalking the wild banana - One man’s “never-ending quest” for the least-known varieties of the world’s most-eaten fruit via The New York Times “It’s like collecting #Pokémon” 🙂🍌👾 www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/s... #Banana #Agriculture #PlantBreeding #PlantScience

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Invasive plants are a big problem. That’s why the federal agency approved seven new herbicides to kill invasives on its land nationwide. Reporter David Condos joins us to discuss what the newly approved herbicides could mean for federal land.

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Stalking the Wild Banana - One man’s “never-ending quest” for the least-known varieties of the world’s most-eaten fruit. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/s...

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Dracula Orchids Trick and Treat Their Fly Pollinators 📝 🧵 https://botany.fyi/kukye7 Dracula orchids use a clever mix of mushroom mimicry and food rewards to attract fly pollinators, challenging previous assumptions about their pollination strategy. #Botany #PlantScience #InBrief

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"(...) two biotechnologists will eat what has the potential to become one of the more consequential mouthfuls of banana in the history of the planet’s most popular fruit. Whoever bites first will have the first taste of the first GM banana approved for commercial production in the world." #PlantGMOs

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Researchers decreased the amount of lignin in poplar tree wood, making it stronger and slower to deteriorate. Dr. Yiping Qi from the University of Maryland joins us to talk about this “super wood.”

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New Phys.Org article on the latest work from Li-Jun Ma's lab on the Fusarium oxysporum TR4 strain that threatens the Cavendish Banana. phys.org/news/2024-08... #PlantScience #Fusarium #PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #Banana

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I love this science 🧪🌎

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"How ‘green’ electricity from wood harms the planet — and people" www.nature.com/articles/d41... Important piece on the use of plants to produce "clean" green energy. #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #Biofuel #GreenEnergy #ClimateChange

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This paper also came with an interesting podcast that you can either listen to or simply read as a transcript here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #PlantScience

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