Dr. Margaret Young

Whether March is currently a lion or a lamb in your part of the world, the winds of early spring are a perfect reminder to renew your membership with SIVB! Make sure you continue to receive all your benefits of membership by renewing today at members.sivb.org/page/joins...
#genomics #biotech

How to choose a sweet cherry tree. All of these are self fertile, hardy, and decent on disease/cracking resistance.

Lapin - Highest yield and more 'rich' flavor
Black Gold - Easy to grow, less yield than lapin, clean flavor
Sweetheart - Late season. Rich flavor
Stella - Early Season. Clean Flavor

Reminder of upcoming deadline for this workshop. Registration is free; and fellowships are available for graduate students 🌽 #plant #plantscience #corn

This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields - Boyce Thompson Institute

An odd little plant—the hornwort—just gave scientists a blueprint for how to make crops more efficient.
New paper out today in Science from BTI, Cornell & the University of Edinburgh. Here's why it matters: btiscience.org/explore-bti/...

Please join us on Monday, March 16 at 1:00 pm PST/4:00 EST for our monthly virtual ASPB PUI session. Topic is: Designing Courses & Assignments in the Age of AI.

Join the meeting at: esu-online.zoom.us/j/9297962000...
Passcode: 539559

Contact Dr. Shiqi Zhang at szhang4@esu.edu, if link issues.

Upcoming Event!

Speakers will guide attendees through this protocol step-by-step. Please read the protocol before the event and come prepared with questions. Expect lots of discussion in this interactive webinar!

Register here: plantgene.sivb.org/plantgene-ev...

#sorghum #plantscience #biotech

Flyer for workshop on maize and CRISPR transformation at Rutgers University. Deadline for application is March 9. Fellowships are available for graduate students

Interested in maize 🌽 and CRISPR✂️ transformation? See flyer below. Fellowships are available for graduate students. #plant #plantscience

Sudoku Garden Omics Needs Your Help

Will spring aid Omics?
Who can research? Who can not?
Survey needs answers

Formidable Sudoku Garden: 🧩 Omics Needs Your Help
Complete in 5:12 with no hints.
Can you beat me?
www.botany.one/sudoku-garde...

The secret toolkit of Mother of Thousands | Plantae Kalenchoe plants, sometimes called “Mother of Thousands” are instantly recognizable by the abundance of little plantlets that form on their leaf margins. Kalenchoe daigremontiana is probably the most…

Plant Science Research Weekly --  The secret toolkit of Mother of Thousands (Nature Plants) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/HfoeWwz

#PlantaePSRW

Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12

🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI!

Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible!

#plantscience #plantbiology 🧪

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SIVB will celebrate the remarkable milestone of its 80th Anniversary, and is proud to present two distinguished scientists who will bring unique perspectives shaped by decades of active engagement in the Society’s history and leadership. sivb.org/InVitroReport/issu...
#SIVB2026 #SIVB80 #biotech

Good news! Advanced Registration rates have been extended to February 27.
Don’t miss your opportunity to register for the 2026 In Vitro Biology Meeting before rates increase. sivb.org/meetings/home1/reg...
#SIVB2026 #SIVB80 #Biotechnology #Bioengineering #Genomics #PlantScience #AnimalScience

Golden Gate 🧬 builds complex T-DNAs for plant transformation & gene editing — but what if we used it to make binary vector backbones?

Glad to contribute to Jonas De Saeger's (Jacobs lab @psb-vib.bsky.social ) preprint on BackBone Builder 🔧🌱
tinyurl.com/4ycydjhe

Filling in the gaps: evidence of leaf endodermis and vein sheath in gymnosperms AbstractBackground and Aims. Botanical literature is filled with studies which tried to demonstrate that leaves of many gymnosperms have an endodermis with

🎉🆕📰🎉: Filling in the gaps: evidence of leaf endodermis and vein sheath in gymnosperms
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

#PlantScience

Plant genome sequencing workflow. Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing:

"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...

#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Designing and testing CRISPRi-based synthetic gene circuits in plants - Nature Protocols This protocol details the design principles and procedures for building programmable CRISPRi-based gene circuits, and for testing individual components and the assembled circuits in various plant spec...

Where is the #Arabidopsis community on @bsky.app? Any #Brassica fans? See our recent protocol covering design principles and considerations for building and testing programmable and reversible CRISPRi-based gene circuits in plants.
🧪 #plantscience @natprot.nature.com @ryanlister.bsky.social

Love RcBr🌱

Image Text: Plant BLOOME 2025 ASPB's Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education Grant. Grant Submission deadline: April 24, 2026. Apply Now! Featuring ASPB and BLOOME logo.

🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱

👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27!

#PlantScience

Macromolecules tests in General Botany. Tested for sugars, lipids and proteins. Had controls plus an unknown solution

I assign the lab groups. Undergrad Ainya is been trained to prep the labs by Mrs. Henderson

Making LBagar before autoclaving in Molecuar Biology. Adding activated charcoal to one flask for #agarart

Labs have started this semester👍🏼. Did the colorful 🎨 macromolecules tests in General Botany. Learning to follow protocols plus leadership skills. Made LBagar in Molecular Biology (advanced) for upcoming expts🦠🧫🧬. Added activated charcoal ⚫️ so chromoproteins can pop 🟢🔵🟣. #ECSUVikingsScience

Is your work accessible to everyone? 🌿💻
Submit a Methods for Plant Modelling article to help non-modelling researchers and students use and build upon your ✅ Algorithms & software ✅ Models ✅ Frameworks, platforms, or languages

Click here for more information: academic.oup.com/insilicoplan...

Duckweeds are an important plant research model but have been challenging to modify genetically. A study published in @newphyt.bsky.social by the Marí-Ordóñez group at the GMI, presents a new and highly reproducible method for genetic transformation in the duckweed species Spirodela polyrhiza.

New Article: "Unravelling the predominant genetic paths for asexual reproduction in Kalanchoe" rdcu.be/e1pxI

With News & Views: "Genomic cradle for thousands" rdcu.be/e1pxK

How ‘mother of thousands’ plants sprout new plantlets from their leaves.

Teaching Tools in Plant Biology Graphics highlighting several scientific images/figures.

📣 Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” blog.aspb.org/new-teaching.... 🌱

#PlantScience

Plant Lab Group at ECSU

Lab meeting where undegrads present their research

Cupcake Thursday where we celebrate birthdays etc.

Happy Winter 2025/26 #ECSUVikingsScience. We welcomed Thea 👍🏼 and said goodbye to Ashna and Carmen😥. Our research on corn tissue culture🌽🧫 and transformation🧬🦠🧪 continues (watchful eyes 👀of Mrs. H). Lab meetings are a great way to improve oral presentations 🗣💻. Promise more time for fun🧁🎵. #plants

Why I’m genetically engineering a rainbow flower…

And how a Russian fairy tale inspired the idea 🧵

14 corn cobs with a mix of blue, pinkish, yellow, and white kernels. Cobs at the top are more heavily blue in color.

This was the 2025 harvest from my mini-maize experiment. These were the largest cobs out of an F2 population constructed by crossing Fast-Flowering-Mini-Maize Line-A (FFMM-A) and Blue Jade Sweetcorn.

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Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods!

Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment.

doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

#CRISPR #BrownAlgae
@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number.

I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”.

Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.

Tracking pollen tube and ovule development in vivo reveals rapid responses to pollination in Brassica napus Establishing detailed temporal maps to describe development is valuable to provide context for studies of pollination and seed development. Here, we presen

♻️ Tracking pollen tube and ovule development in vivo reveals rapid responses to pollination in Brassica napus by Catherine Parry and co-authors.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp...

#PlantScience