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Indische Aktivistin Shiva: Öko-Ikone mit fragwürdigen Ansichten Seit Jahrzehnten wird die indische Aktivistin Vandana Shiva von Umweltorganisationen, Politikern und Medien hofiert - vor allem wegen ihres Einsatzes gegen grüne Gentechnik. Dabei verbreitet sie auch ...

Wird der Film denn dann hinterher kritisch eingeordnet?
Ich finde es ehrlich gesagt hochproblematisch, im wissenschaftlichen Kontext, wo Menschen verlässliche Informationen und Einordnungen erwarten, einen Film der Verschwörungstheoretikerin Vandana Shiva zu zeigen.
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📜 Single-cell analysis identifies genes facilitating rhizobium infection in Lotus japonicus

🧑‍🔬 Manuel Frank, Lavinia Ioana Fechete, Dugald Reid, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, et al.

📔 Nature Communications

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #Symbiosis #PlantMPMI #LotusJaponicus

Cytosolic Monodehydroascorbate Reductase 2 Promotes Oxidative Stress Signaling in Arabidopsis Much remains to be discovered about how the complex plant antioxidant network interacts to determine the outcome of oxidative stress, a central factor in plant responses to the environment. This work...

I am very happy to share an article in Plant Cell & Environment interested in the roles of MDHAR in oxidative stress in #Arabidopsis. The role of the cytosolic MDAR2 is particularly intriguing. To know more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2

A collage showing on the left a picture of the bright pink closed flowers and bracts of the plant Pogonopus speciosus. On the right a scheme depicting the reaction of tryptamine and secologanic acid to vincosidic acid that is catalyzed by P. speciosus Epi-STR, an unusual R-stereoselective ortholog of strictosidine synthase.

Our funky R-stereoselective Epi-STR is now available online and open access at its permanent home @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. 🥳
This is Clara's first first-author paper, makes me extra happy!
@mpi-ce.bsky.social
#PlantScience
#natprod
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An acetyltransferase family required for biosynthesis of diverse marine carotenoids | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

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We’re hiring in Plant Ecology and Biodiversity at Leibniz University Hannover:

• Senior Researcher (permanent, full-time)
www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/

• PhD on long-term coastal vegetation change (North & Baltic Seas)
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Enzymatic dehydrogenation and flavin‐mediated photocatalytic skeletal rearrangement of strictosamide, a key intermediate in camptothecin biosynthesis This study functionally characterized five Op2OGDs that catalyze the dehydrogenation of strictosamide at the C-3 and C-14 positions to generate dehydrostrictosamide and demonstrated the flavin-mediat...

Enzymatic and followed by non-enzymatic (flavin + light) transformation of strictosamide, a key intermediate in camptothecin biosynthesis

From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#PlantScience
#SecMet

Complete biosynthesis of psychedelic tryptamines from three kingdoms in plants Tryptamine psychedelics from plants, fungi, and toads are produced in planta through cross-kingdom pathway reconstruction.

Complete biosynthesis of psychedelic tryptamines from three kingdoms in plants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

W3-Professur für „Naturstoff- und Wirkstoffchemie“ und Direktor*in am IPB - Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB) Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB) bietet Stelle als W3-Professur für „Naturstoff- und Wirkstoffchemie“ und Direktor*in am IPB in Halle (Saale) - jetzt bewerben!

Professorship "Naturstoff- und Wirkstoffchemie". Halle, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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What a tour de-force! Amazing study completing our knowledge of nicotine biosynthesis.

Dual-Substrate Selectivity and Thermal Stability Mechanisms of a Novel Nicotiana tabacum Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase The nonoxidative deamination of β-branched aromatic compounds, such as phenylalanine, is a key step in the synthesis of natural products and pharmaceutically active ingredients. However, it remains ch...

Dual-Substrate Selectivity and Thermal Stability Mechanisms of a Novel Nicotiana tabacum Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

🌱 CRAG launches an international call for early‑career researchers!
We invite young scientists interested in starting their independent research group at CRAG

📅 Deadline - April 26

Apply now 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jdwzombrbd

Wir stellen ein! 🌱

Unbefristete E13 (100 %) Stelle in Pflanzenökologie & Biodiversitätsforschung an der Leibniz Universität Hannover: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379

Frist: 15.04.2026

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

The Leibniz University Hannover/Germany has an open position for a Professor for Molecular Phytopathology (W2TTW3)! Apply before April 27. Please forward this! Contact me for questions. See you in Hannover! 😃🎓🪴🌾🌱🌽🥬🦠🧪🧫🧬🔬🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👍
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The fact that Americans thought Auxin was a “Hoax from Europe” rightfully got some attention in my latest #PlantScienceClassics post. But it’s actually even funnier if you learn about the context & consequence of White speaking these words to Went at the AAAS Meeting in Pittsburgh. #PlantScience 🧪
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The authors of the two papers. Carlos O. Miller standing on the left, looking down upon a couple of glass beakers. Opposite him, from the back to the front, are Malcolm H. van Saltza, Francis Shigeo Okumura, Folke K. Skoog and Frank M. Strong. Below the photo are the headers of their two papers describing kinetin, the first cytokinin: “Kinetin, a cell division factor from desoxyribonucleic acid” by Carlos O. Miller, Folke K. Skoog, Malcolm H. van Saltza and Frank M. Strong, and “Structure and synthesis of kinetin” by Carlos O. Miller, Folke K. Skoog, Francis Shigeo Okumura, Malcolm H. van Saltza and Frank M. Strong. Both published in 1955 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment

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Interesting read on a fascinating and very relevant field of research

Chemists decipher cinchona alkaloid biosynthesis Plants make a surprising intermediate en route to quinine and cinchonidine

Here's some reading to enjoy with a G&T: @oconnorlab.bsky.social spoke at an #ACSSpring2026 virtual symposium this morning about the lab's work figuring out how cinchona plants make quinine and other cinchona alkaloids. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
#chemsky
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Utilizing raw rapeseed press cake in foods: A case study on sensory quality and profile of selected bitter compounds in snack bars www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Hydroxycinnamic acid amides emerge as multifunctional molecules involved in regeneration and volatile signalling during wound responses in tomato www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Key players in epitranscriptomic regulation.

Epitranscriptomic modulations optimize crop traits

📖nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71117
# Review article by Ren et al.

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

The evolutionary secret of the California poppy The biosynthesis pathways of alkaloids and carotenoids in this spectacularly flowering desert plant are the result of different evolutionary processes – Publication in “The Plant Cell”

The biosynthesis pathways of alkaloids and carotenoids in California poppy are the result of different evolutionary processes, team around Annette Becker @plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social @jlugiessen.bsky.social found out.

Press release: www.uni-giessen.de/en/about/pre...

Biosynthesis of cinchona alkaloids - Nature A combination of isotopic labelling, gene silencing, single-nucleus RNA sequencing and comparative transcriptomics reveal the genes that mediate the biosynthesis of cinchona alkaloids in plants.

Biosynthesis of cinchona alkaloids

From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PlantScience #SpecMet

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Mystery of quinine biosynthesis solved For centuries, the process by which the cinchona tree produces its valuable alkaloids, including the life-saving quinine used to treat malaria, was shrouded in mystery. Now, a research team from the M...

The process by which the cinchona tree produces quinine has been elucidated. In a new study published in @nature.com, researchers from the @oconnorlab.bsky.social and the @universityofga.bsky.social unveil the biosynthetic pathway behind this 400-year-old secret.
www.ice.mpg.de/548102/PR_Ki...

This post was prompted by hearing from a former AFE who is starting their own lab, yay! If you've been in one of these mentored programs and have moved on, drop me a line and I'll update my spreadsheet. Or drop me a line just to say hi 😀.

Congratulations, @frankelab.bsky.social !