Popcorn-flavored tomato🤣

Absolutely the coolest lab website I‘ve ever seen! It is such nice combination of art and science!

High-frequency biparental inheritance of plant mitochondria upon chilling stress and loss of a genome-degrading nuclease - Nature Plants Maternal inheritance of mitochondria breaks down in the cold when a mitochondrial DNA degrading nuclease is defective, resulting in biparental inheritance that can rescue mitochondrial mutations and g...

🌿🧬Our new story is out in @natplants.nature.com! Tobacco plants usually pass down their mitochondria maternally, but we show we can trigger paternal transmission of mitochondria at high levels & restore plant health in the offspring of mothers harboring defective mtDNA www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis - Nature Viral NblA accelerates the cyanophage infection cycle, directs degradation of the host phycobilisome and other proteins, and reduces host photosynthetic light-harvesting efficiency.

Using just one protein, NblA, this cyanophage triggers the host’s phycobilisome to be dismantled by its own proteases, freeing up amino acids that ultimately support faster viral replication.
👿What a bad guy — smart, but still a bad guy.
🥹RIP to my phycobilisome buddy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes! It is a black sesame basque cheesecake as a base with some whipped cream on top;) I can’t say no to cheesecake;)

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana consists of 10 chromosomes. By inducing CRISPR-Cas–mediated breaks at subcentromeric and subtelomeric sequences, we fused entire chromosome arms, obtaining two eight...

CRISPR-Cas–mediated heritable chromosome fusions in Arabidopsis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very nice work from Holger Puchta & colleagues

Absolutely yes! And technically, this cake is also Max Planck property😏

How can a PhD blend science with art, and dessert with creativity? 🤔

I tried it by making a “night-sky cake“— colored with phycocyanin, the same vivid blue pigment 💙 found in the algae I study. My supervisor recognized the source of the color immediately — he’s incredibly sharp!

the top half shows two panels with microscopy images. Left is a light-microscopy image of a group of algal cells. The cells are round with different sizes. Two arrows point at sporangia: one looks as if someone stuffed 8 footballs in a thin elastic bag. The other is perfectly round and contains many small spores within. The right panel shows the same group of cells, but in fluorescent microscopy, where green color shows chloroplasts. In each cell the chloroplasts are globular with small lobes sticking out. The bottom half shows a photo of Xanthoria lichen - bright yellow and leafy growing on a tree branch

Our paper on the #genome of the Trebouxia #photobiont from Xanthoria is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social! Check below for a near-chromosome level assembly, secretome analysis, evidence of ancient HGT, and transcriptomic comparison of the alga in symbiosis and in pure culture
doi.org/10.1111/nph.70728

Really enjoyed catching up with Alison over lunch today — such a fun and inspiring chat! 🌿 Also loved her talk on synthetic plastomes in Chlamydomonas — super cool work!

Weekend brain finally caught up 🫠✨Had such a great time at the Plant and People! Huge thanks to the amazing organizers for making it happen 🌵
Super happy to take home a poster prize 🎉 A lovely little boost for my tiny research journey — exactly what I needed to keep going

We are delighted to announce another PhD success at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social‬! 🎉 Dr. Jinghan Liu has passed her PhD viva in the group of Reimo Zoschke. 🌱🔬

Huge congratulations on this achievement—wishing you all the best for what’s next! 🎓✨

🧪 After my third failed experiment, I told my PI:
"Maybe this is nature’s way of telling us it doesn’t want to be edited."
PI: 🥶

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Huge congrats to @dunkelmann.bsky.social‬‬ who secured £9.1 million funding for project SyncSol to develop a universal chloroplast genome for plants of the nightshade family. If successful, SyncSol could revolutionize plant breeding.‬ 🌱🧬

More: www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2796756/news_publication_24809749

Suppression of plastid-to-nucleus gene transfer by DNA double-strand break repair - Nature Plants Inactivation of double-strand break repair pathways greatly increases the integration of plastid DNA into the nuclear genome of tobacco plants, highlighting the mutagenic potential of organellar DNA a...

New research by @egonzalezduran.bsky.social shows that DSB repair suppresses gene transfer from chloroplasts to nucleus. With DSB repair impaired, transfer rates jump 20× — revealing how plants protect genome stability, with lessons beyond plant biology. Read: nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w

Me in GPT's eyes.

Initiation of Translation in Bacteria and Chloroplasts Relative rates of protein synthesis in bacteria generally depend on the number of copies of a messenger RNA (mRNA) and the efficiency of their loading…

Initiation of Translation in Bacteria and Chloroplasts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genome editing in the green alga Chlamydomonas: past, present practice and future prospects This review discusses genome engineering in Chlamydomonas against the background of the history of genetic engineering, gives an overview of the tools, and methods available to a genetic engineer tod....

Genome editing in the green alga Chlamydomonas: past, present practice and future prospects onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @theplantjournal.bsky.social

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