Driving forward the restoration of an American icon Genome-informed breeding and new transformation approaches could improve disease resistance of the American chestnut tree

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Helping the iconic American Chestnut

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New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...

Welcome to the 21st century, EU! 🥳👍

"New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems"

#PlantScience #PlantNGTs

www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

New Zealand had some of the most restrictive laws when it came to genetically engineered food crops. This move once again demonstrates how the NZ Government makes Science-based decisions.

Take note, European Union!

#PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantScience #Agroculture #Sustainability #PlantBreeding

A highly efficient and environmentally friendly strategy to obtain transgene-free genome-edited progeny in flowering plants Obtaining foreign DNA-free crops after genome editing is essential for agricultural applications, because of the current regulatory policies on gene-edited plants in various countries. However, it is ...

📜 A highly efficient and environmentally friendly strategy to obtain transgene-free genome-edited progeny in flowering plants

🧑‍🔬 Tianhe Cheng, Meng-Xiang Sun

📔 @mplantpcom.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantTransformation #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs #PlantMethods

Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation The European Commission (EC) proposal for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) of July 2023 specifies that Category 1 NGT (NGT1) plants, which are considered equivalent to conventional plants, that is those...

📜 Proposed EU NGT legislation in light of plant genetic variation

🧑‍🔬 @alanhschulman.bsky.social, Karin Metzlaff, et al.

📔 Plant Biotechnology Journal

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #Agriculture #PlantGMOs #PlantNaturalVariation #PlantGMOs

New Genetic Technologies (NGTs) as Mirrored by Mass Media - Topics and Frames of Genetic Editing in German Press - Food Ethics This study examines the portrayal of New Genetic Technologies (NGTs), particularly CRISPR/Cas9, in German mass media from 2012 to 2023 — a period marked by significant advancements in biotechnology an...

📜 New Genetic Technologies (NGTs) as Mirrored by Mass Media - Topics and Frames of Genetic Editing in German Press

🧑‍🔬 @hannoko.bsky.social, David Barkhausen, et al.

📔 Food Ethics

🔗 link.springer.com/10.1007/s410...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #FoodEthics #MediaResearch #Agriculture

New genomic techniques in organic production: Considerations for science-based, effective, and acceptable EU regulation The EU has a goal of 25% organic farmland by 2030, but lower yields in organic farming versus non-organic farming puts strain on sustainable food production. Utilizing new genomic techniques (NGTs) in...

📜 New genomic techniques in organic production: Considerations for science-based, effective, and acceptable EU regulation

🧑‍🔬 Alexandra Molitorisová, Kai Purnhagen, et al.

📔 @cp-cellrepsustain.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Organic #Agriculture

"... ideas of #OrganicFarming, and that is not good. Of course I received some internal criticism. There was the impression that guy is too provocative for our Institute"

From minute ~19:20 to ~21:30 in the video linked above.

#PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #PlantBreeding

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How to eat an idea – a roadmap for the translation and impact in plant biology Johnathan A Napier; How to eat an idea – a roadmap for the translation and impact in plant biology, Plant Physiology, , kiaf178, https://doi.org/10.1093/pl

📜 How to eat an idea – a roadmap for the translation and impact in plant biology

🧑‍🔬 @johnathan-n.bsky.social

📔 @plantphys.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #TranslationalPlantScience #TransPlant #PlantBiology #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Crops #Agriculture

Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet Many of us reach for foods labelled as ‘organic’, assuming they’ll be free from chemical nasties and hold a higher nutritional value. But is this reputation deserved – and is organic food worth the hi...

"Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet"

It's nice to have such a clear statement directly in the title 👏

Interview with Ian Godwin from Queensland University, Australia for Contact Magazine.

qaafi.uq.edu.au/article/2025...

#PlantScience #OrganicFood #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs

Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants Weiss et al. engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis thaliana.

📜 Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis

🧑‍🔬 Trevor Weiss, @jacobsenucla.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @natplants.nature.com

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantGenEditing #PlantGenomics #PlantMethods #PlantTools

By the way, back in 2020, we (in particular @kelseyonscience.bsky.social), already wrote about the resurgence of Pea as a plant model due to the adoption of #PlantNGTs in our Review article "Plant science’s next top models"
👉 academic.oup.com/aob/article/...

The future of genome editing in plants - Nature Plants Future genome editing in plants will mimic the natural evolutionary processes that shape genomes. It will be used to reshape plant genomes in a manner that could have happened naturally, but more prec...

📜 The future of genome editing in plants

🧑‍🔬 Larry Gilbertson, Holger Puchta, R. Keith Slotkin

📔 @natplants.nature.com

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCRISPR #PlantGE #PlantGenomics #PlantNGTs #GenomeEditing #PlantGenomeEditing

Challenges of translating Arabidopsis insights into crops Abstract. The significance of research conducted on Arabidopsis thaliana cannot be overstated. This focus issue showcases how insights from Arabidopsis hav

📜 Challenges of translating Arabidopsis insights into crops

🧑‍🔬 @cristobaluauy.bsky.social, @hildenelissen.bsky.social, @johnathan-n.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Agriculture #PlantGMOs #Crops #PlantNGTs #PlantBreeding

Die umstrittene Ära Künast: Eine Bilanz ihrer Zeit als Agrarministerin ➽Renate Künast, eine der bekanntesten Agrarpolitikerinnen der Grünen, wird bei der Bundestagswahl 2025 nicht mehr antreten. ➽ Ein Kommentar

On-point summary (in German) of German Green Party Leader Renate Künast:

"Mit der Wissenschaft steht die kämpferische Grüne nur solange auf gutem Fuß, wie sie die gewünschten Ergebnisse liefert." 🎯

www.bauernzeitung.de/news/agrarpo...

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A comprehensive all-in-one CRISPR toolbox for large-scale screens in plants An all-in-one CRISPR toolbox is developed to aid guide RNA library-based loss-of-function and gain-of-function screens in plants.

📜 A comprehensive all-in-one CRISPR toolbox for large-scale screens in plants

🧑‍🔬 Yanhao Cheng, Yiping Qi, et al.

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCRISPR #PlantMethods #PlantGenomics #PlantNGTs #PlantGE #PlantGenomeEditing

It‘s Complicated: Why Are There So Few Commercially Successful Crop Varieties Engineered for Disease Resistance? It is more than 40 years since the era of transgenic plants began and more than 30 years after the cloning of the first plant disease resistance genes. Despite extensive progress in our mechanistic u...

📜 It‘s Complicated: Why Are There So Few Commercially Successful Crop Varieties Engineered for Disease Resistance?

🧑‍🔬 Peter Balint-Kurti, Qingli Liu

📔 Molecular Plant Pathology

🔗 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs #Agriculture #PlantImmunity

Intronization of Coding Sequences for Optimization of Gene Expression The amount of proteins present in cells of living organisms depends on various factors, including the rate of transcription of coding sequences, the efficiency with which pre-mRNA transcripts are proc...

📜 Intronization of Coding Sequences for Optimization of Gene Expression

🧑‍🔬 @cbtomsen.bsky.social, Sylvestre Marillonnet

📔 CRISPR-Cas Methods

🔗 link.springer.com/10.1007/978-...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCRISPR #PlantNGTs #PlantGenomeEditing #Translation #PlantGenomics #PlantGenetics

Promoter replacement by genome editing creates gain-of-function traits in Arabidopsis We introduced two targeted DNA double-strand breaks on the same Arabidopsis chromosome using CRISPR-Cas9 and replaced the FLOWERING LOCUS T ( FT ) promoter with that of a histone variant gene through ...

📜 Promoter replacement by genome editing creates gain-of-function traits in Arabidopsis

🧑‍🔬 Takashi Nobusawa, Makoto Kusaba, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Beyond a few bases: methods for large DNA insertion and gene targeting in plants Large, precise DNA insertions remain challenging to achieve in plants due to both biological and technical bottlenecks. This review highlights recent advances in CRISPR-Cas systems, recombinases, and...

📜 Beyond a few bases: methods for large DNA insertion and gene targeting in plants

🧑‍🔬 Katie Vollen, Jose M. Alonso, Anna N. Stepanova

📔 @theplantjournal.bsky.social

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantCRISPR #GenomeEditing #PlantGenomeEditing

"Cheerios Regulation" pending for 22 years - RÚV.is After more than two decades of waiting, it appears Iceland and Norway are preparing to adopt EU regulations on genetically modified food, which were introduced in 2003. No other regulations have remai...

'"Cheerios Regulation" pending for 22 years'

After more than two decades of waiting, it appears Iceland and Norway are preparing to adopt EU regulations on genetically modified food, which were introduced in 2003.

#PlantGMOs #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #GMOFood

www.ruv.is/english/2025...

CRISPR–Cas applications in agriculture and plant research - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology CRISPR–Cas-mediated genome, epigenome and transcriptome engineering in crops is crucial as the human population grows and climate deteriorates. This Review discusses new CRISPR–Cas tools for precise e...

📜 CRISPR–Cas applications in agriculture and plant research

🧑‍🔬 Aytug Tuncel, Changtian Pan, Yiping Qi, et al.

📔 @natrevmcb.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantCRISPR #Agriculture #PlantGenomics #PlantGenomeEditing

Eco-vandals target gene-edited Chardonnay in Italy On the night of February 12-13, unknown vandals broke into a small experimental vineyard at the University of Verona in northern Italy to uproot Chardonnay vines that had been gene-edited to resist…

"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

Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice Lou et al. engineered source-sink relations to improve carbon partitioning by targeted insertion of heat-shock cis-elements into cell-wall-invertase genes using prime editing. This delivers climate-sm...

📜 Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice

🧑‍🔬 Huanchang Lou, Shujia Li, Cao Xu, et al.

📔 Cell

🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantStress #Tomato #Rice #PlantPhysiology

Poland seeks to break EU deadlock on GMO deregulation After 18 months, governments have yet to agree on when a new class of genetically modified crops can be treated as equivalent to conventional strains, and whether producers should be granted monopoly ...

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

Precise deletion, replacement and inversion of large DNA fragments in plants using dual prime editing - Nature Plants This study explores a precise and efficient chromosome editing technology that enables the scarless deletion, replacement and inversion of large DNA fragments, up to the megabase scale, in plants and ...

📜 Precise deletion, replacement and inversion of large DNA fragments in plants using dual prime editing

🧑‍🔬 Yidi Zhao, Zhengwei Huang, Ximeng Zhou, Wan Teng, Yanpeng Wang, Yuan Zong, et al.

📔 @natureplants.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantNGTs

Graph showing the increase in mlo barley varieties grown in central Europe from 1980 to 1990. Original figure legend: Fig. 4. Area (in ha) cultivated with five Mlo powdery mildew resistant spring barley varieties and as percentage of the total spring barley area in the following European countries (from year) : Austria (1981) ; Belgium (1980) ; West Germany (1985) ; Great Britain (1982) ; The Netherlands (1980) ; Denmark (1989) ; and Italy (1990). From 'Discovery, characterization and exploitation of Mlo powdery mildew resistance in barley' by I. Helms Jørgensen, 1992.

In the following years, natural 𝘮𝘭𝘰 alleles were also identified in wild barley accessions, & such mutants (natural & induced) are now widely used in agriculture. Ironically, would 𝘮𝘭𝘰 mutations be created via #CRISPR today, the plant would be banned as #GMO in many countries. #PlantGMOs #PlantNGTs

"The history of GM crops in Italy"

Science & Society article in EMBO Reports by Roberto Defez, @vittoriab.bsky.social, and colleagues

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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How the last field trial with gene-edited plants ended in Italy earlier this year:
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How the last field trial with gene-edited plants ended in Italy earlier this year:
bsky.app/profile/soms...

#PlantScience #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs #Activists