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

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

Title pages of Friedrich Laibach’s 1940 article “Die Ursachen der Blütenbildung und das Blühhormon” in Nature und Volk, Alonso-Blanco & Koornneef’s 2000 article “Naturally occurring variation in Arabidopsis: an underexploited resource for plant genetics” in Trends in Plant Science, and the 2010 Nature paper on GWAS in Arabidopsis “Genome-wide association study of 107 phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana inbred lines”.

The work of Alonso-Blanco & Koornneef (re)started the research field of #PlantNaturalVariation, which Arabidopsis pioneer Friedrich Laibach had previously initiated in the late 1930s, and this pioneering effort eventually led to Arabidopsis being one of the first organisms for #GWAS. #PlantGenetics

Title page of Alonso-Blanco’s 1998 The Plant Journal Technical Advance paper “Development of an AFLP based linkage map of Ler, Col and Cvi Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes and construction of a Ler/Cvi recombinant inbred line population”. All authors are: Carlos Alonso-Blanco, Anton J. M. Peeters, Maarten Koornneef, Clare Lister, Caroline Dean, Natasja van den Bosch, Jerina Pot Martin & T. R. Kuiper

So Koornneef initiated crosses between the two lines, and suggested that his postdoc, Carlos Alonso-Blanco, could use these recombinant inbread lines to study #PlantNaturalVariation in Arabidopsis @theplantjournal.bsky.social. “This was the best advice I ever gave”, Koornneef recalls.

Natural variation of immune epitopes reveals intrabacterial antagonism | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Plants and animals detect biomolecules termed microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) and induce immunity. Agricultural production is severel...

📜 Natural variation of immune epitopes reveals intrabacterial antagonism

🧑‍🔬 Danielle M. Stevens, @gittacoaker.bsky.social, et al.

📔 PNAS

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#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantNaturalVariation

Genomic signatures of strawberry domestication and diversification Whole-genome sequences of 289 octoploid strawberry samples were used to explore the genetic signature of domestication and sequential diversification to differe

📜 Genomic signatures of strawberry domestication and diversification

🧑‍🔬 Zhen Fan, Vance M. Whitaker

📔 The Plant Cell

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#️⃣ #PlantScience #Strawberry #PlantGenomics #PlantDomestication #PlantNaturalVariation