An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...

Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paraphymatoceros luguhuensis.

Large-scale #hornwort plastomes unlock RNA editing, new species, and diversification history.

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by Xu et al.

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Photo of a hornwort plant growing on mud. The plant resembles a rubbery, leafy bunch on the ground with many long appendages sticking out from it. It is a vibrant dark green in colour

Photo of the area the plants were found in, a narrow strip of dirt between sugarcane and grass.

I find primitive plants on farmland.

a frog diving into the water

new #illustration, this time of a #frog diving into the water,, this is the #hornwort thing i was talking about before btw. also more #airbrush stuff! I like it :).

close up of some Hornwort thallus with blue arrow pointing to translucent green stalk from the underside of the thallus that is branching into two at the bottom

close up of some Hornwort thallus with pink arrows pointing to spherical green tubers at the end of a translucent green stalk from the underside of the thallus

Some stalked tubers growing on what I think is the #Hornwort Phymatoceros bulbiculosus, including one that is branching!😱

Two new #hornwort papers from our group out in Nature Plants @natureplants.bsky.social today - a great way to celebrate the new year! 1/4

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#Bryology #PlantScience #Moss #Liverwort #Hornwort #Botany

Unique biogenesis and kinetics of hornwort Rubiscos revealed by synthetic biology systems Hornworts are non-vascular land plants, which diverged from vascular plants approximately 500 million years ago, and yet the CO2 fixing enzyme (Rubisco) in hornworts has received little prior attentio...

If you need a distraction on the Election Day, you can read our latest paper out in Molecular Plant - we found that #hornwort #Rubisco is wicked!! Absolutely fun collaboration with Zhen Guo Oh and Laura Gunn at Cornell Plant Bio www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

#hornwort hunting- Anthoceros, Dendroceros, and Megaceros all within arm's reach on Tobago's Main Ridge! #botany

Nice highlight on #hornwort CCMs! @peter_szovenyi @fern_way
#plastids #evolution #plants
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