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An impatient optimist.
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Indeed, very nice work led by @omarkamileen.bsky.social #natprod #PlantBiology
Very nice preprint from @oconnorlab.bsky.social on medicinal plant iboga. Things I found interesting: 1) multi-gene constructs outperformed single-gene constructs co-infiltration; 2) expressing iboga enzymes in Catharanthus petals led to iboga specific metabolites. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Phytochemical Society of North America is organizing their 2024 meeting in Monterrey! (psna2024.com/) You're still on time for early bird registration and sending your abstract for a talk/poster presentation (until 19/june.) Please share!
PSNA2024 – Annual Conference of the Phytochemical Society of North Americapsna2024.com
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New kit from the Maizel lab! GreenGate 2.0 enables the assembly and stacking of complex transcriptional units with the GreenGate Cloning System and is backwards compatible with most GreenGate modules. www.addgene.org/kits...
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New kit from the Maizel lab! GreenGate 2.0 enables the assembly and stacking of complex transcriptional units with the GreenGate Cloning System and is backwards compatible with most GreenGate modules. www.addgene.org/kits...
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Camptothecin is a complex alkaloid with remarkable anti-tumor activity. In a new paper for JIPB, Chen et al. explore a genetic basis for producing camptothecin derivatives through metabolic engineering. #PlantScience #cancer onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I really enjoyed this EMBL "Plant Genomes" symposium last week, a small conference with some of the very best talks I have heard on novel functions emerging at multiple phylogenetic scales 🌲🌿🌸🌾 Some highlights below 🧵
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Huang Tan et al. describe their new Ti-TAN #plasmid toolbox for TurboID-based proximity labeling assays in N. benthamiana. Read the full paper here! #PlantScience #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Specialized plant metabolism is a rich resource of compounds for drug discovery. Here, Shen et al. explore the biosynthesis of melitidin, a potential anti-cholesterol statin drug candidate. #PlantScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🧪 Friends, help friends design great Graphical Abstracts! 10 steps, from idea to completion: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #Visualization #DataVisualization #SciComm
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#natprod #PlantScience Characterization and heterologous reconstitution of Taxus biosynthetic enzymes leading to baccatin III www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Steller work! Congratulations to all the authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I shall start with an end. This place felt familiar but was so different, I paused for a day. The last place I visited in 2023.
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Ever wonder why a plant, a mushroom, or a toad would make a psychedelic compound? I explore this question in a new essay published today in TIME magazine @TIME and available here: time.com/6340163/evol...
The Evolutionary Origins of Psychedelicstime.com Noah Whiteman explores what the origins of psychedelics can teach us about survival.
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