An insignificant number of citations to many researchers, but a huge thanks to everyone who has ever engaged or taken interest in our work... I hope there is a lot more interesting science to come! 🙏🧪🌿

A preprint several years in the making… A holistic review of metabolite transport in C4 photosynthesis. Current understanding, key gaps, future directions and new molecular blueprints for NAD-ME. A masterpiece by former PhD student Oliver Mattinson ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…

Rubisco is not stuck. Its kinetics, and photosynthesis, have been continually improving throughout land plant evolution. 👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Cool paper about the continuing evolution of one of the most important enzymes in the planet

Rubisco, the enzyme which fuels life on our planet and fixes billions of tonnes CO2 each year, is notoriously inefficient. But new research in PNASNews reveals it isn't stuck in an evolutionary rut - it's actually improving, just at a glacial pace 👇 bit.ly/3Ity4A8

Physical visualization of the least square regression

At first there were NOGs, then along came the SNOGs… 🌱 🧬 A prion-like protein regulates the 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional growth transition in Physcomitrium patens - read our preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

CsLinker: an algal pyrenoid assembly protein that binds the RbcL, complements across 800 My of evolution and phase separates plant Rubisco. Very excited to share this work by James Barrett, Jamie Blaza, Michael Plevin, Mark Leake, McCormick Lab. Martin Jonikas doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

The first step on a path to C4 rice by genome editing ✂️🧬 Huge team effort from Florian Hahn Jay Jethva rita giuliani Cousins Lab @ WSU and Niels Peeters biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting to see this out from Steve and the lab - traversing the path toward engineering C4 photosynthesis using genome editing 🌾

Incredible work from Elizabeth Robbins The photosystems turn light into life 🌱 Here we uncover an expansive landscape of adaptive evolution in plant photosystems & reveal how they have been repeatedly evolving to improve their capacity for repair 🔧 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢 Preprint from us at the Kelly lab (in case you missed it!)📢 We engineered improved plant water-use efficiency and biomass accumulation under water-limiting conditions by manipulating co-factor metabolism in stomatal progenitor cells! 🪴🥤🆒

Our latest preprint: Sriram Garg calculate a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics and used it to root the tree of life. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Check out this Research Briefing for a quick overview of our work exploring Rubisco condensation by CsLinker, an intrinsically disordered protein from Chlorella. All driven by James Barrett doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

My first Laura Gunn collab with Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦 research article is out @mplantpcom ! Using SynBio approaches we found a new Rubisco assembly intermediate and successfully express hornwort Rubisco in E.coli. 1/3 cell.com/molecular-plan…

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

I genetically engineered the amazing Arabidopsis to mimic the striking patterns of my Tradescantia zebrina🧬🌱 From concept to creation, here's the story behind transforming this plant into a living work of art! (1/7) 🧵"

It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out! Scales to thousands of species on conventional compute resources with higher accuracy than ever before and the same data rich fully phylogenetic outputs 👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/Or… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…