After some fieldwork at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and teaching at a secondary school, Riccardo is now working on the lab Ülo Niinemets. He collects anatomical and physiological data from higher plants to study which factors affect mesophyll conductance.

He and his team supported our hashtag#H2020 project by translating what we learned in relatively simple organisms — bacteria and algae — to model plants and crops like the sunflower.

Andreas and his team are developing metabolic models of natural and synthetic pathways leading to increased photosynthetic efficiency. 🧑‍🔬

We will be sharing interviews from other project members soon, so stay tuned!

Amazing news! It was a great way to start the day today. 🌻

Than you for joining Robert! It was our pleasure to have you with us.

@forscherrobert.bsky.social from @leibnizipk.bsky.social explained how his research team used genome editing to replicate wild mutations found in East Asian barley, successfully transferring virus resistance to European breeding lines. 🌾🛡

#GiveGenesAChance