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Synthetic biology can engineer plants to filter seawater & store freshwater, combating climate change! #PlantSynBio #ClimateSolutions
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 A synthetic jasmonate receptor agonist uncouples the growth–defense trade-off in rice

🧑‍🔬 Junli Xiao, Yoko Nakamura, Ran Li, et al.

📔 @pnas.org

🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantSynBio #Phytohormones
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June 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
reneinckemann.bsky.social
I am happy to be one of the instructors for the #PlantSynbio course here in Evora.
We are not only teaching the plantsynbio core principles, but also do a practical lab part together, where we do a plant promoter comparison via transient Ruby reporter expression 🌱
htsbiotechmoss.bsky.social Henrik Toft Simonsen @htsbiotechmoss.bsky.social · Jun 20
We kick off our #Plant #synbio course in #Evora. Supported by the #Costaction E-niche and #iGEM.
Together with @reneinckemann.bsky.social and others.
June 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Small DNA elements can act as both insulators and silencers in plants

🧑‍🔬 @tobiasjores.bsky.social, Christine Queitsch, et al.

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenetics #PlantGenomics #PlantSynBio #PlantPromoters
Small DNA elements can act as both insulators and silencers in plants
Small DNA elements can insulate or repress transcription in Nicotiana benthamiana, Arabidopsis thaliana, maize, and rice in a context-dependent manner.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
reneinckemann.bsky.social
Today I had the chance to kickstart the #Plantsynbio course by @synbio4allafrica.bsky.social.

I was very excited to give the "Introduction to Plant Synthetic Biology" lecture and at the same time blown away by the engagement of the african community!

Stay tuned for the next weeks of the course!
synbio4allafrica.bsky.social synbio4allafrica.bsky.social @synbio4allafrica.bsky.social · Jun 4
85+ students joined Week 1 of our Plant SynBio course.

From group projects to a hands-on, on an African plant, we’re building skills where no programs exist yet.

Africa is ready for synbio. And we’re making it happen.

Learn more: synbio4all.wixsite.com/synbio4all/e...
June 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
biodesignresearch.bsky.social
Engineer plants to filter seawater & store freshwater via synthetic biology! Combating climate change sustainably. #PlantSynBio #WaterSolutions
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
June 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
biodesignresearch.bsky.social
Engineer plants via synthetic bio to filter seawater & store freshwater, tackling climate change. #PlantSynBio #FreshwaterSolution #ClimateAction
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
May 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Synthetic deconvolution of an auxin-dependent transcriptional code

🧑‍🔬 Raquel Martin-Arevalillo, Bruno Guillotin, François Roudier, @tevavernoux.bsky.social, et al.

📔 @cellpress.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantSynBio #PlantSyntheticBiology #Auxin
Synthetic deconvolution of an auxin-dependent transcriptional code
A synthetic-biology-driven approach deciphers the ARF-dependent transcriptional code and its contribution to specificity in gene expression in Arabidopsis, providing key insights into how the auxin de...
www.cell.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
davideanne.bsky.social
I am very happy to see this work published. It took a lot of effort and coordination among many people.

Hopefully, high throughput and cheap Agrobacterium transformation will reduce the bottleneck in screening experiments fundamental for #PlantSynBio.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Semi‐automated workflow for high‐throughput Agrobacterium‐mediated plant transformation
A simplified and optimized pipeline for Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation of plants. Useful for obtaining stable transgenic lines of the model liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, or for ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
synbio4allafrica.bsky.social
👉 Donate Now: experiment.com/projects/exp....

SynBio4ALL Africa, the entire #SynBio, #PlantSynBio enthusiasts and all #Biodiversity lovers wish to appreciate you for the #generous financial support so far provided to unlock the $7000 grant from experiment foundation. @emmasebunyakato.bsky.social
Exploring African biodiversity with an open-source educational program in Plant Synthetic Biology
Much of Africa's plants have not been studied. As a non-profit, SynBio4ALL aims to study plant biodiversity in combination with emerging technology to educate and inspire future African scientists. We...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
reneinckemann.bsky.social
@synbio4allafrica.bsky.social #PlantSynBio education project will enable local students to sequence a native plant species and gain hands-on research and data analysis skills. They’ve secured ~76% of their microgrant.
Now they need our help to cross the finish line: experiment.com/projects/exp...
Exploring African biodiversity with an open-source educational program in Plant Synthetic Biology
Much of Africa's plants have not been studied. As a non-profit, SynBio4ALL aims to study plant biodiversity in combination with emerging technology to educate and inspire future African scientists. We...
experiment.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
sjb287.bsky.social
Synthetic tunable promoters for optimizing defense by Anuradha Dhingra - cool idea incorporating information about time of day to help modulate defenses #plantsynbio
March 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
sjb287.bsky.social
Next Matt Szarzanowicz Shih Lab on making agrobacterium transformation better, noting recent pub on improved binary vectors: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantsynbio
March 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
sjb287.bsky.social
Use of plant metabolite biosensors to modulate bacterial gene expression - making bacteria nitrogen sensitive pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#plantsynbio. and really importantly - now working on syncomms to address rhizosphere interactions with engineered bacteria
March 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
sjb287.bsky.social
@jeanmichelane.bsky.social on the near term prospects of improving biological nitrogen fixation for crops by engineering diazotrophs to become ammonium excretory by modulating gene expression of nitrogenase and metabolism #plantsynbio
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
March 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
sjb287.bsky.social
@johnathan-n.bsky.social on engineering omega-3-fatty acids in plants.
- Engineering plants takes decades
- ~100 person years to prototype
- screening 100s of events.
- Camelina - only crop can transform by floral dip
- very likely most T-DNAs are multimetized
#PlantSynbio
March 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
sjb287.bsky.social
Great start to the #PlantSynbio workshop in Gainesville today. Tracey Chapman Pairwise, talking about limited success of prime editing in plants and introducing REDRAW as an alternative for template editing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges

🧑‍🔬 @adil-khan.bsky.social, @ryanlister.bsky.social

📔 Quantitative Plant Biology

🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/product...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #PlantSynthBio #SynBio
Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges | Quantitative Plant Biology | Cambridge Core
Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges - Volume 6
www.cambridge.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Towards targeted engineering of promoters via deletion of repressive cis-regulatory elements

🧑‍🔬 Flora Zhiqi Wang, Krishna K. Niyogi

📔 @newphyt.bsky.social

🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantGenetics #PlantSynBio
Towards targeted engineering of promoters via deletion of repressive cis‐regulatory elements
This article is a Commentary on Wang et al. (2025), 245: 2103–2116.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
somssich.bsky.social
📜 Engineering crop resilience with synthetic gene circuits

🧑‍🔬 @rootbiologist.bsky.social, @watersmt.bsky.social

📔 @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #SyntheticBiology #PlantSynBio #RootBiology #PlantStress
Engineering crop resilience with synthetic gene circuits
Engineering crops to withstand environmental stresses is critical for addressing climate change and food insecurity. Recently, Khan et al. developed CRISPR interference (CRISPRi)-based synthetic gene ...
www.cell.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
sjb287.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantsynbio
Predictive genetic circuit design for phenotype reprogramming in plants - Nature Communications
The predictive design of gene circuits in plants has been challenging and lagging behind other organisms. Here, the authors report a predictive framework for designing synthetic genetic circuits in Ar...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
reneinckemann.bsky.social
After an incredible chapter at the Erb lab in Marburg, I'm deeply grateful for all I’ve learned over the years. Excited to announce my new journey as a postdoc in the Brophy Lab @Stanford! My first weeks have been amazing with a warm welcome. Thrilled to dive into #plantsynbio in the coming years! 🌱
December 23, 2024 at 7:03 PM
keystonesymposia.bsky.social
Future science innovators, submit your abstract for the Future of Agriculture for Sustainability conference by December 30th (11:59pm MST) to join Keynote Speaker Elizabeth Sattely and other leaders. Apply now at keysym.us/Abstracts. #KSFutureAg25 #plantsynbio #environmentalsustainability
December 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
sjb287.bsky.social
Very proud moment - Ignacio - labs first grad student successfully passed his prelims today. He's been excellent. Hopefully there will be some exciting work coming out in the next few years #plantsynbio
November 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
sjb287.bsky.social
Fantastic work @c-mcclune.bsky.social - tour de force - particularly like the innovative single cell transcriptomic perturb-seq. Looks to be powerful generalizable approach for non-model species. 17 gene pathway for taxol precursor synthesis in heterologous host #plantsynbio #plantsci
cmcclune.bsky.social Conor McClune @cmcclune.bsky.social · Nov 13
Our Taxol pathway preprint!
We developed a systematic strategy to activate and identify gene sets in plants. Used it to identify 8 genes in the Taxol pathway, enabling a 20-gene biosynthesis of a Taxol precursor.
Biggest surprise: a new protein that helps our oxidases produce the correct product
Multiplexed perturbation of yew reveals cryptic proteins that enable a total biosynthesis of baccatin III and Taxol precursors
Plants make complex and potent therapeutic molecules, but difficulties in sourcing from natural producers or chemical synthesis can challenge their use in the clinic. A prominent example is the anti-c...
www.biorxiv.org
November 14, 2024 at 1:36 PM