Big thanks to the #PlantsAndPeople organisers for a very interesting event and to the inspiring speakers, with excellent representation of female scientists on stage! 🌱 #Pnp2025
Registration is now OPEN for the 7th Plants & People Conference (P&P’25)! Join us Sept 9–10 at MPI-MP for talks on plant science, AI, space research & more. Poster submissions are welcome!
Sign up here: plants-and-people.mpg.de/form/registr...
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Huge congrats to @dunkelmann.bsky.social who secured £9.1 million funding for project SyncSol to develop a universal chloroplast genome for plants of the nightshade family. If successful, SyncSol could revolutionize plant breeding. 🌱🧬
More: www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2796756/news_publication_24809749
New research by @egonzalezduran.bsky.social shows that DSB repair suppresses gene transfer from chloroplasts to nucleus. With DSB repair impaired, transfer rates jump 20× — revealing how plants protect genome stability, with lessons beyond plant biology. Read: nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02005-w
