Rubisco is not stuck. Its kinetics, and photosynthesis, have been continually improving throughout land plant evolution. 👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…

Suffolk-based F1 Seed has been acquired by Wild Bioscience. F1 Seed was built by veteran wheat breeder Bill Angus, while Wild Bio was founded by @RossWHen and @Steve__Kelly. The deal makes Wild Bio Britain's first fully independent, end-to-end precision-breeding wheat business. Most of the UK's wheat genetics have historically been controlled by subsidiaries of foreign multinationals, leaving more than half of domestic wheat varieties vulnerable to yellow rust, a serious fungal disease. F1 Seed already has six wheat varieties on the market, and its pipeline accounts for 12% of the new varieties entering UK national trials this year. The acquisition follows Wild Bio's €51m Series A, bringing its total funding to €65.8m.

OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability | Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s41592-0…

Please share! 📢 Are you a plant or microbial scientist that is passionate about global innovation in sustainable agriculture? 🚨 We have a number of exciting job openings in nitrogen fixation at EIT ‼️ Find out more and apply here 👉 eit.org/careers

GLADE: Accurate inference of Gains, Losses, Ancestral genomes, and Duplication Events for comparative genomics biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_evobio

FastSpeciesTree: Fast and Scalable Species tree Inference biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #biorxiv_evobio

OrthoFinder has been cited more than 10,000 times 🤯. Don’t think @David__Emms or I ever dreamed it would be so useful to so many people. Looking forward to sharing the latest updates soon!

🌾Powering the next generation of sustainable agriculture We’re thrilled to lead a $60M Series A round for Wild Bioscience, alongside Oxford Science Enterprises, Braavos Investment Advisers and the University of Oxford - accelerating the development of next-generation crop varieties to power more resilient, sustainable food systems. Founded by Professor Steven Kelly, Head of the Plant Biology Institute at EIT and Dr Ross Hendron, Wild Bio is pioneering a data-driven approach that uses AI and precision breeding to enhance crop productivity, climate resilience and sustainability. Together, we’re: 🌍Unlocking nature’s evolutionary intelligence to improve global food security 🧬Translating cutting-edge Oxford research from lab to field 🌿Helping farmers adapt to a changing climate through smarter crop science This investment marks a milestone for Oxford’s innovation ecosystem, representing a shared commitment to scaling science that matters. 👉 Learn more about how EIT and Wild Bio are shaping the future of sustainable agriculture: link.eit.org/EITInvestsInWil… #EIT #EITOxford #WildBio #AgriTech #Sustainability #Innovation #AI #FoodSecurity #SustainableAgriculture #PrecisionBreeding #Climate

@TinaSchreier has been awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant for research into the cell biology of C4 photosynthesis 🌱 Tina’s project will explore the cell biology that leads to the formation of specialised bundle sheath cells in C4 plants 👇 bit.ly/4mWFGhh

New OA Article: "RETICULATA1 is a plastid-localized basic amino acid transporter" rdcu.be/eBUNM RE1 enables basic aa exchange across the plastid inner envelope. Loss-of-function mutants reveal its essential role in aa homeostasis, plant development and seed production.

Excited to share that I’ll soon be joining @irnasa_csic as #newPI! And I couldn’t imagine a better start than with a project that has just been selected for funding by @AgEInves @CienciaGob. Very grateful for the support & looking forward to keep working on #bacterialregulation!!

For over a decade, anti-GMO activists demanded long-term studies in mammals. Not mice. Not rats. Primates. Well... scientists did just that. And the results are in. Let’s talk about a 7-year feeding study in macaques. 🧵 1/👇

Exploring the diversity of the CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) in different C4 subtypes biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_plants

We have a new version of OrthoFinder: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Faster scaling to larger species sets, phylogenetically resolved orthogroups, reduced RAM usage. Thanks to @dr_belcher, Yi Liu & Jonathan Holmes who have joined the team, and as ever OrthoFinder's PI @Steve__Kelly!

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/Ortho… biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

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/10.1101/…

As part of our 100-year celebrations, we would like to hear stories from you on how @Co_Biologists has impacted your careers. Send us your message at bit.ly/3PL5CO6

Researchers in @OxfordBiology and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from @ARIA_research to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat. Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

The C4 way suno.com/song/728cbe0c-6093-…

We are excited to be launching the next phase of our Fast & Fair peer review initiative: offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days. #fastandfairpeerreview Read the Editorial by EiC Daniel Gorelick at: bit.ly/4kYD1mL

Wellcome to the 30’s … the 20’s didn’t last long