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Geoffrey Thomson @GojThomson

Molecular plant biologist in the Jacob lab @MCDB_Yale - from 🇳🇿

Joined January 2015
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Gendron Lab @GendronLab
10 Feb 2024
Congrats to Qingqing and the rest of the team! Check out our new paper showing plants can sense two seasons simultaneously to control growth and flowering. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Plants distinguish different photoperiods to independently control seasonal flowering and growth

Myo-inositol regulates plant vegetative growth independently of flowering time in response to changing daylength.

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Michael 英泉 Eisen
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4 Feb 2024
Maybe the core problem isn't who is, as Thorp describes "performing the hard intellectual labor of choosing, from the mass of research, those discoveries that deserve publication in a top journal" but that they are doing this at all.
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Does anyone know the record for the Arabidopsis plant with the most independent T-DNA insertions? Has someone made a octuple mutant by crossing or something?
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Another year with no funding for plant biology from the #MarsdenFund
Marsden Fund @MarsdenFund
1 Nov 2023
A list of all 2023 #MarsdenFund awardees is here. Congratulations to all recipients- ka rawe! royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-…
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Agro is frequently used in Plant Sci to create transgenic plants. Yet, beyond expressing the genes on the T-DNA, how many pause to consider the effects of transgene insertion into the genome of a plant? We review this here: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16496 #Plants #TDNA #Agrobacterium

Genomic consequences associated with Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation of plants

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (AMT) of plants is used extensively as a tool to create new genetic variants for research purposes or agricultural needs. In this work, we summarize the molecu...

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I think few plant scientists realize that 10–20% of transgenic plants have some sort of chromosomal translocation. Thus while there is a lot of discussion around the precision of contemporary gene editing tools ...
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it is important to recognize that a high level of genomic disruption is inherent to the creation of transgenic plants. This is not an argument against their use, but I believe that we need to be upfront about the potential consequences of this technology
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Benoit Mermaz 🇫🇷 🧬🔬🍊 @MermazBe
11 Sep 2023
Had a BLAST at the 2023 @MCDB_Yale retreat 🤩. Alongside my brilliant fellow Postdocs, @cintiasagawa and @GojThomson, we had the privilege of showcasing our incredible Citrus project, which aims to combat the #citrusgreening disease using gene editing.🍊
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🦠🌱🧬 - 🦠🌱🧬-🦠🌱🧬 New publication from the Jacob Lab @MCDB_Yale 🦠🌱🧬-🦠🌱🧬🦠🌱🧬 "Regulation of gene editing using T-DNA concatenation" #PlantScience #CRISPR #Agrobacterium
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Once again, well done to Lauren and Wenxin! Here is the link again: nature.com/articles/s41477-0…

Regulation of gene editing using T-DNA concatenation

Nature Plants - During transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens, sequence composition of T-DNA (that is, DNA repeats) affects T-DNA concatenation in Arabidopsis. In addition, loss of specific...

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Thanks also to Holger Puchta for his News & Views article on the paper It was the Puchta lab who developed the IPGT method on which this work builds. nature.com/articles/s41477-0…

The power of repetition

Nature Plants - The inclusion of retrotransposon long terminal repeats — and of other repeated sequences — enhances transfer DNA copy numbers in plant cells during transformation. Gene...

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