Philip Bates
@bateslipidlab.bsky.social
Plant lipid scientist at Washington State University, our science is from the great members in the lab, opinions are my own, Lipids Rule!
Happy to share our most recent work and the insights into rational engineering of plant oil biosynthesis!
Complete replacement of Arabidopsis oil-producing enzymes with heterologous diacylglycerol acyltransferases url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Complete replacement of Arabidopsis oil-producing enzymes with heterologous diacylglycerol acyltransferases url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Complete replacement of Arabidopsis oil-producing enzymes with heterologous diacylglycerol acyltransferases
Foreign enzymes may substitute essential oil biosynthetic enzymes when transgene expression is driven by the native regulatory unit; however, full integrat
academic.oup.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Happy to share our most recent work and the insights into rational engineering of plant oil biosynthesis!
Complete replacement of Arabidopsis oil-producing enzymes with heterologous diacylglycerol acyltransferases url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Complete replacement of Arabidopsis oil-producing enzymes with heterologous diacylglycerol acyltransferases url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Novel discovery leads to new grant studying oil production in canola and related crops news.wsu.edu/news/2025/11...
Novel discovery leads to new grant studying oil production in canola and related crops
The USDA grant will enable WSU scientists to determine if a genetic mechanism can be harnessed to make canola and other oilseed crop production more efficient for food, fuels, and feedstocks.
news.wsu.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Novel discovery leads to new grant studying oil production in canola and related crops news.wsu.edu/news/2025/11...
Plant provide food, chemicals, and bio-materials essential for society. We need more scientists to help increase plant yield, increase resistance to pathogens, and develop the designer crops of the future. Check out Molecular Plant Sciences graduate program at Washington State University mps.wsu.edu
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The MPS program is at the forefront of plant science research, aiming to address the needs of the ever-expanding human population and help mitigate the impacts of climate changes. MPS research is both...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Plant provide food, chemicals, and bio-materials essential for society. We need more scientists to help increase plant yield, increase resistance to pathogens, and develop the designer crops of the future. Check out Molecular Plant Sciences graduate program at Washington State University mps.wsu.edu
The Bates lab had a great time presenting at the European Symposium on Plant Lipids in Bonn Germany. Graduate student Sean McGuire did a great job, and I didn't see anyone sleeping during my presentation so that is always a bonus!
July 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Bates lab had a great time presenting at the European Symposium on Plant Lipids in Bonn Germany. Graduate student Sean McGuire did a great job, and I didn't see anyone sleeping during my presentation so that is always a bonus!
Ever notice analytical methods based on one species/tissue tend to not work well when you change species? In our recent publication we optimized methods to analyze seed oil content from 7 species with large differences in seed size and fatty acid composition.
link.springer.com/10.1186/s130...
link.springer.com/10.1186/s130...
Rapid quantification of whole seed fatty acid amount, composition, and shape phenotypes from diverse oilseed species with large differences in seed size - Plant Methods
Background Seed oils are widely used in the food, biofuel, and industrial feedstock industries, with their utility and value determined by total oil content and fatty acid composition. Current high th...
link.springer.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Ever notice analytical methods based on one species/tissue tend to not work well when you change species? In our recent publication we optimized methods to analyze seed oil content from 7 species with large differences in seed size and fatty acid composition.
link.springer.com/10.1186/s130...
link.springer.com/10.1186/s130...
I'm excited to share this collaborative work investigating the metabolic rearrangements that occur when fatty acid synthesis is deregulated.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Comparative Omics Reveals Unanticipated Metabolic Rearrangements in a High-Oil Mutant of Plastid Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase
Heteromeric acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) catalyzes the ATP-dependent carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to produce malonyl-CoA, which is the committed step for de novo fatty acid synthesis. In plants, ACC...
pubs.acs.org
May 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm excited to share this collaborative work investigating the metabolic rearrangements that occur when fatty acid synthesis is deregulated.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Excited to share this new collaborative work with my lab and Doug Allen and Melia Gehan labs at the Danforth Plant Science Center doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Excessive leaf oil modulates the plant abiotic stress response via reduced stomatal aperture in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
Understanding the response of future crops to adverse conditions, including high temperatures, is crucial. We describe the impact of high temperature stress on a high lipid producing biofuel tobacco ...
doi.org
March 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Excited to share this new collaborative work with my lab and Doug Allen and Melia Gehan labs at the Danforth Plant Science Center doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
The second article from my lab in the current Feb 2025 issue of Plant Physiology is this review together with collaborator Jay Shocky
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Towards rational control of seed oil composition: dissecting cellular organization and flux control of lipid metabolism
Abstract. Plant lipids represent a fascinating field of scientific study, in part due to a stark dichotomy in the limited fatty acid (FA) composition of ce
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The second article from my lab in the current Feb 2025 issue of Plant Physiology is this review together with collaborator Jay Shocky
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
The current Feb 2025 issue of Plant Physiology has two articles from my lab, the first is identifying bottlenecks for production of oil in vegetative biomass tissues.
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Triacylglycerol stability limits futile cycles and inhibition of carbon capture in oil-accumulating leaves
Engineering oil accumulation in leaves produces unanticipated futile cycles of carbon flux between starch and oil, whereas stabilization of the oil limits
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The current Feb 2025 issue of Plant Physiology has two articles from my lab, the first is identifying bottlenecks for production of oil in vegetative biomass tissues.
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
I was honored to be part of the webinar!
📢Did you miss last week's Plant Physiology webinar on Plant Lipids: Signaling and Metabolism? No worries, the webinar recording is now available. Enjoy!🌱 blog.aspb.org/february-13-...
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February 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I was honored to be part of the webinar!
Reposted by Philip Bates
The February 2025 issue of Plant Physiology is now online! Read this Focus Issue on Plant Lipids: Signaling and Metabolism here: https://academic.oup.com/plphys/issue @ASPB @OxUniPress #PlantScience
February 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Sean McGuire senior grad student in the lab did a great job presenting his 3 minute thesis at the WSU Plant Molecular Sciences symposium.
February 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Sean McGuire senior grad student in the lab did a great job presenting his 3 minute thesis at the WSU Plant Molecular Sciences symposium.
Reposted by Philip Bates
Just a week left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab in Oxford.
I'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer.
Please reskeet and share.
Please reskeet and share.
Joining | The Mosher Lab
www.mosherlab.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Just a week left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab in Oxford.
Again for the Blue Sky community, here is one of the top publications from my lab from 2024. Discovery of the mechanisms to of a new pathway of plant oil biosynthesis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Identification of triacylglycerol remodeling mechanism to synthesize unusual fatty acid containing oils - Nature Communications
Triacylglycerol remodeling in Physaria fendleri changes the seed oil fatty acid composition after initial synthesis to overcome metabolic bottlenecks in the accumulation of valuable unusual fatty acid...
www.nature.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Again for the Blue Sky community, here is one of the top publications from my lab from 2024. Discovery of the mechanisms to of a new pathway of plant oil biosynthesis!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Since my lab is new here, here are some of our recent results!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The first intron and promoter of Arabidopsis DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 1 exert synergistic effects on pollen and embryo lipid accumulation
Accumulation of triacylglycerols (TAGs) is crucial during various stages of plant development. In Arabidopsis, two enzymes share overlapping functions to produce TAGs, namely acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Since my lab is new here, here are some of our recent results!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This account is for updates from Bates plant lipid lab and all science relating to it. Prior account on Twitter was @BatesLipidLab that will no longer be active soon. We also have a Bates Lipid Lab facebook group.
February 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This account is for updates from Bates plant lipid lab and all science relating to it. Prior account on Twitter was @BatesLipidLab that will no longer be active soon. We also have a Bates Lipid Lab facebook group.