Barend de Graaf
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Barend de Graaf
@bdgetal.bsky.social
Today is a big day as the Precision Breeding Act comes into force 🌱

@kamounlab.bsky.social: “This is a milestone for UK science and innovation. We now have the regulatory framework to translate discovery into impact — improving crops, strengthening food security, and benefiting society” 🌿
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Promiscuous potatoes: the genetic basis of wild potato compatibility - Kirschner - 2025 - The Plant Journal

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Promiscuous potatoes: the genetic basis of wild potato compatibility
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October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
September 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The SUbventral-Gland Regulator (SUGR-1) of nematode virulence | PNAS

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The SUbventral-Gland Regulator (SUGR-1) of nematode virulence | PNAS
Pathogens must precisely tailor their gene expression to cause infection. However, a signaling cascade from host signal to effector production has ...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
‘….. the trustees of Regrow Borneo (RGB) have made the decision to formally close this UK-based charity’!

but why is not clear?

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Since the 1980s, three quarters of the area’s tropical rainforest has been lost to deforestation. Our aim is to recreate living, breathing and complex rainforests here in Borneo. join the move...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis
Sea slugs steal foreign chloroplasts and store them in specialized organelles that facilitate photosynthesis and eventual digestion to mediate starvation resistance.
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June 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Off‐target drift of the herbicide dicamba disrupts plant–pollinator interactions via novel pathways - Baucom - 2025 - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
June 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Great news: California poppy (Eschscholzia
californica Cham., Ranunculales, Papaveraceae,
Eschscholzioideae) as a model organism to characterize developmental regulators in an evolutionary context

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June 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Recent advances in improving yield and immunity through transcription factor engineering - Iswanto - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Recent advances in improving yield and immunity through transcription factor engineering
Recent advances have demonstrated that modulating transcription factors can help balance growth and immunity, which is critical to achieving high yield and disease resistance in crops. This review pr....
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June 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM