Craig Schenck
@caschenck-bio.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ University of Missouri, plant biochemist
studies evolution of plant chemical diversity http://caschenck.mufaculty.umsystem.edu
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studies evolution of plant chemical diversity http://caschenck.mufaculty.umsystem.edu
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Reposted by Craig Schenck
Our new study in Nature Plants maps how "multi-tasking" enzymes in plants transfer nitrogen, a key step toward improving crop N use efficiency. 🌱
Big thanks to our collaborators from Max Planck, Hokkaido Univ, & MSU, and for support from @NSF and @DOE.
Learn more: rdcu.be/eFOFN
#PlantMetabolism
Big thanks to our collaborators from Max Planck, Hokkaido Univ, & MSU, and for support from @NSF and @DOE.
Learn more: rdcu.be/eFOFN
#PlantMetabolism
Mapping multi-substrate specificity of Arabidopsis aminotransferases
Nature Plants - Systematic characterization of Arabidopsis aminotransferase family enzymes uncovered many previously unrecognized activities and revealed their multi-substrate specificity, aspects...
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September 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Our new study in Nature Plants maps how "multi-tasking" enzymes in plants transfer nitrogen, a key step toward improving crop N use efficiency. 🌱
Big thanks to our collaborators from Max Planck, Hokkaido Univ, & MSU, and for support from @NSF and @DOE.
Learn more: rdcu.be/eFOFN
#PlantMetabolism
Big thanks to our collaborators from Max Planck, Hokkaido Univ, & MSU, and for support from @NSF and @DOE.
Learn more: rdcu.be/eFOFN
#PlantMetabolism
Reposted by Craig Schenck
Save the date! The 65th Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA) meeting is coming to Madison, WI, from June 15-19, 2026.
Join us at the Memorial Union for exciting science, supportive community, and Wisconsin's finest! More info at psna-online.org
#PSNA2026 #Phytochemistry #PlantScience
Join us at the Memorial Union for exciting science, supportive community, and Wisconsin's finest! More info at psna-online.org
#PSNA2026 #Phytochemistry #PlantScience
September 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Save the date! The 65th Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA) meeting is coming to Madison, WI, from June 15-19, 2026.
Join us at the Memorial Union for exciting science, supportive community, and Wisconsin's finest! More info at psna-online.org
#PSNA2026 #Phytochemistry #PlantScience
Join us at the Memorial Union for exciting science, supportive community, and Wisconsin's finest! More info at psna-online.org
#PSNA2026 #Phytochemistry #PlantScience
Reposted by Craig Schenck
Thanks for being part of the #AppsPlantSci Plant Metabolic Diversity special issue, @rwmartin.bsky.social et al! fyi: the special issue has published!
Check out the full issue here: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #PlantMetabolism #Phytochemistry
Check out the full issue here: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #PlantMetabolism #Phytochemistry
August 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thanks for being part of the #AppsPlantSci Plant Metabolic Diversity special issue, @rwmartin.bsky.social et al! fyi: the special issue has published!
Check out the full issue here: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #PlantMetabolism #Phytochemistry
Check out the full issue here: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #PlantMetabolism #Phytochemistry
Reposted by Craig Schenck
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
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August 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
We identified a novel location for acylsugars, on the fruit surface, widely distributed across the Physalis genus. Paves the way for understanding the cell types and regulation responsible to fruit-surface localized acylsugars in collab with @iochromaland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Novel production of structurally diverse and sticky defense metabolites on wild tomatillo fruits
Plants have evolved a structurally diverse chemical repertoire to mediate various environmental interactions. Yet, little is known about the chemical complexity and metabolic pathways across many plan...
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July 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We identified a novel location for acylsugars, on the fruit surface, widely distributed across the Physalis genus. Paves the way for understanding the cell types and regulation responsible to fruit-surface localized acylsugars in collab with @iochromaland.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Craig Schenck
From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue: Advances in analyzing & engineering plant metabolic diversity
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non-proteogenic amino acids as a test case
By Makenzie Gibson, @caschenck-bio.bsky.social, et al. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non-proteogenic amino acids as a test case
By Makenzie Gibson, @caschenck-bio.bsky.social, et al. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany
April 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue: Advances in analyzing & engineering plant metabolic diversity
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non-proteogenic amino acids as a test case
By Makenzie Gibson, @caschenck-bio.bsky.social, et al. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non-proteogenic amino acids as a test case
By Makenzie Gibson, @caschenck-bio.bsky.social, et al. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany
We identified a metabolic complex involved in tomato specialized metabolism, regulating trichome acylsugar biosynthesis. Add this to a growing list of pathways that operate as protein-protein complexes of sequential enzymatic steps www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We identified a metabolic complex involved in tomato specialized metabolism, regulating trichome acylsugar biosynthesis. Add this to a growing list of pathways that operate as protein-protein complexes of sequential enzymatic steps www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Craig Schenck
NSF workers who didn't get fired this morning are sending angry emails to NSF management. Here's one of them:
February 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
NSF workers who didn't get fired this morning are sending angry emails to NSF management. Here's one of them:
Plants produce tremendous chemistry to outcompete neighbors for space and resources. We identify the mechanism of action of the plant-produced proline mimic azetidine 2-carboxylic acid, which gets misincorporated during protein synthesis and leads to death of surrounding organisms.
December 4, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Plants produce tremendous chemistry to outcompete neighbors for space and resources. We identify the mechanism of action of the plant-produced proline mimic azetidine 2-carboxylic acid, which gets misincorporated during protein synthesis and leads to death of surrounding organisms.