Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺
@plantepigenetics.ch
Head of the Crop Genome Dynamics Group at Agroscope, Switzerland.
Studying plant epigenetics and transposable elements and their use for crop breeding.
Views are my own.
#epigenetics #TransposableElements #breeding #crops #GMO #ClimateEmergency
Studying plant epigenetics and transposable elements and their use for crop breeding.
Views are my own.
#epigenetics #TransposableElements #breeding #crops #GMO #ClimateEmergency
Horse meets cows at Agroscope close to Zürich.
November 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Horse meets cows at Agroscope close to Zürich.
Since an artisan is a human being they should be called Antiartisan or Antisan…
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Since an artisan is a human being they should be called Antiartisan or Antisan…
The democracy-specific exonuclease.
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The democracy-specific exonuclease.
The one and only GM farmer 👨🌾 of Switzerland 🇨🇭
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The one and only GM farmer 👨🌾 of Switzerland 🇨🇭
Looks like a perfect day to sow GM* wheat!
Some traits we’ll check: yield and resistance to 3 diseases.
*GM only if you think chemical mutagenesis produces GMOs that should be regulated exactly like transgenics (plants containing foreign genes).
Some traits we’ll check: yield and resistance to 3 diseases.
*GM only if you think chemical mutagenesis produces GMOs that should be regulated exactly like transgenics (plants containing foreign genes).
October 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Looks like a perfect day to sow GM* wheat!
Some traits we’ll check: yield and resistance to 3 diseases.
*GM only if you think chemical mutagenesis produces GMOs that should be regulated exactly like transgenics (plants containing foreign genes).
Some traits we’ll check: yield and resistance to 3 diseases.
*GM only if you think chemical mutagenesis produces GMOs that should be regulated exactly like transgenics (plants containing foreign genes).
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Just went to Google Scholar, and found that my work has been cited exactly 7000 times today 🤓🥳
scholar.google.de/citations?us...
scholar.google.de/citations?us...
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just went to Google Scholar, and found that my work has been cited exactly 7000 times today 🤓🥳
scholar.google.de/citations?us...
scholar.google.de/citations?us...
As I come to think of it: There's quite some overlap between homeopathy and AI.
The more AI dilutes facts and knowledge, the more powerful it becomes.
Same quakery approach with immense promesses.
The more AI dilutes facts and knowledge, the more powerful it becomes.
Same quakery approach with immense promesses.
September 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As I come to think of it: There's quite some overlap between homeopathy and AI.
The more AI dilutes facts and knowledge, the more powerful it becomes.
Same quakery approach with immense promesses.
The more AI dilutes facts and knowledge, the more powerful it becomes.
Same quakery approach with immense promesses.
Another day, another botanical garden!
Today: Zürich 🤩🪻
Today: Zürich 🤩🪻
August 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Another day, another botanical garden!
Today: Zürich 🤩🪻
Today: Zürich 🤩🪻
Pepper ‘ungarische’
August 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Pepper ‘ungarische’
Pepper ‘ungarische’
August 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Pepper ‘ungarische’
Jasmin, smells fantastic!
Main ingredient in Chanel No5
Main ingredient in Chanel No5
August 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Jasmin, smells fantastic!
Main ingredient in Chanel No5
Main ingredient in Chanel No5
Got stuck in Neuchatel today, so I visited the botanical garden. Really enjoyed it!
Behind me there’s a plant evolution garden 🤩🌱🌳🌸
Behind me there’s a plant evolution garden 🤩🌱🌳🌸
August 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Got stuck in Neuchatel today, so I visited the botanical garden. Really enjoyed it!
Behind me there’s a plant evolution garden 🤩🌱🌳🌸
Behind me there’s a plant evolution garden 🤩🌱🌳🌸
Israel has destroyed the Palestinian crop gene bank. 80 local varieties most likely lost for ever.
August 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Israel has destroyed the Palestinian crop gene bank. 80 local varieties most likely lost for ever.
Funny to see how US media, when they talk about Switzerland 🇨🇭, make fun of our exports by only mentioning chocolate and watches.
BY FAR, the main exported products to the US are pharmaceuticals 💊⚕️ $35B vs. $5B (watches).
data source: tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/...
BY FAR, the main exported products to the US are pharmaceuticals 💊⚕️ $35B vs. $5B (watches).
data source: tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/...
August 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Funny to see how US media, when they talk about Switzerland 🇨🇭, make fun of our exports by only mentioning chocolate and watches.
BY FAR, the main exported products to the US are pharmaceuticals 💊⚕️ $35B vs. $5B (watches).
data source: tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/...
BY FAR, the main exported products to the US are pharmaceuticals 💊⚕️ $35B vs. $5B (watches).
data source: tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/...
Genome editing is dangerous because ⚡AI !!!!.
But of course @testbiotech.bsky.social totally forgets to actually publish their findings in a scientific journal or to test in a lab what the language model has proposed.
Scared of fact checking, they actually publish fake sequences!!!
But of course @testbiotech.bsky.social totally forgets to actually publish their findings in a scientific journal or to test in a lab what the language model has proposed.
Scared of fact checking, they actually publish fake sequences!!!
August 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Genome editing is dangerous because ⚡AI !!!!.
But of course @testbiotech.bsky.social totally forgets to actually publish their findings in a scientific journal or to test in a lab what the language model has proposed.
Scared of fact checking, they actually publish fake sequences!!!
But of course @testbiotech.bsky.social totally forgets to actually publish their findings in a scientific journal or to test in a lab what the language model has proposed.
Scared of fact checking, they actually publish fake sequences!!!
Biology is beautiful 🤩
Dragonfly seen in Nyon, Switzerland
Dragonfly seen in Nyon, Switzerland
July 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Biology is beautiful 🤩
Dragonfly seen in Nyon, Switzerland
Dragonfly seen in Nyon, Switzerland
Seems, according to Microsoft, I’m only 4% here but mostly there wherever that is…
July 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Seems, according to Microsoft, I’m only 4% here but mostly there wherever that is…
OK, my attempt to grow radishes in my garden is a total failure… 😞
July 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
OK, my attempt to grow radishes in my garden is a total failure… 😞
At least in Paris it is very clear who’s the boss!
translation: street ofthebossofthecity
translation: street ofthebossofthecity
June 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
At least in Paris it is very clear who’s the boss!
translation: street ofthebossofthecity
translation: street ofthebossofthecity
Update interessant: Le "Bio" pourrait particulièrement beaucoup profiter des NGTs!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
June 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Update interessant: Le "Bio" pourrait particulièrement beaucoup profiter des NGTs!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
Lettre co-signé par Demeter qui vend de l’huile de tournesol OGM (issue de mutagenèse).
Oh quelle ironie..
marqué en jaune « riche en acid gras » donc OGM.
Oh quelle ironie..
marqué en jaune « riche en acid gras » donc OGM.
June 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Lettre co-signé par Demeter qui vend de l’huile de tournesol OGM (issue de mutagenèse).
Oh quelle ironie..
marqué en jaune « riche en acid gras » donc OGM.
Oh quelle ironie..
marqué en jaune « riche en acid gras » donc OGM.
Massive criticism against the proposed regulation of novel crop breeding techniques in 🇨🇭
- Nothing will improve for researchers: Like transgenics!
- Swiss breeders will not be able to use NBTs.
- Trade and breeders rights totally ignored.
Those who wrote this proposal obviously have no clue 😞
- Nothing will improve for researchers: Like transgenics!
- Swiss breeders will not be able to use NBTs.
- Trade and breeders rights totally ignored.
Those who wrote this proposal obviously have no clue 😞
May 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Massive criticism against the proposed regulation of novel crop breeding techniques in 🇨🇭
- Nothing will improve for researchers: Like transgenics!
- Swiss breeders will not be able to use NBTs.
- Trade and breeders rights totally ignored.
Those who wrote this proposal obviously have no clue 😞
- Nothing will improve for researchers: Like transgenics!
- Swiss breeders will not be able to use NBTs.
- Trade and breeders rights totally ignored.
Those who wrote this proposal obviously have no clue 😞
Pourquoi une régulation si stricte pour une méthode que fait 10'000 fois moins de dégâts dans le génome de la plante que la mutagenèse aléatoire qui elle n'est pas régulé?
Cela ne fait aucun sens.
Cela ne fait aucun sens.
May 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Pourquoi une régulation si stricte pour une méthode que fait 10'000 fois moins de dégâts dans le génome de la plante que la mutagenèse aléatoire qui elle n'est pas régulé?
Cela ne fait aucun sens.
Cela ne fait aucun sens.
Eh ouaip, ça fait très très mal…
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May 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Eh ouaip, ça fait très très mal…
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