We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Have you ever wondered why pumpkins are never purple or blue like other plants? 🎃🌈

While most plants can produce pink, blue, and purple pigments (thanks to anthocyanins), the Cucurbitaceae family 🍈 🍉 🥒have lost all the pathway genes to produce these pigments.
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Remember you're most likely arguing with bots and that the propaganda machine is hard at work making you believe there are more of them than there are of us.
#Resist

We’re a bunch of amateur psychologists… #AcademicChatter #phdchat

I'm thrilled to share that, thanks to The Fernand Lambein Fund, managed by @K_B_Foundation, I shall attend the IFLRC-APC Conference in Perth, Western Australia 😁
I could not be more grateful for this opportunity to showcase my new work in Lathyrus sativus 🫛
Stay tuned! 📻
iflrc-apc2025.com

ITQB NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal) has a new Master course in Plant Biology for Sustainable Agriculture, and applications are OPEN! 🫛🫒🫘🌽🥬
You can find all the information you need here
itqb.unl.pt/education/ma...
Please share so it reaches people who might be interested!
@itqbnova.bsky.social

First post on Bluesky!! ☀️

Very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The full story is summarized here:

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

I’m super excited to share my first first-author paper! 🥳
We found that different accessions of Lathyrus sativus respond differently to Erysiphe pisi powdery mildew infection.
All aboard the paper thread! 1/13 🧵👇
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla... @itqbnova.bsky.social

Check out this great general review in Nature on “Fungal impacts on Earth’s Ecosystems - by the CIFAR consortium. @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @funguscrous.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @microbita.bsky.social @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

I want to dare you not to make an #ODAP question whenever you listen to a #Lathyrus sativus talk, I promise it's a fun exercise! 😅
For those who still do not know, lathyrism only occurs if you eat a grass-pea-only diet, which will NOT happen with how we eat. Stop the stigma!! 🛑 Lathyrus is great 😁

New free ILS webinar, "Lathryus germplasm characterization and breeding" with Carlota Vaz Patto (ITQB-UNL, Portugal). Wednesday Dec 11, 2024, 4pm CET (UTC+1)

www.legumesociety.org/ils-webinars...

Webinar hosted by CREA research. #legumes #Lathryus #research #agriculture #proteins