Wayne Parrott

@ThomasWidiez @NaturePlants @iasprr The ability of meiotic parallel spindles to restore fertility to haploids was first described in peach in 1971. doi.org/10.21273/JASHS… They have also been reported restore fertility to synaptic mutants of potato and clover.

In planta 🌱 haploid induction is great, but Thomas Lübberstedt's lab pave the way to do in planta 🌱doubling (DH) of those haploids @NaturePlants ▶️Haploid male fertility is restored by parallel spindle genes in Arabidopsis thaliana 📖nature.com/articles/s4147…

Looking forward to try juice from the tomato edited for higher GABA content.

The UGA Integrated Plant Science Graduate Program is accepting applications for 2025. Cohorts can enroll in 1 of 9 degree programs, perform research with one of 80 faculty, collaborate across disciplines & campuses, & participate in Plant Center events. ips.uga.edu

@angelopolitan No es así. Lamentablemente la senadora ha sido víctima de desinformación.

La senadora chiapaneca Edith López Hernández advierte que el consumo de maíz #transgénico y alimentos procesados está relacionado con un aumento en las #cesáreas. Según su alerta, estos productos pueden afectar la fuerza de las mujeres durante el #parto. #Senado #Politica

Hey GreenGate users - Ever need to assemble more complex cassettes or more cassettes than can be done with GreenGate? Here is a new, more flexible version. Check out @VincentPennetti 's MultiGreen version at doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Trying to get a handle on future transformation needs, particularly for bioenergy crops genomicscience.energy.gov/plant-transfor…

We've lost another of the great ones. #image=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">msn.com/en-us/money/ne… So many people alive today have are living better than they would have been without his work. Not enough people realize the contributions from the Green Revolution & its leaders.

@ChenxinLi2 NSF 23-019 Dear Colleague Letter: Advancing Plant Transformation nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf2… See also the PlantGENE Research Coordination Network, plantgene.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PH… @plant_gene

Plant transformation is going to be the biggest bottleneck for plant synthetic biology. All these exciting gene circuits are demonstrated in bacteria or Arabidopsis or transient expression. I’m surprised funding agencies haven’t thrown more money into plant transformation.

There are so many great biotech traits that can make huge differences -- here is another one: Ultra-low gossypol cottonseed could reduce world hunger farmprogress.com/cotton/ultra-l…

Wonder why plant tissue culture can be so irreproducible? Here are 4 recipes for Murashige & Skoog micro nutrients pulled off the internet:

Sexually incompatible grasses can exchange genes with a frequency that would make GMO regulators' heads spin. How does that happen? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Don't count your chestnuts before they are growing in the forest. They still need to get through EPA before there is any chance of being planted. It is not up to just the USDA.

Ad for mutagenized seeds, from a time when "expect the unexpected" was a call for adventure and discovery, and harmless genetic changes in plants did not evoke fear, precaution, and regulations. From Chicago Daily Times, 26 Apr 1961.

@GuyCardineau No, his answer was "That confirms what I thought."

@ProfParrott So, Wayne, did he question your answer???

"What's the difference between gene pool and genome?" the immigration officer asked me upon arriving at the Dhaka airport and finding out I was coming for a genetics workshop. No other immigration officer has ever asked me a similar question before. I am going to like it here!

I learned a new word today- Beadledom. And, it is not nearly as useless as Merriam-Webster says- it is is the perfect description for the modus operandi of way too many of the crop biotech regulating agencies around the world. shorturl.at/jnxEF

And yet, we've been safely breeding fungus-resistant crops for decades.

@AgBioWorld Goodbye, wonderful colleague that you were. Thanks for bringing a much-needed scientific foundation and common sense into biotech risk assessment. It will be different without you around.

Shocked to hear that Professor Alan Raybould, Chair of Innovation in the Life Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, passed away last week after a brief illness. kudoboard.com/boards/UhfwWeHX

@argenbiooficial @Exactas_UBA @REDBIOArgentina @grupobioceres @ASASemilleros @Agrobio_andina @EugeSegretin @ICCASciencia Goodbye, dear friend! Without your extraordinary leadership in science-based regulations, Argentina would not be the biotech powerhouse it is today, nor would biotech crops be as globalized as they are today. We will miss you & your wisdom!

Falleció el Moisés Burachik, primer profesor de biotecnología en @Exactas_UBA y referente en el desarrollo del marco regulatorio de OGM 🇦🇷 Brillante, creativo y con un gran corazón, marcó el camino y dejó huella, como los grandes. Gracias por tanto, te vamos a extrañar #QEPD