🌿Just published in @AnnBot : “Far-red light in early growth stages boosts lettuce biomass and preserves anthocyanins” by Christopher Levine and co-authors. 🧵(1/10)

👉 https://doi.org/qt8r

#AoBpapers #PlantFactory #LEDLighting #FarRed #LettuceResearch #Photosynthesis #Anthocyanins

Our new group member Lara focuses on cloning arGSTs from plants! 🧬✨ Thanks to Najnin for excellent support in the lab.

https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/team

#PlantSciences #Puckerlab #UniBonn #PlantBiotechnology #MolecularBiology
#Anthocyanins #Evolution
@boas_pucker

Red, yellow, purple, and white kernels mixed together are thick and heavy corn that is full of rich and intense flavor.

Read the full article: 107 Foods That Are Purple (Naturally Purple Foods)
▸ https://lttr.ai/Ao2nG

#Raepublic #anthocyanins #purplefoods

Updated preprint:

"Out of the blue: Family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae"
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.06.680802

Corresponding data available via bonndata:
https://doi.org/10.60507/FK2/ZNVSLA

#Evolution #Pigments #Genomics #Bioinformatics #BigData #DataScience #PlantSciences #Anthocyanins #Flavonoids
@boas_pucker
@researchdata_openaccess

Jakob is celebrating our new review:

“Diversity and ecological functions of anthocyanins”
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-08006-3

Complete with the new paper mug, a long-standing tradition in our group. Congratulations on a great publication! 🌿🔬
#PlantSciences #Evolution #Pigments #Anthocyanins
@boas_pucker

Exciting news! Our review “Diversity and ecological functions of anthocyanins” is now published in BMC Plant Biology. 🌺🍃
Anthocyanins are not just pigments—they play roles in plant protection, signaling, stress responses and ecological interactions across ecosystems.

✨ Open access for everyone: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-08006-3

📸 Here is Nele celebrating this achievement!

#PlantBiology #Anthocyanins #Research #OpenScience
@boas_pucker

RE: https://zirk.us/@urbanmicrofarmer/115907956204594221

‘Blackberry’ deep #violet #potatoes #anthocyanins

I love violet cauli, cabbage and carrots, so this would appeal to me BUT for one critical issue...

I'm hypersensitive to #solanine, so I have to watch out for any signs of green in potatoes, which is a give-away. The dark colour would mask this, at least until sliced open.

I was growing most of my pots under a single layer of black woven mulch fabric, which on hard new ground encouraged about half the tubers to grow right underneath it on the surface BUT is not light-tight enough to stop them greening. I will try with at least 2 layers of fabric next time. A lot of the fabric now has #wildfire small cinder-spot-perforations. Otherwise the fabric I have is VERY fire resistant, and merely shrivels even if severely wild-fire impacted.

Long-life, not single-use #plastic, and so labour-saving I will use this though I do try to avoid new short-life throwaway stuff.

@maru
@urbanmicrofarmer

I'd grow them in a raised bed with sieved soil if I did, so finding them wouldn't be a problem.

#growYourOwn #gardening

What is the major role of anthocyanins—painting flowers, acting as sunscreens, responding to stress, or defending against pathogens?

Our latest paper dives into the diversity and ecological functions of anthocyanins 🌈🌿

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-025-08006-3

#PlantSciences #Anthocyanins #Evolution #Ecology
@boas_pucker