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

Sharing big data for sustainable agri-food innovation

Esmaeily, R., Razavi, M. A. & Razavi, S. H. Trends Food Sci. Technol. 143, 104286 (2024). Article  CAS  Google Scholar  Akintuyi, O. B. Res. J. Multidiscip. Stud. 7, 0…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #agriculture #Bioinformatics #BiomedicalEngineering/Biotechnology #Biomedicine #biotechnology #general #LifeSciences #Plantsciences #Researchdata
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2538231/sharing-big-data-for-sustainable-agri-food-innovation/

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing:

"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z

#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@PuckerLab
@samnm

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

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

Excited to share that Maria's work on the evolution of the LAR gene has been published in BMC Genomics:

Evolutionary dynamics of the proanthocyanidin biosynthesis gene LAR
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-12429-5

#Evolution #FlavonoidBiosynthesis #PlantSciences
@boas_pucker

Ever thought about starting a plant genome sequencing project?

This open-access manual might help:

Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences
🔗 https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202508.1176/v1

@PuckerLab
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #LongReads #PlantSciences

⏳ Our preprint has been out for a little while now, and we’d still love to hear your thoughts!

📄 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.31.635922

Comments, critiques, and reviews from the community are invaluable as we refine this work. If you’ve had a chance to read it we’d greatly appreciate your feedback.

#OpenScience #Preprint #CommunityReview #Genomics #PlantSciences
@PuckerLab

I just saw this interesting conference in October in Germany, maybe interesting for one of you:

PhenPlasPlants 2025
International Conference on Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants
9 - 10 October 2025 in Potsdam

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/phenplasplants-2025/international-conference-on-phenotypic-plasticity-in-plants

#scientificconference #plantplasticity #plasticity #traitplasticity #PlantTraitPlasticity #PlantSciences