🌿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