Junli Zhang 🌾张军利

Love plants and have been working on wheat genetics and genomics.

[Junli Zhang 🌾张军利 @aswillow]

KlusterCaller is too expensive for a new lab, so I used AI to write a free alternative. Here is a quick demo to show you how to use the standalone HTML app "KASP cluster" (https://t.co/gcClcmjKIo).
https://t.co/q2SrdnkAxV

[USWBSI @USWBSI]

Spray-induced gene silencing, an RNA-based method where doubled-stranded RNA molecules are sprayed onto plants to silence important genes in pathogens and reduce disease development may a method for controlling FHB in wheat and barley. https://t.co/uRtzVITRur

[Gözde S. Demirer @Demirer_GozdeS]

Targeted DNA insertion remains a major bottleneck in plant engineering. We developed the R2 retrotransposon as an efficient plant genome editor to precisely insert large DNA payloads at targeted sites:
https://t.co/P0dB1cDn9W

Congratulations to @kimuchenje03 and the team!
🧵👇

[GrainGenes @GrainGenes]

GrainGenes update: A searchable version of Wheat Gene Catalogue - 2024 was created. Go ahead and give it a try: https://t.co/faLHtyLPFq

@WheatInitiative @AMBA_Barley

[Heng Li @lh3lh3]

Minibwa is a hybrid of bwa-mem and minimap2 and the successor of bwa-mem for short-read mapping. ~4X/2.5X as fast as bwa-mem/bwa-mem2 for WGS reads at comparable accuracy. Native support of directional bisulfite-seq. Applicable to long reads. Preprint at https://t.co/y5ZTr9btE6

[GrainGenes @GrainGenes]

GrainGenes update: we released Panviewer, a new web-based application developed in-house to view wheat, barley, and oat pangenomes
@WheatInitiative @AMBA_Barley @OatNewsletter
https://t.co/mq4QgKYyMT

[Heng Li @lh3lh3]

Jeremy Wang developed rammap, a minimap2 rewrite in Rust. It achieves comparable or better performance than minimap2 and produces identical output to minimap2. During rewrite, Jeremy found two long-existing bugs in minimap2 which are fixed in v2.31. https://t.co/9FNiwgbgqW

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

AI-guided redesign of laboratory-evolved reverse transcriptases enhances prime editing https://t.co/xWypGpzCKj

[GrainGenes @GrainGenes]

25+ open positions: Research Plant Geneticist positions at USDA-ARS (You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National.) @WheatInitiative @AMBA_Barley @IntBarleyHub @wheatsd @WheatInnovation @OatNewsletter https://t.co/oCsldxw8NB

https://t.co/0S28xwSA4D

[James Schnable @szintri]

The USDA is hiring plant geneticists at 23 research sites across the country. Pay is up to $192k/year. Search closes June 11th. https://t.co/EqafK1wIvB

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Article: "A high-quality bread wheat genome unravels the adaptive evolution of wheat end-use quality" https://t.co/EMPh1KNAWW

With Research Briefing: "The assembly of an elite bread wheat genome reveals how wheat end-use quality has evolved" https://t.co/RBuLrRzeDw

[GrainGenes @GrainGenes]

GrainGenes update: Triticum turgidum Durum Svevo 2.0 manuscript was accepted and all dataset and tools are released @luigicattivelli @WheatInitiative https://t.co/6LwfLvQHqX

[UCDavis News Service @UCDavisNews]

UC Davis to work with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Bayer U.S. Crop Science on wheat variety that can make its own fertilizer from air @ucdavisCAES https://t.co/pWJ4BYfLVM

[Nature Plants @NaturePlants]

New Review: "Cereal protein biofortification at the interface of nutrition, yield and sustainability" https://t.co/VrbR8ieutK

Improve nutrition while maintaining yield and lowering environmental impact with genetics and breeding; enhance protein quality in staple cereals.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

In the dense jungles of Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, a striking cricket stirs. Arota festae, known colloquially as a “bush cricket,” usually sports a deep green coat. But occasionally, what appears to be a hot pink mutant will emerge.

Scientists have long thought this hue was a genetic aberration—an unfortunate variant doomed to be quickly picked off by bats, lizards, and other predators.

But a new study finds the vibrant variant is merely a natural developmental stage, one that makes it all the more remarkable that this bug is able to keep from being picked off.

Learn more: https://t.co/DCCHqkrnpv @NewsfromScience

[Earth @earthcurated]

A rare colocolo cat has been sighted in Chile.

[Junli Zhang 🌾张军利 @aswillow]

@zitongyuzt Yes, two walk-in growth chambers, providing quite a large space.

[Junli Zhang 🌾张军利 @aswillow]

Excited to try our speed vernalization and breeding protocols in these new growth rooms!

[Texas Wheat @TexasWheat]

Researchers at @AgriLife Texas A&M AgriLife High Plains Research and Extension Center are cutting the wheat breeding timeline nearly in half with with new grow rooms. Learn how the new facility is a faster path to better genetics for Texas farmers. https://t.co/y2ohTAQ5B2

[Piotr Ziolkowski @Piotraz1]

📣Our paper is finally out!🤩 We found that local modification of H3K9me3 using CRISPR/dCas9 at hotspots changes crossover activity, bringing us closer to targeted recombination in plants.🌱

Huge thanks to @SzymanskaLejman, Wojtek, Ania, and Karolina!💪

https://t.co/VJ8DHs9yf8

[TrendsPlantSci @TrendsPlantSci]

Genome editing in rice: toward climate-resilient, nutrient-rich yields https://t.co/u6nlkWSGZQ #plantscience