Former Ph.D. student Dhruv Patel-Tupper led this study published in Science Advances showing that unbiased promoter editing can be used to generate overexpression alleles in a crop plant. This is the first step towards non-transgenic VPZ crops with higher photosynthetic efficiency and yield!
- Congratulations to Karina, Erin, Tonio, and Efren on passing their qualifying exams!
- Implicating the red body of Nannochloropsis in forming the recalcitrant cell wall polymer algaenan