A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! The cover image highlights the work by Marcon, @HochholdingerF, et al,who provide a detailed protocol for Mu-Seq, an approach to identify and map mutations in Mu-tagged insertional mutagenesis populations in maize. ⬇️Links below

Dear maize geneticists, we are compiling missense mutations linked to visible phenotypes in maize. If you know of studies with such data, pls let us know through Twitter or email @liu3zhen@ksu.edu. Thank you! @MaizeGDB

Since it's field season time again, I thought I'd give my recommendations for the best tools for field work. LIVINGO 10" Multipurpose Scissors Bostitch Industrial Plier Stapler Avery Marks A Lot Permanent Markers Pilot MFN-15N-B pens BIC Break Resistant Mechanical Pencils

Without Karen & Don, BonnMu would not have been possible. They gave advice on MuSeq & even provided their whole dataset to test our bioinformatics pipeline. After thanking Karen for their data she said: „What else could I have done?“. That‘s the spirit of the maize community!

Karen Koch, Don McCarty, Frank Hochholdinger and Caroline Marcon honored at #MGC2025 for the UniformMu and BonnMu reverse genetics resources. Changed the way we study genes in the maize genome and makes my job so much easier and more fun.

#OTD 15 years ago, the draft genome of the maize 🌽 inbred line B73 was published. @MaizeGDB

Please check out this cool paper by the lab of Michaela Matthes @UniBonn "Association of the benzoxazinoid pathway with boron homeostasis in maize" https://t.co/7gJFp0tfp1

Association of the benzoxazinoid pathway with boron homeostasis in maize (Liuyang Chu, Vivek Shrestha, Cay Christin Schäfer, Jan Niedens, George W Meyer, Zoe Darnell, Tyler Kling, Tobias Dürr-Mayer, Aleksej Abramov, et. al.) https://t.co/XTgNy1h7Si

In this paper Michaela Matthes‘ group demonstrates that boron homeostasis in maize 🌽 is connected to the benzoxazinoid defense pathway via bx3 and specific intermediates.

This is how ChatGPT thinks my workplace looks like.

The annual meeting of our @BMBF_Bund funded project MAZE 3.0, which aims at accessing native diversity to improve quantitative traits in 🌽 took place @UniBonn this week. Our main targets are genes relevant for cold tolerance during early development. https://t.co/EXW4kBmNG4

Our 2024 🌽 harvested has been successfully completed. Thanks to all who helped.

Our new lab building ⁦@UniBonn⁩ is almost finished. My favorite feature is our cooled seed storage room.

I learnt yesterday, that at the 2024 maize genetics meeting, with >500 attendants, only 27 printed copies of the abstract book were sold. I bought one of them. I guess these are now very rare and desirable collectors items 🤩. ⁦@CoopMaize⁩ ⁦@MaizeGDB⁩

We have expanded our sequence indexed, transposon induced BonnMu maize 🌽 mutant repository ⁩to 426.000 insertions in 93% of genes w/ on av. 12 mutant alleles/gene. We have now also mutations in European Flint lines DK105, F7 & EP1. ⁦@ThePlantJournal

Congrats to Ed Buckler (USDA-ARS) who has been chosen as the 2025 recipient of The Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies by the Maize Genetics Cooperation!

Andrew Meselson (*1930) & Franklin Stahl (*1929) discovered that DNA replication is semi-conservative. Their 1958 paper is one of the landmarks in the history of molecular biology. They never received the #NobelPrize but are still alive! Their paper 👇 https://t.co/ZgjuEQt7XA

One week from today, the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology will be announced. Here are the 79 most likely awardees, each of whom has won two or more pre-Nobel “predictor” prizes:

I stayed in Bonn for 11 years! Thanks for the original curiosity and continued passion on science! Thanks for financial support from @dfg_public and @UniBonn! I am now ready for new challenges and willing to deepen “Plant Genetics” for agriculture and One Health in @TU_Muenchen !

Congratulations to former PhD student and postdoc Peng Yu (@Cfg_Peng) who was today appointed professor for Plant Genetics at @TU_Muenchen. The whole lab is very proud of you 👏 🎊🎉🥂