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Diego Brito

@dipbrito.bsky.social

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Plant Biologist in formation. PhD student at the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social #plantscience

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Diego Brito @dipbrito.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Lazy corn is a natural mutant in the lazy1 gene (great name). My favorite of course is a transposon insertion. A CACTA transposon jumps in, inactivates the gene, plant falls down. To the extent you can actually grow corn as a hanging plant. 4/4

Figure from https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0087053 showing lazy corn hanging from a basket on the left and wild-type corn growing straight on the right. Below is a gene diagram showing transposon insertions in an exon of the lazy1 gene, and some DNA sequence gibberish below.

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology 🌱🧪 @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just sprouted on #Bluesky 🌱 Let’s turn over a new leaf together! 🌿

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