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Steffen Ostendorp

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Steffen Ostendorp @steffenostendorp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's been soooo long since my last protein purification. Luckily muscle memory kicks in... first step done, tomorrow hopefully pure protein 🫡💚
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Botany One @botany.one · 09/05/2025
Why Thrips Might Be the Unknown Heroes of Pollination Thrips, tiny insects often seen as pests, play a key role in pollinating many plants, according to research in @annbot.bsky.social botany.one/2025/05/why-... Read the paper at academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
A thrip walks over the surface of a petal.
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Steffen Ostendorp @steffenostendorp.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It is finally out. A beautiful collaboration with amazing results is now finally readable for everyone. Congrats to all authors. @molplant.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Studies on the Japanese soil-borne wheat mosaic virus movement protein highlight its ability to bind plant RNA - Virology Journal
Background Plant viral movement protein (MP) function is decisive for virus cell-to-cell movement. Often, MPs also induce membrane alterations, which are believed to play a role for the establishment ...
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Fritz Kragler @fritz-kragler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If you would like to understand how difficult it is to annotate mobile mRNAs using SNPS read this. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Consider important suggestions/controls: homografts & heterografts, use barcoded reads, minimise RT-PCRs, have a reliable annotated/high quality genome sequence .. etc
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Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication - Nature Plants
This study reveals that a substantial number of transcripts that are currently annotated as graft-mobile lack statistical support from available RNA-seq data.
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 22/04/2025
New OA Letter: "Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free germline editing in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eiJVL ...engineered the tobacco rattle virus to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and guide RNA for transgene-free germline editing.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 15/04/2025
A surprising discovery in the world’s most studied plant can make seeds bigger. Learn more: scim.ag/44oVRNW
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Steffen Ostendorp @steffenostendorp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
That is a huuuge deal! That might change the view on what a mobile RNA is. Congrats to the authors! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uni-hamburg.de @johninnescentre.bsky.social
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Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication - Nature Plants
This study reveals that a substantial number of transcripts that are currently annotated as graft-mobile lack statistical support from available RNA-seq data.
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Steffen Ostendorp @steffenostendorp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
❤️ Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization
Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute ~10 billion protein molecules to subcellular compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. Here, we demonstrate that prote...
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Steffen Ostendorp @steffenostendorp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It finally happened! A wonderful and fruitful collaboration finally led to a marvellous new publication. That was a great journey. You did a great job @zivirus.bsky.social and all others as well ❤️
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