I said hey, what’s going on? We’re more or less vaxxed, we’re excited about summer and we’re bringing plant facts! We’re diving deep into epigenetics, discuss climate fixes and talk for a surprisingly long time about marsupial genitalia. The usual.

CRISPR-based targeting of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana by a bacterial CG-specific DNA methyltransferase
Basudev Ghoshal, Colette L. Picard, Brandon Vong, Suhua Feng, Steven E. Jacobsen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jun 2021, 118 (23) e2125016118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2125016118

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