Matthew Szarzanowicz

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

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No roots yet but a nice red flower! Must be quite stressed in there, but I’m quite pleased with how it matured over the holiday! @ATinyGreenCell

The Shih lab @UCBerkeley has been working on expanding the metabolic repertoire of plants by rationally engineering synthetic pathways for the production of target new-to-nature compounds. Learn more about this research at #PlantSynBio21! plantsyntheticbiology.org/program/ #PlantSynBio