I really enjoyed this! I'm sure you've seen ARIA's recent thesis on programmable plants. https://www.aria.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ARIA-Programmable-Plants-v1.pdf They also acknowledge that plant tissue culture is a major bottleneck and given that they have £62.4m of funding for the programmable plants programme, I'm hoping we'll see some progress here. However, the funding will be spread out between only 9 "creator teams" so maybe we'll actually see progress from a more decentralized effort to address plant tissue culture.
This feels quite serendipitous, as I've actively been thinking about what it could look like to create a climate-focused community biology lab where one of the focus areas could be experimenting with ideas to automate the tissue culture process. I'd love your feedback, thoughts, and ideas! Or if you want to get involved, let me know! We need more people, whether trained scientists or enthusiastic amateurs, working on plants! :) https://jasandolive.substack.com/p/climate-community-biolab
I really enjoyed this! I'm sure you've seen ARIA's recent thesis on programmable plants. https://www.aria.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ARIA-Programmable-Plants-v1.pdf They also acknowledge that plant tissue culture is a major bottleneck and given that they have £62.4m of funding for the programmable plants programme, I'm hoping we'll see some progress here. However, the funding will be spread out between only 9 "creator teams" so maybe we'll actually see progress from a more decentralized effort to address plant tissue culture.
This feels quite serendipitous, as I've actively been thinking about what it could look like to create a climate-focused community biology lab where one of the focus areas could be experimenting with ideas to automate the tissue culture process. I'd love your feedback, thoughts, and ideas! Or if you want to get involved, let me know! We need more people, whether trained scientists or enthusiastic amateurs, working on plants! :) https://jasandolive.substack.com/p/climate-community-biolab
Thank you for reading and commenting, Jas! We should definitely chat. I'll DM you.