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We have a packed episode for you with news from never-browning potatoes, mysterious sunflowers and also an answer to your constant question: How many cells are there? 

• Argentinian scientists develop first Latin American genetically edited potato to prevent enzymatic browning
• EU legal proposal for genome-edited crops hints at a science-based approach
• You say genome editing, I say natural mutation | ScienceDaily
• Idiosyncratic and dose-dependent epistasis drives variation in tomato fruit size | Science
• Lateral gene transfer generates accessory genes that accumulate at different rates within a grass lineage – Raimondeau – New Phytologist
• flavour of grape colour: anthocyanin content tunes aroma precursor composition by altering the berry microenvironment | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
• How sunflowers see the sun | ScienceDaily
• Multiple light signaling pathways control solar tracking in sunflowers | PLOS Biology
• New and Antifungal Diterpenoids of Sunflower against Gray Mold | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky | Science
• The geologic history of primary productivity: Current Biology
• Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals | ScienceDaily
• An orthogonalized PYR1-based CID module with reprogrammable ligand-binding specificity | Nature Chemical Biology
• Rats have an imagination, new research suggests | ScienceDaily

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