Hello Reclone Community 
You’re all invited to our Community Meeting later this month, on 2025-06-18T14:00:00Z. This will be a slightly longer session than usual (up to 1.5h) as we have two talks scheduled!
For our first talk, we will hear from Florian Hahn (Grow More Foundation) and Birhan Addisie Abate (International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), presenting about Providing new tools for Plant Scientists in the Global South - The ENABLE Gene Editing Toolkit.
Access to modern technologies in plant breeding is crucial for providing food security. However, there is still a disconnect between the regions with the highest scientific output in Plant Sciences and the regions where the issue of food security is specifically pressing. Crucially, the Global South needs access to BioTech knowledge and technologies to ensure food supply in developing countries. The Grow More Foundation wants to serve as a bridge between scientific advances and agricultural applications. Our aim is to enable plant scientists in developing countries with the resources to apply agricultural advancements in their own countries and to enable others to independently and sustainably, develop successful strategies to face agricultural challenges and implement teaching programs.
Gene Editing technologies, specifically CRISPR/Cas9 have transformed Plant Sciences over the last 15 years. These technologies can have a large impact on food security but are heavily underused currently in most countries of the Global South due to lack of access to resources and training. Here, we describe our efforts in creating and validating the CRISPR/Cas9 based ENABLE Gene Editing kit, an easy to use molecular toolkit to enable gene editing in crops, in collaboration with our partners at Beneficial Bio. We will discuss the idea of the toolkit as well as the testing phase in planta and initial in person testing with a cohort of African scientists during a workshop in Ethiopia.
Stay tuned and we’ll post the title and abstract to our second talk later on this week, but we can let you know for now that the second speaker will be with Luis Gabriel Brieba de Castro (Cinvestav). For those who follow his work, it’ll focus on his upcoming RPA paper.
Join us via Zoom: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Feel free to invite and share news to others in your networks who might be interested 
You can also check our previous meetings at Events – Reagent Collaboration Network or via the Reclone YouTube channel.
Likewise, you can see the Upcoming Events on the Reclone Calendar, tell us you’re Interested/Going, and add these to your own calendar.
See you all at the meeting!
