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Agrisera Award during 8th Plant Nitric Oxide International Meeting

Our warmest congratulations to Aprajita Kumari, from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India, who received the Agrisera Award during the 8th Plant Nitric Oxide International, online conference.

The awarded poster had the title: "New role of alternative oxidase under hypoxia to increase nitric oxide and energy efficiency".

The Agrisera Antibody Collection for research on oxidative stress can be found here.

Good luck with your research! We are awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Best Student Poster Prize awarded during Plant Biology Europe 2021 conference

Our warmest congratulations to Aleksandra Urban from the Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland, who received the Agrisera Best Student Poster Award during Plant Biology Europe 2021 conference.

The best student poster had the title "How light influences the rearrangements of super- and megacomplexes in the non-appressed thylakoid membranes of maize mesophyll chloroplasts?".
The theme of the poster is described in more details in the recent publication "Effect of light on the rearrangements of PSI super-and megacomplexes in the non-appressed thylakoid domains of maize mesophyll chloroplasts" Urban et al. (2020).

The Agrisera Antibody Collection for the research on photosynthesis can be found here.

Good luck with your research! We are awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Best Student Poster Awardee on PBE21

Agrisera is ISO 9001:2015 certified since June 2021

We are proud to announce that as of June 2021, Agrisera is officially ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Agrisera's management system has been reviewed and complies with ISO 9001:2015 standards.

The certification covers development, production and sales of antibodies and related products and services. Certificate number: 2318, issued the 24th of June, 2021.

If you require the Agrisera ISO 9001:2015 certificate, you are welcome to contact us.

Agrisera ISO9001: 2015 certified since June 2021

20 % off high quality blocking serum and negative controls

20 % off blocking (normal) serum and negative control

20 % off Agrisera blocking (normal) serum

Agrisera offers a wide range of high-quality blocking (normal) serum for the application as a blocking agent, or as a negative control for immunoassays. All serum is obtained from healthy animals. The following formats are available:

Serum
Total immunoglobulin fraction
Highly purified, total immunoglobulin fraction

From the following species: Bovine | Chicken | Donkey | Duck | Goat | Guinea pig | Hamster | Horse | Human | Llama | Mouse | Pig | Rabbit | Rat | Sheep

Serum is lipid-extracted, dialyzed against phosphate buffer, and provided as lyophilized powder without preservative in different amounts:

From 1-10 mg to 1 g and bulk.

For most immunoassays like IHC, ELISA or Western blot, blocking is a crucial step to perform. This procedure blocks spaces that are not occupied by immobilized proteins, which prevents non-specific binding of the antibodies used in the assay. If blocking is not performed, false signals or high background will occur.

There is no universal blocking agent, therefore empirical testing is necessary to determine which agent to use for a given assay.

If normal serum is used as a blocker, it is recommended to use serum derived from the same host species as the detection antibody, conjugated with the reporter enzyme like HRP (Horse radish peroxidase) or ALP (Alkaline phosphatase).

Example:
Primary antibody: Rabbit anti-target

Blocking serum: Normal Chicken Serum (usually used at 5 % v/v in PBS with Tween®20 detergent)

Secondary antibody: Chicken anti-Rabbit IgG-HRP conjugated

Note: Rabbit serum cannot be used for blocking in such a combination.

Collection of discounted negative control reagents

Use discount code: Block20
Valid July-September 2021

Agrisera Best Talk Prize awarded during Online Canadian Society of Plant Biologists CSPB-SCBV2021�conference

Our warmest congratulations to Kethmi Nirmani Jayawardhane Rathnayaka, from the Plant Biotechnology Lab, University of Alberta, Canada, who received the Agrisera Best Talk Award during the Online Canadian Society of Plant Biologists CSPB-SCBV2021 conference.

The best talk had the title: "Over-expression of AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE7 (AIL7) in Arabidopsis alters morphological characteristic and heat stress response".

The Agrisera Antibody Collection to Arabidopsis can be found here.

Good luck with your research! We are awaiting your free antibody choice!

15 % off PSI and PSII Antibody Collection

PSI and PSII antibody promotion

Agrisera PSI and PSII antibodies, 15 % off

The Agrisera Antibody Collection to Photosystem I (PSI) and Photosystem II (PSII) has been developed over the last 20 years, and contains antibodies to most of the subunits of the respective photosystems. This is Agrisera's most published antibody collection, and has been used on a wide range of di- and monocotyl plants, algae, cyanobacteria and diatoms. The respective species reactivity can be checked here.

Use discount code: PS15
Valid July-September 2021

Educational Posters about photosysnthesis and Photosystem II can be requested together with shipment of ordered PSI and PSII antibodies. Do not miss this opportunity!
The posters are developed in collaboration with research groups and are very useful and informative and received lot of appreciation in the scientific community.

Agrisera Best Poster Prize awarded during Plant Systems Biology (ICPSBB 2021)

Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Paweł Burdiak, from Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Poland, who received the Agrisera Award for the best poster during the International Conference on Plant Systems Biology. ICPSBB took place in Golden Sands Black Sea Rseort in Bulgaria, as a hybrid meeting and gathered more than 150 participants from 30 countries. Agrisera supported the conference with the Best Poster Prize and Educational Posters.

The poster was named "The CRK5 receptor-like kinase regulates
water use efficiency during plant development".

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Antibody Collection to Arabidopsis can be found here.

Good luck with your research!

Agrisera Best Poster Prize on Plant Systems Biology (ICPSBB 2021)

Agrisera supporting and participating in a virtual ICAR2021

Between 21st and 25th of June Agrisera participated in the 31st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2021), this year held in a virtual format. The meeting gathered almost 1000 participants from around the world and exciting program was prepared.

Beside exhibition in a virtual booth, Agrisera sponsored two sessions:

"How Do Plants Sense and Respond to Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Ozone and Drought?"
"Feeling Stressed? Environmental Adaptation in Extremophyte Relatives of Arabidopsis"

Thank you for all interactions, feedback and interest in Agrisera Educational Posters, which we will send free of charge to all who were interested.

Agrisera Antibody Collection for Arabidopsis Research can be found here.

Agrisera Best Poster Prize awarded during ISRR/Rooting 2021 online conference

Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Vinay Shukla, from Plant Nutrition and Development group, BIVEG, University of Geneva, Switzerland who received the Agrisera Award for the best poster during the ISRR/Rooting 2021 conference. ISRR/Rooting took place online between the 24th and 28th of May, and gathered 712 delegates from 52 countries.

The poster was elected as the winner out of 300 posters, through votes from the delegates, and is named "Building the wall: Suberin plasticity for nutrient acquisition".

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

The Antibodies for cell wall components can be found here

Good luck with your research!

The Golden Antibody Hunt has a winner

Thank you to all who participated in The Golden Antibody Hunt on Agrisera's website, during the period March-May 2021.

Five Golden Antibodies were hidden on various pages, and those who found at least three of them and submitted the unique codes for each antibody, had a chance to win three free antibodies of their choice.

The game gathered participants from many countries and the lucky winner, who is going to receive free antibodies, is Dr. Miloš Diklić from the Laboratory for Molecular Oncology, Institute for Medical Research in Serbia. The free antibodies are going to be delivered through Agrisera distributor in Serbia: ProMedia.

We are awaiting your antibody choice!

Winners of the Agrisera Fascination of Plant Day 2021 Quiz

Four participants of the Agrisera Fascination of Plants Day Quiz "Test your species recognition skills in 6 questions", became happy owners of the book Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life by By Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee

From left to right:
Dragana Bosnic, PhD, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

André Graca, PhD Candidate, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden

Félix Barbut, PhD Candidate, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden

Agnieszka Zienkiewicz, PhD, Centre of Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Good luck in your research and we hope that the book is going to be useful!

Winners of Agrisera Fascination of Plants Day 2021 Quiz

Agrisera Best Talk Prize awarded during 4th PostDoc Day at the University of Geneve

Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Olivier Mercey from the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the University of Geneve, Switzerland, who received the Agrisera Best Talk Prize during the 4th PostDoc Day at UNIGE, 27th of May.

The title of his talk was: "The connecting cilium inner scaffold provides the structural foundation protecting against retinal degeneration".

Awaiting your free antibody/product choice!

The Agrisera Antibody Collection includes antibodies to epitope tags, secondary antibodies and detection reagents.

Good luck in your research!

New Antibody Pair to Nucleoprotein (N) of Novel Coronavirus

New Antibody Pair for Nucleoprotein (N) of Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2/ 2019-nCoV (human)

Capture antibody

Detection antibody

Positive control

Applications: ELISA and lateral flow.

Contact us for the price offer or order directly online.

Other Agrisera products for Coronavirus Research can be found here.

Agrisera Products for Cornovirus Research

Most published Arabidopsis antibodies in the world

Agrisera Antibodies for Arabidopsis Research are most published antibodies for research on Arabidopsis thaliana, based on publication records.

This antibody collection has been available to the scientific community since 2000, and Agrisera is continuously adding new antibodies, often developed in collaboration with various research groups worldwide. We offer a complex solution: validated primary antibodies, matching secondary antibody of high titer and outstanding chemiluminescencent and chromogenic detection reagents.

This year, we are going to attend the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2021) and you are most welcome to come by Agrisera's virtual booth, schedule a talk or send us a message!

Introduction to Agrisera Arabidopsis Antibody Collection

Celebrate with Agrisera - Fascination of Plants Day 2021

To celebrate Fascination of Plants Day 2021, Agrisera invited everybody to an online quiz:

Test your species recognition skills, answer 6 questions and get a chance to win the book Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life by By Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee

Four books were given away, and the happy owners are presented here.

Agrisera Fascination of Plants Day 2021 Quiz

Agrisera antibody used to evaluate Nanoalgosomes

Microalgae can be used to produce a novel, membranous, biogenic nanomaterial - Nanoalgosomes.

Nanoalgosomes can be utilized as a new natural delivery system for a range of high-value microalgal substances, such as antioxidants, pigments, lipids, complex carbohydrates, bioactive biological molecules (e.g., proteins, miRNA, siRNA, mRNA, lncRNA, peptides) and/or synthetic drugs.

Agrisera anti-H+ATPase antibodies, a marker of the plasma membrane, were used to characterize Nanoalgosomes, which has been experimentally demonstrated in a recent publication by Adamo et al. "Nanoalgosomes: Introducing extracellular vesicles produced by microalgae", J Extracell Vesicles. 2021 Apr; 10(6): e12081.

The winner of the Agrisera Antibody and Western blot Quiz during ERPC2021 online conference

Warm congratulations to Dr. Colin Gates from The Cameron Laboratory, at the University of Colorado Boulder, who participated in the Agrisera Antibody and Western Blot Quiz, taking place during the 38th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis virtual Conference (ERPC) on 24th of April.

Dr. Colin Gates is the happy winner of the quiz and will receive the book:
Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life by Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee

We wish you good luck in your research!

Learn more about Western blot and antibodies with Agrisera video series

If you would like the answers to the following questions:

presented in a short and informative way, watch the Agrisera's Educational Video Series, which will give you more insights into the Western blot technique as well as antibodies.

If you still have questions, you are welcome to contact Agrisera Technical Support. We have been working with antibodies for the last 30 years, and will do our best to help you.

Agrisera's Educational Videos on Agrisera Youtube channel

15 % off on antibodies for epigenetic research

Epigenetic research antibody promotion

Agrisera Antibodies for epigenetic research

Gene expression is regulated by epigenetic modifications, which occur either on histones (associated with DNA), on chromatin, or directly on DNA. These modifications include:

Methylation of DNA (transcriptional silencing)
Histone methylation
Histone acetylation

The Agrisera anti-Epigenetic research antibodies include antibodies to the following modifications:

H3K4me1 and H3K27ac - these modifications mark enhancers, regions of the genome of cell-type specific activation of gene expression
H3K4me3 - modification found in the promoters and active genes
H3K9me3 - marks constitutively repressed heterochromatin and works together with DNA methylation
H3K27me3 - marks regions of the genome, which are transcriptionally inactive
H3K36me3 - modification linked to transcriptional elongation and therefore associated with gene expression
5-mC - addition of a methyl group at the 5 position of cytosines is associated with gene silencing
5-hmC - is a DNA modification and results from the enzymatic oxidation of 5-mC by the TET family of cytosine oxygenases. 5-hmC modification at a gene is associated with its expression level

Agrisera's epigenetics antibody collection is offered at a 15% discount until the end of June.

Use discount code: Epigen15
Valid April-June 2021

Golden Antibody Hunt - get a chance to win THREE antibodies of your choice!

Collect golden antibodies and have a chance to win 3 antibodies of your choice!

How to participate in the golden antibody hunt:

Find 3 out of the 5 antibodies hidden on the Agrisera website.
Collect the unique code for each one.
E-mail the codes to [email protected] together with catalogue numbers of your 3 antibodies of choice.

The clue: which are the most frequently used antibodies?

The Golden Antibody Hunt starts on 23rd of March and the winner will be announced on 31st of May.

Agrisera Best Poster Prize awarded during 4th International Plant Proteomics Organization online conference

Our warmest congratulations to PhD student Iván Takeshi Cerritos Castro from Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica in Mexico for receiving the Agrisera Award for the best poster during the 4th International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO), which took place online from March 9th to 11th, 2021.

The poster title was: "Amaranth calcium oxalate crystals as possible carbon pools"

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

The Agrisera Antibody Collection can be found here.

Good luck in your research!

Agrisera Best Poster Prize on 4th INPPO Conference 2021

Agrisera Antibodies in 10 000 most cited antibodies in the world

Agrisera Antibodies have been used in thousands of publications, over many years, since they first became available to the scientific community. Our catalog started with the photosynthetic antibody collection, over 20 years ago, which contains the most published photosynthetic antibodies in the world. The Agrisera Rubisco antibody, reactive to Rubisco Large Subunit from thousands of various species, has the largest publication record of all available antibodies to this most abundant enzyme on Earth.

Based on publication records, we received the award "Plant Science Antibody Supplier of the year", which we are very proud of.

If you would like to check scientific publications with Agrisera antibodies, the updated overview can be found here.

Agrisera entered the collaboration with the Danforth Plant Science Centre

Recently Agrisera entered a collaboration with Dr. Kirk Czymmek from the Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory at the Danforth Plant Science Center and projects from the labs of Elizabeth Kellogg, Blake Meyers and Mao Li, with key contributions from Yunqing Yu and Sébastien Bélanger.

Agrisera Antibodies will be applied on a flexible pipeline for multiscale 3D tissue arrays using multiplex microscopy, compatible with probing numerous key cellular components/pathways across tissues for correlated light, super-resolution and electron microscopy on the same sample.

This work will provide versatile protocols, validated probing strategies and tools for manual and automated 2D/3D multiplex imaging of biomolecular pathways and/or other biologically relevant phenomena optimized for the plant science community.

The image shows abscission zone of the inflorescence in Setaria sp.

Do you know where exactly Agrisera is located?

Did you know that Agrisera is located even further north than Anchorage, Alaska and 3000 km from the North Pole?

Yes, this is correct. The temperatures in the winter can drop below -20ºC (good for storing antibodies!) and there can be days when we will receive over 50 cm of snow. Like this winter. In spite of slightly extreme conditions, we continue to work, produce and purify antibodies. The shipment of our antibodies worldwide also continues as normal, to support research efforts in plant science and other areas.

We pride ourselves in being, as our customers describe it: fast, cooperative and efficient!

Agrisera Best Poster Prize awarded during XVth Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology in Spain

Our warmest congratulations to Patricia Ballester Fuentes from the lab of Dr. Cristina Ferrándiz, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP, UPV-CSIC), in Spain, for receiving the Agrisera Award for the best poster during XV Meeting of Plant Molecular Biology, in November 2020.

The poster title was: "The NGATHA factors interact with members of the bHLH transcription factor family to direct the development of apical tissues in the Arabidopsis thaliana gynoecium."

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Antibody Collection to Arabidopsis thaliana can be found here.

Good luck in your research!

284 worldwide events in The Global Plant Events Calendar listed in 2020

We are celebrating the 2nd-year anniversary of
The Global Plant Events Calendar!

The Global calendar project was initiated on January 2nd, 2019 as a mutual effort of Plantae and Agrisera to provide the plant community with a comprehensive list of worldwide events.

284 in-person and online events like webinars, workshops, symposia and conferences, many with free registration, were registered in the calendar in 2020. Due to the pandemic, many events were cancelled, moved online or postponed, and the calendar became a valuable tool to keep track of those changes.

Today, The Global Calendar is the most comprehensive list of worldwide events for the plant community.

If you are not familiar with the calendar this short video will show you how to use it.

Stay informed! Follow the calendar on Twitter @PlantSciEvents

New epitope tag antibody (BirA (mutated/TurboID) ) for protein interaction studies

Proximity labelling is a laboratory technique which makes it possible to label proteins (in this case by biotinylation), proximal to protein of interest. This allows studying protein interactome networks in different types of cells and organs, as well as different developmental stages. The technique is achieved by a gene fusion in a living cell, between the protein of interest and BioID (BirA). The TurboID variant is a biotin ligase, with substantially higher activity, which provides higher temporal resolution and broader application in vivo. The labelling time is just 10 minutes in RT, compared to the over 18 hours of labelling time required for BioID.

Agrisera offers a new polyclonal antibody, prepared to a recombinant mutated BirA protein from E.coli, called TurboID.
anti-BirA (mutated/TurboID)

The proximity labelling technique is described in various publications, e.g.:
Zhang et al. (2020). TurboID-Based Proximity Labeling for In Planta Identification of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks.J Vis Exp. 2020 May 17;(159).doi: 10.3791/60728.
Cho et al. (2020). Proximity labeling in mammalian cells with TurboID and split-TurboID.Nat Protoc. 2020 Dec;15(12):3971-3999. doi: 10.1038/s41596-020-0399-0.
Mair et al. (2019). Proximity labelling of protein complexes and cell-type-specific organellar proteomes in Arabidopsis enabled by TurboID. Elife . 2019 Sep 19;8:e47864. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47864.

For experimental details, click here.

25 % off on anti-TAG antibodies

Tag antibody promotion

Antibodies to tags are among the most published antibodies in the world, according to analysis of publications peformed every year by CiteAb. Their application is broad, from recombinant protein purification and detection, to visualization of a target protein in transgenic organism, when antibody to endogenous protein is not available or there are difficulties to produce it due to the target protein levels being beyond the detection level.
Tags can be few amino acids long, like His, FLAG and HA, or be made to whole proteins, like GST or GFP.

The Agrisera anti-Tag antibody promotion covers the following antibodies:

Agrisera Antibody Quiz winner at the Annual Western Photosynthesis meeting 2021

Congratulations to Daiki Nishiori, who participated in Agrisera Antibody Quiz during the 30th Western Photosynthesis Conference, sponsored by Agrisera, held online over Saturday, January 2nd and Saturday, January 9th, 2021.

Daiki Nishiori is a 3rd year Chemistry PhD student working in Prof. Gary F. Moore's lab at School of Molecular Sciences of Arizona State University. He is doing research on the synthesis and characterization of porphyrin compounds that can catalyze hydrogen evolution reactions and oxygen reduction reactions. He also develops hybrid artificial photosynthetic assemblies composed of molecular catalysts and light-harvesting semiconductors.

Agrisera Antibody Quiz consisted of 11 questions and the winner of the quiz:
Daiki Nishiori will receive a hard copy of the book:

Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life by Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee Hardcover: 204 pages Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company (7 Jan. 2019)

The book is available in Agrisera webshop.

Agrisera X-mas gift to We Agroforestry

This year our Christmas gift goes to Vi Agroforestry and the campaign All of Sweden against the Hunger Pandemic. As a result of the ongoing corona pandemic, there is a risk that 130 million people will suffer from acute famine. Vi Agroforestry works with tree planting in eastern Africa, where they train local farmers' organizations in sustainable agriculture and agroforestry, gender equality and business management. The effect is greater harvests and more food on the tables, more money to invest in the farm and in the children's schooling, and in the end reducing poverty and improved the climate.

We are proud to contribute!

We wish you all happy and merry holiday time and lots of success in 2021!
Agrisera Team

Agrisera participates and supports conferences in 2021

Agrisera is participating in the following meetings in 2021

The 31st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, 21.06-25.06, online conference
Plant Biology Europe 2021, 28.06-1.07, online conference
Plant Biology 2021, 19.07-23.07, Pittsburgh, USA, online conference
Plant Photobiology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 22.07-25.07, online conference
Chlamy 2021, 29.08-3.09, Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
Argentinian meeting of Plant Physiology, 13.09-17.09, SantaFe Argentina
Online 10th biennial PSEPB Conference 20.09–23.09, Katowice, Poland
Compass, Passport to the future, Interdisciplinary doctoral studies at the Faculty of Biology, UAM, 22.09-24.09, Poznań, Poland
KBC Days, 9-10.11, Umeå, Sweden

Agrisera is suppporting following meetings in 2021

Online Conference | Western photosynthesis 2021, 2.01
Online International Plant Proteomics Organization 4th conference, 9.03-11.03
Online conference | Photosynthesis: from phytochemistry to biochemistry, ERPC38, 24.04
Online conference ISRR/ROOTING2021, 24.05-28.05
Online PostDocDay at University of Geneve, 27.05, Switzerland
Online Canadian Society of Plant Biologists CSPB-SCBV2021, 7.06-11.06, Canada
Hybrid conference: International Conference on Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (ICPSBB), 14.06-17.06, Golden Sands, Bulgaria
Plant Biology Europe, 28-06-1.07, online conference
8th Plant Nitric Oxide International Meeting, 7.07-9.07,Szeged, Hungary
Plant Organellar Signalling (FEBS workshop), 19.09-23.09, Primošten Croatia
Understanding plant responses to climate change: redox-based strategies, 20.09-22.09, Baeza, Spain
The 23rd Austrian Society of Plant Biology Conference, 23.09-25.09, Seitenstetten, Austria
15th Nordic Photosynthesis Congress, 5.10-8.10, Gothenburg, Sweden
Target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling in photosynthetic organisms, 21.10-24.10, Eiceira, Portugal
Online 47th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference22.10-23.10, USA
A creative Economy for Sustainable Development, 2021 ASA, CSSA, SSA International Annual Meeting, 7.11-10.11, Salt Lake City, USA
Cyano2021: Early Career Researcher Symposium on Cyanobacteria - "Photosynthesis – from its origin to applications", 15.11-17.11, online
Unveiling biological networks by cutting-edge proteomic tools 30.11-4.12, Rosario, Argentina
Online | The Canadian Society of Plant Biologists 2021 Western Regional Meeting, 3.12-4.12, Canada

The Global Plant Science Events Calendar

In The Global Plant Events Calendar, you will find the most up-to-date information about worldwide conferences, congressed and even online events.

Winner of Agrisera Antibody and Western Blot Quiz announced

The Quiz

It was taking just a few minutes of your time, to answer 10 questions about antibodies and Western blot and get a chance to win a free antibody of your choice from the Agrisera Catalog. The Quiz was open for participation from January to March 2021. We were impressed with amount of correct answers.
Thank you for participation!

The Winner

PhD candidate Jennifer Saile from
the group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Wachter, University of Mainz
in Germany.

The UPSC Agrisera Prize 2020

Warmest congratulations to Ioanna Antoniadi who has received The Umeå Plant Science Centre Agrisera Prize 2020 to acknowledge her scientific achievements and her engagement to improve the work environment at UPSC. The UPSC Agrisera Prize is awarded every year to a person working at UPSC and was announced today during the virtual UPSC Christmas Celebration.

Ioanna Antoniadi works as a postdoc in Karin Ljung’s group at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology at SLU and is the expert for fluorescent-activated cell sorting (FACS) an advanced technique that allows to separate cells according to certain physical characteristics like for example different cell size.

The UPSC Agrisera Prize is awarded every year to a PhD student, a postdoc or a technician for excellent scientific achievement and great commitment to improve the UPSC work environment. It is sponsored by Agrisera but the members of the UPSC board select the winner of the prize. Everyone working at UPSC can nominate a colleague for the UPSC Agrisera Prize. This year, the UPSC Board received nine nominations, the highest number of nominations since 2014.

“The prize gives us the possibility to acknowledge great achievements and commitments and it is every year very difficult to choose one candidate out of many good suggestions”, says Catherine Bellini, chairmen of the UPSC Board who announced the winner of the prize today together with Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund from Agrisera. “We were delight that we received this high number of nominations this year. It shows that people care about their workplace.”

Dr. Ioanna Antoniadi

Shipment days at the end of the year 2020

Shipment days from Agrisera at the end of the year 2020

Fifteen Agrisera Awards given away in 2020

2020 has been a very different year in regards to conference participation. While many meetings moved online, Agrisera still contributed to conferences and workshops held worldwide, with The Best Talk and The Best Poster awards, which were granted on 15 meetings. Awardees received a diploma and could choose any product from the Agrisera catalog, free of charge. We also offered an interactive quiz with a prize, as well as free shipment of Agrisera Educational Posters, which was very appreciated.

The Global Plant Events Calendar provides a comprehensive overview on worldwide plant conferences, with over 350 registered events. These include online events, like webinar series, workshops and congresses, which became a growing category this year.

In January 2021, the calendar, which is an initiative of Agrisera and ASPB/Plantae, will celebrate its second anniversary.

New antibodies to tags

Antibodies to tags are among the most published antibodies in the world, according to analysis of publications peformed every year by CiteAb.

Therefore, Agrisera is continuously work on adding new tag antibodies to our collection. This month, you can find the following new antibodies to various commonly used tags.

New products can be found here.

Browse all tag antibodies here.

In case of any questions about anti-tag antibodies and their performance you are welcome to contact us!

10 % discout in return for feedback

Agrisera offers a 10 % discount on any product from our catalogue, in return for a short note left on the specific product page.

Example of a review note:

Customer review note

To leave a review:

Enter an antibody or reagent page on Agrisera website
Find a tab: Customer reviews
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Write your short comment including details like: type of extract, technique, dilution and overall result obtained with this product
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Once the review is submitted, you will be granted a 10 % discount on your next order.

Thank you!
Agrisera Team

Awardee of Agrisera Antibody Quiz at KBC Days 2020

Warm congratulations to Dr. Josy ter Beek from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Umeå University, who won a free antibody in Agrisera Antibody and Western blot Quiz, during KBC Days 2020, 3rd to 4th of November, 2020.

Josy ter Beek is involved in research on type 4 secretion systems, which are used by bacteria to transfer antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors.

Awaiting your free antibody choice and good luck in your research!

Dr. Josy ter Beek

Agrisera Best Oral Presentation Award at CSPB/SCBV 2020

Our warmest congratulations to Janis Cheng from Queen's University (Kingston) and St. Lawrence College in Canada for receiving the Agrisera Award for the best oral presentation at the CSPB/SCV 2020 Virtual Meeting.

The title of the presentation was: "Arabidopsis preferentially responds to the flg22 epitopes of g- and b-proteobacteria".

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Antibody Collection to Arabidopsis thaliana can be found here.

Good luck in your research!

Agrisera Awards during 46th Annual Midwest/Southeast photosynthesis Meeting

Our warmest congratulations to the awardees of the 46th Annual Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference (virtual meeting), who received the Agrisera Awards for:

Outstanding Poster Presentation (Postdoctoral Fellow Awardee)
Dr. Maria Santos-Merino, Michigan State University.
Poster title: "Testing the capacity for heterologous metabolic sinks to replace photoprotective mechnisms in cyanobacteria".

Outstanding Poster Presentation (Graduate Student Awardees)
Anton Avramov, Oklahoma State University (Dr. Burnap’s Lab).
Poster title: "The role of Ca2+and protein scaffolding in the formation of nature's water oxidazing compex".
Aaditya Prabhu (undergraduate student), Purdue University,
Poster title: "Structure requirement for plastoquinione transfer: transient PSII reaction center-cy".

Outstanding Poster Presentation (Undergraduate Student Awardee)
Sofia Dvinskikh, Rutgers University.
Poster title: "Can oxygenic photosynthesis function without manganese in vivo? Cobalt replacement in the water-oxidizing comples of photosystem II".

All awardees will receive the book: Photosynthesis – Solar Energy for Life by By Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee (2019)

Agrisera Antibody Collection to proteins involved in Photosynthesis

Educational Posters: Photosynthesis
can be requested here.

Agrisera Best Phd Student Presentation Award KBS Days 2020 at Ume� University

Our warmest congratulations to phd student Lill Eilertsen from the group od Dr. Judith Lundberg-Felten at Umeå Plant Science Centre, who was awarded the Agrisera Best PhD Student Presentation Award during KBC Days2020, online event, which took place between 3rd and 4th of November at Umeå University, Sweden.

The title of the talk was: "Impact of root colonization by ectomycorhizal fungi on drought resistance in pine seedlings".

Agrisera Awardwas handed over during a ceremony taking place at KBC on 18th of November.

Agrisera Antibody Collection for conifers can be found here.

Agrisera Best Talk Prize awarded during 1st Brazilian Symposium on Photosynthesis

Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Flavia Vischi Winck from the University of São Paulo, Brasil who was awarded the Agrisera Best Talk Prize during 1st Brazilian Symposium on Photosynthesis, online event, which took place between 27th-30es of October.

The title of the talk was: "Activation of cyclin electron flow and rearrangements of redox responses and its relation to high growth rate in the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris in mixotrophy".

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Antibody Collection for various algal species can be found here.

Agrisera Best Talk Prize awarded during BioLOGIES conference

Our warmest congratulations to PhD student Marcin Dziuba from the Institute of Environmental Biology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, who was awarded the Agrisera Best Talk Prize during BioLOGIES conference held online between the 22nd and 24th of September.

The title of the talk was: "Less parasites in warmer lakes – an evidence from artificially heated lakes system".

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Antibody Collection for cyanobacteria can be found here.

Agrisera anti-TAG antibody collection is growing

Antibodies to tags can be applied in cases when there are no dedicated antibodies against a given protein. Addition of a specific tag, like for example FLAG, His, HA, makes it possible to study target protein using specific anti-tag antibody applied in techniques like: immunofluorescence, immunoprecipiation or Western blot or purification using affinity chromatography.

The peptide sequence of a tag can be fused to N-terminus or C-terminus of a protein under investigation or inserted within a protein. Some tags, like FLAG can be combined with other affinity tags: His, HA or myc. Historically, FLAG is a first epitope tag and the only epitope tag which is patented.

Tag sequences are very short and recognized by high affinity antibodies, produced in wide species range: goat, chicken, mouse, rabbit.

Some of available anti-tag antibodies are tag position sensitive and one has to take it into account, before a purchase of anti-tag antibody.

Agrisera's anti-tag antibody collection can be found here.

HSP70 ELISA kit discounted until end of 2020

HSP70 (Heat Shock Protein 70) is a monomeric protein which, under physiological conditions, functions as a molecular chaperone in an ATP-dependent manner, protecting cells against lethal damage induced by stress.

By means of a Agrisera's sandwich ELISA kit (AS17 4128) it is possible to quantitate cytoplasmic plant HSP70 concentration in plant extracts from Medicago sativa, Linum usitatissimum, Zea mays and other species. The plate is coated with anti-plant HSP70 capture antibody, and 40 samples can be analyzed in duplicate.

Sensitivity: 0.18 ng/ml | Assay range: 1.563-100 ng/ml | Incubation time: 30 min

The kit is discounted until end of 2020.

The HSP70 ELISA kit is a part of Agrisera's Environmental Stress Antibody Collection, which can be viewed here.

Agrisera GFP antibodies 30 % off

According to the latest CiteAb report on the most published antibodies, anti-tag antibodies were among the 100 most published antibodies in the world in 2019. This is a trend, which has been observed over many years. Until the end of 2020, Agrisera offers:

30% discount on the following tag antibodies:

AS18 4227 | GFP | Green fluorescent protein (VENUS)
AS15 2987 | GFP | Green Fluorescence Protein (affinity purified)
AS15 3028 | RFP | Red Fluorescent Protein (clone RF5R)

Use discount code GFP30

Agrisera Loading Control Antibody Collection

Loading controls are used to normalize the levels of proteins detected using Western blotting, and will:

confirm that there is an equal loading across the gel
confirm that the protein transfer is even throughout the whole gel
allow qantification
can be requested by referees of scientific publications

Proteins of high levels of constitutive expression are usually recommended as loading controls. However, the choice of the appropriate house-keeping protein depends on the experiment in question, and thus needs to be confirmed. House-keeping proteins cannot be used for normalization if there is a suspicion that the experimental conditions are affecting their expression.

Agrisera's Collection of Antibodies to Loading Controls can be found here. Until end of 2020 they are offered at 15 % off.

Agrisera Best Talk Prize awarded during 3rd PostDoc Day at UNIGE

Agrisera Best Talk Prize at 3rd PostDoc Day at UNIGE

Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Tissot from the Department of Botany and Plant Biology at The University of Geneva, Switzerland, who was awarded the Agrisera Best Talk Prize during 3rd UNIGE Postdoc Day. The title of the talk was: "Cross-regulation between UV-B and visible light signalling in Arabidopsis".

Awaiting your free antibody choice!

Agrisera Antibody Collection for Arabidopsis can be found here.

The best biophysics book of all time, available at Agrisera webshop

The book Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life
by Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee
was awarded The Best Biophysics Books of All Time prize by BookAuthority.

Photosynthesis has been an important field of research for a century, but the present concerns regarding energy, environment and climate have greatly intensified interest in, and research on, this topic.
Research in this field has progressed rapidly in recent years, and this book is an interesting read for an audience who is concerned with various ways of harnessing solar energy.

The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of plant biology, microbiology and biochemistry, as well as researchers in solar energy systems.

We are proud to distribute the book through the Agrisera webshop.

Agrisera Antibodies in 10 000 most cited antibodies in the world

Each year, CiteAb analyses antibody publication records, which are then compiled in a report. In 2019 over 4.9 million antibodies to various targets, tags as well as secondary antibodies were used in academic citations.

We are proud to say that over 50 Agrisera Antibodies were included in the 10 000 most published antibodies in the world in 2019.

Based on publication records for 2018, Agrisera was awarded Plant Science Supplier of the year award by CiteAb. This means that most antibodies used in research on plant and algal cell biology are provided by Agrisera.

More details on the CiteAb report can be found in their blog post.

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