Very good fruit (and weird for people who hasn’t seen them).

I feel incredibly sorry that I will have to cancel my attendance and presentation in the Texas A&M Plant Breeding Symposium. I was very much looking forward to this meeting but a flu last week has evolved to laryngitis and I completely lost my voice.

Job alert! We are seeking a driven postdoc to explore phenomic selection as part of the #SweetCAP project. Apply now at apply.interfolio.com/121117 to join our team and contribute to the future of sweet corn! Please RT 🧬🌽🧬 #postdoc #postdocjobs #plantbreedingjobs

Hello friends and colleagues, please help us to spread the word. At #UF we are organizing a one-week (July 10-14) summer course for Applied AI breeding. Come with us and learn about the implementation of genomic selection from world known experts. conference.ifas.ufl.edu/moiai/index.php

Come work with us. We have a position open for a tropical fruit breeder (explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5260…). Fun job! Please re-tweet too to reach a broad audience.

The UF IFAS Solutions Biofoundry is hiring a full-time #automation scientist as well as part-time students from computer science, engineering or biology

Latest manuscript coming out of our lab in collaboration with Al Myers's lab and Sam Zeeman's lab. This research forced me to step out of my comfort zone, but it was quite fun. academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

We are hiring a research coordinator to help with our sweet corn SCRI project. Please share this message and apply if you are interested. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5274…

Congratulations to Rafaela Graciano, M.sc student in out lab and soon starting her Ph.D in the UF/IFAS-PlantBreeding program. She is currently working on phenomic selection in sweet corn using the single kernel NIR.

Wrapping NAPB Meeting for @uf Posters winners: 🥇 Place for MS - Rafaela Graciano from Marcio Resende's lab 🥉 Place for PhD - Jaideep Kaur from Manjul Dutt 🧬🐊's lab Carver Scholars Rakshya Dhakal and Habib Akinmade Borlaug Scholars Juliana Cromie & Sudip Kunwar

Happy Halloween!!

Our paper on local adaptation of seminal root number in maize 🌽 is now out in Nature Genetics. This story started 8 years ago as a postdoc project of Peng Yu (Peng Yu). A 🧵 on some of our major findings 👇 1/13 nature.com/articles/s4158…

🥔 #InternationalDayOfPotato Did you know potatoes are a nutritional powerhouse? A single medium-sized potato can provide about half of your daily vitamin C needs & is packed with protein, calcium, vitamin B, iron, potassium, & zinc. 👉🏽 bit.ly/IPD-2024 🔸 International Potato Center

A few years ago Greg Hudalla and I started an interesting and fun research collaboration. I knew little about biomedical engineering, and conversely, I think Greg never envisioned a project involving corn. Happy to see the second paper of this collab out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jb…

Interesting kernel in the center of the picture. Half su1, half sh2-i.

We are happy to share HyperPRI: a dataset of rhizobox hyperspectral and RGB images of peanut and sweet corn roots, with temporal data and mask annotations. Access the data and get more details here: faculty.eng.ufl.edu/machine-learni… #HyperspectralImaging #ComputerVision #PlantScience

Are you an early-career SynBio researcher (PhD student/postdoc/Asst Prof) at a US institution & want your work to *really* help agriculture? If so, this workshop is a great chance to learn & network. 30 places available, fully funded! Apply before Jan 15. hos.ifas.ufl.edu/advertisement/…

Established excellence! 🥇🐊 FLORIDA continues our proud tradition of being one of the top-ranked agricultural public universities in the nation.

YOUR 2025 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.

Diets+food systems are driving an ongoing epidemic of overweight/obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes & other diseases ⬇️Fixes are long overdue. See this straightforward 1-stop resource for decision-makers & concerned citizens from UF IFAS Solutions UF Medicine doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…🧵