How did bryophytes and vascular plants get so different? I'm looking for a new team member to join my lab for 3 years and find out! The project will involve developmental genetics in Physcomitrium and Selaginella, more info here: linkedin.com/in/jill-harris…

Exciting 1-year project for Vietnamese post-doc with Sara Lopez-Gomollon Sara Lopez-Gomollon Uni Kent, UK: Crop resilience: Genetic improvement of medicinal plant Centella asiatica, towards climate resilient production of anticancer compounds in rural Vietnam research.kent.ac.uk/british-counci…

Celine, a long interspersed nuclear element retrotransposon, colonizes in the centromeres of poplar chromosomes (Haoyang Xin, Yiduo Wang, Wenli Zhang, Bao Yu, Pavel Neumann, Yihang Ning, Tao Zhang, Yufeng Wu, et. al.) buff.ly/49RPHVR ASPB #PlantSci

NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬

This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿

nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔥Our paper about the new families of active 🍅 LTR retrotransposons (called Salsa and Ketchup 😁) introgressed from S. peruvianum has been published in BMC Genomics 🥳 Kudos to Pavel Merkulov 👏: link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Our diploid oat genome assembly is now published
Liu Q, Xiong G, Wang Z, Wu Y, Tu T, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2024. Chromosome-level genome assembly of the diploid oat species Avena longiglumis. Scientific Data 11: 412. doi.org/10.1038/s41597… molcyt.org/2024/04/22/ave…

Ghana's recent approval of 14 new GMO seeds could be a game changer for local agriculture. These include drought-tolerant maize and healthier soybeans, designed to withstand harsh conditions and improve food quality. Modern Ghana buff.ly/3Uk5RCR

News in nature on chatbots in peer review nature.com/articles/d4158… What do people think about referee report on our paper in @BMCseries #BMCPlantBiol peer review link at bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Paper is doi.org/10.1186/s12870…

Conference time warning: as people make plans for summer conferences, remember that many conferences now 'start' with sessions long before the opening session! IBC2024 starts in the morning of 21st July not the evening said on the website. PAG 31 / PAG Australia / PAG Asia veterans know this well!

Very clear seminar from Taner Sen showcasing all the parts of the fabulous GrainGenes database - as a regular user, I heard about some really useful areas I hadn't explored. Not least the (much underused) channel youtube.com/@graingenesoff… which will host the presentation soon

Tag Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants for #retweet

#PlantSci aBIOTECH AgriExperts Andres F Gaona-Acevedo Atikur Rahman EpiSeedLink Atikur Rahman Danielle Lebourgeois IPES-Food Christoph Schulze Crop Science 🌱 Evolutionary Genomics GetGenome Genetics Society of America Pat Heslop-Harrison Yakov Kuzyakov . . . priming Soil Science Jerzy H. Czembor 2022 International Society for Plant Low O2 Research Wheat Initiative AHEAD Alex Costa

Interactive map from English Heritage showing all heritage sites in England historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… with an attempt to value them in monetary terms. historicengland.org.uk/research/resul…

Good day looking at farming systems from solar to greenhouse to sheep, forage grass, cereals, and just biodiversity sites with @Centa_nerc #SpeedPhD2024

Introduction to the CENTA PhD programme residential field course in Cotswolds Queens Hotel Cheltenham - Mgallery Looking forward to field visits and analysis with this group of PhDs

Enjoyed this The Telegraph review of our recent The Food Programme spice investigation, with my fellow 'old fashioned consumer journalist' Jaega Wise 😅 full programme is now on BBC Sounds ICYMI. telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-…

Delighted to announce launch of 'Biological Diversity', new not-for-profit journal published by Wiley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/299441… Covering all kingdoms (+viruses!), from molecular to ecosystem, and genomic, taxonomic, ecological to sociological.

Ok, older Twitterati: What was the major technical innovation so computer printers rarely jam nowadays? I've just found a box of 'fine-perforated' tractor feed paper & stickers - with normal paper, every third page would jam in the 90s. Is it paper quality, rubber pickup ???

An ultra-potent ethylene inhibitor - cell.com/plant-communic…… from the family! A new group of compounds controlling plant growth and germination, with huge potential in agriculture. Lovely study covers Dictyostelium, Arabidopsis, and molecular modelling.

Important thoughts on measuring depletion of resources (extraction divided by, for renewables, regeneration) in UK natural capital accounts from Office for National Statistics (ONS) Office for National Statistics: ons.gov.uk/economy/enviro… See s10: how to add & measure renewable ecosystem services eg fish/trees?

And now the practical is onto spore dispersal from sporangia in Adiantum fern. A couple of years ago the change to LED microscopes was unexpected problem so now the old hot lamps come out! Bursting open of annulus sends spores 10mm or further