Our next big thing! 🎉 "Verkko: telomere-to-telomere assembly of diploid chromosomes" from Mikko Rautiainen Sergey Nurk 🇺🇦 Sergey Koren generates beautiful graphs and automatically assembles 20/46 human chromosomes from HG002 #T2T without gaps biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our latest work on the genetics of strawberry flavor!

Whole genome data for Fragaria x ananassa Florida Brilliance (Han et al. 2022) available rosaceae.org/Analysis/14031… #strawberry #strawberrygenome #wholegenome #fragaria #gdr #rosaceae

I'm making fresh agar stabs of these if anyone wants them for their lab or class. $20/plasmid. Open source. DM me postal and email address and I'll ship em by next friday :) EforCP red YukonOFP orange DasherGFP yellow FuGFP fluoro green AeBlue blue TsPurple purple All kanR

Check out how Florida-bred & grown snapdragons, caladiums, coleus & other ornamentals are great Valentine's gifts. Brought to you by our breeding experts: UF/IFAS plant breeders can play ‘Cupid’ for Valentine’s Day blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/news/2023/02/0…

1960, Orson Welles explained how he wrangled complete creative control for his first film, Citizen Kane, as well as the value of “ignorance” to break through old ideas.

Will be teaching part of this one on applying GS in Clonal fruit crops. Looking forward to it.

What tools are available to generate barcoded PCR primers given a list of barcodes and gene specific primers?

The Ball Helix Cell Biology team has an open Assistant Scientist position to support cell biology and biotechnology research.🌱🔬 recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job… Join our team at Ball Horticultural and help us Color The World! #TissueCulture #PlantBiology #CellBiology #Biotechnology

Dr. Rex Bernardo will lead a plant breeding seminar and professional skills workshop at a collaborative event between the Gulf Coast Student and Post-doc Association and Plant Science Council at UF on April 19th! Join us in person at GCREC or virtually by registering below. Open to the public!

Interesting paper. "A high-throughput skim-sequencing approach for genotyping, dosage estimation and identifying translocations" nature.com/articles/s4159…

Your budget plan cuts railroad safety inspections.

Finally after working in hort industry for 3.5 years, I got an opportunity to visit the amazing trade show #cultivate2023 in Columbus, OH. It was awesome Ball Helix AmericanHort. Anyone need a pen?

Latest pub in Plant Physiology is available: Got vitamin C? A metabolic GWAS analysis identified a PAS/LOV PROTEIN regulating ascorbate accumulation academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

For the record, this was the tweet.

This is such a great chart for showing off how good economists have gotten at stabilizing the economy.

Our Petunia hybrida genome paper is now on bioRxiv. This was a collaborative project between Ball Horticultural Ball Helix and Plant & Food research group of New Zealand. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are still looking for speakers for the PAG Plant Reproductive Genomics session - please reach out if interested!