Rps genes are used to manage the major soybean pathogen Phytophthora sojae, which causes Phytophthora stem and root rot (PRR). McCoy et al. show that widely used Rps genes are no longer effective for managing PRR in the United States, Canada & Argentina. nature.com/articles/s4146…

I was excited to see a project from graduate school make it into print. I provided some bioinformatics support for the project while Saleem Ur Rahman was visiting UGA from Pakistan and we have been friends ever since. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Next Thursday the 30th we will talk about Argentine🇦🇷 #farming 🧑🏻‍🌾🧑🏻‍🌾in the Libertarian era, starting next December the 10th. Let me introduce these prestigious speakers and ladies first. 1/5

Datura stramonium (Solanaceae) #botany #flowers #taxonomy #plants

This is what makes cashew nuts so expensive

Molecular biology pro-tip: Actually learn the viral molecular genetics behind the CMV and SV40 systems that get cut up and used in common mammalian expression vectors. I can guarantee you that some of the implementations in commonly used plasmids are a bit, um, "sub-optimal"

Soybean rust detected on overwintering kudzu along Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa Alabama. Farthest north I have observed SBR overwintering in the state. Recent freezing temperatures likely knocked this kudzu patch back down to the ground #Soybean #Rust #Plantdisease #Fungi

Commelina tuberosa (Commelinaceae) #botany #flowers #taxonomy #plants

GM-whoa, Del Monte® Pinkglow™ commanding three times the price of conventional pineapple at our local grocer and still looks like people are buying. Talk about a value-added trait.

A cone of herbicide-resistant grass following the diagonal path of a combine last season indicating that the grass came from a single resistant plant at the far end of the field at the end of the previous season.

Siblings , pretty strawberry 🍓 flowers

Reminder that RELX, a public company, is the owner of Elsevier, and RELX stock continues to outperform the market.

Pigmentation in Sicilian blood oranges is driven by a cold-activated Copia-like retrotransposon insertion near the anthocyanin-activating MYB gene Ruby #FlavonoidFriday (details: lnk.tu-bs.de/4zY026)

Worst soybean looper injury I’ve seen

Care to take a guess on which plots received fungicide? ACRE Purdue Purdue Agronomy Purdue Agriculture

Many farmers this year are wishing their beans were worth their weight in gold. In fact, gold used to be measured by it's weight in beans. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Harvest note glamour shot from Miles Cunningham #NewProfilePic

What do we think about quantitative TLC? link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Went on my annual pilgrimage to Lowe's to buy Roundup. This year Roundup is Triclopyr and diquat. Glyphosate is not an option at Lowe's anymore, but 2,4-D and dicamba are available (both mixed with diquat) as well as glufosinate. It's going to be a bad year for tomatoes.

Non-native European honey bee nectaring on Glycine max (soybean), a human invention derived from the Asian vine Glycine soja. Glycine soja has no white flowers so those are a mutation coaxed out by human interaction as well, but this does not seem to bother the bee.