It's still a long road, full of challenges! But that's the beauty of science, right?

In 2024, once again, I had a lot of fun teaching quantitative genetics with Marcio Resende and Marco Antônio Peixoto. We addressed new topics and hand-on. All codes and class notes are available on my GitHub( lfelipe-ferrao.github.io/class/quantGen… ) Hope it can help other students and researchers

Why do segregation distortion tests can fail in tetraploids? Ignoring double reduction, preferential pairing, or genotype uncertainty, can increase the false positive rate. Here, we developed a Bayesian test and implemented it in the menbayes R package. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Yes, we CANephora ! Robusta Reframed – The Comeback of a Misunderstood Species linkedin.com/pulse/robusta-…

Glad to share this collaboration between UF and coffee institutions in Brazil. We described the use of genomics to design crosses and explore hybrid vigor in C. canephora breeding programs link.springer.com/article/10.100…

What can we learn from growing coffee outside the tropics? How could Florida’s production boost local farming—and reveal new insights into coffee’s plasticity, genetics & breeding? Florida Beans ambrook.com/offrange/crops…

Could acerola be Florida's next farmed supefruit? UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences scientists are teaming up with Embrapa researchers to test how this nutrient-rich crop grows across our state. More on this research led by Felipe Ferrão 🔗 go.ufl.edu/acerola

I am glad to share a coffee paper with colleagues from France and CNRA connecting molecular breeding and population genetics nature.com/articles/s4143…

This fall, I had a lot of fun teaching the course HOS 6236 – Molecular Marker Assisted in Plant Breeding, at the University of Florida, with Marcio Resende and Marco Antônio Peixoto. I am sharing the code and class notes at the link below. lfelipe-ferrao.github.io/class/mas/