New day at #IBC2024 starts with a wonderful keynote by Rachael V. Gallagher talking about use of natural markets to reintroduce wild populations of plants in risk of extinction. 45% of plant species are in the risk of extinction in the near future (1/3)

Carlos Jaramillo explaining just how our climate is out of balance in the context of geological time, also sharing the quite staggering stat that last week we consumed more fossil fuel than at any time in history - last week! Despite what we know about climate change 😕 IBC2024

Contingency…. Something that changed our planet forever -if the meteorite had not hit the carbonate rich Yucatan peninsula things would have been SO different! Carlos Jaramillo IBC2024

It’s not about the survival of the planet, it’s about the survival of us. The planet can recover, it has done so in the past. It’s now the time to bring our science to bear on our own future Carlos Jaramillo IBC2024

A collective gasp at a response to the Q what do you do with indet specimens in your herbarium -some said “we throw them out!” Yikes!!!! Celua Aceae (@celiaceae on Insta) IBC2024

What does open mean? Do we want open by default or open by design? Nicky Nicolson IBC2024 says the latter

Tour de force on the origins and diversity of the African flora by Muthama Muasya IBC2024 read the papers in Annals of Botany special issue!

Flower iridescence as “bling” to attract pollinators 😂😂🌺🌷Beverley Glover IBC2024

Homoplasy as a factor in why big genera are big Joe Charboneau from University of Michigan in the Big Genera symposium using Astragalus as a model… the biggest of them all! IBC2024

Paper due out in Science next week!

Scientists genetically remove prickles from flowering plants nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

So happy to have been part of this amazing study on #solanum prickles, goes to show how wide collaboration brings great benefits!

A new study in Science finds that some of the independent origins of plant prickles share a common genetic basis, providing a gene editing target to facilitate the removal of these sharp projections in cultivated plants. 📄: scim.ag/7VQ

The Pease Lab in the EEOB Department at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoctoral Scientist interested in the genomic and transcriptomic evolution of complex traits. Feel free to email with questions! Details and at: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCaree…

The importance and wonderfulness of enthusiastic botanists confirmed (if it ever needed confirming 🌷) congratulations all BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland members for all your finds!!!

It's finally out! We desceibe 6 Globba species new to science from 3 different states where one is named #paschimBengalensis - no guesses there! And our 2nd species from the lab named after #JanakiAmmal #GlobbaJanakiae Also, a key to all Indian Globbas for the Ginger nerds!