Join me and my advisee, Daryl Ceribo, tomorrow at the PICC forum, Pasay City. 💚🩵

New additional locations are provided for the endemic endangered tree Cynometra cebuensis in the Philippines, along with population data and habitat characteristics for each site: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12… Renerio P. Gentallan Jr. #endemicspecies #endangeredspecies #trees

After careful examination of the Vitex trifolia complex in the Philippines, researchers propose reinstating V. elmeri Moldenke and delineating V. arvensis Gentallan, Sengun & M.B.Bartolome as a new endemic species predominantly found under cultivation. doi.org/10.3897/phytok…

Researchers of UP Los Baños assembled the complete chloroplast genomes of five species belonging to the Vitex trifolia complex. Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/phytok… #taxonomy #plants Renerio P. Gentallan Jr.

𝑽𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒙 𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔 Gentallan, Sengun & M.B.Bartolome graced the volume cover of PhytoKeys 💚💙. Thank you, PhytoKeys . ✨️🙏

Our liquid-nitrogen-free DNA extraction protocol worked! Recently cited, the method was used in the whole genome sequencing of goat-derived 𝘒𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘰𝘹𝘺𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘢 (Zhang et al. 2024). 🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.… 🔗:doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.… 🔗:doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.…

Presentation ✅️ at the International Conference on Advances in Medicinal & Aromatic Plant Research in Context to Indian Ocean Region (Ensuring Trade, Sustainability and Global Transformation) “IORA-AMAR 2025”, at CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow, India 🇮🇳

I was able to visit the National Botanic Gardens (LWG) herbarium of CSIR-NBRI, India 🌱✨️🙏🇮🇳

Loved the Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine ✨️❤️🇻🇳

Thank you 💜✨️🙏🌱🌌

DUTERTE'S SINS VS THE FILIPINO PEOPLE: - 30,000+ drug-related EJKs - 442 politically-motivated EJKs - 481,918 victims of forced evacuation - 1,341 victims of illegal arrests and detention DESERVE NA DESERVE IKULONG! NO SPECIAL TREATMENTS! #DuterteIkulong #ProsecuteDuterte

celebrated the taxonomist appreciation day with my mentor and first taxonomy teacher! 💜

tl;dr ❎ 𝘝𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘹 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘰 (the one listed on the medicine label) is not found in the Philippines ✅ 𝘝𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘹 𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴: newly identified, endemic to the Philippines, and possibly a hybrid of 𝘝. elmeri and 𝘝. bicolor -Sanchez, 2025 pcaarrd.dost.gov.ph/index.php/quic…

Never stop 💜

My #1 mentor, mother, and dearest friend, Prof. Teresita H. Borromeo, has just been conferred the rank of Professor Emeritus at our University. I couldn’t be prouder. 👏👏👏

Dr. Robert Henry, Dr. Kenneth Olsen and Dr. Beng Kah Song ✨️

Congratulations, advisees! <3