A great series of meetings and field visits: Bean Improvement Cooperative Genetics, W4150, Phaseolus Crop Germplasm ... and last but not least, field visits to lima and common bean fields! Hosted by Emmalea Ernest of Univ. of Delaware UD Extension UDAgNaturalResources #SCRI #LIMA

Saturday at the arboretum

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

New paper out! Here, we investigate drought stress responses of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris, drought-sensitive) & tepary bean (P. acutifolius, drought-resistant) to understand physiological patterns related to this constraint! Also, very cool tech! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Our work on seed color pattern diversification in beans featured on the cover of The Plant Journal ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365313x/2…

Mini-me #2 due October 30th!!

A common misconception: ‘To get a PhD, I need to be really smart.’ Nope. You just have to be genuinely curious. I often hear students say they're afraid of a PhD because they feel 'not good enough' for it. My experience is: - You don’t need extraordinary skills to earn a PhD

Hey folks! Say no to Elon and his love Trump. Find me here instead! bsky.app/profile/travis…

Anybody else here remember when Elon wasn't incredibly lame?

Our lab has two postdoc positions open: Dry Bean Breeding and Pathology: careers.msu.edu/jobs/research-… Computational Phenomics: careers.msu.edu/jobs/research-… These are two exciting positions to advance bean research forward! please RT

New video! Aligning your raster files saves a ton of time for data extraction and is easy to do. Learn how here: youtube.com/watch?v=K3i9gw…