Our paper on heritability is out (open access) at PNAS! I think it really improved through the review process, and we're glad to have this out there! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Well spring is coming soon, so I'm putting out the call again for producers/agronomists to send us soil samples from pea or lentil fields. We got great data last year, but we need more samples to build a robust root rot prediction model. AB Pulse Growers Saskatchewan Pulse Growers MPSG

Developmental timing in plants disq.us/t/4nmnjya Another must read in my list and learn how to write. Dr. Enrico Coen always wrote a scientific paper like a fascinating novel.

As Mackay and Anholt emphasise, epistasis is typically not observed in analyses of common variant effects in humans *for methodological reasons*, not because it doesn't exist

please help to build this root rot prediction model in Pulses.

I just published: More on toxic academia: does investing time in outreach, mentoring and community activities matter? Outreach, mentoring, and community support are crucial for fostering a positive academic environment. Yet some established academics dismiss their importance,

I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic system in US. And, here is an example section from her book.

eQTL and Genetic regulatory network to ID causal genes of complex traits in seed traits. My first postdoc project, done 12 years ago, finally came out, but still a nice work. It shaped my research in Quantitative genetics. frontiersin.org/journals/plant…

After 3 years test and validation, first batch crosses for pea root rot resistance are on the road now! One small step for the pea cancer.

Just as we feared, the onslaught of roots has come all at once - lime trials from multiple sites, early vs late seeded lentil and pea from multiple sites lead by Gursahib Singh, germplasm screening wentao zhang, and coop disease nursery. Heroic @CVucurevich to rate all these!!

Wonderful illustrations in this nice review of Fusarium wilt Molecular Dialogue During Host Manipulation by the Vascular Wilt Fungus Fusarium oxysporum | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/3Vtm1ZN

Slowly trying to enforce this across new studies coming out of my lab ever since Addie Thompson explained the principle to me. "Don't BLUP twice."

I & Syama Syama Chatterton presented the pan pathogemome,PenSeq,effectors of pea root rot disease #pag32. We can now detect pathogen to strain level in soil. Please stop by P592. Thx Sask Agriculture Saskatchewan Pulse Growers WGRF funding. More are coming for root rot.

Lesson 1: Plant pathogens are in constant coevolutionary conflict with their hosts Lesson 2: Plant pathogen genomes are highly diverse Lesson 3: Plant pathogen genomes are non-randomly organised Lesson 4: Diverse mechanisms drive genomic diversity in plant-pathogen populations

Durum wheat faces new virulent Puccinia triticina races. Firdissa E. Bokore et al. assess leaf rust resistance in the Canadian durum cultivar Strongfield: doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-… 🌾 AAFC Canada NRC Canada UM Ag&Food Sciences CIMMYT

Heterosis from maize to My Pea crosses , nature is amazing,🫛🌽!

Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome? Excited to share this article and interviews by Michael Eisenstein (nature), which summarizes the current state, challenges, and recent developments in whole-genome synthesis and bottom-up genome design. The full-text link is below:

Announcing Evo 2: The largest publicly available, AI model for biology to date, capable of understanding and designing genetic code across all three domains of life. arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/Ev…

Researchers have developed a deep learning protein language model, ESM3, that enables programmable protein design. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/4b5IlQu

After 3 Years intensive GH and field phenotyping with Syama Chatterton, we are now ID some very promising resistance lines for pea root rot complex diseases. Thx funding Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Sask Agriculture WGRF.