Was absolutely the best of fun! And to complete your potato week new paper on origin of the mighty spud out in @CellCellPress cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
This week @ProfBrianCox & Robin Ince bring together a mash made in heaven! @SusanCalman @SandyKnapp & Glenn Bryan peel back the surprising science of the mighty spud 🥔 they uncover genomes, wild species..plus a potato keyboard finale you never knew you needed!!
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This week @ProfBrianCox & Robin Ince bring together a mash made in heaven! @SusanCalman @SandyKnapp & Glenn Bryan peel back the surprising science of the mighty spud 🥔 they uncover genomes, wild species..plus a potato keyboard finale you never knew you needed!!
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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!
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!
Six new species of the dancing girl ginger Globba from India.
The study highlights the need for taxonomic studies in these highly biodiverse areas and provides notes and recommendations on the taxonomic challenges in this ecologically sensitive region.
doi.org/10.3897/phytok…
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The importance and wonderfulness of enthusiastic botanists confirmed (if it ever needed confirming 🌷) congratulations all @BSBIbotany members for all your finds!!!
Huge thanks to top environmental journalist @horton_official for covering the #GhostOrchid story in today's @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/ar…
Congrats to @thenewgalaxy on refinding this most elusive of orchids & to @BSBIscience who visited the (secret) site to verify the find.
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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
📄: scim.ag/7VQ
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So happy to have been part of this amazing study on #solanum prickles, goes to show how wide collaboration brings great benefits!
We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone for our lab published in Science. A massive interdisciplinary collaboration with incredibly brilliant researchers. Thanks to all the participants and our past and present lab members who have contributed to this breakthrough 🍆
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Scientists genetically remove prickles from flowering plants
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…
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Paper due out in Science next week!
Jack Satterlee is presenting the joint work by Zach Lippman lab from @CHSL and @SOLbreedCOMAV (among other labs like @SandyKnapp) where they revealed, starting with 🍆, that development of prickles is a case of convergent evolution in plants. Keep tuned for the paper! #IBC2024
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New monograph for Lycianthes (#solanaceae) in tropical Asia out in @PhytoKeys ! Convergent flowers with #Solanum (porocidal anthers) sister group to #Capsicum - extremely variable plants for which there are thousands of collections.....
phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/121988/
phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/121988/
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Never noticed this before, but when handing over my passport checking to go home from @ibc2024 I see embossed on the back are the plants of the UK - shamrock, thistle, daffodil and rose!
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What does open mean? Do we want open by default or open by design? @nickynicolson @ibc2024 says the latter
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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
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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
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