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Colin Osborne
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Plant scientist at the University of Sheffield. Science, sustainability, inclusion, running.

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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · Sep 21
Event is in the Spiegeltent, pitched and ready outside the City Hall

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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · Sep 21
Sheffield people - join us on Weds for an evening of psychoactive crops - history, biology and art - it’s a heady mix festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2024/spiegel...
Holy Herbs and the Psychoactive Revolution - Festival of the Mind 2024
Artist Jessica Heywood, historian Professor Phil Withington and Professor Colin Osbourne discuss their art installation exploring the botanical dimensions of Europe’s psychoactive revolution between t...
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · Sep 4
Science would be so much more pleasurable to read if we could revive introductions like this - why shouldn’t science be a little more poetic?

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Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · May 9
I asked my first year #botany students to find botanical anomalies in movies, comics, book, etc.

And WOW, they found a LOT!

Some of my highlights:

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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · Mar 19
Some traits changed in a punctuated way at particular times, others more gradually through history. But some effects of domestication have had to be reversed by modern breeding

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Diversification of quantitative morphological traits in wheat
AbstractBackground and Aims. The development and morphology of crop plants have been profoundly altered by evolution under cultivation, initially through uncons
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · Mar 19
Modern wheats differ quantitatively in many ways from their wild relatives - but when did these differences arise? New paper with Yixiang Shan uses a comparative approach to map these changes.

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Diversification of quantitative morphological traits in wheat
AbstractBackground and Aims. The development and morphology of crop plants have been profoundly altered by evolution under cultivation, initially through uncons
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · Mar 8
Sorry to hear about the passing of Neil Baker, a pioneer in photosynthesis research. Chlorophyll fluorescence approaches we now take for granted are based on his work www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...
Professor Neil Baker | Blog | University of Essex
Neil was the Head of our School of Biological and Chemical Sciences between 1996 and 2001. He was an internationally renowned scientist and the work he did around fluorescence analysis of photosynthes...
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · Feb 20
Standing room only for Merlin Sheldrake’s talk today - lots of love for soil fungi here in Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · Feb 6
🥳This paper from Besiana Sinanaj’s PhD on role of diverse symbiotic 🍄 in plant nutrition was published in @funecology.bsky.social today: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... It's her last day with us in Sheffield so this is a lovely farewell & thanks! short 🧵…
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Jan 29
📜 Early human selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cultivars

🧑‍🔬 Alicia Gómez-Fernández, Rubén Milla, et al.

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Early human selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cul...
In this study, Gómez-Fernández and colleagues show that crops were selected from wild progenitors with productive ecophysiological traits, conflicting with the hypothesis that these resource-acquisi...
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