Rafflesia kerrii of the Malayan Peninsula. Judging from the phylogenetic tree and their biogeographic distribution, this should be the very first species of Rafflesia of the Rafflesiaceae family. Inside, it has features unlike any other plants or flowers. Also, sapromyiophilous and parasitic

A very nice canopy view of Lojing Highland, Malaysia. During my Rafflesia congress visit

Thank you GPT and thank you @blizzardent.bsky.social indirectly via StarCraft, to make learning omics analysis cooler for me! I’ll definitely use this for future teaching material!

Since 2001, my junior high school era, I love science fiction and fantasy. I have a special place for Warcraft and StarCraft ever since! 2024, I’m a molecular biologist and I used bioinformatics for my analysis. Using GPT, I have a chance to voyage that universe as a molecular xenobiologist!

Story I made so far with @igemhq.bsky.social and looking forward for the future cool and cooler things to come in 2025!

This looks amazing

The petal proportion of this ornamental banana flower plant is amazing

Rhipsalis baccifera, the mistletoe cactus that grows upside down on a tree. Even their fruits greatly resemble the fruits of mistletoe

CAMTA transcription factor family has been reported to be involved with phytohormones, stress, and growth as a part of calcium signaling. Our study on mung bean sprouts CAMTA expressions during tested dark vs light conditions doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Last year, happy to become the advisor for the Thailand_RIS iGEM team (2023). The team made an awesome contribution on engineering the stress tolerant plants via relocation of their glutamate-cysteine ligase enzyme from chloroplast to mitochondria. Reads the work here: 2023.igem.wiki/thailand-ris

The air plants

The bud of Rhizanthes infanticida does look so otherworldly to me

My Arabidopsis thaliana plants, tested wild type (Columbia-0) on normal MS media (left) vs salt stress media of MS + 150 mM NaCl (right). You can see the plant wilted under salt stress

To know that there are plants out there evolved to coexist with ants (called Myrmecophytes) to protect itself is so amazing! Pictures taken from Nantes Botanic Garden, France

Male (dark center) and female (white center) of Sapria himalayana flowers. The parasitic plant of Tetrastigma. Photo taken from area of Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Chitosan appeared to be a good ripening process inhibitor for banana by altering the fruit ethylene synthesis and carbohydrate catabolism process. Check out our newest article published in Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well, let’s start everything with these amazing parasitic plant flowers, Sapria ram, of Thailand!