Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine.
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Excited to share our paper with Anna Gardner and @florianabusch.bsky.social in Plant Ecophysiology!🌿

We review challenges in interpreting plant stress responses using gas exchange data, offer solutions to improve accuracy and discuss gaps in our current knowledge.

www.sciltp.com/journals/Pla...

🌱Welcome to the official BlueSky account of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)! We’re a global community dedicated to advancing plant science, fostering innovation, and supporting plant biologists in their research and careers. 🌍✨

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The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

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#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

I'm happy to have contributed to the latest updates of rice genome annotation database.

Paper: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Database (hosted by University of Georgia): rice.uga.edu

Hi there! I want to show you a cool feature on SorghumBase.org, a permanently-funded genomic and genetic database for people who work in the globally important crop sorghum.

You can search for gene models that have germplasm with disruptive SNPs and quickly order them from seed repositories. 🧵

Very sad to hear of the passing of Joanne Chory, who was an iconic scientist and person. Truly, one can say she spent her whole career trying to make a better planet and a better environment in science for all.

Interview: www.sebiology.org/resource/in-...
TED talk: www.ted.com/speakers/joa...

Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM. #botany #plantecophys #PhysFam

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I put together a starter pack of people studying plant evolution! I have no doubt missed some folks that should be included, so please reply or message me to be added! #PlantEvolution #Botany

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Starting ~2012, I used to write quite a bit about ag-related issues (GMO, pesticides, etc). Due to time constraints, my writing mostly stopped by 2020. I'm going to try and find time to start writing again. I think data-driven discussion of ag topics is going to be important over the next few years.