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Australian Research Council funded research centre bringing together #plant scientists, mathematical modellers, crop breeders, and legal experts to achieve #PlantSuccess 🌱🧬📈🌾
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hi Bluesky! We're the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture and we are laying the groundwork for sustainable agriculture worldwide by combining research from nature and agriculture with mathematics 🌱

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📢 New publication 'Convergence-Divergence Models: Generalizations of Phylogenetic Trees Modeling Gene Flow Over Time' by Jonathan Mitchell and Barbara Holland in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 🧪

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#PhylogeneticTree #evolution
Convergence-Divergence Models: Generalizations of Phylogenetic Trees Modeling Gene Flow Over Time - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Phylogenetic trees are simple models of evolutionary processes. They describe conditionally independent divergent evolution from common ancestors. However, they often lack the flexibility to represent...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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📢 New publication 'Helping #Crop Plants Adapt to Harsher Environments' by Hanh Vo, Caitlin Dudley, Vanessa Tonet, Jazmine Humphreys and Eloise Foo in Frontiers for Young Minds 🧪🌾

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Helping Crop Plants Adapt to Harsher Environments
The global population is growing quickly, and that means we need to find ways to produce more food without causing excessive harm to the planet. On top of this, climate change is making it harder for ...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Chromosome-scale haplotype genome assemblies for the Australian mango 'Kensington Pride' 1 and a wild relative, Mangifera laurina, provide insights into anthracnose-resistance and volatile 2 compound biosynthesis genes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690335v1
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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We are pleased to announce that we are coordinating the next Genotype by Environment by Management ( #GxExM ) Symposium in November 2026 in Brisbane, Australia 🎉

EOIs are now open to help determine the size of the event and inform the program: 🔗 bit.ly/GEM-IV
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Hear from Lizzie Wandrag, a plant community ecologist with a focus on examining how biotic interactions affect and are affected by plant species’ and community response to global change 🌱🧪

🗓️ Tuesday 2 December
🕙 10-11am (AEST) / 11am-12pm (AEDT)
📍 Register: bit.ly/TPS-LW
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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📢 New publication 'Ensemble AnalySis with Interpretable Genomic #Prediction (EasiGP): Computational tool for interpreting ensembles of genomic prediction models' by Shunichiro Tomura, Melanie Wilkinson, Owen Powell and Mark Cooper in The Plant Genome 🧪

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#CropBreeding
Ensemble AnalySis with Interpretable Genomic Prediction (EasiGP): Computational tool for interpreting ensembles of genomic prediction models
A new computational tool, Ensemble AnalySis with Interpretable Genomic Prediction (EasiGP), was created to interpret multiple genomic prediction models at the genomic level. EasiGP visualizes the in...
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November 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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#PlantSuccess November 2025 #newsletter is out now!
👀 Read it here: bit.ly/PS-newslette...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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📢 New publication 'Cryptic signals: substomatal architecture influences stomatal responses to red #light and #CO2' by Muhammad Haroon, Caroline Ivsic, Frances Sussmilch, Anju Manandhar and Scott McAdam in @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱🧪

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#mesophyll
Cryptic signals: substomatal architecture influences stomatal responses to red light and CO2
The mesophyll provides a critical signal for stomatal responses to red light (RL) and CO2 in angiosperms. By contrast, the stomatal response to blue light (BL) is largely guard cell-specific. It is .....
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November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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📢 New publication 'Fine Root Shrinkage Across Intact Root Networks Begins Early During Dehydration in Diverse Plants From Conifers to Angiosperms' by Beatrice Harrison Day, Timothy Brodribb, Nancy Walker & Craig Brodersen in Plant, Cell and Environment 🌱🧪

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Fine Root Shrinkage Across Intact Root Networks Begins Early During Dehydration in Diverse Plants From Conifers to Angiosperms
Fine root shrinkage across intact root networks begins early during xylem water potential decline before xylem embolism in nine diverse plant species spanning lycophyte, conifers and varied angiosp...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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🫛🌼 RESEARCH 🌼🫛

Multi-environment field studies reveal independent genetic controls for mungbean flowering time and duration, with duration showing higher degree of genotype × environment interactions than flowering time 🧬

✍️ Dudley et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Phenotypic variation in flowering time and duration for the parents and families of the mungbean nested association mapping population. The population was developed from the 30 diverse donor parents crossed to the reference parent Crystal. (A) Days to flowering and (B) flowering duration, both measured as thermal time. Each boxplot shows the distributional spread across genotypes using the best linear unbiased estimates (BLUEs) for genotypes, calculated across the four environments. Boxplots display the interquartile range (box), median (horizontal line), and values within 1.5× the interquartile range (whiskers); points beyond are shown as outliers. Shading differentiates families of the NAM population and is consistent across panels.
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Join us for Talking Plant Science with Lizzie Wandrag from
@utas.edu.au 🌱🧪

🗓️ Tuesday 2 December
🕙 10-11am (AEST) / 11am-12pm (AEDT)
📍 Zoom, register here: bit.ly/TPS-LW

#event #webinar #plantscience
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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📢 New publication 'Increased genomic predictive ability in #mango using #GWAS -preselected variants and fixed-effect SNPs' by Norman Munyengwa et al. in @FrontiersIn Plant Science 🥭🧪

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Frontiers | Increased genomic predictive ability in mango using GWAS-preselected variants and fixed-effect SNPs
Genomic selection (GS) using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data has potential to improve breeding value accuracy in fruit trees, but previous studies have re...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Please join us for the next seminar in our online seminar series:

Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia

with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson

Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London).

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia - Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson. After registering, you w...
Proprietary claims over seeds, crops, agricultural methods, and culinary knowledge exist as important forms of biocultural heritage in socioecological initiatives. These novel proprietary claims, exis...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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📢 New publication ' #Chimeric reference panels for #genomic imputation' by Meikun Zhou, Maddie James, Jan Engelstädter and Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos in Genetics 🧬🧪

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Chimeric reference panels for genomic imputation
Abstract. Despite transformative advances in genomic technologies, missing data remain a fundamental constraint that limits the full potential of genomic r
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November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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📢 New publication 'Genetic relationships in the gene pool of domesticated #Macadamia based upon chloroplast and nuclear #genome sequencing' by Sachini Lakmini Manatunga et al. in Tree Genetics & Genomes 🧬

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Genetic relationships in the gene pool of domesticated Macadamia based upon chloroplast and nuclear genome sequencing - Tree Genetics & Genomes
Macadamia is a recently domesticated horticultural crop cultivated to produce edible nuts. M. integrifolia and M. tetraphylla are the two cultivated members of the genus Macadamia. Here, we performed ...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Last week, the Centre hosted a Genotype × Environment × Management workshop, bringing together leading researchers, including international collaborators from Wageningen University and the University of Florida, to discuss their latest advances in modelling complex G×E×M interactions 🌾
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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📢 New publication 'Colourings of Uniform Group Divisible Designs and Maximum Packings' by Andrea Burgess, Peter Danziger, Diane Donovan, Tara Kemp, James Lefevre, David Pike and E. Sule Yazici in arXiv 🧪🧮

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Colourings of Uniform Group Divisible Designs and Maximum Packings
A weak $c$-colouring of a design is an assignment of colours to its points from a set of $c$ available colours, such that there are no monochromatic blocks. A colouring of a design is block-equitable,...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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From Knowable Magazine: How #Arabidopsis thaliana, a humble weed, became a superstar of plant biology | Knowable Magazine knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📢 New publication 'MicroRNA-Induced Gene Silencing ( #MIGS): A Tool for Multi-Gene Silencing and Targeting Viruses in Plants' by Marie-Emilie Gauthier et al. in Plant Biotechnology Journal 🧬🧪

#RNAi #GeneSilencing

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MicroRNA‐Induced Gene Silencing (MIGS): A Tool for Multi‐Gene Silencing and Targeting Viruses in Plants
Since its discovery, RNA interference (RNAi, also known as gene silencing) has been a key tool to downregulate gene expression in plants for a range of applications, including protection against viru....
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November 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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📢 New publication 'Mapping Species Birth Across the Recombination Landscapes of Marine Snails' by Emily Giles et al. in Molecular Ecology 🧪

#GenomicDiversity #Demography

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Mapping Species Birth Across the Recombination Landscapes of Marine Snails
Understanding the drivers of heterogeneous genomic divergence is essential for uncovering the mechanisms that generate and constrain biodiversity. The extent to which adaptation and speciation are fa...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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#PlantSuccess October 2025 #newsletter is out now! 🧪
👀 Read it here: bit.ly/PS-newslette...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The final People Plants and the Law lecture for 2025 will be presented by Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson on 'Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in #Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia'

🗓️ 18 November
🕒 5-6am (AEST) / 6-7am (AEDT)
🔗 bit.ly/PPL-RCDJ
October 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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📢 New publication 'Re-calibration of flow cytometry standards for #plant #genome size estimation' by Abhishek Soni and Robert Henry in Frontiers in Plant Science 🧪🧬
#FlowCytometry
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Frontiers | Re-calibration of flow cytometry standards for plant genome size estimation
Flow cytometry (FCM) and genome sequencing are complementary methods for estimating plant genome size (GS). However, discrepancies between the GS estimates d...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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📢 New publication 'Understanding rates of genetic gain in #sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] in the United States' by J. Singh, A. Merchant, L. Mayor, M. Mbaye, C. Gho, M. Cooper, C. D. Messina in The Plant Genome 🧪

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#GxExM
Understanding rates of genetic gain in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] in the United States
Low rates of genetic gain were implicated in the conversion of sorghum acres into corn acres. Estimating the breeding gap can inform plausible pathways to hasten genetic gain in sorghum. Sorghum bre.....
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October 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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📢 New publication 'Further constructions of square #integer relative #Heffter arrays' by Diane Donovan, Sarah Lawson and James Lefevre in arXiv 🧮🧪

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Further constructions of square integer relative Heffter arrays
A square integer relative Heffter array is an $n \times n$ array whose rows and columns sum to zero, each row and each column has exactly $k$ entries and either $x$ or $-x$ appears in the array for ev...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM