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David Lowry
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Professor of Plant Evolutionary Genetics at Michigan State University.
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New preprint from former Lowry Lab postdoc, Kathy Toll, providing evidence that delayed flowering time by coastal perennial Mimulus guttatus may be advantageous through avoidance of high wind speeds and salt spray.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Figure 1. (a) Map of collection localities of coastal perennial (dark blue circles), inland annual (red squares), inland perennial (yellow diamond), near-coastal annual (orange triangle), and near-coastal perennial (light blue triangles) populations used in the experiment, (b) photograph of experiment at Bodega Marine Reserve (photo credit: K Toll), (c) plot of average daily wind speed at the Bodega Marine Reserve in 2023, and (d) plot of sodium accumulation on filter paper traps during the spring and summer exposure periods in exclosures (brown) and controls (green). Wind speeds were higher in the spring cohort compared to the summer cohort (c, pink vs green), and exclosures significantly reduced Na accumulation in both seasons (d, green vs brown).
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 60.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 59.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 58.
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 57.
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 56.
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Harvesting our switchgrass stand planting for the first time. Gosh, this is easy with the right farm equipment.
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 55.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 54.
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 53.
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 52.
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 51.
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 50.
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 49.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Awesome aerial photo of our switchgrass harvest at the @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social by Ruben Ulbrich. You can see the progression of the harvest from right to left: cut plants to tied plants to soon to be tied plants. @msupri.bsky.social
Aerial photo of a field with fall colored trees.
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 48.
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 47.
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 46.
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Photographs of coastal perennial (left) and inland annual (right) Mimulus guttatus (yellow monkeyflower). These photographs were taken by David Lowry.
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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The great switchgrass harvest of 2025 has begun at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social.
Andrew in plaid in front of dried switchgrass. Tied up switchgrass in front of trees turning colors for fall. Jason pushing a sicklebar mower through tied switchgrass. A trailer loaded with tied and cut switchgrass.
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 45.
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 44.
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 43.
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 42.
October 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 41.
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM