That’s freaking cool

Wow, what a loss for US science. But so glad you could find something that worked for you and your family. All the best Pleuni!

Thanks Joey!!!

Would love your thoughts and comments, so please pass along if you have any to share 🙏😊

We also find more drought tolerance and stronger selection on drought alleles in agricultural compared to natural environments, highlighting how agricultural intensification and climate change interact to shape adaptation!

Herbarium specimens spanning over a century of changing climate, however, show evidence of fluctuating selection maintaining this adaptive variation. Drought alleles are selected for in hot, dry years but against in cooler, wetter periods

Ancestry mapping identified a highly polygenic basis of drought tolerance—with loci across nearly all chromosomes experiencing extreme selection and rapid allele frequency change across the length of an extreme drought event

We first combined a drought selection experiment with whole genome sequencing to uncover the genetic basis of drought adaptation in waterhemp across the landscape

This was a HUGE effort, taking years of diligent work. Hongfei was a true leader, and I'm really proud of this cool piece. We'd love any feedback y'all might have. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats, James!!