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Heat‐Induced Secondary Dormancy Contributes to Local Adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana Seeds should not germinate in conditions unsuitable for seedling growth. Dormancy, which allows seeds to remain inactive in an environment that would otherwise enable germination, helps optimise the ....

Happy to share that our study on heat-induced secondary dormancy is now published! 🌱

Here we studied how natural populations differ in their dormancy response to heat, and how this natural variation can shape local adaptation and future range shifts.🌦️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

RNA function follows form – why is it so hard to predict? AlphaFold’s highly accurate structural models transformed protein biology,but RNA lags behind.

AlphaFold’s highly accurate structural models transformed protein biology. Nature reports on the efforts to create a similar system for RNA and why it’s a tougher nut to crack. #RNAsky 🧪

If you're interested, you can read more about Lane-Claypon – and the origins of other crucial methods for separating truth from fiction - in my new book Proof: proof.kucharski.io

Excited to see our work published! 🪰🥬 Really happy I got to contribute to this project— huge thanks to @nmvandam.bsky.social and @axeltouw.bsky.social for everything I learned through this!

GitHub - yangao07/longcallD: A local-haplotagging-based small and structural variant caller A local-haplotagging-based small and structural variant caller - yangao07/longcallD

longcallD is a new variant caller for genomic long reads. It jointly calls phased small and structural variants. Single binary, one command line for the whole process. Comparable accuracy to mainstream callers. Great work by Yan Gao. github.com/yangao07/lon...

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓

Link: rdcu.be/efacK

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Glaciers are not just blocks of ice — plans to save them mustn’t overlook their hidden life As glaciers begin to disappear, technological fixes to slow or halt ice melt are emerging. But regulations are urgently required before these fixes are used widely.

There is remarkably little consensus on how to save a glacier. Technological interventions are starting to be explored but they are controversial and it’s unclear that they would protect life in the ecosystem that is meant to be saved…
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@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Branching from the wild mustard (Brassica oleracea) based on selection for stem (Kohlrabi), leaves (Kale), terminal leaf buds (Cabbage), flower buds (Cauliflower), flowerbud+stem (Broccoli), and terrible life choices (Brussel Sprouts).

The many forms of Brassica Oleracea are definitely a testament to humans' tendency to engineer and change things around them to fit their preferences.
Also, that some people should not have a say about what's for dinner. 🧪
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article) Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

The genetic heritage of our food system is conserved by US federal employees who are at risk of losing their ability to protect collections of plants and germplasm we require as we face the triple threat of crop disease, climate change, and species extinction. 🧪 🌍 🌱

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...

New 🗒️led by Alex Pigot - Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature -Standing biomass increases with richness when large-bodied spp are numerically rare but independent when spp size & abundance are uncoupled. @ucl.ac.uk - Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cologne Spring Meeting continues with “Resurrecting plants for climate change research” by Niek Scheepens from @unituebingen.bsky.social Innovating plant resurrection techniques to study climate adaptation. #ClimateChange #PlantResurrection #TRR341 #DFG

The @meauxjuliette.bsky.social lab review the latest evidence of how complex traits are underpinned by polygenic molecular traits
📃 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

One of the many excellent papers featuring in our forthcoming special issue on ' #plantecology & #evolution' - out soon!

#PlantScience