Fred Gouker

Plant breeder and research geneticist for grapevine improvement. All Tweets are my personal opinion, especially bad ones.

[Agricultural Research Service @USDA_ARS]

Today, ARS and @CornellCALS hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the National Grape Improvement Center, a new state-of-the-art USDA grape research facility on the @CornellAgriTech campus in Geneva, NY. https://t.co/M3dSm5cpOf

[Cornell AgriTech @CornellAgriTech]

Today was a momentous day for @CornellCALS ,
@CornellAgriTech and the @USDA_ARS as we celebrated the groundbreaking of the National Grape Improvement Center. We are grateful for the support of @SenSchumer and our partnership with the @USDA_ARS.

[Cornell AgriTech @CornellAgriTech]

A new genetic discovery made by researchers at @CornellAgriTech @CornellCALS could help breeders develop @apple trees with downward branches, a trait that improves production. https://t.co/yML7t9zw5B

[Botanical Society of America @Botanical_]

From #AppsPlantSci's upcoming Botanical DNA/RNA Extraction issue: Optimizing efficient PCR-amplifiable #DNAextraction from #herbarium specimens (@fe_gouker, Guo, @htsvoboda & Pooler) https://t.co/qNOZr3Rs73 @wileyplantsci @nora_flora10 @evm_evogenetics @richiehodel @plantbiology

[Agricultural Research Service @USDA_ARS]

𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼: The cherry trees are putting on a show! 🌸 Enjoy Japanese cherry blossoms at the U.S. National Arboretum, which offers over 400 acres of beautiful trees, shrubs, and gardens. https://t.co/llDTAacVzi

#ARSArboretum | #NationalGardenMonth

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

BBIG held its second annual meeting at the Oregon State University's North Willamette Research and Extension Center.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

BBIG Team visited the boxwood country - Oregon, seeing the latest research being put into practice and hailing growers' effort to produce and ship blight-free boxwood plants.

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

Plant your HWA resistant hemlocks today or come visit the U.S. National Arboretum and see them on the grounds. #plantbreeding #hemlocks #Tsuga

[Agricultural Research Service @USDA_ARS]

Tsuga ‘Traveler’ and Tsuga ‘Crossroad’ originated from a breeding project begun in the 1990s when the U.S. National Arboretum attempted to develop a hemlock tree that would resist attack by the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) insect.

📷 ‘Crossroad’ (L) and ‘Traveler’ (R)

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

A culmination of a 30+ year breeding project.

https://t.co/YUdruO3l9S

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

@dittojeter @WilberIsBananas @chibbys2 You people stay up so late. I can't keep up.

[Chuan Hong @BoxwoodHealth]

Boxwood Blight Insight Group (BBIG) won the 2022 USDA NIFA Partnership Award in Category V: Program Improvement through Global Engagement! Congratulations to everyone on the BBIG team!

[Agricultural Research Service @USDA_ARS]

ARS discovered boxwood blight on a small number of plants in the National Boxwood Collection at the U.S. National Arboretum. To prevent spread, the Boxwood Collection (and nearby Perennial Collections) will be closed to the public until Summer 2023. https://t.co/iCdlTmIkuh

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

Read the latest updates about boxwood gardening and research in the @nytimes. A link to our @BoxwoodHealth BBIG project is in the article. https://t.co/66LIfFdhjH.

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

Review of applications for this postdoc position begins March 14. Great opportunity to work on developing machine learning methods to detect and quantify woody plant diseases at the U.S. National Arboretum.
https://t.co/mpAnZmBmmq
@plantpostdocs @PPhenomics @Phenom_UK

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

Pls RT. Great USDA-ARS HQ funded postdoc position available in my lab at the US National Arboretum working on automated plant disease detection. 1/2
https://t.co/8eLPtWERaT

#plantdisease #boxwood #PlantSciJobs @plantpostdocs

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

@WilberIsBananas Awesome!

[PAG-International Plant & Animal Genome Conference @PAGmeeting]

Welcome #PAG attendees! Virtual #PAGXXIX is happening now. Please be patient, as we are still working out the bugs. Virtual PAG XXIX Workshop Sessions Registration is still open at: https://t.co/DsICczzRrP We hope you join us.

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

@dittojeter We don't even have enough room in the chest freezer. We'll have to eat 5 gallons upon arrival.

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

We made the cover of the latest @Botanical_ American Journal of Botany issue! Great photo of male catkins by @cornellwillow to showcase the study of sexual dimorphism in Salix. https://t.co/7P038AHp1X

[Botanical Society of America @Botanical_]

Sex dimorphism in #willow for key traits that affect biomass production (new #AJB research by @fe_gouker, @craighcarlson, Junzhu Zou, Luke Evans, @chase_r_crowell, @christinesmart6, @trichocarpa, @cornellwillow) https://t.co/hT4DUkPLjw #botany #genetics @wileyplantsci

[Fred Gouker @fe_gouker]

This one's been a long time coming!
https://t.co/FiDJQS4UHW