James Brown

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@DavidGHFrost @downingstreet @UKCivilService @ukineu Well done. Putin will be proud of you.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The Downing Street statement people are waiting for:
“I’ve had enough - the other cats and I are taking over”

[Joana M.G.N. Vicente @JoanaGVicente]

Just a note about Episode 10 of BBC Gardeners' World - unfortunately at the moment olive trees are not recommended in the UK due to the risk of introducing Xylella in the country. This week's episode showed how important Plant Pathology is! @TheMontyDon @GWandShows

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab Importance = pathotype overcomes almost all Sr genes => need to breed for durable resistance to stem rust in wheat in S.Europe.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab The pathotype data are public: https://t.co/l15r0LIqu4 (linked from the news item).

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab Er... That's about how long it takes to do the pathotyping. & it's the pathotype that counts when it comes to infecting crops.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

Simple solution: no-one from LSE should advise the UK Government on Brexit. Science has no borders. https://t.co/xwuwtlQxFf

[Scientists for EU @Scientists4EU]

This is very worrying stuff. What the hell is going on in this country? https://t.co/X6l2w8q43J

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab New paper with better evidence for Zymoseptoria clade & Z.tritici = M.graminicola : Stukenbrock (2012) Mycologia 104:1397-1407.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@harryinashed "Richard Harrison is following you..." Phew, it's you - I thought I was being stalked...

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@Prof_GD_Foster I like the idea of Cercospora leaf spot of olive Cercospora = Mycosphaerellaceae. Olive trees = Mediterranean in spring.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab But cost of deleting/silencing several effectors could be high...? i.e. accelerating costs (which helps maintain polymorphism).

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab So would you predict that losing/mutating more effectors implies disproportionately costs?

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab I'd like to see analysis repeated using statistical models with ecological factors which stabilise polymorphism more strongly.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab Didn't know that over-50's were allowed to use Twitter.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab Accelerating fitness cost of virulence P.infestans supports prediction by Tellier & Brown (2007) Genetics 177:1777

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab Evidence for Zymoseptoria clade/genus is interesting but not yet decisive. More isolates & maybe more genes should be sequenced.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab OK, my remark wasn't directed at recognition genes (R-genes). Low cost of those genes is balanced by (generally) low durability.

[James Brown @jameskmbrown]

@KamounLab OK, let's have them...!