Live or let die? 🌾💀 Perennial Pooideae choose a third option: procrastrinate. Delayed branch development, not spatial segregation keeps vegetative meristems alive beyond flowering.
Read the Grass Evolution Group's latest paper here:
140 participants from all across Norway and 6 keynote speakers joined the 2nd edition of the Norwegian Bioinformatics Days in Bergen for 3 days filled with exciting talks, workshops and poster sessions NBD 2024 – Bioinformatics conference (https://t.co/0NRL65QRLE)
📢 Interested in new phenotypes for feed efficiency in aquaculture? 📢 We are hiring a fully salaried PhD in genetics of FE in Atlantic salmon 🧬🐟 @UniNMBU 🇳🇴 #PhD#PhenotypeIsKing. Please RT. 📅 deadline 5 June 24 https://t.co/i0CkpoA3uW
Biochemical changes after cold acclimation in Nordic red clover?
➡️The aim was to understand the large differences in freezing tolerance observed among red clover accessions of Nordic origin.
Read the article @https://bit.ly/3sJ4cLx
#Plantsci#Redclover#Coldacclimation
Unpredictable Norwegian spring weather might be a problem for you, but less so for plants. But how does the quality of the growing season affect flowering and fitness in your most favourite winter-annual cabbage relative? 🌱 @FjellheimSiri @UniNMBU
Findings suggest photoperiod responsiveness in Arabidopsis is influenced by growing season temperature variation, not spring frost risk. Flowering behaviors driven by favorable climates and growing season length.
Read more ⤵️
https://t.co/3IrRZQfZ7z #OpenAccess @wileyplantsci
Protozoa can be 🔺50% of the microbial biomass in the rumen and have big influence on digestion and H2 production (leading to methane). BUT they are HARD to study, especially in vivo! @andersen__thea adds her PhD piece to the puzzle in @ISMEJournal https://t.co/x9LxAdKmL8… 1/6
Live, laugh, survive winter, reproduce and die. 🌾 Have a look at the most recent review from @FjellheimSiri’s lab if you are into annuality, microRNAs and vegetative phase change in temperate grasses and other vegetables:
New Research: Convergent evolution of the annual life history syndrome from perennial ancestors: Despite most angiosperms being perennial, once-flowering annuals have evolved multiple times independently, making life history… https://t.co/wySYy1IHqw #PlantScience#PlantSci
Vernalization is now officially more widespread (and complicated) in the grass family than previously thought, as @EvolMarian, @JillPreston1, @FjellheimSiri and myself show here: https://t.co/HsqfoSytGm ❄️🧬 Thanks to @yara, NJF, and @UniNMBU for funding this FRUITFULL endeavour!
Want to know how chilling tolerance genes can act as precursors for the novel acquisition of increased drought tolerance? Check out the recent study from @JillPreston1 lab providing evidence of the chilling before drought tolerance hypothesis in Pooideae grasses.
A misleading paper in @ScienceMagazine just came out talking about how a single gene can increase rice yield by 41-68%. As a (wanna-be) plant breeder, I’m here to tell you why this study is misleading, and we can’t “solve” yield through single genes 🧵
https://t.co/Myd6DobSV7