Vivian Bernau, PhD

Exploring 🌽 around the 🌎🌍🌏. BS @isuagronomy | PhD @OSU_HortCropSci 🌶 | Opinions are my own | she/her, 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

What is the Spanish term for a mature maize plant that lacks ear shoots? (Barren in English)

Mexican Spanish is most immediately relevant, but I'm also interested in other dialects!

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@adeelzafarpbg # of ears where 1+ kernels were set/# of pollination attempts. I figure there's some human error involved too. 🥵
Each point represents 1 accession on 1 day. Sometimes that captures 1 pollination attempt, other times it captures 200+.
I'm just beginning to explore the data. 😎

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

11 years of Ames 🌽genebank hand pollination data plotted against maximum daily air temperature. Pollination success does indeed decline above 95F/35C. 🥵

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

Now with jitter to better illustrate point density.

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@cityofames @BunchBikes Thanks!

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

Would be really great if the @cityofames could plow the bike lane along State Ave so i could get to and from work safely. #BikeCommuter

[Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank @DaniNierenberg]

Change "starts with changing what we grow, how we grow it, and who benefits. And it could not be more urgent." - @PowerUSAID, @USAID #FoodPrize22

[Stefan Schmitz @StefanCropTrust]

„Crop Trust is a climate change organisation“ says @CaryFowler_ , Special Envoy for Global Food Security at US State Department at #FoodPrize22

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

Dr. Fowlers work has inspired the direction of my career and much of my research with genetic resources. It was great to finally hear him speak in person, especially as the opening speaker at the @WorldFoodPrize #BorlaugDialogue in Des Moines. #FoodPrize22

[Clim-Eat @Clim_Eat]

Dr Chavonda Jacobs-Young from @USDA stresses the importance of #innovation, in all its forms, to deliver an #AgricultureBreakthrough and step up to the challenge of transforming our food systems under a changing climate

@UKSINet | @FCDOAgResearch | @FCDOGovUK | #BorlaugDialogue

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@MichaelTom8o @USDA_ARS @Michelle_Heck1 @Chemistophe Those begonias. 😍

[World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) @WorldVegCenter]

JOIN: Training course on vegetable genetic resources conservation and use
TOPICS: germplasm information collection and management; landscape genomics study and analysis; and information sharing on crop regeneration (amaranth, malvaceae, solanaceae, and cucurbits).

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@Evwool No--they will freeze outside where I live or basically melt at temperatures above 29C. Activity is significantly reduced below 13C.

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

They worked hard this winter. ❤️🪱 #vermiculture

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@Ballykae @FranklinHabit I imagine this practice was also much more common before the Euro was adopted (1998).

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@Ballykae @FranklinHabit I took a trip to Iceland with my grandma in 2019. She is a well traveled lady who lived abroad in the 90s. Yet, she pulled a fat wad of greenbacks out at the grocery store (where we bought yarn 😁). Luckily, I was there to intervene-- the cashier was dumbfounded.

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@Yan_Geneticist We do not have this requirement in our quarantine greenhouse on campus. 🫣

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

@addie_maize @isuagronomy @USDA_ARS I really appreciated the way you opened your talk!

[Vivian Bernau, PhD @vbern]

The feeling when an undergrad you worked with during your PhD is presenting a poster at a conference your (our!) field. https://t.co/dlWRuNZWTn 😍🥰