Clinton Whipple

Plant developmental biologist trying to understand the origin of plant form.

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@DamonLisch Yup. I’m also suspicious that TEs are more likely to give dramatic constraint-breaking phenotypes compared to SNPs. I.e. Shuffling up the regulatory background can explore the adaptive terrain faster than the slow crawl of SNPs. MCMC for the genome.

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@DamonLisch Agreed. There’s also the fact that many mutations are basically neutral, but that is also context dependent. So “neutral” variation can hang around until a propitious context (genetic, developmental, environmental, whatever) arises and suddenly they help (or hurt).

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@DamonLisch Also helpful to remember that beneficial or not isn’t a fixed determination, it is always context dependent. Sickle-cell trait would seem to be objectively deleterious, but is beneficial when malaria is around. Maybe any mut could be beneficial in the right context.

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@jrossibarra @DamonLisch @YuguoXiao @BrianDilkes https://t.co/0ucj7cYCq5

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@jrossibarra @DamonLisch The likely locus was reported several years ago, but the story is likely more complicated than what they reported there. @YuguoXiao @BrianDilkes and his postdoc Raj are making progress on it.

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@DamonLisch Those rudimentary glumes are lignified and razor sharp. I've cut my hands more than once shelling Vg1 ears. Be careful :)

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

Magfnigicent fasciated Verbascum thapsus outside Giliberto’s Mexican restaurant in Moab UT

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@clawedfeet @Margare41291282 Yup, just one tomato one plant was like this. Maybe some kind of infection? Never seen anything similar before.

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

Always found it hard to see that carpels were truly modified leaves. This tomato from our garden makes me a believer #AllesIstBlatt

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@denmarkriot @BrighamDaniels @sjquinney Both happy and sad about this. You’ll do good things.

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@danielhchitwood I’ve seen lots of fasciation like this in F2 and later generation progeny of a giant (I assume hybrid) sunflower that went to seed in our garden. But this looks like a Rudbackia?

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@naomibot @jasondolsen @DavidBLowry Thanks! So easy to ID via twitter😃

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

Collecting Gilia yorkii in the monarch wilderness and saw this Mimulus/Erythranthe growing out of the limestone cracks nearby. Love the patterns on the corolla. Anyone know the species?

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@jasondolsen @DavidBLowry Thanks. I'd buy that. Spots remind me of Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction pattern for DNA

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

Check out our latest on branching and bract suppression. Glad this is finally published. A true team effort @YuguoXiao @zbdong @Dr_AnnisR @erinlpatt @edbertolini @madelainebart Jinyan Guo, George Chuck, Mike Scanlon and Sidney Mangrum
https://t.co/hRy8fT7qff

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@JoseDinneny @plantevomorph Got mine yesterday as well. I’m surprised you can hold it up with a single hand. Grateful to @plantevomorph for seeing it through!

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

Excited for this new paper with co-authors David Jarvis, @MaughanJeff @JosephDetemple @vmosquera7 @LiZheng_Arizona @BarkerLab and Leigh Johnson. Gilia is an promising model for plant evo-devo and inflorescence evolution. https://t.co/xigp2msLO6

[Clinton Whipple @whipplelab]

@paulbfrandsen besides the beautiful volcanic cone in the background, not that different from a high uinta meadow. (well those plants are pretty exotic)

[Ben Abbott @thermokarst]

More than 3,000 signatures in 3 days! Let's restore constitutional protection for Utah Lake and get back to the exciting ecological restoration work that in ongoing and expanding. #DontPaveUtahLake https://t.co/6YkgQLy4IN