Come work with us! Please repost! We are looking for a Research Assistant to provide new insights into the holistic understanding of water use in global crop staple, rice. Apply online before Nov. 3. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
If you are teaching Genetics right now, I highly recommend incorporating a day on eugenics and scientific racism. 🧬🧪 Not only is it very relevant to the news (👀), it was very impactful for my students last semester. www.genome.gov/about-genomi...
Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,”
Today's Data Insight is written by my colleague @bastianherre.bsky.social. Many young people are not making use of their right to vote. This year, there are almost 100 elections worldwide. I'd love to see more young people get out to vote and contribute to political change.
In many countries, there are large differences in voter turnout between young and older people. The chart shows the data for recent national elections in four countries.
Happy to see this work out! 🥳 Here we created hap3H mutants in rice and showed they have more tillers, panicles and higher ETR and PhiPSII when grown in field. We develop an AI tool to quantify chloroplasts in BS cells, and showed that loss of Oshap3H increased chloroplast occupancy in those cells.
INCREASED CHLOROPLAST OCCUPANCY IN BUNDLE SHEATH CELLS OF RICE hap3H MUTANTS REVEALED BY CHLORO-COUNT, A NEW DEEP LEARNING-BASED TOOL https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.23.600271v1
There is an increasing demand to boost photosynthesis in rice to increase yield potential. Chloropla
Sad to hear Golden Rice's commercialisation has been delayed yet again, but I'm happy to learn the decision is likely to be overturned. Also it's nice the Guardian actually went and talked to scientists, rather than just Greenpeace www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn
A week left to apply! 🚨 I’m looking for a research technician to join us @oxfordbiology.bsky.socialmy.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
WiP6 paper now published - thanks to the reviewers for making it better than the preprint. We have engineered altered venation in rice leaves www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A surprising discovery - a role for lineage in leaf development. Great work by @chiaraperico.bsky.social
Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578898v1
Leaves of flowering plants are characterised by diverse venation patterns. Patterning begins with th