Isoetes engelmannii and some very happy fern gametophytes along the banks of the Willimantic River in Coventry, CT
An entire symposium devoted to my favorite group of plants!? QuillCon-III was just added to the schedule for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists! www.sebiologists.org/asb-2025.htm...
What a pleasant surprise to find that Littorella is apparently the new face of research at the UCONN Botanical Conservatory! Personally, I can't imagine a better choice.
Join us on Wednesday, October 2, at 11AM PDT for the first #PolyploidyWebinar@shellygaynor.bsky.social@pairoflogs.bsky.socialforms.gle/Bp3VUGeP9nAc...
Thanks! To be fair, I chose not to include the 20 blurry pictures of my tent or the 50 or so over-exposed attempts to take pictures of random birds flying over...
Our groups' goal is to produce genomes that are useful; this does not always mean 'telomere-to-telomere' assemblies. The hybrid sugarcane genome is a nice example of this. The article is out this week in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!