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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#WildFlowerHour #CabbageFamily And a lovely evening was had by all on Barrybados beach.

Low growing maritime plant with small white cruciform flowers and visible swollen fruits with narrowed ends. Danish Scurvygrass (Cochlearia danica)

Relatively large yellow cruciform flower of Sea Radish (Raphanus raphinistrum spp maritimus)

Tallish member of the Brassicaceae with yellow flowers on beach cliff. Sea Radish (Raphanus raphinistrum spp maritimus)

Blue dog with pricked ears and tongue out having been rewarded with a game of frisbee on the beach after an hour of botanising on the headland.

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Some of the offspring of my wild-collected Primula veris, Cowslip, have been heavily fasciated. The cause unknown, since I never use herbicide, which is one of the common causes of fasciation. #WildflowerHour #CowslipChallenge

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

#WildFlowerHour Who needs Pokémon when you have the @bsbibotany.bsky.social 100 plants challenge?

Deep violet zygomorphic flowers on sprawling plant with blunt tipped toothed leaves. Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

Flowers with 4 white petals in cruciform arrangement on upright plant on pebbled beach. Common Scurvy grass (Cochlearia officianalis)

Raceme of pinkish flowers on pink stem with pink scales no chlorophyll. The weird and wonderful Toothwort ( Lathraea squamaria)

Small white crucifer flowers in a cluster of buds, upright plant viewed from above showing cord are toothed leaves. Mustard Garlic (Alliaria petiolata)

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A prescient find at Llandaff Cathedral for @bsbibotany.bsky.social 100 plants challenge. Excuse the poor quality image it was pretty windy.

Blurry image of a small flowering rush in grass, dark flowers with white projections. Possibly Field wood rush (Luzula campestris) sometimes called Good Friday Grass.

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#wildflowerhour Looking great was really worried about these guys last summer.

Fresh green leaves of the horse chestnut tree ( Aesculus hippocastanum ) with nascent flower spikes.

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Using alt text, is a great exercise for improving description of taxonomic features.

woodland plant approximately 30cm with opposing green oval leaves small green flowers on a spike -stamens visible. Id Dogs Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) - male.

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#fungifriends Crust fungus and…..popcorn? More elf cups.

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

First snowdrops, Leeloo taking umbrage as it is her birthday.

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Happy Christmas #fungifriends a slice of turkey.

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

On a day full of grey skies and mud, love is still in fashion. #Wildflowerhour

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few... Are you aware of others? 🧪 #plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🍄‍🟫FREE online waxcap training course🍄‍🟫 Whether you’re a beginner, regular citizen scientist for #WaxcapWatch, a land manager or simply someone who loves learning about nature - our free fungi course is for you. 🍄 Take your waxcap knowledge to the next level 👉 loom.ly/-W0_R_4

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#fungifriends I was looking up to try to identify this on a massive beech at Forest Farm wishing I could see the top. After some high winds …my wish came true:/

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Now that the dog days are over, leaves are beginning to fall. Some reminders of the summer remain. Life is short and strange indeed. Much love to those who need it today.

A peacock butterfly sunning itself between rain showers on an ancient stone wall in South Wales UK

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

#fungifriends After a morning with Coed Caerdydd I found this on this evenings dog walk.

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Frank Hailer @o-o-frank.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#Wanted: running and alive: Someone with an active #SEQUENCHER software license. I have a few old Sequencher project data files with #DNA sequence data (*.spf), but no access to the software. Anyone with access could perhaps help me export the files? Please RT

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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In defense of funding foundational plant science (Joanna Friesner , Cristiana T Argueso , Wolfgang Busch , Thorsten Hamann , Lucia Strader , Mary Williams , Shuang Wu , Adrienne H K Roeder) Read more at: doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Check out this new #AJB essay by Patrik Mráz & Barbora Šingliarová! Natural autopolyploids: Understanding their formation & establishment doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy #asteraceae

Flowering Pilosella rhodopea in an alpine grassland. Species forms the largest primary contact zone of diploid and autopolyploid cytotypes in angiosperms.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🧬🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱🧬 'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Schematic representation of a longitudinal section of the juvenile root meristem and the regulatory networks controlling changes in division orientation. In the epidermis/lateral root cap (LRC), the SMB–FEZ pathway is responsible for regulating the division guiding changes in division orientation that generate the epidermis and LRC. In the ground tissue, the SHR–SCR module guides the changes in division orientation that generate the cortex and endodermal tissues. In the vascular tissue, the TMO5/LHW–DOF2.1 module and, more specifically in the phloem, PEAR transcription factors, drive oriented divisions that regulate vascular proliferation. Inset: developmental trajectories for the various cell types found in the root meristem, beginning from the quiescent centre (QC) in the centre and ending outermost with the final forms.

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Arthur Morris @avmorris.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The latest OneZoo projects are up! Eagle eyed readers will notice a certain Cryptosporidium evolutionary genomics project... onezoo.uk/projects/coh...

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Cohort 3 projects – onezoo.cf.ac.uk

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Arthur Morris @avmorris.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Preprint up detailing our work on Parapipe: a pipeline for handling protozoan NGS datasets, integrating polyclonality analysis with high resolution phylogenomic clustering for eukaryotic pathogen surveillance. With a healthy dose of Crypto, of course! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Parapipe: a Pipeline for Handling Parasite NGS Datasets and its Application to Cryptosporidium

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Emergent bluebells and wood anemones. #wilflowerhour

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

10. C. Developing more resilient crops, with lower water and nutrient demands: the work on finding/breeding perennial grain crops by the Land Institute and others should be attracting much more public support. landinstitute.org

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Natural Systems Agriculture | The Land Institute

The Land Institute co-leads the global movement for perennial, diverse, truly regenerative grain agriculture at a scale. A non-profit research group based in Salina, Kansas, The Land Institute was fou...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast. THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#wildflowerhour#woodlandplants Parasitic toothwort and a Cuckoo pint being stalked by cattle dog.

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free! 22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe 7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker 10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social Details & booking links: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...

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Charles Cuthbert @charlescuthbert25.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The wonderful sight of Snake's-head Fritillaries now in full flower in a Suffolk churchyard, surrounded by thousands and thousands of Primroses! Thanks to a limited and favourable mowing regime there is a diverse flora, perfect for pollinators! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 18/03/2025

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

#WildFlowerHour really pleased with the parasitic one!

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Jo K @jkilby.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Leeloo noted that dog lover comes before plant scientist in my bio….so how many “foots” are there in this picture?

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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🔬🌼 New article in @aobp.bsky.social tracks the first 48 hours after pollination in Brassica napus (canola). Scientists mapped floral organ changes, showing pollen tubes reach the ovules in just 4 hours. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Shepherd University aquaponics laboratory. The laboratory contains two replicated experimental growing systems, one 6 utilizing fish efflux from bluegill and the other tilapia. Each system consists of a (1) fish culture tank, (2) solid filtration tank, (3) 7 biofilter, (4) distribution tank, (5) oxidizer grow-bed, (6) deep water culture beds with Styrofoam rafts for plant rearing, (7) vertical 8 grow area, and a (8) sump where water is collected from different systems and returned to the fish culture tank (1). In this study, plants grown in small pots with soil were floated on top of Styrofoam rafts, alongside plants growing in the deep water culture beds (6) using 10 fish efflux from the tilapia tank.

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