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NickyCreux

@nickycreux.bsky.social
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I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria in FABI. Post and opinions are my own. We study crop flowers and their response to the environment.

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Long-term flowering-time data on Japanese mountain cherry (recorded since the 9th century!) shows a shift in full-flowering date beginning in the late 19th century. Fascinating new @newphyt.bsky.social paper by @jgpausas.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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NickyCreux @nickycreux.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Has anyone else gotten a paper rejection with no reviewer comments? I got one Friday and a colleague got one a few weeks back. Different publishers. When he queried it he was told they couldn't find reviewers. I am waiting to hear back from my query. Is this a thing!?!?!😑
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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Out First Release in @science.org today, nice work finding that redox regulates multimerisation of Aux/IAA proteins during root xerobranching: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses
Reactive oxygen species function as key signals in plant adaptation to environmental stresses like drought. Roots respond to transient water unavailability by temporarily ceasing branching through the...
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#ASPBPlantDirectWednesday #ICYMI
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Earth system models are plagued by uncertainties in the response of microbes to climate change. We leveraged metabolic insights from genome scale models when coupled to an ocean model in this new exciting work 🌊 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Unveiling the link between phytoplankton molecular physiology and biogeochemical cycling via genome-scale modeling
A genome-enabled ESM built on genomic data assesses physiological acclimation and biogeochemical effects through nutrient stress.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🆕 Our #LatestIssue: 📚https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2025/246/6 Highlights include: 🌱 Regeneration and defence 🌱 Receptor-like kinases cleavage 🌱 Floral nectary diversity and #evolution #PlantScience
On the cover of New Phytologist volume 246, issue 6: Spatial expression patterns of Hakea laurina Aluminum-activated Malate Transporter 1 (HalALMT1) in cluster rootlets of Hakea laurina.
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
1. Yes, that sounds like a normal aspect of any healthy intellectual field! It takes time for you to learn the nuance, the language, and the people of a new field, and then for them to learn about you. 2. Folks.... this is a statistical description of a trend, not a declaration of what you must do
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NickyCreux @nickycreux.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Highly recommend working with Kaisa!
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) is in bloom. With red flowers and long, nectar-filled spurs, this wildflower is pollinated by hummingbirds.
Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
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NickyCreux @nickycreux.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Guys! I got my NRF rating this week! IYKYK!😁😁😁
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NickyCreux @nickycreux.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Now officially in a volume and issue! 🌻🌻 -First report of BiMoV on sunflower in South Africa. -Only second report of a natural infection of sunflower in the world! bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Genomic Characterisation of Bidens mottle virus in South Africa and an Assessment of the Impact on Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) in an Open Field Setting
RNAseq was used to identify the second natural infection of bidens mottle virus on sunflowers in an open field setting in South Africa and is the first detection of the virus in the country and signi....
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NickyCreux @nickycreux.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Wednesday my first PhD student graduated! She did a beautiful sunflower planting date trial looking at everything from growth and yield to pollination and plant health! Also made the first report of BiMoV on sunflower in South Africa! Our BSc Honours student also graduated! What a happy day!
Selfie of me in the middle and PhD graduated Phrasia Mapfumo on the left in our red and green PhD in natural and Agricultural academic regalia. Right is our BSC honors student thing traditional black and green regalia. All big happy smiles!
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
📜 In defense of funding foundational plant science 🧑‍🔬 @jfriesner.bsky.social, @cargueso.bsky.social, @plantteaching.bsky.social, Shuang Wu, @roederlab.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience
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In defense of funding foundational plant science
Abstract. Plants are essential for life as we know it on Earth. They oxygenate the atmosphere, regulate the climate, and comprise much of the primary produ
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Jurriaan Ton @jurriaanton.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🌍 Excited to announce a fully funded joint PhD between @PPS_UoS (UK) and @westsyduhie (Australia)! Explore the epigenetic basis of immune memory in Arabidopsis 🌱 – at the interface of plant ecology, evolution, and epigenomics. 🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 04/05/2025
I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI. I urge everyone to delete their app.
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Duolingo CEO says he's getting rid of contract employees and replacing them with AI
Duolingo employees can also expect their AI use to be graded in their performance reviews.
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John Manners @jmaus.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Genetically modified pod borer resistant cowpeas now boosting food security for smallholder farmers in Ghana #plantscience 🧪 theconversation.com/ghanas-first...
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Ghana’s first genetically modified crop: why we created a new cowpea variety, how we tested it and what we found
Research results demonstrate the potential of GM cowpea to enhance yields and profitability for resource-poor farmers.
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NickyCreux @nickycreux.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It was fun to be out in the field yesterday morning as the team starts wrapping up the trials. I did come to help, but they were on top of it! Such a great team to work with❤
Two team members in the distance helping with maize planting date trial harvest. Down the row brown bags filled with mazi waits to be collected on our iron rich red spoils between two planting dates. Bright blues skies and the Future Africa campus in the distance.Student using thier red car as a makeshift lab as she tests sunflower stigma receptivity in the background. Foreground has the bright yellow sunflower blooms she is testion against a backdrop of bright blue skies and whisky white clouds. Long shot of the final maize planting date with clear blue skies above scattered with a few whisky cloudsSunflower bloom in the field with an orange black and white butterfly sipping nectar.
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Johnathan Napier @johnathan-n.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Very happy to have contributed to this article. It's a topic I am very passionate about. We need to see significantly more translational and impact from all the investments in fundamental research. It is weird that many primary publications claim a big breakthrough, and then, nothing more happens!
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New preprint! We used single cell sequencing & metabolomics to look at cell type specificity of specialized metabolism in Camptotheca, the source of chemotherapeutic agent camptothecin, as well as comparative analyses w/ Catharanthus, which we previously worked on. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Camptotheca and Catharanthus, both produced alkaloids that are used in cancer chemotherapy, last shared a common ancestor ~115 mya. They shared an iridoid biosynthetic pathway. We found new, rare biosynthetic genes in Camptotheca that are different from those in Catharanthus.
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Katherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Current situation: #WritingSky #AcademicSky
A cyclist running uphill with a bear chasing him. The cyclist has the tag "Me" and the bear has the tag "my long-overdue writing commitments"
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/04/2025
SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com
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NickyCreux @nickycreux.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Chatting about doing postgraduate studies with the third years! With Dr Mapfumo @phrasia.bsky.social
Dr Mapfumo and I with our table set up at the Agricultural station, corn cobs in the husks and sunflower seed heads straight out of the field this morning. Posters of our remote sensing work in the background...and my Lego sunflower I got for Christmas!Dr Mapfumo chatting with a student in a blue headscarf about our sunflower research. Sunflower heads and jars if blue sunflower and red corn seeds holding a Lego sunflower in the foreground Dr Mangani talking to a prospective student with green pamphlets, corn in husks and tomatoes in the foreground
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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
please share - postdoc position available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-...
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Maria Spezzati @maryspezz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hello beauty😍 Perfect entry point with arbuscules of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus in roots of Lotus japonicus. #plantscienceresearch #rootsymbiosis #PhDlife #plantresearch
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Max Josse @maxjosse.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
(1/2) This week’s #fluorescencefriday is PM marker in Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem. Also, our new review on Plant Biosensors across scales in out in @annualreviews.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Ari Pekka Mähönen @apmahonen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's out! Detailed transcriptome atlas of mature Arabidopsis root undergoing secondary growth. Fantastic work by Munan Lyu and Hiroyuki Iida + other lab members, wonderful collab with @bertderybel.bsky.social lab on the scRNAseq analysis. @treebiocoe.bsky.social 1/x www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The dynamic and diverse nature of parenchyma cells in the Arabidopsis root during secondary growth - Nature Plants
A combination of lineage tracing and single-cell RNA sequencing reveals how xylem and phloem parenchyma cells in the secondary tissue of Arabidopsis root mature gradually. Upon root barrier injury, th...
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Daniel Kierzkowski @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Do you want to know how mechanical interaction between tissue layers controls the formation of complex organ shapes in plants? 🔬🌼 🚨Our latest collaborative work with @routierlab.bsky.social is now published @natureplants.bsky.social Find out more👉 rdcu.be/efad3
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Mechanical interactions between tissue layers underlie plant morphogenesis
Nature Plants - Anthers, the male reproductive organs in plants, are a model to explore the establishment of complex three-dimensional shapes. Live imaging, genetics and modelling reveal an active...
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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
REVIEW: Arabidopsis as a model for translational research (Anna E Yaschenko, Jose M Alonso, Anna N Stepanova) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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Trends in Plant Science @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Panomics to manage combined abiotic stresses in plants #plantscience
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Panomics to manage combined abiotic stresses in plants
Climate change-driven combined abiotic stresses threaten crop health and productivity. We propose leveraging panomics and advanced breeding tools to get insights into how plants manage combined abiotic stresses. By identifying novel molecular targets and pathways, we can fast-track designing stress-smart future crops, advancing sustainable agriculture in a changing climate.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/04/2025
A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity summarizes how differing forest restoration approaches affect impacts on biodiversity, and key knowledge gaps and research priorities for achieving biodiversity-centred restoration. go.nature.com/4c0XIuh 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows the approaches to restore forest cover and its expected outcomes for native biodiversity, carbon, water, timber and food.
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Ka Wai Ma @kawaima.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
‼️we are pleased to share the first work coming from my lab on biorxiv. Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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Misregulation of the jasmonate signaling pathway leads to altered plant microbiota interaction and plant stress responses
The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana hosts diverse microbial communities collectively known as the microbiota. The plant microbiota is generally taxonomically structured. Some of the members can promo...
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I got stipules for you all week! Stipules are small (usually), paired (usually) bits of leaf tissue at the junction of the petiole & stem. They are part of the leaf, but not all plants have them. A pair of big, obvious stipules of Lysoloma auritum (#Fabaceae) are circled. #stipule #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy branch. The leaves are alternate and bipinnate. Large, triangular stipules are visible at the nodes and circled. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
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Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...
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Join Us! | King Lab
Are you interested in joining the King Lab? More information here!
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
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Senior Group Leader Position
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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Very nice poster showing genetic engineering of Arabidopsis flowers @icips.bsky.social conference by @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social - great for teaching and outreach
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Frank Hochholdinger @hochholdingerf.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great paper by the group of lab alumnus Changzheng Xu on auxin regulation of fiber development in poplar. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The auxin–PLETHORA 5 module regulates wood fibre development in Populus tomentosa - Nature Plants
The study reveals that PLETHORA 5, a transcription factor activated by auxin signalling in the vascular cambium, regulates cell expansion and cell wall thickening of fibres by directly repressing SND1...
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Botany One @botany.one · 25/03/2025
The world's smallest flowering plant might solve our biggest space challenges. New research shows duckweed (Wolffia globosa) thrives in altered gravity—potentially feeding future astronauts while using minimal resources. Read more at wp.me/pdRZhH-lPJ #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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Wolffia globosa and its potential for space agriculture
Have you ever wondered what space food looks like? A recent study published in Scientific Reports by Romano and...
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇 Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍 1 / 🧵 #HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth
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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hynson lab is looking for a postdoc. Hang in Hawaii and Australia and do cool plant-fungus #mycology research! Share widely because this looks cool hynsonlab.com/2024/07/25/w...
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We’re looking for postdocs!
Interested in joining The Hynson lab? Please read over this ad for highly qualified Postdoctoral Researchers to work on a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded study titled “How do plant-associated fungi ...
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Botany One @botany.one · 24/03/2025
New research reveals how rare green flowers attract pollinators despite their camouflaged appearance. Brightness contrast, not color, is their secret advantage. Read more: wp.me/pdRZhH-lP7 #Botany #PlantScience 🧪
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Green Flowers are not Invisible
Discover how subtle hues and clever chemistry help green flowers communicate with bees and flies.
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Had the opportunity to chat with In Defense of Plants about my favorite plant, Galax urceolata. We dive into its ecology, genome evolution, and the fascinating world of polyploidy. Check out this week’s episode:
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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Do you have a passion for scicomm? Do you want to make a difference for biodiversity? Do you love connecting people with science? Then this jobs for you! vtecostudies.org/about-us/emp... 🧪
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Amber Capron @acapron.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
USDA’s National Plant Germplasm System scientists have systematically gathered and maintained the agricultural plant species that undergird our food system. Just 0.000008 percent of the federal budget, they safeguard our food system worth ~$1.5 trillion. Now at risk after attack by DOGE.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
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List of Terminated NIH Grants as of 3-22-2025 (Source: https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf)
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Pam Mork @pammork.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is the kind of science the NIH funds. This is WOW. #RNAresearch
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Soil biome variation of #Lupinus nipomensis in wet-cool vs. dry-warm microhabitats & greenhouse New #AJB research by Peter Nguyen, @justinluong.com, Van Wishingrad, Lisa Stratton, Michael Loik & Rachel Meyer doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #lupine #Fabaceae #ecology
Nipomo Lupine (Lupinus nipomensis) in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dune Complex.
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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🚨There is still time to apply for the POST DOC POSITION on wheat powdery mildew in my lab @theccdm.bsky.social !🚨 staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...
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