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Pat Heslop-Harrison

@pathh.bsky.social
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Professor in Agricultural Genetics, University of Leicester, UK.

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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Exciting PhD project with me and @vorontsovams.bsky.social RBG Kew on Grass Diversity, developing a phylogeny using morphology and genomics for the tropical forage grass genus Urochloa. Applications at centa.ac.uk/students... but contacts Bat or me to discuss
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in @uniexecec.bsky.social - Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... - RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Pls share!
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Looking forward greatly to the meeting and talking about The grammar of genomes: From sequences, phenotypes, digital twins and foundational LLMs, to conservation, biodiversity, and breeding. Hoping to develop new collaborations, ideas, and opportunities
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
One of the best dinners and then seminar I've had was with Frank Stahl. He sat down with overhead projector and all the 200 in the audience felt they had a personal tutorial on DNA replication and his super-elegant research. RIP age 95. www.nytimes.com/2025...
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Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Interested in co designing a fully funded PhD project with ‪@vorontsovams.bsky.social‬ and me on Urochloa plant biodiversity, evolution, morphology and genomics? Please contact us. Building on exciting work on the forage grass by @LizoMasters academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
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Phylogenomic analysis reveals five independently evolved African forage grass clades in the genus Urochloa
AbstractBackground and Aims. The grass genus Urochloa (Brachiaria) sensu lato includes forage crops that are important for beef and dairy industries in tro
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Grrr. My appeal every 5 years or so, as frustration boils over. Why doesn't any web browser print out roughly what you see on your screen? I see nice versions of the webpage - full screen, landscape, portrait, mobile phone - but no major browser can print anything like them.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I'm finding LLM / AI models like Grok, Deepseek, ChatGPT, Google search lab useful to explain things at suitable level. Notable they don't just rehash Wikipedia or unhelpful Microsoft manuals. Today's examples: GANTT charts; IF/TRUE/FALSE in Excel; Harvard referencing
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For #internationalbiodiversityday I'm happy to post a program The Call of Plants www.bilibili.com/vid... about our interests by www.pta.eco Plant Technology Alliance & Dency Cheng, Guangdong & Hong Kong. A great organization bringing nature back to us ... more later!
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植物的召唤:一个科学家的地球使命 The Call of Plants: A Scientist's Mission on Earth_哔哩哔哩_bilibili
🌿 植物的召唤 | 致那些听见自然低语的人 🌍在这个国际生物多样性日,pta向您呈现一位科学家的故事。👨🏼‍🏫 帕特教授,一位来自英国的植物遗传学家,穿梭于热带雨林与数据模型之间,几十年如一日地追问:我们如何与地球共处?他的研究扎根于田野,延伸至世界;他的信念源于父亲的启蒙,也与爱人同行。从一株香蕉到一粒燕麦,他不仅用实验丈量植物的基因,也用脚步丈量科学的温度。🧬教育与伦理不只是知识的, 视频播放量 40、弹幕量 0、点赞数 2、投硬币枚数 0、收藏人数 0、转发人数 1, 视频作者 pta植物联盟, 作者简介 pta植物联盟是一家致力于环境可持续发展转型的创新组织。,相关视频:最强大的克隆机器,召唤初雪的“雪妖精”,日本北海道雪虫爆发之谜!,为什么除了中国,很少有国家吃笋呢?,探索奥尔特云,这个位于太阳系边缘的冰体世界告诉我们太阳系结构并不简单。,中美博弈的残酷真相!【金灿荣教授深度剖析】,抛弃穷人、秘密基地、亡国邪路:美国富人集团准备“跳船”了!,四羊方尊出来的那一刻直播间的所有观众都要被请去谈话了,"冰毒"(上):中国禁毒头号大敌,泯灭精神的恶魔结晶【禁毒科普馆#1】,一架UFO于1962年被核弹击落,坠毁在南太平洋环礁,浑身发光大如航母,来自一位重量级人物的临终爆料!,不知不觉中,通往金门的大桥,很快要建成了,教皇:没有一兵一卒的“皇帝”,却控制全球13亿人,干预世界
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Many opportunities to exploit rhizosphere microbiome for crops. No longer only consider plant genome/GWAS for traits: look at fungi/bacteria. New multisite field trial complexity we can analyse @TrendsPlantSci Rodomiro Ortiz, Sangam Dwivedi, @plgepts EtAl www.sciencedirect.co...
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Are others getting 'verify' boxes when wanting to access published papers (even open access)? Is this major publishers trying to stop Deep Learning / Generative AI / ChatGPT accessing refereed work? I want my papers used by AI models easily, not push them to Reddit or Facebook
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
FAIR is so important. We've just had a manuscript rejected because the journal (anon, but OUP published) said we should compare with work they'd published without any FAIR data. Ours does not support the other's text but without the data, we can't compare.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Academic climate: It’s no longer ‘publish or perish’; It’s ‘Be visible or vanish’ says @drtimiolubiyi “It is not just what you publish; it is who sees it, talks about it, and shares it that matters." businessday.ng/opini... Hs analysis has a lot of sense; I don't agree all
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Academic climate: It's no longer ‘publish or perish’; It’s ‘Be visible or vanish’ - Businessday NG
Though in the academic world, publication signifies validation and survival in most universities for promotion and relevance; in fact...
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Has anyone tried this in submission cover letter:"We tick required ‘check/tick boxes’ randomly where there is no appropriate answer. Our answer has no validity. We include early career/retired authors where academic e-mails are deleted; and OA fees are covered by agreements."
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I'm reading PhD applications which have a question about time management. Every one I read thinks they apply for something where every hour is planned in advance and accounted for (and presumably billed!). Not one had time for getting ideas, reading, following up crazy thoughts
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Cees Bassa @cbassa.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography
This image shows the hourglass shape of the nights shortening and
lengthening from winter to summer and from summer to winter, passing
clouds, the Moon passing through the night sky every month (diagonal
bands) and the Sun climbing higher in the sky during summer.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's early 2025, but I think I've found product-of-the-year: a USB Tester / Power Meter. Shows what is charging, measures voltage, battery mAh or Wh, tests batteries, adaptors, whether "PD" on a USB C means "power delivery" or "display port", graphs transfers etc. for c 10£$€
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Immediate action point/question for me is: 'How do I get my material used for AI training/answers?' I'm impressed by Google "Search Labs AI Overview" accurately summarizing, in context, our paper from Sept 2024, when I use "flavonoids musaceae chromosomal location" as search keywords.
Google search with AI generated summary as an answer to my query
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Who guessed Search would change in 2024: 'People now expect answers to questions, not just a stack of links. Perplexity, OpenAI, & Google raced to create “answer engines”, combining web results with generative AI models' says @silverchairnews & @hum_works www.silverchair.com/...
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Tech Trends 2025 - Confirmation - Silverchair
Silverchair Thanks for downloading our AI whitepaper.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My lecture on Biodiversity, Conservation and Agriculture to a large public audience at Dinghu, 1st national nature reserve in China. Discussin success of agriculture feeding people but at cost of sustainability: we can solve now population is static
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Biodiversity and Agriculture: Education and Nature at Dinghu National Reserve
My job has three parts: 1) Research in biodiversity and agricultural genetics; 2) Critical evaluation of other research through journals and reviews; and, perhaps most imprtantly, 3) Telling people about the value, interest and importance of the natural and agricultural environment. I was delighted to visit Dinghu, the first Chinese National Nature Reserve, founded in 1956, and part of the South China National Botanical Garden (SCBG or SCNBG) of the CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) in Guangzhou, south China, to present a science lecture on Biodiversity, Conservation and Agriculture.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Genome-Wide Identification of Lectin Receptor-like Kinase Gene Family in Avena sativa and Role in Salt Stress Tolerance with Xiong Gui & Qing Liu: genomics, localization and expression shows the value of these genes www.mdpi.com/3062188 #mdpiijms @IJMS_MDPI @MDPIOpenAccess
RLK genes in oats - genes, synteny, sub cellular localization and expression in salt stress
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thanks a lot for letting me know - very helpful. azertag.az/en/xeber/uk_... maybe works ...
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UK university professor: COP29 provided an opportunity to discuss ways to protect biodiversity
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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UK university professor: COP29 provided an opportunity to discuss ways to protect biodiversity
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#COP29 showed ways to protect biodiversity: azertag.az/en/xeber/uk_... Great opportunities to discuss how agricultural genetics can help both mitigate GHG and adapt to climate change while enhancing agriculture can preserve areas with biodiversity. And tertiary education is critical!
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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧬 New article in @aobp.bsky.social analyzing the diversity and duplication of flavonoid biosynthetic genes in Musaceae species, highlighting their potential for enhancing cold stress resistance in bananas through breeding. Full #openaccess 👉 buff.ly/4eqyy7X #PlantScience
The expression of flavonoid biosynthetic genes in Musella lasiocarpa var. lasiocarpa (circles labelled Y) and M. lasiocarpa var. rubribracteata (labelled R); 15 °C-treated groups labelled with ‘cold’, and control groups marked with ‘normal’. The flavonoid biosynthetic gene expression levels were calculated as transcripts per million (TPM) values. Different log2(TPM + 1) values labelled with different colours, red to blue colours indicate expression levels from high to low. A colour version of this figure appears in the online version of this article.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My work on a pangenome for the hexaploid oilseed crop Camelina sativa is now out early access in Genetics! This young polyploid genome has a small pangenome to match it's low SNP diversity, but regained lost diversity by packing in all the unique genes from its 3 diploid progenitors.
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Allopolyploidy expanded gene content but not pangenomic variation in the hexaploid oilseed Camelina sativa
Abstract. Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs) are believed to facilitate novelty and adaptation by providing the raw fuel for new genes. However, it i
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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
People are quite literally going bananas for bananas. In 2022, the total global production of bananas reached 140 million tons. The next time you eat one, consider the genes responsible for their taste, texture and high fruit yield allowing them to remain a global daily staple in most households.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Looking forward to discussions, reviewing progress (or lack of) & target setting for UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference le.ac.uk/news/2024/n... Great to have day dedicated to Food, Agriculture & Water. How can research & genetics deliver food sustainabiltiy?
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Second issue of "Biological Diversity" journal now online onlinelibrary.wiley.... @BD_SCBG Diversity of content nicely reflects the title: birds, farmland and rewilding, plant reproduction, fungal pathogens, new species and population biology. #PlantSci #Science #Biology
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
U.S. Coordinated Framework for Biotechnology unified website for approvals & regulations from the 3 US agencies, @USDA @US_FDA @EPA usbiotechnologyregul... helping to show which agency and which rules are applicable. Need to then to agencies to see what is in line for approval
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
"Dear X, We can't open your bank account because the government says your visa is wrong. Send us you passport / visa and we will sort or you will be deported" Then "Oh, we can't open this sort of bank account in the new country, you need another new one"... belonging to thief
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
A few years ago, AI discovered that I have the Chinese connections, so I was getting one a day, written in good Chinese, preying on universal uncertainties of anyone in new country ... no decent food, feeling cold/hot/wet, not performing as your parents expect ... Ask supervisor!
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Warning to students moving countries: extreme care with scam emails you are receiving! Very clever people target nervous foreign students with believable ‘offers’ or 'solutions'. Don't engage, if in any doubt at all ask your supervisor or institution IT service.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Informative video with impressive buzz pollination by bumblebees of Primula (Dodecatheon) meadia (Shooting Star) and nectar unting in various species in US Prairie. Amazing slow motion (from 7:06), covered with huge amounts of pollen that falls off in air! youtu.be/fQsnPAWQqcI...
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Very sorry to hear Joe Gall, Carnegie, brilliant cytogeneticist, fundamentally contributing to modern understanding of chromosome structure, discovering satellite DNA, showing NOR/rDNA, &pioneer of in situ hybridization, has passed away aged 96. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_... A wonderful life
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Joseph G. Gall - Wikipedia
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 26/08/2024
News & Views: "Crop genetics: Unlocking alleles from exotic wheat" rdcu.be/dR0Dg Screening of a landrace wheat collection identifies beneficial novel haplotypes that improve modern wheat without negative linkage drag or pleiotropy. A comment on rdcu.be/dR0D6 #PlantScience
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Food from Grass: Genetics and Digital Twins to optimize ruminant agricultural sustainability molcyt.org/2024/09/10/f... summary of presentation on cattle/cows/ruminants, forage grasses and microbes to reduce methane @UKDairyDay showcasing best genetics, husbandry & technology for milk #dairyday
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Food from Grass: Genetics and Digital Twins to optimize ruminant agricultural sustainability
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, generated by ruminants (cows, sheep, goats) in their rumen. The genetics of the animal, the feed and the microbiome all affect the production of methane, and digita...
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
UK Dairy Day Banner for genetic research - sometimes graphic does not show in main post
Banner showing genetics of animals, feed/food and microbes all contribute to reducing methane production from cows
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Our Food from grass: Genetics and Digital Twins to optimize sustainability, including methane greenhouse gas reduction approaches, ready for science area @UKDairyDay #DairyDay Looking forward to seeing the best stock and best farming anywhere next week
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Sorry to hear and hope you are recovering. Only missed the last day but feel bad I was likely a spreader, no earlier symptoms that weren't 40C temp and late nights. Still +ve test today
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
After Muthama Muasya 's talk, I'm even more looking forward to @IBCCapeTown2029 #IBC2029 #IBCXXI in Greater Cape Floristic Region #biodiversity hotspot with <<1% of area but 20% of African diversity. #IBC2024 and wonderful science in Capetown, Stellenbosch, Kirstenbosch and beyond
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
Muthama Muasya Cape Town goes through special & unique African habitats and traits with unique evolutionary opportunities: C4, spines, epiphytes, underground structures, fire, trees/shrubs in @annbot @AoBPlants @InSilicoPlants talk (report @TrudeSch as I'm isolated) #IBC2024
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
John Pannell Lausanne gives a comprehensive talk on dioecy, monoecy, and resource allocation with floristics, ecology, genetics & genomics. I've had enough of online talks, but needed for me today. Super integration of diverse publications. #IBC2024 scholar.google.se/ci...
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
Aaahhh. Choice made between Muthama Muasya and Toby Kellogg at 8.30 in N104 & N103. Neither. Sorry. I'm Feeling fine, as expected from 8am starts and 1am finishes: Thought I'd use the last test I've got. Stay well all. #IBC2024 #COVID19 #Covid_19
Positive COVID test
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
A difficult choice at 8.30 Saturday for me with two brilliant colleagues talking: Muthama Muasya on African Flora in N104; and Toby Kellogg on 20 million years of grass evolution in N103 #IBC2024
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J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
Michael J. Donoghue #ibc2024 Plenary: “The phylogenetics of plant geography: past, present and future” 2003 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21680431/ 2004 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16701326/ 2008 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18695216/ & more (preprint w/ Erika Edwards) @ibc2024 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪🌱🌍🌿🍄🌻🔬
Michael Donoghue plenary at the International Botanical Congress 2024
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Shout out to AV audiovisual crews @IFEMA Madrid venue for #IBC2024 Excellent sound and projection in all rooms of the conference. Lots of things I don't like here but most important is seeing and hearing people and slides so clearly.
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
The horrors of live blueing /Tooting or whatever it is, and copying tags on 2 platforms! Mike Barker @BarkerLab had the inspiring polyploid keynote this morning #IBC2024 Apologies.for spelling!
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Doug Soltis & Mark Chase moves to APG5 APGV. Shows phylogenetics corrected w DNA taxonomy: Nymphaea not close to Nelumbo etc! Base pattern settled but more needed, integrating incongruent nuclear/chloroplast trees. #IBC2024 I love Cronquist's bubbles & Dahlgren's Dahlgrenograms!
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Pat Heslop-Harrison @pathh.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Oats Avena: Qing Liu puts mitochondrial genome assembly into wider context of evolution of her Avena genome assemblies and polyploid chromosomal rearrangements, with organelle-nuclear sequence transfer #IBC2024 link.springer.com/ar... genome expansion: link.springer.com/ar...
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