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Peter van Dijk

@peter-van-dijk.bsky.social
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Distinguished scientist at KeyGene. Interested in plant breeding systems and the early history of genetics

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Peter van Dijk @peter-van-dijk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Father of Genetics Was Also a Rebel. Gregor Mendel repeatedly challenged the Church and the state, voted Liberal when no other church leader in Moravia did, and refused to pay what he considered an unjust tax until his death. Read the full post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-...
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Peter van Dijk @peter-van-dijk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
RIP James Watson (1928–2025). Co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, and a complicated legacy. Crick and Watson first shared the news at The Eagle pub in Cambridge, home of “DNA ale.”
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Peter van Dijk @peter-van-dijk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A new bioRxiv preprint reports that a team from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has synthesised fully penetrant apomictic hybrid rice — a potential game changer for breeding. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Apomixis #HybridRice #PlantBreeding #Agriculture
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Peter van Dijk @peter-van-dijk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Make it happen
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Peter van Dijk @peter-van-dijk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Just returned from the Apomixis Congress in Montpellier. #Apomixis, clonal seeds, allows one-step fixation of genetically complex traits, including heterosis. So exciting to see the progress. The next apomixis meeting will be in two years in Perugia. Curious to see where the science will be by then.
images of the apomixis congres in Montpellier
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Peter van Dijk @peter-van-dijk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Bringing together the three giants of 19th-century biology with ChatGPT: Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Louis Pasteur. Of them, Mendel remains the most enigmatic. Noel Ellis and I are writing a new book exploring his legacy: Mendel’s Genetics: Heredity, Hybrids and History. Expected early 2026.
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Peter van Dijk @peter-van-dijk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today, Noel Ellis and I submitted the manuscript for our 2025 book Mendel’s Genetics: Hybrids, Heredity, and History to the publisher. Biological insights and new historical sources deepen our understanding of Gregor Mendel in his time.
Plate on the Brno school where Gregor Mendel taught physics and natural history and the Natural Sciences Society held monthly meetings.
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