iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Arabidopsis has never looked so good. Micro-rose imaged under the SEM by staff & students @johninnescentre.bsky.social bioimaging facility. Mag 15x. Image ~8mm. Left: false-colored.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Montage of the Petunia lines I am currently growing 🌸 More on these in the podcast with @nikomccarty.bsky.social later this week!

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want an electronic seal I can place on any of my work that prevents AI from reading/reviewing the document. I have certain works where I don’t want anyone reviewing it to put it through AI systems. How do you protect your work from AI? How do you trust others won’t misuse your work?

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Excited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! 🌱 "Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae" We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social #Evolution

Synteny analysis supports the loss of crucial genes in the anthocyanin biosynthesis across Cucurbitaceae. Details and figure reference: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Work in progress, Cym. Darch Ryan, will eventually do pen but one of many projects to add to the list to finish aha

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My co-founded company, Silvec, gets nice write up in Wall Street Journal for our solution to citrus greening using benign virus delivery of anti-bacterial peptides. Good field trials and EPA approval for technology. Virus delivery of siRNAs & peptides is finally here! www.wsj.com/business/rac...

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The Race to Save Florida Orange Industry From Total Collapse

After groves were ravaged for decades by a disease, new EPA-approved genetic technologies are giving citrus growers a chance to rebuild.

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John Whale @jwwhale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Conospermum longifolium at Muogamarra Reserrve

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sounds like ‘Genesta’ is strongly indeterminant. I have others that will budbuild as long as conditions are favorable (usually water). Like this one (‘Lightning Force’). In one bed that’s fairly wet, it’s still developing more buds. I have it in a drier bed and it’s done.

Daylily scape showing indeterminant bud building.

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@thebiologistisn.bsky.social I have one more daylily name for you to consider… ‘Genesta’. It’s another “bud builder” (indeterminant scape)

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A newly discovered deep-sea coral solves 100-year-old mystery! Meet Paragorgia quitinosa, a bubblegum coral that can grow taller than a 2-story building — w/NO internal skeleton. Scientists have wondered for over a century: how? The answer: chitin. Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lights, camera, action in the glasshouse tonight 📸 This dragon fruit flower blooms just once at night 🌙 ✨

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just in time for weekend reading! Exciting arrival today.

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ll add, breeding with a plant like Plum Tardy is difficult. Frost usually arrives before seeds are mature. You can either trick them into blooming early, grow the plants indoors, or cut the scapes and let the capsules mature in water indoors (they should be ~3-4 weeks into development to do this)

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Plum Tardy is a dip. The name of one that blooms until frost is ‘Autumn Prince’. Two other very lates here (still blooming and with the cold temps will bloom for a bit longer) are ‘Thank You Dad’ and ‘Late Summer Fling’. Rebloom is uncommon in the north, but some do, especially with enough water…

White flowered daylily, showing rebloom scapes emerging from the foliage.

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Activation of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Utricularia gibba depends on nitrogen starvation and light exposure #FlavonoidFriday doi.org/10.64898/202... & shorturl.at/Be9T2

Utricularia gibba traps exhibiting red coloration, presumably due to anthocyanin accumulation. Reference: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747637

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For the past few months, I’ve had a new teammate helping me design flowers: Juan Pablo! Here’s what he’s taught me—and how he’s helping (1/5 🧵)

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also, ignore the internet price on Plum Tardy. I grow it and if you’re interested I’ll send you a piece

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ll get you others too. I was chatting with someone the other day about one, but I forget the name. Any other traits, or just bloom until frost? Does it have to be round form, a certain height, etc?

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What immediately comes to mind is ‘Plum Tardy’. Looks like it had its first flower open (FFO) here yesterday. Don’t know if it quite makes it to frost (never paid attention), but it gets close and still opens well in cold Do you care if it reblooms until frost, or do you want original scapes?

Me holding the flower of the daylily ‘Plum Tardy’

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Making 3D models of our flowers, so that their morphology and pigmentation can be explored online ✨

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you ever need recommendations (or plants), just let me know. There are a few plants that will bloom until frost here in New England, but I don’t know about your region.

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Curt Hanson is a good choice for late tetraploids, but his newer plants are expensive

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you’re ever looking for more very late daylilies (particularly dips), I suggest plants from Bob Sobek, or Olallie’s Daylilies. Both tend to breed season extending plants. Plus, a fun aside, Olallie’s is run by Chris Darrow, grandson of Dr. George Darrow, well-know breeder of several crops.

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Based on locality and leaf shape possibly Synaphea flabelliformis. These small shrubs are a diverse group, tho some cryptically so, with many looking at first glance very similar to each other! They also have the wonderful feature of Ballistic pollination and that’s just very cool in my opinion!

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

More wildflowers near Roxby Downs.

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is this rebloom, or are they the original scapes?

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My first harvest of dried lima beans for 2026. I've been growing the yellow and magenta varieties together for several years, hoping the local pollinators would make a hybrid for me. The dark population of seeds all seem to have come from one very productive F1 plant.

About three handfuls of dried lima beans. Those at left are yellow, with a few immature white seeds. Those in the middle are magenta, with a few immature pink seeds. Those at right are dark maroon with various amounts of yellow markings. At the top-middle is a small pile of five blue dry beans.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here's a bit more about the developed resistant #Cavendish variety: www.abc.net.au/news/science... It carries a resistance gene (MamRGA2) from a wild #Banana relative - an NLR that structurally could be part of a #resistosome: www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/17... #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Fusarium

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Could an Australian banana prevent a global crop collapse?

Australia's first genetically modified banana has been tweaked to protect it from a disease that's on the verge of wiping out crops around the world. Researchers hope it may be on our shelves by 2027.

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've been looking for a source for golden adzuki beans. I know they exist, but I've only ever seen them in research papers as "AG163".

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Blackberries painted with blackberries.

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Cameron Stern @plantpolyploidy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That is a favorite of mine. I saw ‘Plum Cockatoo’ this summer and it gave me similar vibes. Don’t know about sterility, but might be a good substitute.

Petunia flower with a green edge and purple center with purple veins

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fun sci-comm opportunity for press releases at AmNat!

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

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Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973

a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Another highlight was the art show that added another dimension to the conference. Would love to see this as a part of more large conferences.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Starting next week we will begin revealing the results of our Flower Bioengineering genetic toolkit, all sponsored and synthesised by @genewiz.bsky.social Here’s a teaser of our first results. Can you guess what gene it is?? 🖤

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Dr Darren Abbey @thebiologistisn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is one of my early versions of a figure depicting the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway in plants. Newer versions don't have the thick arrows and have removed the uncertain brown pigments from the yellow branch of the pathway.

Schematic diagram of the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway in plants. Early uncolored metabolites are at the top, and then the pathway progresses downwards and eventually splits into three branches that produce red, blue, and yellow pigments. Brown pigments are produced by further steps, starting with the red and blue pigments.

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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OpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and Analysis

Here we introduce OpenEvo, a fully open-source, low-cost turbidostat platform for automated continuous culture and directed evolution experiments. Existing tools are expensive, complex, or lack open-s...

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/06/2026

This is Penny. She found the perfect stick today and is determined to retrieve it. Hasn’t moved an inch so far, but her human didn't raise a quitter. 13/10 (IG: aussies_exploregon)

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Jim Haseloff @jimhaseloff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A tungsten microparticle slurry can be directly applied to the mesh and dried before shooting - showing delivery onto a 20µm paper target (piece of Silver grade Rizla cigarette paper) - but would a thin support film improve the mesh performance?

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Jim Haseloff @jimhaseloff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Business end of a low cost DIY gene gun - powered by a sodastream CO2 canister with minipump-driven vacuum shroud. Microparticle load is contained in a 13mm filter holder on a stainless steel mesh - like John Finer's particle inflow design. Looking at efficiency improvements...

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Jim Haseloff @jimhaseloff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It was very quick and painless to build/customise a touch controller for my prototype SodaStream-powered gene gun - based on an M5Stack Core3SE and UIFlow2. The transformation part is still at testing stage, but looks promising. (Required for chloroplast transformation in Marchantia, using spores)

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Jim Haseloff @jimhaseloff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you're like me, and looking for a (cheap) laminar flowhood that can be used at home for handling sterile cultures - check out funguyequipment.com/collections/flo…. Fairly lightweight (thin acrylic and 3D printed panels), but is portable and easily packed away.

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tiny buds forming in my Anigozanthos gabrielae! So smol, tho probably need more light but oh well still a flower

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Slowly getting there!

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC

Microscopy images of a petal showing petal patterning developing in the young petals. Around the image is 6-stages of hibiscus development from closed bud to open flower. The flower is plit in two to show one flower with a dark purple bullseye and one flower fully white with no pigment petal patterns.

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