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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Cat is out of the bag! Later this summer I’ll make a big jump across the pond for 4 years to work on polyploid genome evolution and diploidization patterns across angiosperms as part of this awesome grant and team

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R. Shawn Abrahams (They/Them) @youngeukaryote.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

And so many people who contributed will never be able to be credited because of the forces of colonialism and enslavement that erased their humanity. Working with science historians to tell part of this story has been a real career highlight so far. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Building an inclusive botany: The “radicle” dream

It is important to recognize how our current understanding of plants has been shaped by diverse cultural contexts, as this underscores the importance of valuing and incorporating contributions from a....

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R. Shawn Abrahams (They/Them) @youngeukaryote.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hi new folks! I'm Shawn. My research utilizes a combination of systems biology, systematics, and comparative genomics to understand trait evolution in plants. My current work took me to the northern Sahara in search of desert-adapted wild relatives of Brassica crops (🥦🧪). Here's how it went:

Afro-Caribbean researcher R. Shawn Abrahams in the Moroccan desert, measuring the photosynthetic capacity of the plant Moricandia suffruticose, a relative of Brassica crop plants like Broccoli.

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J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Shawn Thomas “The timing, placement, and impacts of the tribe Brassiceae mesohexaploidy” (unpublished) & new pub “Halophytes and heavy metals: a multi-omics approach to understand stress tolerance in Cakile bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... #ibc2024 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪🌱🌍🌿🍄🌻🔬

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Cakile maritima has a fascinating geography and geographic history. It's naturalized on California's beaches and does some pretty disruptive things. But it's super hardy so you gotta give it some respect.

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Shawn K. Thomas @shawnkthomas.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Did you know that gene duplications play a crucial role in the evolution of plants and their ability to adapt to extreme environments? 🌿🌍 Here we explore gene and genome duplications in the salt and heavy metal tolerant species Cakile maritima: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (🧵1/5)

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

🌱From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue🌱 Halophytes & heavy metals: A multi-omics approach to understand the role of gene & genome duplication in abiotic stress tolerance of Cakile maritima By @shawnkthomas.bsky.social, @jchrispires.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

In this image, panel A shows a phylogeny with the five species: Cakile maritima, Brassica rapa, Schrenkiella parvula, Eutrema salsugineum, and Arabidopsis thaliana. In the figure genus names are used to label the tips of the tree, and representative images of the 5 species are shown by the labels. Cakile and Brassica form a clade In addition the phylogeny has a 4-pointed star at the root of the tree representing the At-alpha WGD shared by all 5 species, and a 6-point star on the branch leading to Cakile and Brassica representing the Br-alpha WGT (only shared by Brassica and Cakile). Panel B shows 3 bar graphs depicting results from a stress experiment done with Cakile, Brassica, and and Arabidopsis. The bar graphs depict average root length in mm for control, salt stress(150mM NaCl), and cadmium stress (20uM CdCl2) treatments.

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