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Tom Lock

@txmlock.bsky.social

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PhD Student @ John Innes Centre, UK 📍Genetics of plant-environment interactions in the Penfield Lab🔬🌱 ➡️ Brassica genomics, developmental responses to temperature, crop improvement and more 📚

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Jo Hepworth @coolcabbage.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Super pleased our @jxbotany.bsky.social review with Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social (now with Margot Smit), Tom Lock @txmlock.bsky.social and Steve Penfield (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) on plant architecture responses to seasonal temperature is out! academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

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Seasons and shape: Inflorescences from autumn to summer

Abstract. Flowering plants organize their reproductive organs within specialized structures named inflorescences. Plasticity in the architecture of these i

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Tom Lock @txmlock.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A good (albeit chilly) day to be doing field work at the JIC farm ☀️ Super proud of this field trial where I am using warming cables to investigate the effects of climate change on crop development 🌡️🌿

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Tom Lock @txmlock.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Super interesting read Anne! Not an abiotic stress, but we face similar problems when studying how seasonal temperature/photoperiod fluctuations affect plant development - often results from lab experiments using CERs and glasshouses are not very comparable to plants grown in the field 🤔

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Anne Plessis @discontinuedap.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

What is important when designing abiotic stress experiments? Sharing my reflection on this question with the plant community: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Image of cracked dry soil with young rice plants growing, taken from above.

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Jo Hepworth @coolcabbage.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

In fact a chance has come up for UK students to start this PhD *now - ASAP - before April 2025*! Send me a CV ASAP! #plantscijobs #phd #DurhamUni

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Tom Lock @txmlock.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Of course Jo! Happy to share through the JIC students channels 😊

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Leonardo Jo @leonardojo.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on pptx/ai/inkspace and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!

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Tom Lock @txmlock.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Here is a series of cool images I captured by dissecting field-grown rapeseed apical meristems over the winter 🌿 This is showing the process of floral transition, identified by the production of floral primordia. Note the size of these structures to be about the same width as two human hairs! 🤯

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