Super excited that this is out now!
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Just a reminder that in computational biology and bioinformatics, we should NOT just translate the longest ORF in genomes but the most likely to be translated.

Our paper here details some of the pitfalls of you don’t. Be aware. Be warned.

doi.org/10.3390/gene...

I think it doesn't need to be public or publicly acknowledged. It's part of the academic work.

You've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Das paper von oben beschreibt einen Mechanismus wie DNA neu synthetisiert wird ohne einen existierenden Strang als Kopiervorlage.
Ein Protein bildet ein neues DNA Moleküle mit spezifischer Sequenz ohne ein schon existierendes DNA Molekül als Informationsgrundlage zu nutzen.

DNA ist meist doppelsträngig, wobei die beiden Einzelstränge über Basenpaarung zusammengehalten werden. A paart mit T, G mit C.
Nahezu alle DNA die neu synthetisiert wird nutzt diese Basenpaarung als Kopiervorlage: der Doppelstrang wird aufgelöst und ein neuer Gegenstrang über Basenpaarung gebildet.

Hilum (biology) - Wikipedia

Is this a seed or a fruit? For seed I guess hilum
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I feel it's tied to a large extent to upbringing and past (childhood?) experiences.

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Did you have a "plant mentor"?

"Family, Grandmother and later part time Nursery job with plants."

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Our Vegetable Division is expanding at the moment, and this is a good timepoint to get on board.

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Motivation for choosing a plant-related education pathway:
"𝙄 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙗𝙮 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚. 𝙄𝙩𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣."

I mean, the most read parts of a research paper are probably title and abstract.

Yet the outrage didn't arise when machines replaced expert carpenters or when cars replaced skilled coachmen. Why is that?

I agree with much of that yet I think one could replace AI with almost any technological advance in this essay. The price of advance is specialization and de-skilling.
Who of us can build their own house, grow their own food? Compared to humans even a few decades ago we are laughably unskilled.

Die Fachärzte von Magdeburg
Herr
Mensch ärgere dich!

Gene and genome duplications have contrasting impacts on biosynthetic and flower developmental pathways in California poppy The analysis of the California poppy genome sequence and expression atlas reveals contrasting histories of duplication and loss for metabolic pathway and f

Gene and genome duplications have contrasting impacts on biosynthetic and flower developmental pathways in California poppy (Le-Han Rössner , Clemens Rössner , Doudou Kong , et alr) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Not sure it was wasted?
Did it help you to get where you are?
Are your manuscripts read and cited more frequently because of where they are published?
A system can be broken and useful at the same time.

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Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Growth differences between meristem regions underlies gynoecium initiation in Arabidopsis. (A) Schematic top view of the inflorescence showing initiating floral buds at different developmental stages (St) according to Smyth et al. (1990). (B) Time-lapse series capturing carpel primordia establishment from early stage 5 to late stage 6 over 72 h at 24 h intervals. Median sepals were removed. (C) Heat maps of Gaussian curvature at the different stages; the bottom row shows virtual longitudinal sections through the bud along its lateral axis. Increases in positive Gaussian curvature are indicated with white arrows (dark red zones in the top image). The blue arrows indicate a carpel primordium emerging as a lateral protrusion on the floral meristem. (D) Heat map of percentage area expansion between the stages. (E) Heat map of cell divisions between the stages. (F) Heat map of cell sizes at the different stages.

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Live imaging and hormone manipulation shows how auxin–cytokinin crosstalk drives differential growth at the cellular level in the gynoecium to establish the correct geometry for carpel primordia initiation – Gómez-Felipe et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Went home. Got drunk.

I think at least for plants reading about the models is essential because they guide research in non models. Hence people are conscious they don't rediscover things but discover variations on a theme.

I thought it's the opposite: because of the enormous amount of data we have from model organisms we can branch out into other species and investigate the conservation or divergence of gene function there.

In vivo is e.g. yeast two-hybrid.

The Other Giant: Functional Significance and Divergence of Type I MADS-Box Genes in the Evolution of Land Plants Abstract. Angiosperms represent the most abundant and diverse lineage of land plants, and their evolutionary success is closely linked to major reproductiv

I am delighted to share our review on MADS-box genes! Supported by Claudia @claudiakohler11.bsky.social, we attempt to summarize (nearly) everything currently known about Type I MADS-box genes. Let's have fun in the MADS world and check out the fruitful giants!
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

It's a context dependent term. Recent is anything after the year of the senior author's PhD.

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.