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!
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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 🌡️🌿
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 🤔
Image of cracked dry soil with young rice plants growing, taken from above.
What is important when designing abiotic stress experiments? Sharing my reflection on this question with the plant community:
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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
Of course Jo! Happy to share through the JIC students channels 😊
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!!!!
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! 🤯