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The brothers get along. The little one is 10 months and the big one is six years.
In the argument about AI, fundamentals and enabling creativity in education, I keep thinking back to art museums.
What has always stunned me about impressionists and cubists is not how they created entirely new styles. It is their early works showing how phenomenal their fundamental skills were.
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In case you want to see the different views on the same question.
From the host's perspective
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
From the pathogen's perspective
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From the interactive perspective
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Three Botrytis/Eudicot papers accepted.
A reevaluation point on a question about generalism started with @katherinedenby.bsky.social 's sabbatical 24 years ago. Continued by a broad team of undergrads to post-docs including @annajomu.bsky.social @ccaseys.bsky.social and more not on bsky.
I have a feeling a lot of scientists need a intro genetics refresher.
One can easily predict 75-90% of the genes for a known specialized metabolite pathway in a new species with just phylogeny and co-expression. No machine learning needed. And no synteny needed.
The problem is the edge cases of brand new genes that don’t coexpress. The Achilles of machine learning.
I wonder what would happen on those plants with Sclerotinia, Botrytis or Ralstonia.
the plant and animal domestication literature would have provided a good foundation to show the immensity of gene numbers altered by even faster selection.
Familiarity does that. Similar to feelings about corn and soybeans after 8 hours and 500 miles of drives across Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.
Sometimes I think Pollan is simply bored with humanity and that shapes his interest in plants.
That quote equally works as "People are so familiar that it is difficult to fully appreciate our fellow humans, and our own, complexity and sophistication."
From personal experience, Plant genetic variation creates information knots that cause problems with compression approaches. I hope that I am wrong as a solution would be great.
I believe the question was about what happens when the SV diversity is several magnitudes of order more complex than a human genome. Complexity can be in numbers of genomes or craziness between any two genomes.
Full version available now of our new pennycress paper at @newphyt.bsky.social - great working with @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, et al. Come for the pretty pictures, stay for the cool science! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Probably how the protocol came back to the lab. Would have gone to Andrea for trial. Then through Alan, Tricia and Laurie.
Unfortunately was just starting PhD and didn't get out of Cornell for meetings for another year or two. Sounds like a fun one.
Was not Andrew. IIRC, was Herman Höfte representing the Versailles groups and it wasn't on the schedule at Arabidopsis 1993 in Columbus OH. The talk was given on an overhead projector via transparencies. Bechtold et al 1993 was the sea change. This meeting was off the hook . 1/n
If I remember right, Andrew shared the protocol widely at the Arabidopsis meeting the first time they got it to work. So a lot of labs were using it long before the paper was official.
Macrosynteny and genome structure across the Brassicaceae.
Community resource: Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome
Bird, et al.
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Could you tell if any of the sub-groups seem to be unique to the Brassicales? Keep looking for something unique to the Brassicales with cysteines or leucines that could be an isothiocyanate sensor.
Copyright is okay.
I find that a truly remarkable or surprisingly is best matched with some explaining of the expectation and why the result seems remarkable or surprising. Letting the data speak for itself can lead the reader to forget the existing knowledge background. Especially in an era of AI reading.
That must be why I like those majors better. A super solid broad foundation with a spice of specialization. I feel like we don’t require that super solid foundation any more.
Definitely feels likes that. Hope to see if any other species end up being as crazy.
The liberal arts bio majors that I am familiar with are a bit of a problematic example. They were written specific but once one went into the actual courses, they were often broader than “broad” majors at large schools. A botany degree at St Olaf or Grinnell had broad training far beyond Botany.
It was a total delight to work with this team and be involved with this project! And we found such cool results!
Young colt eating watermelon rind.
No but they each have a 1.5 acre pasture so are not wanting. Not to mention carrots, watermelon and sweet corn scraps from garden.
Totally written for an audience that has never worked with young horses. The gelding author relies on an absence of specialist knowledge in the reader to push a biased narrative by exclusion of information.