I know nothing about it other than plant journals weren’t there when I started grad school and then at some point they started getting indexed. I assume someone agitated for it, but it may have just been part of the original plan to index these journals first and then these next …

Just a general shout out to the National Library of Medicine in general being a huge resource for people. And an extra shout out to PubMed for being smart enough to start including plants and other “non-medical” journals in the index back in the day.

I have a BA in biology because that’s how Warren College at UCSD did things back in the day. I think the only BS degrees were to the engineering students.

You and I both know that isn’t what happened…

The sad part about the whole de-extinction thing is they went for the PR splash and went for it hard.

And extinction is a hard stop.

When the Padres are in town, I just connect to the interwebs from some other state …

But I understand your main point and it does suck to have to do that.

Hand writing notes is how I deal with retention. Still type them into the PDFs, but the actual writing is what it seems to take for me to remember.

It took a while for me to be able to read papers on screen, but searching electronic files and the portability of my library sold me.

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Hopefully they aren’t just leading you on before they crush your dreams. As monocots do. 😉

I read this as extremely fine parenting

Tell me you have been around academics without telling me.

The story of MS medium put together for us by @somssich.bsky.social. I like that it was published without peer review!

And exhibit A on why you should default to be very suspicious of claims made of natural products. Glad they did the work. A new class of active compounds is a plus.

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So now I’m wondering if the deck even has any life forms other than eukaryotes.

They did a huge amount of work, but their plant work is all transient assays in leaves. I’d expect them to get different results if they tried to build stable lines making all those compounds. The metabolic cost would probably select for plants that down-regulated the transgenes.

You have to do something with all that sunk cost infrastructure and knowledge … and tobacco is relatively easy to transform and legal to grow.

I assume the story will eventually get out, but I would like to know more about the first rescue, what happened that meant we had to destroy two planes on the ground, and more details on the second rescue.

Props to the crews that got everyone out.

Nice movie!

For any Lego fans out there, these are GREAT!

This is an outstanding piece that deserves your full attention if you practice or teach science. 🧪

Commentary: Spencer Pratt is sharing a Miami sound machine ad. It won’t play in LA. You know the political silly season is upon us when campaigns start to make fools of themselves trying to court Latino voters.

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Aren’t there some self incompatibility varieties out there? (But then they get around that by grafting on a compatible scion so a “single” tree can set fruit.)

But I assume strong/rapid color development might cause similar issues so I figured it was worth mentioning as it was fresh in my head from yesterday.

If your construct is straight coding sequences (without any introns) you are probably okay with a constitutive promoter. This was a purpose-built variant with an intron and probably expresses higher because of that. They also had some other weirdness going on because of some cryptic splice sites.

You may want to be careful on strongest expression. Just saw a seminar about betalain where strong expression (35S driven) dwarfed the Arabidopsis plants. Amino acid pools decrease and some hormone issues (auxin and GA)

A different (and cheaper!) approach to particle bombardment.

Marc is a great follow for stories like this. A helpful reminder of the history of plant science and the impact prepared minds have on society.

Anthocyanin stability and degradation in plants Anthocyanins, a flavonoid group of polyphenolic compounds, have evolved in plants since the land was colonized by plants. These bioactive compounds play critical roles in diverse physiological proc...

A review here:

Mountain driving

The flaw in Mastodon is that breaking news becomes really weird because of the lag between all the different instances. The mix of current posts and lagging posts once another instance finally syncs across was painful.