EU(!) is in a deadlock. Let European countries innovate and move beyond a two trillion fed whale

Ik van understand your wish for evolution conference @kamounlab.bsky.social birds changing into X and transforming into butterfly. It's hilarious 🤣

Be aware, not just to generate knowledge, while having multiple precautionary principles in place that prevent implementation. Other countries will be laughing third

Could be. But it won't change anything to the current mood as NCBI is just a US gov funded data backup. That US gov worries me the most for the moment. It is up to the scientists to keep up publishing ethics and gov funded research could let now to more policy flawed research. That's really worrying

Really? But any self respecting scientist should know how to filter, or in most cases, have an underconscious by training

@stichtingmobilisation.nl ook zo blij met 0,005->1,000? Wanneer staan de cijfers van 2023 op je www?

A photo of a Boerne Bean (Phaseolus texensis). It's a bit short, close to the ground, maybe this is a young plant? It's leaves are triangular in shape, smooth with no sharp edges, and a darker green. Image Credit: iNaturalist

A close up photo of a Boerne Bean (Phaseolus texensis) in bloom. It has small flower petals, which are violet and light violet in color. Alongside the petals are small green colored beans. It looks like they may have a slight protective shell around the beans too. Image Credit: Native Plant Society of Texas

New plant identified

I've totally passed this plant many times before, but I could never identify it; turns out it's the Boerne Bean (Phaseolus texensis), native to only the limestone canyons of the central and southern Balcones Escarpment (Central Texas basically)

I wonder how it tastes

roompot park eksel in hechtel-eksel, belgium.

Welke bedreiging? Mooi dat het gebundeld wordt. Kunnen bedreigingen door x.com/j_vollenbroek straks ook toegevoegd worden als de advocaat zijn werk gaat doen richting MOBs psychologische pesterijen

How is the high diversity of Potato germplasm + R genes (as well as for common bean) in Central America justified in this scheme? I always felt like the Andean is a appendix of the real thing. And oomycetes are way more mobile

Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids towards ecological redundancy Plasmids are a ubiquitous feature of bacterial genomes, but the evolutionary forces driving genes to become associated with plasmids are poorly understood. To address this problem, we compared the fit...

New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The world really should backup NCBI asap.

A task for @who.int and @fao.org ?

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

Confusion and anxiety is rippling through the US health-research community this week following Donald Trump taking office, cancelled research-grant reviews, travel and trainings for scientists inside and outside the NIH www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BomBomBom

And often more freedom to innovate and perform science outside academia. Especially in case of long term goals vs 2-4 year project based subsidy projects only aiming at predefined metrics

Ok wie hoe wat waar?

Groningen ontwikkelt steunpunt voor boerenzorgen Provincie Groningen bereidt de inrichting van een steunpunt voor dat boeren en tuinders kan bijstaan die sociaal-economische druk ervaren. Het steunpunt moet begin dit jaar van start gaan.

Boeren hebben te maken met veranderingen, onzekerheid en financiële druk. Provincie Groningen wil hier nu verantwoordelijkheid in nemen door hulp te bieden op sociaal-economisch domein. Ze bereidt de inrichting van een #steunpunt voor. 👨‍🌾☑️ #sociaaleconomisch

Blij dat het orginele CDA geluid weer terug is. Zou flink geholpen hebben in vorige kabinet

Just like biotechnology (sequencing, GM, ) was boosted by healthcare (unlimited funding..) So AI looks now for connection in that domain. Agriculture will just profit on their waves. Don't forget that NCBI is USA government funded

Using a population derived from a chromosome segment substitution line of Glycine max (SN14) and Glycine soja (ZYD06), a QTL of 100-seed weight (qHSW) was mapped on chromosome 11, corresponding to a truncated βGlu gene. In contrast to HSW, hsw completely loses βGlu activity and function but gains a cell expansion function, increasing seed weight. Transcriptomic variation in these transgenic soybean lines substantiated the integration of hsw into cell and seed size control.

Wei et al. explore a QTL controlling soybean seed weight and identify novel genetic variation and a mechanism for soybean domestication, providing new insight into crop breeding. #PlantScience #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Did I miss WhatsApp?

Would be an outcome in Maroc

Genome-wide association studies identify promising QTL for freezing tolerance in winter and early spring as a basis for in-depth genetic analysis and implementation in winter faba bean (Vicia faba L.) breeding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625124v1 Interest in faba bean as a locally adapted high-protein grain legume crop has increased in Europe ov

Genome-wide association studies identify promising QTL for freezing tolerance in winter and early spring as a basis for in-depth genetic analysis and implementation in winter faba bean (Vicia faba L.) breeding www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11....

Agreed. The thing is, when you have it, try to stay low profile and avoid such gatherings