This work on flowering also led him toward #NaturalVariation, & his lab contributed to several resources on the way, incl. AtGenExpress, & the 1001(+) Genome Project...
www.nature.com/articles/ng1...
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Maarten then turned his attention to #flowering time, which eventually led him to studying #NaturalVariation – first in regard to flowering time, then also dormancy.
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Image of Nikolai Vavilov with William Bateson.
2/12 He joined William Bateson at the @johninnescentre.bsky.social in the UK in 1913, where he studied the resistance & susceptibility of wheat accessions from all over the world to fungal pathogens. Working on #NaturalVariation, he once again proved to be ahead of his time. #PlantImmunity
📜 Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world
🧑🔬 Nicolas Gross, Fernando T. Maestre, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, et al.
📔 @natureportfolio.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantAdaptation #NaturalVariation #PlantEvolution #PlantStress
A map of Europe showing the geographical distribution of the different A. thaliana accessions Laibach and his team had collected until 1940, and a graph showing how these populations a distributed from North to South, with the conclusion that A. thaliana likes the subtropic regions most.
This simplicity was one of the reasons he took a liking to the weed. The other was the geographical distribution. It seemed to grow everywhere, and Laibach & his colleagues collected seeds from accessions everywhere they traveled, starting work on #NaturalVariation in 1940.
📜 Apple revival: how science is bringing historic varieties back to life
🧑🔬 Christopher Kemp
📔 Nature
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #Apple #PlantBreeding #Agriculture #FruitScience #NaturalVariation
