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🌾George Washington Carver transformed agriculture through crop diversification, soil health, and applied plant science—advancing sustainability decades before the term existed.

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John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

📜 John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more

🧑‍🔬 A. W. D. Larkum, J. Beardall, et al.

📔 Photosynthesis Research

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The Genome of Black Cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) We report the draft genome of the black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa. Integration of shotgun sequence assembly with genetic mapping enabled chromosome-scale reconstruction of the genome. More ...

Here is the poplar #genome paper in @science.org––a #PlantScience tour de force and a nice bit of #PlantScienceHistory. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Molecular concepts to explain heterosis in crops Heterosis describes the superior performance of hybrid plants compared with their genetically distinct parents and is a pillar of global food security. Here we review the current status of the molecul...

📜 Molecular concepts to explain heterosis in crops

🧑‍🔬 @hochholdingerf.bsky.social, Peng Yu

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🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

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No 4/4. I miscalculated. 😉

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