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28 Jul 2021
@jkpritch - They increased yield from ~14T/ha to 20T/ha. US commercial yields are 50T/ha and 80T/ha is very doable. This is interesting basic biology, but the yield results cannot be trusted until placed in a high yielding variety and replicated trials in more than 3 locations.
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28 Aug 2024
PlantCaduceus - Cross-species modeling of plant genomes
Led by Jingjing Zhai and Aaron Gokaslan, with the Kuleshov lab, we’re having our “ChatGPT moment” with DNA Large Models. PlantCaduceus predicts functional DNA sequences with single base resolution across flowering plants.
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28 Aug 2024
What’s remarkable about PlantCaduceus is its ability to be fine-tuned in Arabidopsis and still retain accuracy in distant species like major grass crops, such as corn. 🌱→ 🌽🌾
This class of models are a game changer for plant genomics! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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28 Aug 2024
Over two decades ago, we mapped the variant making sweet corn sweet—after tremendous effort. PlantCaduceus easily identifies this single base pair causal variant. 🌽
Give it a try—this model paves the way for treating all plants as a single molecular system!
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26 Sep 2023
New whole-genome alignment tools are needed for tapping into plant div... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Ed Buckler retweeted
19 Mar 2023
Comments were made last night at #MGM2023 that were hurtful to members of our community. Discrimination and harassment, even in the absence of malicious intent, is a violation of our code of conduct, and the damage to members of our community is no less real. 1/3
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19 Mar 2023
Dr.MariaElena Zavala's talk at #MGM2023 was amazing. Dr. Zavala talked about research, mentors & work to increase the number of historically excluded folks in the academy. The Q&A session however had VERY disparaging comments about Indigenous peoples and I want to tell you why 🧵
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.#JaneSilverthorne dedicated her career to helping #scientists succeed and to raising public awareness of the importance of #plant #biology @NSF @ASPB @ASPB_WiPB Her support and mentorship lifted me up when I needed it most during my career ❤️
29 Jul 2020
#plantbio20 Jane Silverthorne just shared the lessons learned during her time working at the National Science Foundation @NSF
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20 Aug 2022
My great colleague @LongLab published a neat paper on how plants deal with light, but @MerKhaiBurch is right; yield increases that don’t replicate should not be claimed in abstracts or press releases.
19 Aug 2022
ANOTHER paper in @ScienceMagazine came out claiming a 33% increase in soy yield. Since my last “yield” tweet took off - lets do it again!
From a (wanna be) plant breeder 5 years into my PhD, let me explain how this 33% increase in yield is misleading 🧵science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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5 Aug 2022
Modeling chromatin state from sequence across angiosperms using recurrent convolutional neural networks acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.c… Congrats Travis Wrightsman and team on the really nice paper!
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4 Aug 2022
Wonderful to see @edanquah240 again! Agree so much we can do together and for the next generation to design better food systems.
4 Aug 2022
Erasing inequities in capacity to innovate in the Ag. Development space will save our world. Inescapable conclusion in meetings with Ed Buckler and Vern Gracen today at Cornell University. @gatesfoundation @RockefellerFdn @Agnes_Kalibata @AGRAAlliance @UnivofGh @CornellGlobal
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29 Jul 2022
A misleading paper in @ScienceMagazine just came out talking about how a single gene can increase rice yield by 41-68%. As a (wanna-be) plant breeder, I’m here to tell you why this study is misleading, and we can’t “solve” yield through single genes 🧵
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17 Nov 2021
New preprint from Travis Wrightsman introducing an ML model to predict chromatin state across plant species just from DNA sequence! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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2 Sep 2021
The Practical Haplotype Graph, a platform for storing and using pangenomes for imputation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… - congrats on the team for making haplotype graphs useful for genomic AND breeding. The R and BrAPI web services will be game changers.
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30 Jul 2021
AnchorWave is a really cool whole-genome alignment pipeline developed by @baoxing_song @mcstitzer to deal with those ubiquitous hard-to-align genomes with lots of transposons.
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3 May 2021
Haplotype Associated RNA Expression (HARE) Improves Prediction of Complex Traits in Maize biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Because the cis-component of expression is more consistent across tissues, @AnjuAnjugiri1 is able to improve genome-wide prediction in a wide range of contexts.
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Ed Buckler retweeted
11 Mar 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Bill Sheridan, recipient of the 2021 MGC R. Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award.
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11 Mar 2021
Congratulations Dr. Nathan Springer @SpringerNathan, 2021 recipient of the MGC L. Stadler Mid-Career Award in recognition of his outstanding thought leadership and contributions to epigenetics research, maize genome structure, and gene expression regulation.
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Ed Buckler retweeted
11 Mar 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Eveland, 2021 recipient of the MGC M. Rhoades Early Career Award in recognition of her significant research contributions through elegant studies of maize and related grasses, addressing complex biology with computational approaches.
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Ed Buckler retweeted
11 Mar 2021
Today the MGC honors the memory of Dr. Don Auger with a 2021 R. Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award.
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