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Natalie Mueller @natalatl

Natalie Mueller is an assistant professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. She studies crops, weeds, and feral friends 🌱🌻

Joined October 2014
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Our new open source paper on the domestication of native North American goosefoot. More evidence that plants are people, too! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Turning Over a New Leaf: Experimental Investigations into the Role of Developmental Plasticity in...

Turning Over a New Leaf: Experimental Investigations into the Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Domestication of Goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) in Eastern North America - Volume 88 Issue 4

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Plants are responsive beings, which would not have come as a surprise to the people who domesticated this species 2,000 years ago. Thanks for all your teachings, plant friends 🌱🌱🌱journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

The taming of the weed: Developmental plasticity facilitated plant domestication

Our experiments with crop progenitors have demonstrated that these species exhibit dramatic plasticity in key traits that are affected by domestication, including seed and fruit morphology. These...

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